Top 10 reasons the Harry Potter Movies make me mad.?

I 100% agree No Peeves sucks donkey's.

I totally agree. I adore the books. They are one of my favourite series. And dont get me wrong I love the films, but they hardly give the books credit do they. Here are my 10 reasons: 1. Again Like yours No Peeves. I had no idea until your answer that Rik Myall was cast to play him. He would have been perfect seriously PERFECT! Again Peeves adds a lot of humour too which is lost in the films. 2.Sort of like 1. Though the films are funny at points, it loses all the whitty humour & quotes that JK uses in the books. Like the whole "snitch" spot thing in OOTP. 3.Some of the characters can sometimes be very OOC from the books. Like Ginny for instance. Shes very outgoing & like many red heads has a bit of a temper. We lose that alot in the films. Her character doesn't seem to have a personality. 4.The very little amount of explaining the marauders.I have no idea how they're gonna manage to make the princes tale scene in dh, because those who have watched the film, have no idea who they really are. We arent informed in the films that james potter & his friends actually created the map, plus something that really annoys me THEY CUT SNAPES WORST MEMORY SHORT! My friend who hadnt read hp at the time, was sitting there nudging me, asking what that was all about. It really bugs me as its one of my favourite chapters. 5. Less drama in the films than in the books. I love Sirius & cry everytime he dies in the books. Yet in the films its just BLA! I mean its hardly meaningful. No way as heartrenching as the books. I give my hats off to them for the funeral scene in GOF for Cedric Diggory, which infact did make me cry. That was meaningful & he wasnt even a main character. I know they couldnt have exactly have done the same for Sirius, but something similar would have set the scene. 6.Changing or adding parts of the plot for no reason. Like the whole neville finding gillyweed apart from dobby what was the point??People like dobby. Dobby is actually a much loved character. And the whole Cho telling on the DA, rather than her friend Marietta. I mean why??? And then she turns out to be on verituseum. Which I'm like helllooo??? We're meant to be hating her, not feeling sorry as she was forced to have verituseam. 7.Just random bits added in. Like when Ron just says Piss off to harry in GOF, just to make it appear that they were getting older. I mean that was obvious. And these are meant to be family films. 8.The kiss scene in OOTP. Was it just me or was that the stiftest kiss scene ever. They seem to keep like a perfect two inches apart.There bodies didnt move what so ever. No hands in hair, round waiste ya de ya de ya. And overall no passion. It looked forced. It wasn't meant to. I know its his first kiss & all but come on... 9.They miss out quidditch. Quidditch is always a winner. Plus a lot of people wondered after OOTP if harry still played. And we didnt get to see ron make the team. Oh & they miss out the dursleys in GOF. For no apparent reason. I mean thats probably the best dursley opening. The whole tongue toffee & all. 10. The whole 2 movies for DH. Why??? I mean it makes no point. I dont see how they can split into two. One of the films is goiing to end up quite boring & none of the action really happens until the end. Anyways thats my rant. =D

JUST 10? Dude, you need to watch them again! hahaha! Allow me to add some of my own reasons, which I'm sure you'll agree with: ~ No Peeves! I know you already said it, but it pisses me off something awful! ~ No Marauders! What the hell, that is one of my favorite subplots and they completely killed it! You know, before I read book 3, I didn't even understand what the hell that map was or who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs were, and then suddenly, you have Pettigrew being referred to as Wormtail in the next movie. Take from an outsider's perspective. They would need everything translated for them. ~ OotP: the whole thing was a mess. Where to begin! It's one of the most interesting and complex books plot-wise and they made it so horribly lame. My dad, my sister and my best friend who came with me to watch it, needed me to explain it to them afterwards. My dad fell asleep because he said he was looking forward to some magic and effects and wandwork but all the characters did was talk and talk and talk. My best friend needed me to tell her the entire story. My sister, whom I had read the book to was stunned and disgusted. ~ Michael Gambon, and this is one of the worst things to happen to the civilized world since WWII. I mean, come on! There are millions of old men out there, and most of them I bet would not have had the hairbrained idea to make Dumbledore Irish, make him psychotic and just kill his spirit. ~ Who the **** is Nigel? He came in right when Denis Creevy was supposed to come in and he played the same role Denis could have played. Why couldn't they introduce him as Denis?? I think they do this sort of thing on purpose, h\just despite us. ~ How lame was the third task in GoF? I mean, the book was full of ideas to make it cooler and all they could come up with was a moving hedge. Big freaking woop! ~ Now, we come to the biggest outrage of all: when does it ever say that the entire DA get to see Voldermort as he is leaving the MOM in OotP??? No one sees him! They dessacrated it! Those blasphemers! I spit at them! It's outrageous I tell you!!!! Now, I have to disagree with you on one account. After seeing what happened to the movies after they got rid of Chris Columbus, and then later, of John Williams (which I still don't understand and will never forgive them for), I was relieved to hear that the 7th movie was going to be cut in two. That means two of their lame movies might just be enough to cover the whole thing, and I think that, even if they don't do it like we would like them to, they will include everything, or almost everything. In conclusion, I would like to thank you for this most needed question and ask you, from one BOOK fan to another to please keep up the good work! Cheers

My biggest problem about the movies is the lack of similarity to the books, especially when all the background info is left out. Every time my mom, who hasn't read the books, sees one of the movies for the first time, I have to explain why people are doing certain things or what brought on others. The worst for that was Order of the Phoenix. Besides that, I really don't notice much else any more. I'm extremely glad that Deathly Hallows is going to be cut into two, but if it's bad, I'm going to be very upset.

1. I agree with you on this one. 2. This is because they want the movies to look attractive to those people who have not read Harry Potter. The movies need to look modern and cool to attract a larger audience. Book-based movies are challenging to make- they have to earn the respect and admiration of the fans of the books, and those who have never touched the books. Therefore, they do things like this. To tell you the truth, it doesn't bother me too much. I kind of see it as one of those older vs younger generation sort of things- younger generation knows how to work a computer, but the older generation doesn't. Younger generation knows how to successfully dress as a muggle, older generation doesn't. 3. I think they cut this out for time's sake. They do that a lot. There just isn't enough time for each character to have their moment. So they save the moments for the main characters. 4. Once again, it would have taken up too much time. And the information the audience needs from it could easily have been put into dialogue in other parts of the movie. 5. Grawp isn't there just to be there. They use him later as a trap for Umbridge. 6. I agree with you on this, too. I much preferred the original Dumbledore, and I don't see why Michael Gambon couldn't have stuck to literary Dumbledore's character. 7. This is mostly because of time issues. The origins of the map wasn't important to the general storyline. Harry Potter has such a complicated plotline that it's crucial to not overload the audience with too much information. People would wonder at the important of Moony being Lupin and Prongs being James Potter. They'd see the connection, but they'd be like "Okay. That's nice. So?" They need to skip details in order to make the story fit and flow well within the allotted time. It's a challenge. 8. Once again, they do this to make the movie more attractive. It wasn't necessary for Dobby to be the one to give Harry the gillyweed, and it did make sense for Neville to be the one to do it. 9. Slughorn I imagined to be pudgier, but I think his face is right. 10. I actually love this idea. I think they'll do things *right* because they're taking the time to add details with this. What you have to understand, though, is that books and movies are two completely different medias of art. Books use language to convey the story, and has pages upon pages in which to tell the story. They can use all the detail they want and since they have no visuals (aside from the illustrations at the start of each chapter), they allow readers to visualize certain things such as characters for themselves. Movies, however, can't be much more than 3 hours. It's just impractical. And with so little time in which to tell a story (400-600 pages long in some cases), details must be omitted and the storyline must be altered in order for the story to flow well and for the audience to get all the information they need. These movies also need to be able to attract all types of fans to make a profit and be successful, like I said before. So you see, I think these movies deserve more credit than you're giving them. Of course they won't be exactly what you wanted and they won't be exactly what Rowling wanted. But these movies are successful in that they capture the essence of the novels fantastically. And they convey the messages Rowling wanted to convey through her books. And they evoke the feelings the novels do for the corresponding events. They're really not all that bad. I find them quite entertaining, and it's interesting to see the different interpretations that these movies provide, even between the different directors. I see the changes as a kind of creative move; I'm not sure how well they could have succeeded in making the Ministry battle in OOTP as intense as the books described within such a short timespan, if they hadn't made the Death Eaters fly. And at the time this movie was being made, Deathly Hallows wasn't out. How could the movie makers have known that the flying was restricted to only Voldemort? They really couldn't have. So, yeah. There are my thoughts. Edit: Oh, look, the TD Troll came by. To counter his evil deeds, I'll give everyone a TU.

1. Yeah, no Peeves. He would have made the movie a whole lot fun. 2. Most of them wear Muggle clothes. Plus, notice that it's just the teenagers, or the youth rather, who are into wearing Muggle clothes. I guess they are more aware of other fashions unlike their predecessors who stick to traditional wizarding clothing. 3. No comment. I don't see the point. 4. You're just bringing more work to the CGI people. Give them a rest, please. I won't continue anymore. This is basically a useless rant. Create a blog, please. Don't post your rants here.

I think both have their charms and they need to be treated separately. However, your second point is my biggest pet peeve with the movies. Seriously, I got disenchanted with the movies just before the 3rd book when they were making a big deal of the fact that you would see more muggle clothing. Excuse me, at that point we should have started to see less.

i don't know how many i can tell you but i'ma try my best to point mostly all of the things that pissssssseedd me off in the movie. - i read the order of the phoenix a week before i watched the movie, and i was SHOCKED! first of all, dobby wasn't there, he was the one who showed them where DA will meet. second of all, RON WAS SUPPOSED TO TRY FOR QUIDDITCH. those were the main 2 things that pissed me off when i watched the 5th movie. - i agree WHY do they dress like muggles? in the book, it is supposed to be so hard to dress like a muggle, but in the movie, no problem. -nearly headless nick's party :( i really wanted to see that. - Sirius Black didnt have as much parts in the movie than the book . - the 7th book was the BEST... specially when they escape and go to the jungle and hide there and etc. it was sooo exiting. i agree J.K.ROWLING wrote the books amazingly. i read the whole series every summer from book 1-7 and honestly, i cant read them past midnight because i get into the book so much and i get so scared. what i'm trying to say is that the book is so detailed it seems real when you read it, especially Deathly Hallows. i dont know how they are going to make the movie but i really hope it be good because little things, like lupin's wedding is important and i really hope they make it good (dout it though) harry potter is my favorite book (i dont know how everyone like twilight better) and it is so amazing i hope the movies were a little better though :(

1. Harry's eyecolor is not green. I dont know why but it annoys me... Everyone in book says you have your mothers eyes. Like why cant he just wear contacts there not even bad. 2. They don't add all the people in the book. Like they make other people do important things, that different characters in the book did. Ex: Dobby finds gillyweed & room of requirment not Neville. Ex: Cho Chang did not rat out the DA!!!! Her "friend" did Ex: Professor Binns tell them about chamber of secrets mcgonagall didnt in the book becuz she didnt wanna scare them or something like that Ex: I know i love Peeves!! 3. They mess up magical stuff Ex: I know Death Eaters cant fly? It is a big deal when Lord V does it... annoying!!! Ex: Harry reads master occulomensists Snape's mind in the movie, instead of sneaking into pensive... lol and i dont want to talk about how they messed that up. but ill just say.. LILY was supposed to be in it 4. They make Dumbledore seem like a A-whole sometimes its either the director writer or actor but he does Ex: 5th movie he yells at everyone dont u have studying to do Ex: the movies doesnt make it look like hes friends with harry 5. Dont you think in the books the trio is like better friends then in the movie, it seems like they fight in every movie well 4th and 5th and it lasts forever... u make a lot of good points =] i love hp movies anyways... even though they have a lot of stupid flaws i kinda wish they were longer lol edit: oh yeah 1 more thing the stuff they leave out is annoying... quidditch ron and hermione prefects, stuff like that.