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Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix
It's been about a month now since I've seen the movie, so I'm late with this review. However, the film is still doing well in U.S. theatres right now, although it's probably in its final week/s of major showings.
This is really my first true introduction to the Harry Potter series. Although I had watched snippets of Sorcerer's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban (I have now watched all of P.O.A.), I hadn't read any of the books (at the time I watched Order of the Phoenix in theatres - I've now read Half-Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows). Gosh, what an obnoxiously long, complicated sentence that was, but who cares - I'm tired. It's almost midnight. It's been a long day. But oh, hello insomnia, my old friend.
Currently my avatar here is of Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. If you're reading this and it's past 8/14/2007, chances are likely that the avatar above is not of Helena Bonham Carter, as I like to change my avatar often, and with different people/things depicted in them. But anyways, isn't Helena fab at Bellatrix? She is such a kooky woman, all wild hair and wicked eyes. Helena, who is currently with child (the daddy is Tim Burton), is the perfect flesh and blood actor to take on playing Bellatrix. And now onto the movie itself...
Well, I can really only compare it to Prisoner of Azkaban, since that's the other one I've seen all of so far. I like Order of the Phoenix more. Delores Umbridge is such a fun evil character. Didn't you just want to kill her?! By strangulation? Seriously, she was so evil!!
Because I was clueless about the series while watching the movie, I thought she was going to turn out to be Lord Voldemort in a disguise. Voldemort in Delores drag. That, of course, turned out to be not the case.
Good grief, you mean to tell me this was adapted from an 870 page book? Surely, not everything in the book was put forth into the movie, right? I'm not certain yet if I'll have the patience to read that one since I've already seen the movie and I've read Deathly Hallows and now know all of the secrets in Potterland. But I hope I'll master that mammalian paper monster sometime in the future.
This movie will require a second viewing from me, but I'm not sure how many more after that. Hopefully a bunch, but who knows? I'm looking forward to the Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows movies.
I give this movie....
Nighty nite.
It's been about a month now since I've seen the movie, so I'm late with this review. However, the film is still doing well in U.S. theatres right now, although it's probably in its final week/s of major showings.
This is really my first true introduction to the Harry Potter series. Although I had watched snippets of Sorcerer's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban (I have now watched all of P.O.A.), I hadn't read any of the books (at the time I watched Order of the Phoenix in theatres - I've now read Half-Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows). Gosh, what an obnoxiously long, complicated sentence that was, but who cares - I'm tired. It's almost midnight. It's been a long day. But oh, hello insomnia, my old friend.
Currently my avatar here is of Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. If you're reading this and it's past 8/14/2007, chances are likely that the avatar above is not of Helena Bonham Carter, as I like to change my avatar often, and with different people/things depicted in them. But anyways, isn't Helena fab at Bellatrix? She is such a kooky woman, all wild hair and wicked eyes. Helena, who is currently with child (the daddy is Tim Burton), is the perfect flesh and blood actor to take on playing Bellatrix. And now onto the movie itself...
Well, I can really only compare it to Prisoner of Azkaban, since that's the other one I've seen all of so far. I like Order of the Phoenix more. Delores Umbridge is such a fun evil character. Didn't you just want to kill her?! By strangulation? Seriously, she was so evil!!
Because I was clueless about the series while watching the movie, I thought she was going to turn out to be Lord Voldemort in a disguise. Voldemort in Delores drag. That, of course, turned out to be not the case.
Good grief, you mean to tell me this was adapted from an 870 page book? Surely, not everything in the book was put forth into the movie, right? I'm not certain yet if I'll have the patience to read that one since I've already seen the movie and I've read Deathly Hallows and now know all of the secrets in Potterland. But I hope I'll master that mammalian paper monster sometime in the future.
This movie will require a second viewing from me, but I'm not sure how many more after that. Hopefully a bunch, but who knows? I'm looking forward to the Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows movies.
I give this movie....
Nighty nite.