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I didn't mind the directing at all in the film but did feel the sting of the editor's cuts...
This the first of the really long books in the series and a lot had to be cut to make the film a reasonable length (2.5 hours). As a fan I was sad to see some things not there but on the whole it kept the important stuff and even played up some stuff with Neville that should have been done by Dobby, thereby pulling Neville into the overall plot.
Let's face it... the books, like the films are extremely episodic, or to use Shani's words, they are choppy. This film is slightly more choppy than the others but it is only marginally worse for wear than the others.
I think they should have taken a page from Peter Jackson's playbook and release an exteneded DVD version where all the stuff they couldn't include in this version are re-inserted, who knows, maybe they have!
I would recommend the film to anyone who has been following along since the beginning.
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