Harry Potter OOTP Movie - Weak???!

Harry Potter OOTP Movie - Weak???

So I just watch OOTP and I have seen all the movies, own all the books, and I got to thinking, this movie that just came out, was kinda weak. The characters are no longer attached as they have been in the past movies, not to mention the story line was dragged out to long and mistakes were made from the book version that could have been fixed (i.e. Neville finding the ROR, Cho being the culprit) I understand this is a movie, and it is meant to be a entertaining experience, but I think the "majic" of the previous four were not present in this installment. Sorry, I think this movie got a little bit of Star Wars-ish towards the end, anyone agree? So my question is, JK Rowling was so persistant on keeping the movie along the lines of the book, what happened? Why did critics give it a massive A+? Is it because people only saw it for the movie, having never read the book..perhaps I am over-analyzing this. I think the other movies did a great job in keeping with the movie, why not this one? :)

I agree with you on several points. Oh my gosh! I totally thought the Star Wars thing myself! I am not kidding! I thought that too in another one, during Qudditch, but just the music & flying around. This seemed a little Star Wars to me.
I know you can not put every single thing from the book in a movie, or it will be like 8hours long.
I really enjoyed all the books so far, and the movies. I mean in the GOF I was a little upset about SPEW not being in there.

In the OOTP, it was good, the effects were good, but I was dissappointed that the memories of Snape weren't a little longer. They needn't be like 5 minutes, but I thought a little longer. Why wasn't Cho's friend in the mix? That couldn't of added much time to the film, and wasn't the GOF longer? I was very pleased with that film, except what I stated earlier.

You have to remember, a different director, again with this. Not sure about screenplay & all that.

I just hope the HPB gives more details, I would hate for the remaining 2 Potter films to be less than OOTP.

GB