Movie Of The Week: Harry Potter / Order Of The Phoenix

First, a passing comment:

Hah! Make me redundant, will you? Try to make me work my notice + pay tax, instead of 7 weeks off and no tax, will you? Stitch this. Working from home and watching movies are back on the menu!

You won't mess with me again, will you, ya fuckers!

Normal service resumes...

So, had to watch it. I'm getting to like the books (not read the last one yet, managed to avoid spoilers, la la lah, not listening!), and the movies are getting better.

But boy do they miss a lot of what makes the later books richer than the movies. Not surprising really, given the books' sizes.

The movie was... well. OK. Some nice effects at the end in the battle between the powers of light and dark, and some not bad acting on the part of Daniel Radcliffe, but otherwise kind of bleeurgh. Nothing special. Things thrown in for no reason (eg, Sirius Black's family house-self - great in the book, on-screen for 2 minutes and thus pointless).

Great acting by Imelda Staunton, as usual, as the political force that tries to take over Hogwarts, and she definitely stole the show.

I guess it was worth watching only for continuity between the last film and this one.

Labels: movies

posted by Blakey UK @ 4:21 pm