What is the best Harry Potter book and film?

[Daniel.]

Order of The Phoenix imo

[AnnieK]

Order of The Phoenix imo

Thats my least favourite

Half blood.prince for.me

[user104658]

The best films are the first two, they captured the "magic" in ways the rest didn't.

The best written books are Goblet of Fire and Half Blood Prince.

And honorable mention to the Deathly Hallows films - simply for being OK films when the book was a horrible mess. Though I put that down to the fact that I think she was writing the book with the movie in mind, by that point, so the book read like a confusing screenplay but translated easily to movie form.

[EspeonBB]

Prisoner Of Azkaban for both

[Daniel.]

Prisoner Of Azkaban for both

Oh come on darling

[Shaun]

Film: Deathly Hallows Part 1
Book: Goblet of Fire

[Braden]

Film: Deathly Hallows Part 1
Book: Goblet of Fire

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[user104658]

Prisoner Of Azkaban for both

Ew it's the worst of the films.

[King Gizzard]

Harry Potter and the smug badger

[Braden]

I'd say the best film is GoF, definitely. The books are a lot harder to judge because I thought they were all excellent, especially from 4-7.

[GiRTh]

Best book - Goblet of fire

Worse Book - Cant remember the title, but in one of the middle books Rowling changed her writing style to be more 'youth and urban'. It didnt work. Can anyone remind which one that was? :shrug:

Best film - Deathly Hallow - Agree with TS the books were difficult to follow but the films were fantastic.

Worse film - One of the the mid to late ones, so either Half blood Prince or Order of the Phoenix.

[King Gizzard]

Can't choose a book but POA is best film or it just seems it because the first two were bad

[storybrooke]

Best Film: I love Philosopher's Stone, Prisoner of Azkaban and Order of the Phoenix. Wasn't too keen on Chamber of Secrets or Half Blood Prince.
Best Book: The first one. Haven't re-read them for a few years so am a bit hazy on this.

[Daniel.]

OOTP remains the best book but I prefer GOF and DH Part 2 as films thee days

[Smithy]

DH Part 2 could have been so much better (the battle for hogwarts specifically) if it had stuck to the source material

[Liam-]

Half Blood Prince is my favourite

[Underscore]

Order of the Phoenix

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[RileyH]

Only read the first 2 books so can't comment on that but my fav film is OOTP or GOF

[Vicky.]

Deathly hollows by a mile. Quite liked the half blood prince too mind.

Film wise, DH part 2.

Order of the phoenix quite bored me, that and the prisoner of azkaban were not very good films IMO.

[Alf]

Only seen the films and Prisoner of Azkaban was easily the best.

[RileyH]

The only good bit of POA was the tree

[Alf]

The only good bit of POA was the treeDid you not like the bus?

Gary Oldman first appeared as Sirius Black.

[Denver]

It is a super overrated franchise

[Daniel.]

It is a super overrated franchise

That would be Star Wars

[RileyH]

Did you not like the bus?

Gary Oldman first appeared as Sirius Black.

oh wait I actually liked that film silly me :p

3-5 are the trinity, I enjoy the first 2, 6 is bad and idk the last 2 are ok

[Marsh.]

POA easily the best film. Closely followed by the first two and DH-P1.

GOF, OOTP and HBP are horrible movies. But OOTP is one kf my fave books.

[Underscore]

Only read the first 2 books so can't comment on that but my fav film is OOTP or GOF

whew we STAN miss umbridge :smug:

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[Niamh.]

I haven't read the books but my favourite film was The prisoner of Azkaban. Order of the Phoenix was my least favourite

[RileyH]

whew we STAN miss umbridge :smug:

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no we don't :yuk:

[Underscore]

no we don't :yuk:

:oh:

[RileyH]

the only bitch we stan

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[Ashley.]

I'd say the films for the first couple were much better than the books, which is rare. It has to be Goblet of Fire though... both book and film.

[Underscore]

the only bitch we stan

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helena is good in any role :love:

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[Alf]

I used to have them all on DVD, but I lent them to a mate of mines daughter a couple of years ago, and haven't seen them since.

It's at times like the upcoming Bank holiday weekend that you miss them most. I like a bank holiday weekend film binge.

[Marsh.]

No time to miss them, they've joined the very limited itv movie collection. They're shown more often than not.

[Marsh.]

Surprised by the love for GOF. I thought it was a terrible film.

[Tony Montana]

I've read only the first 4 books a long time ago. I can't remember which one I preferred.

For films, if I had to rank them from most to least fav:

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

I've seen half of them at the cinemas too :smug:

[Tony Montana]

I used to have them all on DVD, but I lent them to a mate of mines daughter a couple of years ago, and haven't seen them since.

It's at times like the upcoming Bank holiday weekend that you miss them most. I like a bank holiday weekend film binge.

Watch the Lord Of The Rings or Star Wars Original Trilogy

[Tony Montana]

I loved how each film would always be much more darker than its predecessor

[Tony Montana]

Whose Dumbledore did y'all prefer? Michael Gambon or Richard Harris?

[Marsh.]

Harris.

Gambon was far too angry, the exact opposite of the character.

[Alf]

Watch the Lord Of The Rings or Star Wars Original TrilogyI did episodes 1 to 6 of Star Wars not so long ago.

I might do LOR again though, it's been a while since I watched those.

I still have only seen one of The Hobbit films, how many of those were made?

[Tony Montana]

I did episodes 1 to 6 of Star Wars not so long ago.

I might do LOR again though, it's been a while since I watched those.

I still have only seen one of The Hobbit films, how many of those were made?

3 films. Although they're all disappointments compared to the LOTR tbh

[Tony Montana]

Did you enjoy the Star Wars Prequels Alf?

[Alf]

Did you enjoy the Star Wars Prequels Alf?Yes, not as good as the original trilogy, but they were watchable. I've not and have no intention of watching the more recent ones.

[Tony Montana]

Harris.

Gambon was far too angry, the exact opposite of the character.

I agree. Harris was perfect as the kind, caring, wise old wizard. His Dumbledore was more like the early books, whilst Gambon's was more like the aggressive, dying, angry Dumbledore in the later books.

Gambon still did a fantastic job and was a good replacement.

[Tony Montana]

Yes, not as good as the original trilogy, but they were watchable. I've not and have no intention of watching the more recent ones.

I only really like Revenge of the Sith from the prequels.

[Tony Montana]

These memes are a scream and so true

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[Daniel.]

Surprised by the love for GOF. I thought it was a terrible film.

The end sequence of GOF is gripping and the ‘darkest’ the movies ever got imo

[Tony Montana]

I loved the triwizard tournament.

[Twosugars]

Thats my least favourite

Half blood.prince for.me

The same for me.

Haven't seen all the films, but of what I have the books are much better.

[Smithy]

Omg how can you not have seen all the films :o

[bots]

DH part 1 was the best film, also the darkest to me. Also they changed the composer and that freshened it up.

Never read the books

[AnnieK]

I'm just currently reliving all the movies with my son....I tried to force them on him in the past but he wasn't interested but now he loves them too.

[Twosugars]

Omg how can you not have seen all the films :o

I have seen most, but not all
Sis, films rarely live up to books imo. Films are always shorter and limit the imagination. Tho must admit some casting decisions in this series were inspired.
But will try to watch them when I'm in a Potter mood next.

[Marsh.]

The end sequence of GOF is gripping and the ‘darkest’ the movies ever got imo

Oh the graveyard scenes were good, even if they weren't a patch on the book.

But the rest of it, particularly the tournament, were pants.

[Marsh.]

I agree. Harris was perfect as the kind, caring, wise old wizard. His Dumbledore was more like the early books, whilst Gambon's was more like the aggressive, dying, angry Dumbledore in the later books.

Gambon still did a fantastic job and was a good replacement.

That's the thing though Dumbledore was rarely portrayed with any anger or aggression whereas Gambon played him as a cantankerous old twat, which he wasn't supposed to be IMO.

He did play the King's Cross sequence well though and I did enjoy him in PoA as he played it more with a bit of a twinkle in his eye.

[Marsh.]

These memes are a scream and so true

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Thought this casting was bad too. :hehe:

Umbridge should've looked like the slug lady from Monsters Inc.

[Daniel.]

Oh the graveyard scenes were good, even if they weren't a patch on the book.

But the rest of it, particularly the tournament, were pants.

The maze was better in the film (and I way prefer the book) the concept of the mae making them lose their sanity was more effective than the random spiders etc. The lake and dragon were done perfectly too

[Shaun]

Book: Goblet of Fire
Film: Deathly Hallows 1

Edit: just seen this thread is 2 years old and I've literally already answered the same before. Hooray for consistency.

[Underscore]

These memes are a scream and so true

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umbridge :flutter:

[Jordan.]

1-4 are the best