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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Poorest of all the Harry Potter films
The actors did a fantastic job and it was overall an enjoyable film, however...I gave the others in this series a 10. This one rates a 4 because it was terribly adapted.
I write films and know that when adapting a book, you must make omissions. There's no way around it as a book cannot be fully captured in 2-4 hours.
The previous installments were fantastic in that regard. There were simply omissions. This, however...wow. What a mess. I did like the movie, but that's just the problem: It was the first time I left a movie theatre after seeing a "Potter" film merely...liking it.
There is no excuse for this. The first book was very thin in comparison and had a runtime of 152 minutes. This book was at least twice as thick as the first and had a runtime of 138 minutes.
BRING BACK STEVE CLOVES & ALFONSO CUARON! Shame on the jackasses who green-lit this inaccurate "Synopsis" of a Harry Potter film.
I do hope they at least get back to the level of the previous 4 installments.
Mondovino (2004)
Semi interesting interviews ruined by deplorably horrible camera work.
I've heard people compare this movie to Sideways. How this comparison was made, I'll never guess because this movie was in no way comparable to Sideways.
These 2 films were as different as Star Wars and the Thornbirds. The only thing they had in common at all was they both had wine as a subject.
Though the interviews in this documentary were semi-interesting, they were ruined by the absolute worst camera work ever...attempted. I've never seen worse camera work in my life and I'm comparing it to home videos accidentally taken by 5 year olds.
I give this two stars, ONLY for the interesting interviews with French wine types and for showing how pushy and corrupt the American wine companies are (Aren't all companies pushy and corrupt?) I'd give it -10 stars (Yes, that's NEGATIVE 10) for the deplorable, terrible, horrible, awful, VERTIGO-INDUCING, 5-year-old-could-do-better camera mess.