Order of the Rant

So last weekend I saw the Order of the Phoenix movie here at school, and holy freakin cow did it tick me off. First of all, WTF with Harry's haircut? Yes yes, I know it's the most ancillary of details but still...

Now in my opinion there's a stark difference for snipping a book down to make it a movie and grossly defiling a great story. Despite the fact that I well know that you can't have every last precious detail in the movie, as the first two films tried to do and they sucked balls, some of the cuts they made here were just inexcusable. Allow me to number my hatreds for you.

1. WTF... it's like they did a tesseract to jump from getting rid of Umbridge to saving Sirius. (And there IS such a thing as a tesseract.) Whee, we got rid of Umbridge. And then within about two minutes--not even, if I remember correctly--they were in the department of mysteries, not even showing anything about actually getting inside the ministry or ANYthing. (For those who don''t know what a tesseract is, it's a step in the fourth dimension where you bring two points in time and space together and step across, instead of traveling the whole distance. It's from a book.)

2. Mistletoe in the room of requirement. WHAT THE FUCK. Did they think that they couldn't film a believable kiss scene between Harry and Cho? Rowling managed it in the book just fine. To me this was just taking one too many creative liberties in the film making.

3. Harry wasn't nearly as emo in the film as he was in the book, and I think that's a very important plot point and needs to be kept in.

4. The department of mysteries sequence was painfully short, although I will give them credit for filming an excellent battle sequence.

5. I think one of the most critical plot points in the beginning of the story is the fact that Petunia starts to realize there's some shit going on, and Harry gains some respect for her, if only momentarily.

Ugh. Just, no... I was very upset by this movie, and although it's a given I'm probably going to see Half Blood Prince when it comes out, I just hope I don't hate it as much. What's ironic is that I loved Goblet of Fire to pieces.

And now I leave you with the quote of the post.

"All right, that's it! That's it! I'm going to come back there and so help me God I'm going to slap you with my ring hand!"
~Gregory Peck, to his sons