I find that there is on occasion a YA book to movie where the movie is much better than the book. (Yeah, I'm talking about HP here). I'm sorry but the seventh book was 85% camping and 10% disappointing character developments because Rowling didn't like her fans putting Harry and Draco together.
I liked the last two HP films far better than the books. I am currently off-put by many of the YA book/movies. I'm not a Twilight fan, so having those thrown at me every time I go to the theater is getting old, and the Hunger Games just makes me sad. I'd like to see a YA book to movie in an upbeat tone, just for a change of pace.
So true. And it's funny how particularly annoyed J.K. Rowling was by fan fiction. Why bother to get upset over it? I feel like the whole reason she wrote an epilogue was to dissuade fan ficcers/shippers. (Not to mention the endings she gave all of the other characters. Personally, I did not need to know what happened to every Tom, Dick, and Harry; I'd rather imagine what happened after the end myself. But, oh well.)
I didn't really like the last two HP books all that much either, but between the books and the movies, I don't know which was worse. They were disappointing all-around, for me.
I thought the very last movie was terrible, in particular. They seemed to have cut a lot, despite slicing the book into two parts. I remember a scene where Harry goes into the forest, and Hagrid shouted, "What are you doing here, Harry?" And I was very tempted to shout, "What are YOU doing there, Hagrid?" because by then it was a few minutes into the forest scene and I didn't even know Hagrid was there until they cut to him asking why Harry was there. They didn't even bother to establish he was there. It's a little thing, but little things added up, and the film didn't feel very coherent as a whole... IDK, I saw it a while ago, but I wasn't impressed. Not a very good film, IMO. And the ending... I died. The epilogue was too funny.
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