It was such a step back from the first two.

>>213544593 (OP)
I remember my buddy saying that but it is actually the best one

>>213544593 (OP)
it's literally the only one that's actually a good movie

>>213544593 (OP)
it's literally the best one in the entire series you contrarian faggot

>>213544593 (OP)
Harry Potter is for children below 14

>>213544593 (OP)
Yeah, here’s where the major deviations from the book begin, wearing muggle clothes, etc.

>lazy muggle costuming
>slice of life scenes
>lots of dolly shots into someone's face while they say foreboding things grimly
bloody hell

>>213544593 (OP)
The last 20 minutes sure are a hoot though! Personally I enjoy the first movie the most, it's a simple little story that wraps up neatly enough. The series itself is so insanely repetitive i wouldn't blame anyone for skipping entire movies they don't particularly enjoy though

>>213544593 (OP)
It's upgrade, pleb. An egregious step back would be the fourth film.

>>213544656
>lots of dolly shots into someone's face while they say foreboding things grimly
kino trope

>>213544593 (OP)
No not really. These books and films are for children and the children watching and acting in these movies were now young teenagers. They aged it up and rightfully so. The first two movies are fun for the whole family, but they still have YA themes running throughout. It was a natural evolution for the film series to follow suit with the books and make them more geared towards teenagers/young adults.

>>213544653
Yep, also it's not le heckin Christmas movie wtf, can you believe it?

Correct. The slice of life school academy content fell hard here.

It was vastly superior to the first two films and definitely the best film of the series
It's not my favourite book but it's a great one and I love what they did with Remus

the show won't be able to come close. It's going to be humiliating for everyone involved.

This explains a lot.

>>213544593 (OP)
With seven books, the tone had to change at some point.

>>213544593 (OP)
the chamber of secrets is hot garbage actually

>>213544677
I think HP popularized the "war arc" at the end of YA series. They are always a slog to get through. All the fun gets sucked out, the entire cast of characters gets important things to do, the amount of talking and planning is huge, the plot advances at a snail's pace, 3 side characters get killed off, and major coming-of-age character moments have to be fit in as well. Even the HP movies had to split Deathly Hallows into two parts.

>It was such a step back from the first two.

aesthetic and charm? yes
Still my favorite because of nostalgia, but objectively worse

>>213544845
this sounds enlightened but I'm too lazy to think about it

Definitely overrated by hipsters who want to seem mature for liking the one where nothing of consequence happens. Cuaron uses a lot of dishonest camera tricks and other gimmicks to try to elevate the vacant plot, but it just comes off desperate. This movie is the catalyst for the godawful Yates movies.

>>213544593 (OP)
Me and my GF watched all of these over the course of like 2 weeks because I'd never seen them and all I remember is;
>opening of first movie
>ending of prisoner
>ending of half blood prince where snape says half blood prince
>Ron sperging out and getting mad at harry for 1.5 movies maybe
>kids not telling adults anything so they can have tomfoolery and plot moves foward
>the Weasley bros being top lads
>Ginny being boring
>madeye dies offscreen
>not liking the blonde kid but knowing they were laying it on so thick he'd have some sort of redemption arc
>I think there was a black or Chinese girl at some point that liked Harry

>>213544850
I actually think the whole "series shows a child growing up, slowly becoming more aware of serious adult issues, and the final volumes deal with serious shit" model is really good, Rowling is just a dogshit writer so it wasn't good in this case.

>>213545012
Didn't read you should tell her already you slept with my buddy.

>>213545012
>kids not telling adults anything so they can have tomfoolery and plot moves forward
This shit is irritating. The plot of like 4 of the books would be completely nullified if Harry literally just went to Dumbledore and told him what was going on.

>>213544593 (OP)
I watch the Harry Potter movies whenever I'm sick, got a bad flu or having a rough week. There's something very therapeutic about them, at least the first three.

shill engagement bait thread

>>213544593 (OP)
2>3>4>1 >>>>>> 5>>>>> 7 >>>>>>>>>>>>>6

>>213544976
>dishonest
What the fuck does this mean? I hate every faggot who uses this buzzword.
>nothing of consequence happens
Are you retarded? This is the movie where Harry finds his first blood relative that actually cares for him, and starts feeling an actual familial bond, as well as setting up shit like Ministry being violently corrupt and fragile. Lots of interesting stuff.
People complaining about muggle clothes are retarded, it makes sense that most modern teenagers would say fuck off with that cloak shit I'll wear what I want. I mean there could have been an element added that muggle born wizard students or just wizard students who is interact with muggles prefer to wear casual clothes while the kids who are firmly within the wizard world still dress in robes and shit, would have added an interesting dynamic / world building, but this whole thing is really a massive nitpick. Movie has style and balances extremely well darker elements and the remnants of whimsy of the first two films and the movie is nothing like Yates period which was super bland most of the time and unfocused (Order of the Phoenix and both Deathly Hallows are shot like generic YA movies, but Half-Blood Prince randomly has a separate visual style straight from Albert Serra arthouse movie, except poorly executed cause you often can't see shit in the scenes).

>>213545054
ESL?
>>213545074
Yeah it gets really repetitive, to the point I assume I would have picked up on it even when I was the target demographic age wise.

>>213545082
Based comfy enjoyer

>>213544656
>complaining about slice of life scenes
you can't be this soulless, surely

>>213545095
6 really was bad. And that was my favorite book.