What is your Top 8 of Harry Potter movies and books?

[UWS]

For most of us, of course, this is a saga that marked our childhood. In which order you rank the 8 Harry Potter movies and books from The Philosopher's Stone to The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

[Blue3]

Movies...

Deathly Hallows - part 2
Deathly Hallows - part 1
Prisoner of Azkaban

Sorcerer's Stone

Half-Blood Prince
Order of the Phoenix
Chamber of Secrets

Goblet of Fire




Books...

Deathly Hallows
Half-Blood Prince
Prisoner of Azkaban

Order of the Phoenix
Goblet of Fire
Sorcerer's Stone

Chamber of Secrets

[Sestak]

Need to think about this.

I know Order of the Phoenix is best for both.

And at least among books, Deathly Hallows is worst.

[Mr. Smith]

Books

1. Philosopher's Stone (B+)
2. Chamber of Secrets (A)
3. Prisoner of Azkaban (A-)
4. Goblet of Fire (A+)
5. Order of the Phoenix (A+)
6. Half-blood Prince (C-)
7. Deathly Hallows (D)

Films

1. Philosopher's Stone (A)
2. Chamber of Secrets (A-)
3. Prisoner of Azkaban (C+)
4. Goblet of Fire (F)
5. Order of the Phoenix (A+)
6. Half-blood Prince (D)
7. Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (B+)
8. Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (B+)

[NewYorkExpress]

Books:

1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Order of the Phoenix
3. Deathly Hallows
4. Goblet of Fire
5. Philosophers Stone
6. Chamber of Secrets
7. Half-Blood Prince

Movies:

1. Chamber of Secrets
2. Philosophers Stone
3. Deathly Hallows Part Two
4. Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Deathly Hallows Part One
6. Order of the Phoenix
7. Goblet of Fire
8. Half-Blood Prince

[Blue3]

Why do so many not like Deathly Hallows or Half-Blood Prince?

[nicholas.slaydon]

Movies:
1. Half-Blood Prince
2. Prisoner Of Azkaban
3. Deathly Hallows part. 1
4. Order of The Phoenix
5. Deathly Hallows part. 2
6. Sorcerer's Stone
7. Chamber Of Secrets
8. Goblet Of Fire

Books:
1. Half Blood Prince
2. Deathly Hallows
3. Order of The Phoenix
4. Sorcerer's Stone
5. Prisoner Of Azkaban
6. Chamber Of Secrets
7. Goblet Of Fire

[scutosaurus]

Prisoner of Azkaban is easily the worst book and the worst movie.

[NewYorkExpress]

Why do so many not like Deathly Hallows or Half-Blood Prince?

I'd presume it's because a lot of people preferred to see Harry get together with Hermione...also the concept of Horcuxes, when you dig really deep just seems foolish.

That said Deathly Hallows is far better than Half-Blood Prince.

[Peanut]

Why do so many not like Deathly Hallows or Half-Blood Prince?

I'd presume it's because a lot of people preferred to see Harry get together with Hermione...also the concept of Horcuxes, when you dig really deep just seems foolish.

That said Deathly Hallows is far better than Half-Blood Prince.

(Unpopular opinion here) HBP is actually my favorite book (not movie though.)

[Landslide Lyndon]

I don't get why Goblet of Fire is rated so low. For me it's the best movie, which is to be expected since Mike Newell is the best director among those who worked in the franchise.

[NewYorkExpress]

I don't get why Goblet of Fire is rated so low. For me it's the best movie, which is to be expected since Mike Newell is the best director among those who worked in the franchise.

Eh, I think both Chris Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron are better (though I strongly disagree with Cuaron's choices for Prisoner of Azkaban...)

[Landslide Lyndon]

I don't get why Goblet of Fire is rated so low. For me it's the best movie, which is to be expected since Mike Newell is the best director among those who worked in the franchise.

Eh, I think both Chris Columbus and Alfonso Cuaron are better (though I strongly disagree with Cuaron's choices for Prisoner of Azkaban...)

Cuaron reminds me of Zack Snyder: strong visuals but when it comes to narrative and characters, he leaves something to be desired.

[Crumpets]

Books: 6, 7, 2, 4, 5, 1, 3 in that order.

Movies: Meh, pretty much all equal, but I really loved 2 when it came out.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Prisoner of Azkaban and Order of the Phoenix are the best books.

Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Half-Blood Prince are the best movies

[UWS]

Hey, by the way, Rupert Grint, the actor who played Ron, will already turn 30 next week. That's incredible how much the Harry Potter actors grew up and changed from then to now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Grint

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/slideshow/2018/01/22/harry-potter-stars-then-and-now.html

[Mr. Smith]

This seemed relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7-3lOgb24

Anyway, I think it details a lot of my problems with those middle movies after Chris Columbus but before the Deathly Hallows, with the island known as Order of the Phoenix

In short: John Williams had more variety, but most of his score highlighted the magic of the world, which fit the books.

The latter scores were more reliant on a few quick motifs, often towards a more action-y tone.

[kyc0705]

I haven't read the books in ages, so I can't really speak to them. When it comes to the movies, removing myself from childhood nostalgia, I'd say the Columbus ones are kinda bad. Prisoner of Azkaban is intriguing because Cuarón is helming it, and has at least enough freedom to make a movie that looks and feels entirely different from the others. It kind of jumps around from there, but fittingly peaks at Deathly Hallows: Part II.

In terms of the best post-Williams score, I would like to defend Patrick Doyle's work in Goblet of Fire.

[Mr. Smith]

Resurrecting this since I just re-read the 3-5 books, to which I discovered another problem with the non-Columbus films.

The utter lack of mystery, it's just plot jump to plot jump to plot jump with almost no suspense whatsoever.

Too much focus on the action and not enough on the characters or the suspense, hence why David Tennant comes off as a psycho which would've been okay, had it not eliminated an important element of greyness.

Often Hermione just cannibalizes other people's lines just to look smarter and more perfect than she ever was...9/10 of the time at Ron's expense.

[brucejoel99]

Unfortunately never read the books.

Film-wise, of what I've managed to see at this point in my life...
1. Order of the Phoenix
2. Sorcerer's Stone
3. Chamber of Secrets
4. Prisoner of Azkaban
5. Goblet of Fire

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Deathly Hallows is easily the best of the books, followed by Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire (not necessarily in that order; as for the films, I agree with kyc's analysis.

[Mr. Smith]

And to answer

Why do so many not like Deathly Hallows or Half-Blood Prince?

The former [Deathly Hallows] was actually a good set of films, Rowling clearly wrote the book with it being adapted in mind because it's just not well-paced as a book, waaay too much action at the end and too much padding in the middle in the forest, also the character dumps for Snape and Dumbledore were clumsily added. Too much going on at the wrong parts. But David Yates' direction streamlined out those excesses and actually made the forest scenes feel like something meaningful [if with a bit of a Harry/Hermione shipping despite Radcliffe and Watson lacking that kind of chemistry]. Would've been an A if Snape's memories were better elaborated [y'know the whole reason he and Lily fell out...the movie makes it look like Lily just suddenly went with James for no reason except "he's hot"] and Pettigrew actually got killed off rather than forgotten.

As for Half-Blood Prince, the book was a rom-com with only an air of mystery, the only things of note in the whole book were Dumbledore's death and the origins of Voldemort...and the movie decided to drop the whole element of mystery which was important to explaining Snape while playing up the rom-com stuff. I can't bring myself to hate this one as much as The Goblet of Fire because, one stupid added scene with no payoff aside, at least it felt like the material it tried to be, and Michael Gambon did good as Dumbledore.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Cutting the big kiss between Harry and Ginny in Half-Blood Prince was a horrendous decision. People in Hollywood would kill to have such a big, crowd-pleasing scene in their movies, JK Rowling writes them one, and then suddenly they say "you know what, let's just put them pecking on the lips when nobody watches them".
What a travesty.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

And to answer

Why do so many not like Deathly Hallows or Half-Blood Prince?

The former [Deathly Hallows] was actually a good set of films, Rowling clearly wrote the book with it being adapted in mind because it's just not well-paced as a book, waaay too much action at the end and too much padding in the middle in the forest, also the character dumps for Snape and Dumbledore were clumsily added. Too much going on at the wrong parts. But David Yates' direction streamlined out those excesses and actually made the forest scenes feel like something meaningful [if with a bit of a Harry/Hermione shipping despite Radcliffe and Watson lacking that kind of chemistry]. Would've been an A if Snape's memories were better elaborated [y'know the whole reason he and Lily fell out...the movie makes it look like Lily just suddenly went with James for no reason except "he's hot"] and Pettigrew actually got killed off rather than forgotten.

Those are some fightin' words.