all in all.... the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's movie is "peeves "
The parts in the movie that the did show from the book, were exceptionally well done for the most part..... However, again, things just seemed to speed along waaaay to quickly...... It’s almost as though the director and script writers try to see just how fast they can move the storyplot along this time, almost as a contest.
The Harry/Sirius bonding moments, while what they did show were good, they were also drastically cut back on......If you read the book and view the movie, and you know how much more bonding there was between the two of them through out Harry’s fifth year, you would’ve been HIGHLY dissapointed in the movie as a whole to begin with......(Again, unless you’re one of the ones who only goes to see HP because you want to oogle Harry, or Draco, or Ron, or the Twins, or Harry and Cho snogging, but if you are, then I’m sure no one really cares what your opinion on the matter is anyways. You’re just along for the ride.)
Everything concerning the Order, was barely there. Harry’s trial was a bit of a joke, as was the Tonks character.......I think she got… what? Two different scenes, and that was it? When readers of the book know she was included in waaaay more than that....... Ginny’s character was cut short as well, we never did get to view Sirius’s mum or the scene with all the kids and Mrs. Weasley attempting to clean Grimmauld Place and stumbling across the locket, and there was so much more that was lacking in this one.......Rather than put the time and effort into, I believe five bloody different camera pans of Harry and Cho snogging, they could’ve invested that time into other more emotional/important/lacking aspects of the movie.
Please, don’t even get me started on the Department of Mysteries, or the Veil or even Sirius’s death scene.......FIRST OFF, when Bellatrix and Sirius were dueling, she DID NOT HIT HIM WITH THE AVADA KEDAVRA CURSE, she hit Sirius with A STUNNING CHARM and he FELL BACKWARDS INTO THE VEIL!!.......Now the movie producers/director/etc. have TOTALLY screwed themselves over if Sirius does indeed make a re-appearence in the Seventh book as is rumored, especially if the Potter movies manage to get all the way up to the last one. THERE IS NO COMING BACK FROM AVADA KEDAVRA!
Ughhhh...grrrhhhhh, and they COMPLETELY OBLITERATED the scene towards the end where Harry goes to talk to Nearly-Headless Nick about Ghosts, and whether or not Sirius could return to Harry as a ghost......They also completely cut out the scene in which Sirius gives the two way mirrors to Harry, again, screwing themselves out of Sirius being able to ever contact Harry ever again, if he should indeed do so as is rumored for Book seven.
There was so much horribly wrong with OotP, if I would be to fully write out everything that was wrong with it, everyone would be reading several pages worth.
I know, when movies are produced from books, that not everything can be included and a lot of stuff is skipped over and changed.....Yes, I am fully and completely aware of that fact, however the way the movie has now butchered Order of the Pheonix, is completely unjust and has me wondering if I will even go and see Half-Blood Prince if and when it comes out.