[kupoartist]

I really liked it... The Directorial touches were pretty good - some of the imagery was great, like the Whomping Willow through the seasons and the way that the Dementor's "aura of death" type thing was visually shown (the death of a flower and such as they passed by) rather than repeated in dialogue. My problems with the movie aren't the scenes they left out but the basic facts they neglected. How much screentime would it have taken for Lupin, or Sirius or anyone to say

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"BTW, I'm Moony, Sirius is Padfoot, Your dad was Prongs and Perigrew was Wormtail".

The whole animagus thing wasn't mentioned at all, and the appearance of Harry's Stag Patronus may as well been some sexual metaphor rather than the image of his father's protection that its supposed to be. Whilst scenes would take a long time to act out, and extra line of dialogue wouldn't have. I followed the story perfectly, but both of my sisters and my mum had to have it explained, and I can see why. My dad said he followed it, but experience tells me that men just say that anyway, regardless of whether they're right or wrong