I finished it about a week ago. I want to read it again, after having read books 1 - 6 one after the other before I really can vocalize my full reaction.
It's cool to finally know...but a little sad in finishing it. I've followed it for several years, felt like I'm growing up with the characters. I've waited for each book to come out, devouring the books as they do. I've gone back & reread the older volumes to tatters to get me through illnesses or recoveries. Many of these books I associate with other hallmark times in my life.
There's still the movies, I guess...but after the last one, I've lost faith in those.
I guess I still have the Eragon series (least one more book)...but I don't have the sentimental associations with those (tho the books are damned good, well written). It feels like with the close of HP, it's closing the cover on a portion of my own life, as well.
Like any book, I can still go back, blow the dust off the cover, crack the spine again. I enjoyed losing myself and will again. Still...it's like, over.
I thought so much of the psychological tension in that book that made the book so killer was not there, as wasn't a vast majority of the plot. It felt like there was just enough plot there to tie together a bunch of action scenes. I love action just as much as the next guy & in "Die Hard" that's cool, but not the reason I'm into HP. I love psychology and there is so much of it in the HP books that draws one into those books; for me, this move (HP5) didn't have that. Sure, the special effects were cool but it felt like that was mostly all there was. The complex plot wasn't, so I was rarely drawn into the movie.The movies (to this point) have enhanced the books for me; HP5 didn't.
I think the books have gotten too big to stuff into one movie, the plot too complex. So much in this one was lost, glossed over, or simply not explained. At times I was like "WTF is going on?...oh, yeah." I knew because I'd read the book. I felt like I'd wasted $9 ($18 because I treated my Mom). The ones prior (1 -4 ) I have enjoyed & loved.
Will I watch subsequent ones? Yes, probably will. I'm one of those that are loyal (hey, I'm both a Raiders football fan & a Giant's fan win or lose...this season, often to lose) but my expectations for any future HP movies will be low. I expected more...and got less.
Disclaimer: of course, this is just my own opinion, my own taste in movies. That said, I didn't like this one much, if at all. The others I would buy on DVD; this one, no way. $ is very hard to come by for me & the $9 admission felt like a waste.
Hmmmmm. I expect something very different from the movies than I do the books, and I thought they did a very good job of translating the plot into a visual medium. I have never expected, or wanted, the movies to be a screen version of the books.
I think that's why I liked it and you didn't. We just have differing expectations.
considering that OotP was the longest book in the series by far, a measly hour and a half movie is not long enough to do the story justice. it seriously should have been one of those 3 hour movies
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Date: 2007-08-26 07:51 am (UTC)I finished it about a week ago. I want to read it again, after having read books 1 - 6 one after the other before I really can vocalize my full reaction.
It's cool to finally know...but a little sad in finishing it. I've followed it for several years, felt like I'm growing up with the characters. I've waited for each book to come out, devouring the books as they do. I've gone back & reread the older volumes to tatters to get me through illnesses or recoveries. Many of these books I associate with other hallmark times in my life.
There's still the movies, I guess...but after the last one, I've lost faith in those.
I guess I still have the Eragon series (least one more book)...but I don't have the sentimental associations with those (tho the books are damned good, well written). It feels like with the close of HP, it's closing the cover on a portion of my own life, as well.
Like any book, I can still go back, blow the dust off the cover, crack the spine again. I enjoyed losing myself and will again. Still...it's like, over.
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Date: 2007-08-26 08:28 am (UTC)Whoa?
I thought the last one was the best yet. What didn't you like?
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Date: 2007-08-26 02:58 pm (UTC)*shrug*
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Date: 2007-08-26 06:05 pm (UTC)I think the books have gotten too big to stuff into one movie, the plot too complex. So much in this one was lost, glossed over, or simply not explained. At times I was like "WTF is going on?...oh, yeah." I knew because I'd read the book. I felt like I'd wasted $9 ($18 because I treated my Mom). The ones prior (1 -4 ) I have enjoyed & loved.
Will I watch subsequent ones? Yes, probably will. I'm one of those that are loyal (hey, I'm both a Raiders football fan & a Giant's fan win or lose...this season, often to lose) but my expectations for any future HP movies will be low. I expected more...and got less.
Disclaimer: of course, this is just my own opinion, my own taste in movies. That said, I didn't like this one much, if at all. The others I would buy on DVD; this one, no way. $ is very hard to come by for me & the $9 admission felt like a waste.
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Date: 2007-08-26 07:16 pm (UTC)I think that's why I liked it and you didn't. We just have differing expectations.
Vive la difference!
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Date: 2007-08-26 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-26 09:56 pm (UTC)