I have to admit that my only real beef about this latest film - ... is that he sort of just threw the Harry/Ginny thing at everyone.
He sort of had to; movie 6 is just about the last place he could do that and have some of the action in the book 7 movies make any sense. That further supports my theory; if he has to show a scene or add a theme in order to film the Quest Against Voldemort adequately, he will; otherwise, it goes under the bus. (Though my recollection is that Rowling doesn't make much of a deal of Harry's burgeoning relationship before book 5, and the book 5 hints are pretty subtle. The stuff in book 4 can be read as normal teen dating and experimentation, and not as a sign that they will necessarily end up as a pair.)
And this could be the fault of the dreadful writer they had for the last movie (notice they are not using him anymore?)
I didn't notice, but you may well be right that losing the last writer is the reason for the change. (Though come to think of it, movie 5 was kind of short on dialogue... in general. The best parts of it were images, not words.)
(I have to ask if you;ve ever gotten wind of the Harry/Hermione fanatics - they're almost as funny as the Harry/Draco dweebs...).
No. I don't do fan fic; life's too short to start wading through swamps of mediocre to bad writing in search of pearls unless you're getting paid to do so.
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He sort of had to; movie 6 is just about the last place he could do that and have some of the action in the book 7 movies make any sense. That further supports my theory; if he has to show a scene or add a theme in order to film the Quest Against Voldemort adequately, he will; otherwise, it goes under the bus. (Though my recollection is that Rowling doesn't make much of a deal of Harry's burgeoning relationship before book 5, and the book 5 hints are pretty subtle. The stuff in book 4 can be read as normal teen dating and experimentation, and not as a sign that they will necessarily end up as a pair.)
I didn't notice, but you may well be right that losing the last writer is the reason for the change. (Though come to think of it, movie 5 was kind of short on dialogue... in general. The best parts of it were images, not words.)
No. I don't do fan fic; life's too short to start wading through swamps of mediocre to bad writing in search of pearls unless you're getting paid to do so.