Well, I'm excited for the rest of the differences between the books and the movies.

PoA has quite a few differences, namely Crookshanks involvement for one, final quidditch match, etc.

As a sports nut, removing Potter and Wood winning the Quidditch Cup was a travesty

4 was my favorite book, but not the best movie sadly.

Will rewatch:
1,2,3,4, 7.2

Won't go out of my way 6,7.1,5

Now I feel like rereading the series

Madmarttigan said:

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Now I feel like rereading the series

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I read the first 3 to one of my kids when she was in the hospital for several days last year. It was the very best of an otherwise bad situation.

Also #3 for me, wonderfully done and such a change in tone from 1 and 2, of course the plot may have helped also but far and away my favorite

Does anyone here think that the fourth book is the best book and the fourth movie is the worst movie? I've heard that opinion before.

4th may be my favorite which is why I'm really harsh on the movie.

Is the fourth movie your least favorite?

I would put Goblet of Fire above Chamber of Secrets, Half Blood Prince, and Order of the Phoenix as far as movies go.

I'd call it my second or third favorite novel.

I liked several but I guess my fav was 4 bc of the tournament.

2 my least fav. I think I only watched it the one time.

The progression of the characters as they grew up was great.

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I will say Professor McGonagall activating the castle defenses in the last one, with a stirring soundtrack and her naming him Voldemort, is one of my favorite scenes from any movie ever.

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While people talk about the misses of the film adaptation, they 100% absolutely nailed the casting for Professor McGonagall with Maggie Smith. When I read those first books before the movies came out, that was exactly who how I pictured McGonagall to look, act, and sound like. What a great performance.

My personal list:

6, 7.2, 5, 4, 3, 7.1, 1, 2

Chamber of Secrets is also the worst book in the series

Rap battle between Hermione Granger and Katniss Everdeen

I've seen 1 and 2 the most, then 3. The others I've only seen a couple of times (7.2 only one time).

I'll rewatch again soon probably over the holidays.

That being said it is pretty painful watching 2 - I've seen it so many times that when I watch it now it is just to check a box. I love 1, particulary the 1st half. I'm always a sucker for the initial world building.

GOblet of fire was always my favorite book. I loved incorporating the other wizarding schools. That is a storyline that could yield a ton of future material and I hope that JK does that at some point.

Honestly I don't like any of them. I feel like the pacing is off in all of them and they just blow through most of the exposition from the books. They feel like a bunch of scenes crammed together instead of coherent stories. Also, the main three are not very good actors. I get that they're kids in the first several, but the are child actors out there who are much better. Everytime Daniel Radcliffe put his hand to his forehead because his scar hurt, he looked like he had to scratch a bad itch.

Isn't the first movie the most accurate to the book?

Prisoner of Azkaban is the best movie out of all IMO. I hated the changes to the movies in OoTP and HBP

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Isn't the first movie the most accurate to the book?

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I would say so, but there also isn't that much to it. Pretty short book.

It would be great if HBO or similar would remake them all as a series, one book per season, at least for the later books. There was so much in them that had no chance of making it in the movies.

Disney Plus is making a Percy Jackson series, if you're interested in that, and the first season (based on the first book) is scheduled to be released in early 2024. I don't think there will be a Harry Potter series, since the movies were already a success and covered all of the books, unlike the Percy Jackson movies.

Late to this but my hot take is that HP 7.2 movie is the worst if measuring it by quality of movie made from quality of material. Very few authors stick the landing as perfectly as Rowling does in Deathly Hallows, and for the movie to go the MCU route is a travesty.

Outside of that 3 and 6 are my votes for what are the best movies.

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Isn't the first movie the most accurate to the book?

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It's been a long time since I've seen any of them. I was VERY disappointed in the first one though. I remember it being very choppy.

What's your least favorite Harry Potter movie? Or do you not have a least favorite, since you said you don't like any of them?

Has anyone here seen all the movies, but not read any of the books? I've seen all the movies and only read the first and third book (and some of the fourth), but I have a friend who saw all the movies and hasn't read the books.

Me. I've seen the movies multiple times and am just now getting around to the books. I said earlier that Chamber of Secrets was the worst book. I finished it last night and I'm positive the rest of the books have to be better than that one.

I think it would be accurate in saying the 2nd book is the weakest.

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Me. I've seen the movies multiple times and am just now getting around to the books. I said earlier that Chamber of Secrets was the worst book. I finished it last night and I'm positive the rest of the books have to be better than that one.

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Really going out on a limb there.

Ur a limb

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Ur a limb

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Considering I lost a leg a few years ago in a car accident, that's pretty funny.

Well ***** I'm sorry

Madmarttigan said:

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I think it would be accurate in saying the 2nd book is the weakest.

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It definitely is, but I thought the movie was fairly well done.

I'm honestly surprised how many people like movie for 6.

Madmarttigan said:

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5
3
7.1
7.2
2
1
6
4

I think that 3 and 5 caught the spirit of the books the most, and the possession scene in 5 was actually better in the movie vs the book which almost didn't happen at any other point.

The changes in 6 are almost unforgivable and Voldemort acting weird as hell in 4 with his nasal voice made it feel like cheesy acting/directing in the graveyard instead of being a really cool scene.

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I could be behind this though 6 has to be last. 6 is arguably the best book, but what they put on screen is just a disaster.

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Madmarttigan said:

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I think it would be accurate in saying the 2nd book is the weakest.

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It definitely is, but I thought the movie was fairly well done.

I'm honestly surprised how many people like movie for 6.

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Let us be united in our hatred for that abomination.

I'm going through the books for the second time.

If you like audio books, Jim Dale's narration is one of my favorite performances across all types of media. Just outstanding in my opinion.

I've heard Stephen Fry's narration is also great. Maybe next time through I'll listen to his version.


Prisoner of Azkaban is definitely my favorite movie. Probably my favorite book but I also really like Goblet of Fire.

I've seen the early ones a lot but I think I've only seen 6, 7.1, and 7.2 once.


Personally I think it's too bad that they were done as movies. Who would've known that TV series would've become such a thing but the books REALLY lend themselves more to being series than being movies. They just have to move too fast.

I feel the same way about Lord of the Rings.

It's been soooo long since I read any of the books (currently in a slow read of Sorcerer's Stone with my kids), and some of the movies I've only seen once or twice. That makes it a bit hard for me to really rank them. For example in reading this thread I can't remember why HBP is getting flak. I can't remember what is different from the book.

I also know that Chamber was my least favorite book, but I don't know if my opinion of the movie is based on my opinion of the book.

While Order of the Phoenix is not my favorite movie (I hated Harry in most of the book), I thought they pulled off the big duel pretty well for a movie. Other parts are done well enough and it probably is in the top half, for me.

Azkaban is great, I like Goblet a lot. The last 2 seemed both stretched out and rushed at the same time. I did watch the final movie on TV a few nights ago for probably the first time since the theater.

BTW, when Harry shows up in the great hall in that final movie and McGonagall duels Snape, does Snape intentionally deflect a spell into the 2 other dudes to kill them? Looks like it, but it's hard to tell.

I guess I'll go

3
4
1
5
7.2
After that idk