I'm pretty sure I couldn't give a spoiler-free rant at this point, so I'm just going to say it and move on. The new Harry Potter movie sucks ass. There's another young adult fantasy movie I could attend if I wanted to watch teenagers talk about kissing and then giggle. No... not too much ACTUAL kissing, that would cause forward story momentum. Just discussion of kissing. OTHER STUFF DID HAPPEN IN THE BOOK YOU KNOW!

Also, we get it. Malfoy is conflicted. If you had spent half as much time on plot as you did on scenes of him brooding intently we could have had a story to go with our giggling.

EDIT

Okay, I feel that 3 AM had zapped my powers of mercy and objectivity, so I owe it to you guys and the creators to take it back. The movie doesn't completely suck. Instead let's just say that I was disappointed. To be fair, the 6th book was my personal favorite, and the producers would have needed several more hours and a much larger budget to fit everything I loved about it into the movie. Still, there are a few simple steps they could have taken to make a passable imitation. (Very mild spoilers to follow)


1) Teach Radcliff to act
The guy who plays Malfoy did an incredible job with his role. When I said we saw too much of him, that wasn't, strictly speaking, accurate. It's better to say that he took up more space than was necessary, he overshadowed the characters because he was a clearly complex, conflicted character while Harry appeared to be reading his lines off of cue cards. This could also have affected how I took the love story. We are supposed to see a foil in this story: On the one hand you have Malfoy, being driven by fear and hatred to do things he really doesn't want to do, and on the other you have Potter, who is in danger of falling into the same trap. Harry's acting was the main issue, but there were other things that could have been done to fix it.

2) More Snape
The enmity between Snape and Harry was important. Like, really important. Yet he appears mostly in the background for most of the movie. I know that they were doing this for a reason, but there were better ways to handle this.

Have Snape walk Harry back from the train: This would give Snape plenty of time to deride Sirius, reminding us (and hopefully Radcliff) that Harry's godfather just died, and to show off just how much contempt Harry and Snape had for each other.

3) Psst, Snape helped kill Harry's parents
Yeah, probably should have included that whole "reporting the prophesy to Voldermort" thing. Though including the love potion scene instead was an acceptable alternative (sarcasm).

4) Fix the room of requirement scene
Just... fix it. I was okay with it happening that way, but the dialogue... fix it.

5)Needs more Tonks
Just personal preference