but why WHY did tonx and reamus have to die?!?!
Because the director wanted to follow the book, I assume.
@Divy: A little odd to make a thread on a series you don't like, isn't it?
Anyway. Now, the movies are in general quite good in my opinion, at least when they try to be independent movies. When they screw this up, they end up being rather confusing, and only the people who actually read the books will get the full message of the plot. However, these people will also be the people most annoyed with the movies, and will scream that they ruined the story, forgot whatever plotpoint and so forth.
The half-blood prince is a good example of this, in my opinion, mainly because the movies simply ends up being boring and confusing to the audience, trying to tell a story, but not doing so convincingly.
On the other end, the newly premiered DHp2 was quite amazing to look at, and did a good job explaining an otherwise complicated plot. Even the
[potential spoiler] epilogue made more sense than it did in the books (a part I disliked when reading it), which I will applaud it for.
[/potential spoiler]This of course had the advantages of 11 years towards the first movie, both in special effects as well as familiarity with the characters and cast, and the growing maturity and talent of said cast, which means I will mention another good runner up, which, in my opinion, deserves the mention.
The Chamber of Secrets is one of the movies I find to be doing a good job at telling the story, perhaps clouded by nostalgia, but most of the film was set up to be a great adventure and exploration of the characters and their fears. This is also the first time we meet a Horcrux, and in the sense of the series, the first step towards the end-goal. It also gave a lot more insight into both Harry and Riddle, and the first few steps towards the bullying Harry has to go through throughout the years.
And the basilisk was quite cool.
But in general, a fine work of story telling. Not fantastic, but indeed good enough to make it one of the better series in the genre of fantasy.
