; the little -details- xXx

... is disappointing. i got to admit. i've been so hyped up over it for the past year, especially during the last months to its release after they released the trailer. i remembered myself saying, "it's gonna be the best harry potter movie yet, judging from the trailer. it's oozing with action and suspense! i can't wait!" so obviously when the movie finally premiered, i was jumping for joy and impatience to watch it.

i did get to watch it yesterday. i sat myself comfortably, watched through the commercials impatiently, and tried to calm down my hyper heart. then the movie started.

even the beginning disappointed me. it was too... fast. they didn't show harry's anguish and frustation over being alone in a world alien to him, cut away from the wizarding world. they didn't really show how traumatized he was, how scared he was after the events in GoF. then they just showed him sniping at dudley, and my cousin was like, 'why is he being a jerk to the fat guy? what did he do to him?' and i was like, 'he just wants to direct his frustation at someone, but apparenty they didn't show him that.'

and they didn't show mundungus fletcher; they should at least mentioned him, he was partly to blame about the dementor attacks. and then in number 4 private drive, just one letter came to tell harry he was expelled. nothing about him emo-ing and trying to leave the house. nothing about arthur and sirius' letters telling him dumbledore was sorting it all out and that he should just stay put. and most importantly, no revelation whatsoever about aunt petunia knowing about dementors, and dumbledore's howler to her.

the order came just like that. it's okay they only showed half of the advance guard, but really, remus should have been there. harry wouldn't trust a group of people he'd never ever seen before with moody leading them, especially when moody tried to kill him last year (although it was fake, but stil!). in fact in the book, he didn't lower his wand until remus spoke.

and nothing about tonks being metamorphmagus, unless you've read the book before or you're really smart enough to figure it out from her hair changing color. oh wait, non readers would hardly know she's tonks. they didn't mention her name, except for her trademarked 'don't call me nymphadora!' but really, it should have been remus calling her that and her sniping back at him, just to foreshadow their relationship in the sixth installment.

and grimmauld place had a total screen time for a few minutes. they did not show the screaming portrait of sirius' mom. didn't show the cleaning of the house. didn't show sirius arguing with molly over telling what harry should or should not know.

remus spoke two lines or something here. probably the only lines he said that made it to the movie. wow. but i guess it's better than not being shown in the movie at all, like bill or dung. i mean, okay, i get it that there's not enough space and time if you feature every single member of the order which was shown in the book,  but then again, bill would play a part during the sixth book, and the seventh book (his wedding!) some characters which have serious importance are undershown; for example, i could say that the whole order had a screen time of about ten minutes when the adult actors and actresses were actually magnificent in the movie. and the movie is called the order of the phoenix for God's sake.

i can't believe i'm saying this, but harry isn't emo at all. Ootp is known for the emo-harry, although in the book emo-harry was so frequent it reached the point of annoying, but in the movie it just wasn't enough. they didn't show ron and hermione getting the prefect badge (and harry emo-ing), they didn't show how emo he and sirius could be, they didn't show snape's worst memories (30 seconds clip was NOT enough; hey it was my favorite chapter from the book!) and harry emo-ing for a long time about him not wanting to be like his father anymore, which lead him to breaking into umbridge's office and talking in the fire with sirius and remus, harry emo-ing after sirius' death and single handedly destroy dumbledore's office.

they didn't show kreacher betraying sirius. the OWL exams (and how well harry did in it; until history of magic that was). the career consultation (to show harry wanting to be an auror, and show more of mcgonagall vs umbridge moments). didn't show Weasley is Our King! didn't show hagrid being attacked by umbridge and the aurors and running away. they made cho chang the black sheep of the betrayal of DA just to simplify her relationship with harry just like that. didn't show lockhart in St Mungo's, as well as Neville and his parents and his tragic secret; s'kow, they did make neville tell it to harry, but it was so anti climatic! hello, neville could be the boy who lived if voldemort hadn't chosen harry after hearing the prophecy, but oh well, they didn't even show the whole prophecy.

they did not show enough umbridge bashing. we all love the umbridge bashing and they took it away!

most importantly, they didn't show sirius' mirror. and the whole prophecy. and dumbledore's long talk with harry in his office in the end of the book was also shortened like crazy, even though there that was when dumbledore got emotional and all and telling harry the truth in his scar and his parents' death and his destiny.

the movie jumped around too much, skipped too much and leaves a lot of questions, especially to non readers. at the end of the movie, my cousin's like "ok. that's it? the whole movie... just like that? oh man. so confusing." and my sister was like "oh the only thing i enjoyed was the soundtrack." i expected the movie to blow my mind away, but then it was dissapointing. especially after the success of the fourth movie, which i just watched today in hbo xD (and reminded how good a harry potter movie could be).

the ending was. eearggh. if they followed the ending of the book, just the ending, then it would be much better. with the order threatening the dursleys to treat harry well, with harry struggling to come to terms with sirius' death (which was so... anti dramatic in the movie).

i thought that a half blood prince movie wouldnt be as good as an ootp movie, seeing the book, but god, now i'm thinking they can't do much worse than this. i really hope not.

a few more days to go to deathly hallows. no matter how dissapointing ootp movie is, it still helps to hype up the already high harry potter atmosphere and i'm now a very jumpy, anxious and impatient fangirl.

life after harry potter. hmmm.