Of all the HP movies, I thought the 5th was the most bland of the series. It felt like a really long trailer than a movie. It just didn’t flow for me at all. Left me utterly unsatisfied. I just hope he does a lot better for HBP.
Oh yes! I so hope this is proven to be true.
I like Yates, I did think OotP was choppy and too much had been left out but parts of it, particually the action scenes, were great. I agree with Beckett, lets not insult Yates because in all honesty most of us have no idea about directing and everything that involves. No movie can be exactly like the book, they are two completely different mediums.
beckett is quite correct – I’m sure that the director does not have as much power as it might appear. However, having said that, OoTP – whoever was repsonsible – left out things that made it absolutely necessary to have read the book to understand what was really going on. One case in point, as Snape is my fave character, I was very disappointed to see that it was not shown that Snape alerted the order about Sirius – that’s critical to know, as far as I’m concerned.
Anyway, we should all be asking that everyone involved, regardless of who directs, should strive more toward making things more coherent – yes, of course it’s a monumental task to condense a book into a 2 hour movie, but if your going to include something, have it make sense!
(And I guess the boys are going to have that dorky chopped short hair forever – whoever decided on that & why??? I for one loved their hair in the GOF – and I don’t think I’m alone from what I’ve read on many forums. JMO, but as I’ve said before, to me, wizards in a magical fantasy world should have long hair – imagine DD or Lucius with crew cuts!!! Oh well – at least my beloved Snape’s hair is a little longer in HBP – as long as they leave that alone! As some of us posted in another thread, we want Snape’s hair even longer!!! LOL) All kidding aside, as much as I love all of the movies, it did sort of ruin it for me when I saw what Harry & the other boys looked like in OoTP – it just somehow took away some of the magic. I’m sure others disagree or don’t care how they look, but that’s just how I feel – I wish there was some way to get a petition going about that! LOL.
I’m sad… He’s ok, but we need someone who can really pull of the dark side of DH. I want someone new!!!
This is very exciting news. Order was by far the finest film adaption of the series thus far and despite being the shortest movie based on the longest book, it was consistent, sensible, and most importantly simultaneously faithful to the source material AND appropriately cinematic for a film – a feat the two previous movies before it failed awfully.
Now bring back in Michael Goldenberg again as well!
Okay, You’re David Yates and you have a Choice between “Deathly Hallows” and “The Giver”. What would you do?
About the choice of director by the producers, I would just sat that they could do worse.
I hope that Alfonso Cuaron is actually in the running to helm DH 1 & 2. I think that his film was best, even if he did take a few liberties.
No this is REALLY GOOD. if there is a new director taking the last movie, they could be terrible for all we know, and then the final movie would be terrible. so at least we know that David Yates knows what he is doing, hes fantastic. so im happy
JK ROWLING actually liked the OOTP-movie best. I think that alone makes it wrong to say that Yates butchered the hp-franchise.
I’m sorry for him but I will prefer if it was Spielberg who makes Harry Potter 7
Yates is fine as a director but, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, use a different writer. OotP was a fiasco as I’ve stated before. Directing was great and the movie as a whole, was fantastic. That is, if you look overlook the tumultuos fact that so much was cut from the story line. The last movie should be bigger, better, darker and by far as close to DH book as reasonably achievable. JK did a genious with DH. The movie should be genious too!
O.M.F.G… PLEASE LET THIS RUMOUR BE ABSOLUTELY, 500% FALSE!!!
DON’T LET THIS HIDEOUS HACK RUIN ANOTHER HP FILM!!!!!
@ Beckett and Redbeard- thank you- you both made enlightening comments that are very true and I think some of us should not be so arrogant, I just think that in this kind of movie business when you have ANY book to movie adapt you need to be really open minded. The authors of the books have even said that it is impossible to included everything a book does because books can take your mind places that movies cant.
Yates.. Mmmm. Ottp is the one movie i like least. Stuff in the wrong order and all. But mainly, the excessive use of special effect during the ministry scene. Hell, since when apparition involve black and white smoke ?? Since when do they keep their time apparition along when fighting ?? If i were to chose one of the previous director, it would be curaon.
well not hate but just it wasn’t the best they could do