Hogwarts Legacy Pre-Release HYPE: What is your favourite Harry Potter-movie?

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Your favorite Harry Potter-movie?

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Hype for Hogwarts Legacy is high, so let's discuss the movies! Which one's your favorite?

I've been meaning to rewatch all movies for some time now and I might do it before Legacy releases. Has been years since my last rewatch. My favorite is probably the 2nd movie, because it already introduced us to the wizard-world, but still has so much new to offer. In general, I love how the first two movies take their time, which is why the 3rd movie is my least favorite, being way too short and cutting too much from the book. My 2nd favorite is probably the 5th movie (order of the phoenix), because that's when shit starts going down.
 
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Always liked Order for some reason. I usually run through these once a year around Christmas time.
 
The first one had the magic and one of John Williams best scores. 3 and 4 were decent. The rest are shit.
 
The fourth film does this weird thing where it spoils the book's ending twist right at the very start. It's such a strange choice.
 
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The only correct answer is Prisoner of Azkaban and that is by a LARGE margin. That said the final 30 minutes of Goblet of Fire are probably the best in the entire series. They NAILED the Graveyard scene. It was perfect.

1: POA
2: GoF
3: OotP
4: DH: Pt1
5: DH: Pt2
6: CoS
7: SS


These are all great/decent movies ^^^



8: HBP

What a fucking disaster piece of shit crap ass movie. I would argue its the best book and they just ruined it.
 
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Personal preferances is Deathly Hallows PT2. The finale of the movies was just too damn good and a super easy watch. I put this one on the most usually playing in the back ground while I am doing other things.

On a more technical level I would say Order of the Phoenix. Professor Umbridge is such a bitch and I love the character they got to play her. Now when I read the books I see the actress in my minds eye.... probably the only character from the movies that does that.... maybe professor Lupine is a second.

I also have a weird attachment to Sirius Black so the ending hurt a bit more for me than most.
 
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My favorite was Goblet of Fire, followed by the Philosopher's Stone, the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Chamber of Secrets.

That said, I've not read a Harry Potter book all the way through. Only watched the movies up until the Half-Blood Prince which I remember was boring.
 
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Prisoner of Azkaban for me, mostly due to Alfonso Cuaron's deft direction and giving the series a much needed kick in the arse in terms of darkness. And you can't go wrong with Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, along David Thewlis as Lupin.

Followed closely by Goblet of Fire for the high school shenanigans and The Half Blood Prince for Jim Broadbent's delightful performance as Horace Slughorn.

Incidentally, if Warner plans a rumored remake of the series through a streaming tv show then I'm all for it. If only to see the wokies lose their shit over JK Rowling getting more money.
 
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Prisoner of Azkaban for me, mostly due to Alfonso Cuaron's deft direction and giving the series a much needed kick in the arse in terms of darkness. And you can't go wrong with Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, along David Thewlis as Lupin.

Followed closely by Goblet of Fire for the high school shenanigans and The Half Blood Prince for Jim Broadbent's delightful performance as Horace Slughorn.

Incidentally, if Warner plans a rumored remake of the series through a streaming tv show then I'm all for it. If only to see the wokies lose their shti over JK Rowling getting more money.
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I love that JK has the final say in anything produced in her world and she is strong with her beliefs. Makes me excited for anything they do in this world.
 
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CloudNull said:
I love that JK has the final say in anything produced in her world and she is strong with her beliefs. Makes me excited for anything they do in this world.
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Whoever her lawyer was who negotiated that deal was a genius. It allowed her to shut down Steven Spielberg's rumored plans for a Harry Potter movie (all CGI film, setting moved to America), and have the final say in casting and script changes.
 
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Dacon said:
None of em, I always thought they were mediocre adaptations to begin with.

Daniel Radcliffe is a nonce btw
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Yea the movies are all fairly poor in comparison to the books. Only the first and second Harry Potter movies did well, but even so, the books still win by a landslide
 
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I think I enjoyed them in the order they came out. The first one was fun cuz they were little kids entering the Wizarding world. Sure their acting was wooden, but everything felt special. With each film the acting and FX got better, but they quickly became teens, then young adults and themes got 'darker' and kinda lost me.

In fact Half Blood Prince onward the films downright suck. They may have a scene here and there, but they are films that I have very little intention on watching again.
 
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DH Part 2 is pretty epic. Granted it has a whole movie before it to build it up so it kinda cheats.
 
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I was always a filthy casual with HP as I was a bit older when it came out. I only ever saw the first 2 in the theater the second of which I went with my mother and we both smoked a joint before (I was 20 at the time) the movie and my mother lost her fucking mind and couldn't stop laughing and shouting HARRY PETER....was very embarrassing having to scold my mother in front of all those children....

I picked Goblet of Fire because the only reason I became a bigger HP fan was Goblet kept showing up on HBO when I'd get home from work that I eventually started paying attention and it got me hooked and I proceeded to give the whole series a proper watch-through

Deathly Hallows was so poorly dragged out I hope it was worth the money for that extra movie to making the franchise so anticlimactic
 
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Sejan said:
Sorcerer's Stone really captured the magic of the series in a way that ensured the success of the series on the whole. It may not be the "best" movie in the series, but its certainly the most important.
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I can agree with that. What it absolutely nailed was the casting.

Obviously you got Harry/Ron/Hermione/Draco out of it but even more importantly you got Hagrid, Snape, Dumbledore, McGonagal, the Dursleys, Olivander, Nearly Headless Nick etc…

Any dork could have played Harry but it was the adult cast that set the stage and made the world come alive.

Movie 2 kept the ball rolling with the full Weasley Family, and Lucious Malfoy and FUCKING KENNETH BRANAUGH AS GILDEROY 😂😂😂
Movie 3 was my favorite movie and we got Gary Oldman out of it as Sirius Black but we had a big step backwards with Michael Gambon as Dumbledore :/
 
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Sejan said:
Sorcerer's Stone really captured the magic of the series in a way that ensured the success of the series on the whole. It may not be the "best" movie in the series, but its certainly the most important.
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This, Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets for their flaws mostly do a great job of adapting the books and are timeless classics.

Azkaban drops the ball massively with outright omitting the backstory of the marauders and the tone change could have been acceptable except everyone is suddenly wearing normal clothing. This movie also seems to have mostly finalized Hogwarts live action look. Shame the book is one of the best I've read.

Fuck Goblet of Fire for skipping the absolute insane World Cup match. Still livid all these years later at the cutaway. I will give that the graveyard scene still gives me chills though
with the echoes of Harry's parents allowing him to escape.

Order of Phoenix onwards can't keep all the book material and it shows, though I find from here on the books were getting too grim and brutal, just Umbridge alone but a lot of other stuff that happens. Half Blood Prince while a very solid book drastically escalated it what with the fucking whole 'lake of corpses', and Deathly Hallows had
Voldemort's puppet Ministry of Magic starting the begining plans of a muggleborn genocide
. I've read the earlier books too many times to recall, but Deathly Hallows only once.
 
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In Goblet of Fire, Doby wasn't even shown to be the one who helped Harry figure out how to breathe underwater. Actually, did they even put Doby in that film, those fuckers? I remember being really disappointed at that small detail being left out. Hollywood or not. I think Ron was the one who helped Harry accidentally in the library, in the movie, or something like that
 
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This, Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets for their flaws mostly do a great job of adapting the books and are timeless classics.

Azkaban drops the ball massively with outright omitting the backstory of the marauders and the tone change could have been acceptable except everyone is suddenly wearing normal clothing. This movie also seems to have mostly finalized Hogwarts live action look. Shame the book is one of the best I've read.

Fuck Goblet of Fire for skipping the absolute insane World Cup match. Still livid all these years later at the cutaway. I will give that the graveyard scene still gives me chills though
with the echoes of Harry's parents allowing him to escape.

Order of Phoenix onwards can't keep all the book material and it shows, though I find from here on the books were getting too grim and brutal, just Umbridge alone but a lot of other stuff that happens. Half Blood Prince while a very solid book drastically escalated it what with the fucking whole 'lake of corpses', and Deathly Hallows had
Voldemort's puppet Ministry of Magic starting the begining plans of a muggleborn genocide
. I've read the earlier books too many times to recall, but Deathly Hallows only once.
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I recently rewatched PoA and every single time I watch it I'm baffled by the origin of the map being left out. That's pretty fucking important to Harry, it being a connection to his dad.

I'm also 100% with you on wizard vs muggle clothing, and it's what makes the poll difficult to answer. The first two had a better feeling of a secret magical world truly separate to our own, and that's all dropped in favour of boring as shit school uniforms and normal gear.

5/6/7 should have been my favourites, but all of the stand out moments I wanted to see were cut and instead we got nonsense like "Every Death Eater and Phoenix member can fly".

Where's the creatures in the maze?
Where's the full set of rooms in the ministry?
Where's the Gaunt memories and Voldemort applying to be a teacher?
Where's Harry using Cruciatus on a Carrow for spitting in McGonagall's face and realising what Bellatrix meant when she said you have to mean it?
 
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