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Dorothy Mills (2008)
"A" for effort!
I thought my friends and I would take a risk in the selection for our little scary movie night. Our choice turned out to be quite the risk.
On the cover, it says, "A contemporary 'Exorcist'". This would attract most horror-movie lovers... Dorothy Mills did not even come close.
The beginning was interesting and creepy. The rest of the beginning was a loosely threaded, tangled, jumble of half-stories. Half-stories, because they could have been sagas. They were all condensed into less than two hours.
The acting was fine, the little girl, even though her storyline is obscured. The main actress was fine as well...but the focus seemed to be on her, once again diminishing any sense of terror.
At the end, the story does make sense...but remember, there was an entire hour and a half of confusion before.
I give the movie credit for having me sit through the entire disappointment (even with snickering and negative remarks).
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Apart from the books, pretty good.
I went to see Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix opening night at midnight. I had had a very tiring day and was falling asleep in my seat waiting for the movie to begin. I had recently reread the books and was ready for a book-movie comparison. Miraculously I managed to keep very much awake during the whole of the movie. At the end, I was disappointed to say that many parts of the plot had changed, and was not happy with the outcome. I once again watched the movie later in the week, and tried to look at it from a movie point of view. Overall the directing and cinematography is quite good and some of the art directing is great. Acting wavered from character to character, but once again it is hard to star in a movie where people are just waiting to criticize you. I thought Gary Oldman did a great job, and Umbridge as well. My final thought: it was pretty good.