@megsann13 YEAH I KNOW ISNT THAT TERRIBLE??
And as someone who has had to write scripts, I absolutely understand the fact that transcribing hundreds of pages into a 2 hour film is tough. And as a director, you really do want to flex the fact that it is your adaptation that has the same spirit but maybe gets played out differently for creative freedom (within reason)
However. Especially in Deathlt Hallows, like idk WHAT happened but pt 1 & 2 literally bank on each audience member to already know everything. The other films have their flaws. They have issues with explaining some things.
But Deathly Hallows has the BIGGEST issue with dropping things in the film that have no contextual logic at all (LIKE THE MIRROR/Remus-Tonks child/Harry knowing where to go for horcruxes and what theyโd be) ALSO thereโs things they put in the film that feels so disconnected because the past movies left those elements out (good example: DOBBY) And this I think is what causes non book readers to be turned away from the series altogether.
I find this to be even more unfortunate when Iโve browsed the deleted scenes from the movies. It is SO FRUSTRATING how in a lot of the movies, there are some scenes they cut where they actually have LOGICAL reasoning on how or why Harry does xyz or how he knew what items were picked as horcruxes and such. And yet??? Instead we get awkward HarryxHermione dancing? Instead of learning about Voldemortโs mom, we get a burning house? UGH
Sorry I could literally talk about this forever it drives me crazy.
I still find the films to be enjoyable but it bothers me when I realize how much the films fails non book readers.
Anyway to lighten up a bit, here are my favorite buzzfeed articles by Dan Dalton who describes watching the movies for the first time without having ever read the books. It is so incredibly funny to read through them and see him interpret the films.
