Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

Lights faded to black as I was able to attend a black curtain screening, provided by Myspace.com of “Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix,” set to be released July 11th, 2007 in a theater near you. This time around, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and the gang head back to Hogwarts to continue studies, as well as to fight off an evil vengeance remerged encounter with Lord Voldermort, who if you are a fan remember killed off one of Harry’s friends in the end of the last film.
Throughout the film though, Harry is faced with lies as the Wizarding community denies the truth about Harry’s recent encounters with Lord Voldermort and Dumbledore becomes shady not talking to and avoiding Harry. We however, are introduced to a new character, Dolores Umbridge, set to make his life and his fellow classmates a living hell. The film envolves the Minister for Magic and an army set by Harry, calling themselves the “Dumbledore army,” who is taught by Harry to prepare them for a possible attack of Lord Voldermort.

Personally, I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars. If you love Harry Potter or love a good movie, then you definitely won’t be disappointed. The cinematography of this film is incredible and the magic and mayhem are present as well, so make sure you go are catch “Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix,” the fifth Harry Potter movie to come out. You won’t be disappointed regardless they take out a few things here and there than what the book has.

Written By: Jessica Potter
Private Screening:
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Orlando, Florida- AMC Theater Downtown Disney

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3 was a good movie. Out of the super-hero genre of movies, the Spider-Man movies especially had some good stories and visuals. That said, Spider-Man 3 had the most action out of any super-hero movie I have seen thus far. The long-awaited introduction of Gwen Stacy in the movies was well done, even if she should be dead at this point in the movie timeline. (Gwen Stacy pwns Mary Jane in SM3).

IMO, it's my love for the character that puts the movies and a lot of things Spider-Man related in very high regard. Now, the movie wasn't without its faults. If it wasn't for Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 3 would have been a disaster on the scale of X-Men: The Last Stand or Batman and Robin. Some go as far to call SM3, Batman and Robin 2, but I wouldn't. Like I said to you before, "In Raimi We Trust", and I think he delivered. Sure you wouldn't see Sandman and Venom working together, but the whole idea and scenes were very classic comic book moments. Whether Harry Osborn would have teamed-up with Spider-Man against some enemies is something I can't answer, because I didn't get to read the books before the character died in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man. The idea was still very cool, yet annoying.

The villain of the day was definetly Sandman. Powers and visuals beat anything that Venom could muster in SM3. Venom is a very cool character, but like in the comics, he gets really old really quick. Its a good thing he died a bitch death.

There are several plot holes throughout the movie, mostly in Peter/MJ relationship, but I guess that leaves room for the next movie.

That's my official review, and I'm sorry it's so long. Ha. Blame me for being a comic book fan.

Posted By: Nico (Guest Writer)