I've seen all but the Deathly Hallows Pt2 in the last week.
I'm getting less impressed as each film passes. Whilst cinematically they're very good and the quality of acting generally gets better and better (apart from Ginny who is just a damp squib all the way through so far).
To me the films aren't a patch on the books, it's as if they're each half an hour too short and are lacking some vital parts of scenes which would explain things that are covered in the book but only scratched over in the films.
Credit has to go to JK Rowling who kept the books as books and resisted the temptatoin in the latter books to write them to be adapted into films (as happened with Dan Brown's latest disaster and the latter Hannibal books by Thomas Harris). The HP books are great, the films only make it to the "ok" level.
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