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I was sad when I left the theater after watching OoTP. I couldn’t wait to see all my favortive HP actors again. It was like some of them weren’t even in the movie. Hagrid has hardly any lines. Madeye moody, tonks( you didn’t even really get to know her character) lupin, even ron and hermoine didn’t seem to have a lot of lines. I understand you can’t put the whole 5th book into one movie, but don’t change thinks in the movie that wasn’t in the book. My friends that haven’t read the books( which is a shame) had trouble following the movie. I hope to connect more with the characters in the 6th movie.

I agree with Halfmoon, the director ruined Gambon part. My family and I said the same thing after seeing GOF. I would like for his character to be more like dumbledore in the book. Patient, wise and yes funny!

I am very disappointed because I was hoping Chris Columbus would be asked back. I enjoyed so much the first two in the movie series and I have always felt he should have never left….However, I know that when Chris left it was his choice because of committments to his family and him not wanting to give the franchise 10(+) years of his life. He had been commuting back and forth to london from Los Angeles for 4 years. As it was mentioned in an earlier comment, I think each Director is asked to stay on and if they decline David Heyman and the other Producers move on and select someone else so, it’s not surprising that if Yates has the energy and the will to continue that he will be allowed to. However, I totally disagree that Order of the Phoenix was a good movie? The editting was horrible and so much, too much was left out. Order should have worked as well as Chamber and Goblet if it was done right? Those two didn’t leave half the book on the cutting room floor? Stephen

Well said Stephen Johnson I couldn’t agree more!

I would love a 2 part DH. It will be sad when it all ends. But you can always go back and reread the books and watch the movies over and over again. I also know they have to leave stuff out of the movie, but I wish they wouldn’t change things that happen in the book when they put it to film. You know when there’s scene where you go that never happen in the book or that didn’t happen that way. Oh, well they’re still great movies!

I hate when people generalize and say everyone hates something!!

Some of US think OoTP was/is THE best film made from the HP books.

David Yates has been accusted hereof rearrangeing the story and cutting so much out .LOL! What do you think Cauron and Newell did?The same thing-if not more .

Get over it ___it is a film(s) not a book. Books are more carebryal (more can be shown ,left to the imagination,and explained)and films are more visual(there is only so much time,most people are too impatient to set for long hours).

NO! Dear God, no! I didn’t like the fifth film at all, and I don’t want more Yates. Please, Cuaron, come back!

U know what? all the people that say negative comments are very very narrow minded and well stupid!!! sorry but hey SEPERATE URSELVES FROM THE BOOKS FRO PETE’S SAKE!!! I mean the movies are one thing different from the books and JK knows of course what is on and what is out of the script or else fleur, bill , the gaunts and the mirror would have been in the script but maybe she saw they weren’t going to add up in the plot and they being cut out of the movies won’t influence it!!!Personnaly i love David Yates he made OOTP real and also it was short it stuck to the plot and that is that magic was forbidden he got the acting skills to a whole new level and got the dark side of the story even more!!! SO BOOKWORMS OPEN UR MINDS AND SEE HARRY POTTER IN SOMETHING OTHER THAN JUST A PLOT THAT U HAVE TO SEE IT BY LETTER AND SPEECH AND EVERYTHING SEE IT BY A WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW!!! sorry if i offended anyone but u make me mad and angry coz these guys know what they are doing otherwise the Harry Potter series wouldn’t have been the most successful franchise WB has ever adapted adn i hope that some of you would chill out a little and enjoy the movies as they are and away from the books!!!

I think it would be terrific to have David Yates on board for Deathly Hallows movie! Consistency and thought process on a number of things for movies 6 & 7 are important and can only benefit the series.

Thank you Alaa dear that was well said too. And Redbeard you and I seem to be on the same wave length – I was just thinking of how cool it was that these books got made into movies in the first place. I remember how excited I was when I heard that HP was going to be a movie. And for you complainers why do you think that the movies have generated the most successful movie franchise in movie history- I dont think it is curiosity, I think If we put our pride aside we know these movies are good adaptations other wise they wouldnt have that rightful title. For gods sake the passed 22 bond movies and all 6 star wars. made about 4 billion globaly. oh yah they’re terrible alright.

The only movie I was truely upset about was POA. I blame a lot of that on the directer. I hated that I felt I was watching the actress Emma and not my beloved Hermione. I kind of feel that same way with Harry and Ron as well. I think Cauron was too focused on his vision of the story then to make sure the actors were their characters and not actors performing characters. Emma look over the film and it’s not because she’s the best actor of the trio-IMO anyway.

I also I find POA much more dark meaning lighting in the scenes then it is emotionally dark. I’ve rewatched the movie only 3 times-when GOF was released to theater and when OOTP was released to theater and to dvd.

I liked SS,COS and GOF because they were fun movies with just a hint of the darkness the story could have had. I was kind of disapointed that GOF was that way but I enjoyed it for what it was -a successer to the 1st two movies. SS&COS were kids books and movies and I pretty much got what I was expecting ( except for some of the visual affects).

I think OOTP was a little short and a bit rushed but I felt a emotional connections with the characters. Perhaps I loved this movie the most because I’m a tv lover and character emotions and growth are much more important IMO then getting the story to flow exactly right. I do think the greats do both though of course. If not Joss then Yates is okay with me. I think he nailed the getting the best performance from his actors of any of the HP directors.

Hmm. It’s very interesting to me that the many of the people who are screaming that Yates “butchered” OotP, and that he took too many liberties and deviated too much from the books, are the same people who are insisting that Alfonso Cuaron has done the best job so far of directing an HP film, and that they desperately want him back (“We should start a petition to get Alfonso back!!!!” “GO ALFONSO!!!!”, etc.)

I find this to be the height of irony, considering that the film of PoA was, in many ways, VERY different from the book. HUGE chunks of the story were left out of that film (backstory of the Marauder’s Map, anyone?), and the characterizations of many key characters were, more than in any other film, VERY out-of-sync with their characterizations in the book. For example, Hermione being so fantastically acrobatic that she could deftly jump over the Whomping Willow’s swinging branches, and hold on, one-handed, as another branch swung her in a wide arc, and then with her other hand grab Harry from the ground and throw him directly into the Whomping Willow’s secret entrance! ::eyeroll:: For another example, Ron being utterly wimpy, when in the book he really shows quite a lot of courage. For yet another example, Lupin waxing ecstatic about how supremely wonderful Saint Lily was, while only saying one brief line about James being a troublemaker, even though it was James, and not Lily, who was Lupin’s good and loyal friend all through their schooldays.

Granted, much of the deviations in PoA were screenwriting decisions, and not anything that Alfonso Cuaron had much control over.

Nonetheless, I think it’s a bit rich that Cuaron’s fans seem to think the liberties taken in PoA were perfectly all right, considering the fact that they’re raking David Yates over the coals and calling him a “butcher” for the liberties taken in OotP. Especially since Cuaron deviated just as much, if not more, from the book than Yates did.

I guess this puts me in the David Yates camp. Well, not so much in the Yates camp as in the “Geez, stop vilifying Yates and sanctifying Cuaron already, people” camp.

I wish there was some kind of edit button ;p I made a few spelling errors. For example….I meant to say Emma took over POA not look over.

It saddens me that I’ve gotten to the pint where I don’t want to come back to Leaky because of some of the things everyone has written on these boards. I love Leaky, but I can’t stand some of the comments you all have written about the people in the HP franchise.

I urge you all to remember that while you see the movie as a whole and think only of the main people as those who work on it, go over to the IMDB page and click on the link that takes you to the entire cast page. Look at just how many people who are working on those films. Sit through the entire credits and look at just how many names roll past after they have finished the actors. Put in your DVD and take a look at how many minutes consume just the end credits. Order of the Phoenix had 24 people in their make-up department alone. And that was for live action make-up. Not CGI engineered effects. There were 14 people just in the Second Unit Directorial Department. Those are people who are just there as the SECOND UNIT to the director. Look at just how many departments there really are.

Take the time to really realize just how many people work on these films. And realize that only two people made the cut for writing credits. There is a STAFF of people who work on that script. I had a professor who did that for many years, writing and rewriting scripts for Paramount and Universal but never getting credit because he was just a staff writer and it was his job, he got paid, but not credited. You do things like rewrite Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, making it perfect and making sure it works, but you don’t get the credit.

Take the time to realize that David Yates did under no circumstance “BUTCHER” this film. He will not “BUTCHER” Half Blood Prince. And if you feel so strongly about this, don’t go see it.

But do us all a favor. Realize that you aren’t just attacking a name. You are attacking a person. You are attacking what he does for a living. You have never met David Yates and you don’t know how difficult his job is. Please remember these things the next time you decide to claim he has butchered Harry Potter.

It saddens me that I’ve gotten to the pint where I don’t want to come back to Leaky because of some of the things everyone has written on these boards. I love Leaky, but I can’t stand some of the comments you all have written about the people in the HP franchise.

I urge you all to remember that while you see the movie as a whole and think only of the main people as those who work on it, go over to the IMDB page and click on the link that takes you to the entire cast page. Look at just how many people who are working on those films. Sit through the entire credits and look at just how many names roll past after they have finished the actors. Put in your DVD and take a look at how many minutes consume just the end credits. Order of the Phoenix had 24 people in their make-up department alone. And that was for live action make-up. Not CGI engineered effects. There were 14 people just in the Second Unit Directorial Department. Those are people who are just there as the SECOND UNIT to the director. Look at just how many departments there really are.

Take the time to really realize just how many people work on these films. And realize that only two people made the cut for writing credits. There is a STAFF of people who work on that script. I had a professor who did that for many years, writing and rewriting scripts for Paramount and Universal but never getting credit because he was just a staff writer and it was his job, he got paid, but not credited. You do things like rewrite Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, making it perfect and making sure it works, but you don’t get the credit.

Take the time to realize that David Yates did under no circumstance “BUTCHER” this film. He will not “BUTCHER” Half Blood Prince. And if you feel so strongly about this, don’t go see it.

But do us all a favor. Realize that you aren’t just attacking a name. You are attacking a person. You are attacking what he does for a living. You have never met David Yates and you don’t know how difficult his job is. Please remember these things the next time you decide to claim he has butchered Harry Potter.

I have an idea, instead of complaining about who will direct the last movie. Why don’t we just say the director that we think would be best equiped for the task at hand. They could be an old fav. Or someone fresh. Because you know that the producers of the films look at sites like Leaky to know what the fans want to see. Even if they don’t always heed our imput.

Please dont go Beckett I understand you – and I understand what it must take to make a movie that is why I hate critics when they slam down a perfectly good movie- I think they just do that because it is not to their minds expectations. People need to look beyond their own horizons- but dont go because of them were better than that. But like I HAVE MENTIONED FOR THE 100th TIME – why if you hate these movies people do you see them and why are they so successful. Geez new fantasy films are compared to them they are so good.

I find myself agreeing most of all with everything Beckett has said. THanks for the comments and please know that u are not alone in ur thoughts. There are others who think very much like you.

Redbeard and Monica make some accurate statements as well. Thanks guys for your input. I think all of us need to realise just how lucky we are to get to see our beloved series being brought to the silver screen. Lets not get bogged down by the nitty-gritty and lose sleep over it.

Now that I’ve said that. I think that Christopher Nolan could do the job. Has anyone seen the Prestige or Batman Begins? Those are nice and dark.

Sadly Nolan- complaining usually goes with suggestions around here- example- Naomi Watts should be Narcissa not that ugly Helen McCrory! see they dont go hand in hand people have to shoot someone down while their at it- must be fun for them. Helen is the best person by the way , I dare anyone to contradict me , I hope we are beyond that stupid issue. If people dont know about a makeup department of a movie set then something is wrong.