Is it normal to hate the harry potter movies?

I absolutely love the Harry Potter book series. I have read through the series literally (no exaggeration) more than 20 times and I've listened to the audio books even more. I am obsessed (I know that's a little weird, but that's not what I am asking)

I despise the Harry Potter movies! They are so inaccurate and wrong, badly acted and generally bad. I usually don't dislike movies this much, as I am a big movie lover.

However, the Harry Potter movies give the series a bad name. People who only watch the movies and say they hate Harry Potter or that it's stupid are being duped by the terrible movies!

Stuff wrong with the movies:

Harry's eye color is blue (a significant change from the books where his green eyes play a huge role), his hair isn't jet black and spiky, and his scar isn't in the center of his forehead. He's too short, his face is too wide and Daniel Radcliffe isn't a good actor.

Hermione is much too pretty. They pretty her up, she's supposed to be average looking with bushy hair and buck teeth (until the 4th book). That's why it's so surprising when she cleans up for the Yule Ball. In the movie there's no change but everyone acts surprised.

Dumbledore wears a weird hat instead of a wizard's hate and ties his beard? Also, he's mean and freaks out all the time. Dumbledore is supposed to be really calm and mild mannered. Also, in the sixth movie his hand is slightly black. In the book, his hand is completely black and burned looking.

Snape is way overacted, and he's supposed to be in his mid thirties, not sixty.

Lupin doesn't have a mustache, Sirius is supposed to be in his mid thirties, too, and be emaciated but formerly handsome.

Voldemort isn't supposed to wear a suit! He despises muggles, why would he wear muggle clothes? Also, he looks too old. Yeah, he's about seventy in the book, but he is so dehumanized that he doesn't really look aged. His skin is also not bluish greenish, it's pale white. He has red eyes, not blue. Even before he was Voldemort, he had dark eyes.

The absolute worst part of the movies, though, is that they dumb it down SO MUCH. And make it all about repetitive wizard fighting and constant action scenes, as if the audience can't sit through a calm moment. The first movie is okay when it comes to sets and props, but in every movie they make the sets more and more ridiculously elaborate and unnecessary. Wands are just wooden rods, they're not carved in weird designs. Even the Goblet of Fire is supposed to be a roughly carved wooden goblet, entirely unremarkable except for the flames coming out of it.

The last fight between Harry and Voldemort is supposed to be just them circling each other in the great hall, while Harry explains everything to Voldemort. Then Voldemort's curse backfires and he falls to the ground with a mundane thump. Do they have to make it ridiculously elaborate to keep the audience's interest?

I get they have to cut out certain parts, too. They're big books. But they cut out important parts and replace them with made up parts that don't add anything to the story.

Am I the only one who feels this passionately about them. I know they're just movies, but for some reason I get irrationally angry about them.

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Comments ( 19 )
  • Wendell

    Did you really just type all that

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    • detectiveghost

      Yes, obviously.

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  • dom180

    I think if you really love the books only then will you notice those things. It's understandable not to like something that you feel doesn't do justice to something you love. Really though, changing small details like the kind of clothes a character wears in some scenes or the wideness of a character's face don't add or take away from the quality of the story at all for most people.

    Films are supposed to be an art form all of their own, not carbon copies of the book they're based on. They're allowed some artistic license because sometimes certain things in books don't translate very well to the screen and have to be changed. They have to be exaggerated in certain ways or yes: the majority of the audience really *will* lose interest. Because Harry Potter is a fantasy series first and foremost viewers expect elaborate props and hyperbole to give them the feeling of being in another universe, and they'll get bored if that isn't what's given to them.

    You're a purist and that's understandable, but I don't think the films are in any way objectively bad. People who watch the films for the first time without reading the books won't see anything wrong with them that they also won't find wrong with the books.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    Couldn't you just say you hate them and not send me to sleep?

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    • detectiveghost

      Yeah... You're the one who spent time reading it

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      • Terence_the_viking

        Actually i ending up with drool on my face and then answered it.

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        • detectiveghost

          What? That sentence literally makes no sense.

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          • Terence_the_viking

            Let me clarify for you.

            I fell asleep and woke up in a pool of my drool.

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  • ohwhale

    PEOPLE ARE LIKE "TEH HARY POTTAR BOKS R SO BAD MOVES R BETER" like no

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  • Snape666

    it happen to me, after reading the books. the movies are not loyal.

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  • RomeoDeMontague

    Well I only read book one since they made us in class. It was the most agonizing thing I ever read. He took flipping 10 pages explaining that harry was eating an icy. It seemed pretty accurate to me. I loved the harry potter movies and I don't understand how anyone can stand the books. You seem to enjoy being boring. If they made it low tech and did not make it bright and elaborate it would be a class B film. At least they put more effort into the films. Not like they did for the twilight films. I appreciate the fact they tried in these movies and I enjoyed all the harry potter movies. I use to want to be harry potter. I love harry.

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  • JustCallumHere:)

    The books are better than the movies...you still gotta love the movies tho even tho they are sooooo corny.

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  • Holzman67

    I've never seen the movies cos I tried reading the books and could not get into them

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  • soul-man

    Yes, bring back old school fantasy movies like Labyrinth and Neverending Story.

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    • You barely watched Labyrinth.

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      • soul-man

        Okay, The Princess Bride then. Or Barbarella!

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        • DURAN DURAN!

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  • AntiSpark

    harry potter likes magic! i like magic! do you like magic? science is better than magic though because i like the shape of the letter S. yeah this sounds like sesame street, but this isnt elmos world. elmo was a pedo i hate pedos. i hate pedos but i like magic and love to science.

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    • RomeoDeMontague

      What the hell are you on?

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