I think you put it where I would, with Azkaban -- I think Goblet and Phoenix were the two I've enjoyed the most up to this point. I can rarely distinguish Stone and Chamber anymore, as they feel so formulaic (here's a scene where Draco's a douche, here's a scene where Harry's alienated, here's the Dursleys being obnoxious...) and I can't tell you how happy I am that that mold was broken, because they were monotonous the first time I saw them. The earlier films were too expository because they chose to exposit information we already knew or, having minds, were able to figure out on our own. But now we get "I'm the half-blood prince" with literally no explanation or clarification, no observation on its significance.
I think it's an incomplete film, but even so, what's there impresses and entertains me. It's excellent in terms of what it does, but I wish it'd done more.
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Date: 2009-08-03 01:15 pm (UTC)I think it's an incomplete film, but even so, what's there impresses and entertains me. It's excellent in terms of what it does, but I wish it'd done more.