The fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, opened last night, and I saw it today. The movie was very good, much better than the fourth though not quite as good as the third, I’d say. The director did a very good job cramming the longest book in the series (so far) into a little over 2 hours, whereas the fourth movie seemed to skip around way too much.
The movie was very dark, Harry pulled off an even more realistic emo than Peter Parker did in Spiderman 3. Professor Umbridge was amazingly well-casted, she really was a character you love to hate. My only beefs with the movie are that the Weasly brothers did a lot more in the book when they dropped out of school than just some fancy pyrotechnics. They had swamps in the halls and other things that lasted days, and also Cho Cheng was horribly cast. She’s supposed to be stunningly beautiful, I thought. Oh well. Luna Lovegood was very well done, and Dumbledore as well. Speaking of Dumby, I made a t-shirt for the movie premier:
Tee hee. The back lists such spoilers as “She kills Bill”, “42”, “He’s Luke’s dad”, “Rosebud is the name of his sled”, and “redrum is just murder reversed”. Yay for ironic spoilers 🙂