"Order of the Phoenix"- IMAX "3D"
just saw it.
First let me say that it should read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"- IMAX with 3D. 20 minutes is not enough.
I think its the best telling of the story of all the films. And you must look at it this way- the longest book (870+ in paperback) became the shortest movie...why?
Because Rowling is an amateur with a billion dollars. She tells a great story but so much of the fifth book was irrelevant or redundant that the film script rightly condensed, and, in my opinion- lost nothing.
One point though... in the first reel when Harry has just shown up at Grimmald place, Fred and George Apparate and remark on Harry's shouting. Harry in the film had not been shouting. Harry in the book had been shouting for going on a page.
Great film- good but needlessly lengthy book.
First let me say that it should read "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"- IMAX with 3D. 20 minutes is not enough.
I think its the best telling of the story of all the films. And you must look at it this way- the longest book (870+ in paperback) became the shortest movie...why?
Because Rowling is an amateur with a billion dollars. She tells a great story but so much of the fifth book was irrelevant or redundant that the film script rightly condensed, and, in my opinion- lost nothing.
One point though... in the first reel when Harry has just shown up at Grimmald place, Fred and George Apparate and remark on Harry's shouting. Harry in the film had not been shouting. Harry in the book had been shouting for going on a page.
Great film- good but needlessly lengthy book.