Excellent. I couldn't agree more. There wasn't anything really holding my attention for the first 2 books or the first 2 movies. They're the kind of things critical movie watchers and critical readers "go through" because they know there's better beyond it. Azkaban was the defining book in the series, creating an entirely different chain of events that actually felt like they mattered beyond the tiny tot crap in the first 2 books. A series of events is began in Azkaban that will inevitably play out through the rest of the books, and the movies will reflect that change in both importance, tone, and needed delivery. One can only hope that Mike Newell captures this change properly, continuing what Cuaron began. Although there are some story-telling devices that Cuaron almost overuses, i.e., the circular-wipe effect, that I find almost distracting, overall, I believe that Cuaron captured the spirit of the book, despite his washing over of some details. Like clockworkgreen said,
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He's right, there aren't big enough changes in the major, overall story for anyone who's read the books to get up in arms over.
In defense of Chris Columbus, he was tackling the earlier books as source material, and honestly, they were less involving and entertaining when compared to Azkaban.