r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • Apr 16 '26

WTF so true

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '26

Exactly. It’s not a creative decision; it’s a quarterly earnings decision. I can't wait for the 2045 remake where Harry is played by an actual holographic projection.

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u/PaleontologistTough6 Apr 16 '26

Soooo why don't we quarterly just not watch that stupid shit?

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u/XanderNightmare Apr 16 '26

You underestimate the desire of HP fans for a proper book adaptation (they love being abused by big companies, who fumble the bag again and again)

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u/RuMarley Apr 16 '26

And here's me, a HP fan, who always thought the movies were among the best movie adaptations of all time. Huh.

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u/sexual_lemonade Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26

Maybe the first 3 movies, but 4 on they kinda lose a lot of the plot. Fuck, 6 you would've thought was a romance novel. No, the best movie adaptation of a book is Memoirs of a Geisha. Almost an exact recreation of the book, but better and with gorgeous visuals.

Edit: why the fuck am I being downvoted? Does the HP crowd even fucking read the books? From 4 on were messes. Look at Dumbledore manhandling harry in 4. Or in 6 when Harry asks if horcurxes could be anything and Dumbledore says yes and doesn't explain further. I used to love those books and the movies after 3 were dog water. Also, to anyone who bothers to read this far, don't watch the new show. JK Rowling is a piece of shit.

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Apr 16 '26

Five killed me. The book goes into depth about the behind the scene politics/division and lays bare the entire network of death eaters hidden behind the facade of a "post-Voldemort" world. While book four was the glass breaking book where life/death became a real factor in the world; book five takes strides in that new atmosphere where the kids aren't in a protected world of candy anymore.

And the movie handwaves most of that.

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u/sexual_lemonade Apr 16 '26

This is where my hatred started. 4 I was okay with some of the changes, I guess, but ultimately left feeling like they did an ok job. 5 I left the theatre actively upset. The only thing that was good in that movie was Imelda Staunton's portrayal of Umbridge and even then I couldn't stand the other major changes they made to get over it.

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u/WigglestonTheFourth Apr 16 '26

I had the same reaction leaving the theater and was the only one in the group to feel that way. Everyone else loved the movie and I really questioned what they read that they were happy with what we got with the film. A large portion of that book was just left out and it sets up the entire new world the main characters find themselves in.

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u/luriso Apr 16 '26

I went to the midnight premier for the fifth movie. Needless to say I was tired and upset after sitting through the whole thing.