Do you think the Harry Potter movies could have been better?

This was less of a problem in the first few films, but from the fifth onwards, the issue of length was very much apparent — it still astounds me that they decided to reduce the DA into essentially a short montage. read more

There are a number of little things, and one big thing that could have been better. First, the movies were primarily for the many book fans. read more

Then the last 3 became that sort of movies where a guy talks to a frog with no background sounds and you can hear his steps. It was more theatre than a movie. I liked the books a lot but I have the feeling that the last movies were actually really crap and the only reason people like them is because they just like the HP story that much. read more

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 2. The HP wiki agrees with me: In J. K. Rowling's sketches of the five Gryffindor boys in Harry Potter's year, Neville is shown as being the shortest, but in the films, Neville is the tallest, aside from Dean Thomas. read more