Harry Potter 'Movie' Series

[Ivy]

Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based on the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.


Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts.


Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to blow Uncle Vernon's sister Marge who was being offensive towards Harry's parents. Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is pleasantly surprised that he won't be penalized after all. However, he soon learns that a dangerous criminal and Voldemort's trusted aide Sirius Black has escaped from the Azkaban prison and wants to kill Harry to avenge the Dark Lord. To worsen the conditions for Harry, vile shape-shifters called Dementors are appointed to guard the school gates and inexplicably happen to have the most horrible effect on him. Little does Harry know that by the end of this year, many holes in his past (whatever he knows of it) will be filled up and he will have a clearer vision of what the future has in store...


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry's fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort's rebirth be too much for the young hero?


Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means.

[SajN]

I prefer the 2nd movie.

The 1st was aight, but 3rd, 4th and the 5th movie were not so good.
I didn't like that they changed some of the scenes from the books, and didn't include for example the scene at St Mungo's, the hospital where Harry and Ron and Hermione run into classmate Neville Longbottom and learn that his parents were tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange (from the 5th book)
I really wanted that scene.

I didn't like the way they portrayed the fighting when Sirius Black died either.

The 3rd movie was also a disappointment to me. Harry got the new broomstick at the end, it should be in the middle of the movie!!!


So till now, I like Chamber of the Secrets.
I really hope the 6th movie will be good.

And FUCK THEM (the movie makers) if the last movie disappoints me!

[yoshi]

Definitely the 5th one. Even though they didn't include some of the parts from the book, I think it was the best out of the released movies. It wasn't as childish as the first part and there were no long-ass pointless dialouges as in the third part.

4th one comes close. I think 4th and 5th parts are the most grim movies and I really dig it

[Ivy]

I loved the fourth, just all the action and risks that are involved, makes it an enjoyable movie. And a lot of it is taken from the book, not much is left out like they're starting to do in the 5th and 6th. I definetely don't want to see when all the drama starts, then it will just remind me of high-school, that's how the actors make me see it atleast...