I love The Witches ! They changed the ending, but that's okay.

In Bruges is totally awesome.

The Witches is one of those movies that uses rats for mice. I wish they'd just call them rats. Once I get past that I do like it.

I guess mice are pretty much impossible to train. I heard that when they were hiring animal actors for Mouse Hunt (not a great movie) they specified what tricks the mouse would have to do and the trainer said, "sure, I'll have a few trained rats ready by that date." The director said, "no, we need mice" and the trainer said, "no way." The director offered to pay a lot of money and the trainer broke each thing the mouse had to do down so he had something like ten mice performing one step each of one trick. Other than that, pretty much every time someone screams "mouse!" in a movie it's gonna be a rat.

Deathly Hallows trailer that aired during the MTV movie awards.

That link is already dead, but I found it here: [link]

I'm pretty sure I only skipped #2. Maybe #3. I'm a bad, bad fan.

#3 is the one that Cuarón did. S"probably the best of the bunch!

I would agree. I have seen #3 several times. I never miss it when it comes on tv and it probably is my favorite book - the book is TIGHT. Plotting and everything.

Prior to last year, I would have said that #2 was the worst, but I think #6 is. #5 is a pretty good movie so I suppose my expectations were too high.

I love the Half Blood Prince movie. It does introduce some of the worst continuity problems of the movie series, as it's among the most different from the novel, but I think it manages to become one of the best movies of the bunch. It's one of my favorites to watch, as it reminds me why I actually LIKE the characters in the book. I like that it actually managed to be consistently funny and entertaining.

The only lasting complaint I have about the movie is that they rather ruined the entire Ginny storyline, but I think that's partly casting. Bonnie Wright is lovely, but her portrayal of Ginny has almost none of the spirit that character brings to the book. The moment when she yells at the Quidditch team is one of the most unbelievable scenes in the movie - her control there feel completely unearned, and I'm not sure why Harry likes her version of Ginny. I do wish they had included more of the Snape backstory and Voldemort flashbacks, as it's going to be remarkably difficult to ret-con all of the Lily materials, but I believe they can find a way to reach the same conclusions. And honestly, after the thoroughly overstuffed and completely unsatisfying mess that is the fourth movie (and the first movie, for that matter) I'm willing to let them make plot-cutting decisions in exchange for a more enjoyable movie-going experience.

What happens in #3?

#3 is Prisoner of Azkaban! Did you read the books?

It's one of my favorites, in style and tone. The movie as well as the book, I mean.

I have to look at the movies very differently from the books, otherwise I just spend 3 hours yelling, "WRONG!" at the screen and really? Joe will kill me.

That being said, I'm still pissed off that they have basically taken all of Hermione's awesome things and given them to Ron. Who is, mostly, a doofus.

I have too much of a lag between reading the books and seeing the movies. I rarely notice all the wrong things and I can never keep them straight.