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Good episode like the others but I don't thing Hidden Arsenal 3 is that good of a set.

I generally really like Nerd to the Third, but I have a few issues with this episode:

1. It's pronounced Fee-no-trans, not fen-o-trans. http://www.youtube.com/ watch? v=zyaPPIJLCgM&feature=pla yer_detailpage#t=545s

2. Prisoner of Azkaban is the worst Harry Potter movie. The sheer amount of stuff they left out caused ripples down the entire line of movies. It's one thing to trim stuff that's can be left out, like they did in Deathly Hallows, but it's another thing entirely to leave something in and cut out it's explanation. The Marauders are the most crucial thing they cut. They left in enough stuff to make you wonder what's going on with them, like the map, and passing references to the Sirius-James-Lupin-Peter being friends, but they never connect the two and as a result a lot of characters have no motivation for their actions. Every subsequent movie had to backpeddle because of this one and the poor choices made of what to leave in and take out. If you hadn't read Harry Potter before going into this movie, you'd be lost. There's a lot more but it's been a while since I read the book and seen the movie.

But ignoring those two points, this was a good episode!

This is the first time that I've watched this. I saw Harry Potter, so I couldn't resist. The Harry Potter series is probably my favorite book series, and I think most of the movies are really good.
I disagree with people that Prisoner of Azkaban is the worst of the series. In fact, I hate Goblet of Fire a lot more than Prisner of Azkaban. With that said, I disagree with Prisner of Azkaban being the best of the series. There were just so many moments that I really didn't like. I mean, I hated the shrinking head. Especially because it wasn't funny and it was friggin weird. It was still a good movie. Other than Goblet of Fire, I don't dislike any of the Harry Potter movies.
I thought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was really good. I think David Yates has done a great job with Order of the Phoenix, Half-blood Prince, and Deathly Hallows. His movies are my favorites of the series. I'd call Deathly Hallows part 1 my absolute favorite, but I want to watch it more than once before I do that.
I am so happy that they split the book in half. And I agree that they chose a good place to split it in half. I was really sad about Dobby. :(
I really think Rupert Grint is the strongest of the trio. I love Ron.
The other day I was watching Order of the Phoenix, and my friend got mad when i cheered for Jason Issacs. I can't help it. He's friggin awesome. He is so amazing as Lucias. I couldn't help, but cheer for him.

I think your confusing my point for "they changed it, now it sucks." I don't care that they changed stuff in the movie, or left stuff out. What bothers me is that they seemed to do it arbitrarily. Because of that movie Snape's motive for defecting from Voldemort and for hating Harry, when revealed at the end of DH pt2, will be much weaker. They never explained why Snape hated James and Sirius, which resonanted down the line, making Snape hate Harry just because he does. The book Snape is a full, tortured character who you can sympathize with come the end of DH, but the movie Snape will just end up being a dick.

Again, I haven't seen the movie in forever, so there's probably a lot more that I'm missing. My problem is that that movie took the modern book-to-movie adaption mind set of "stuff happens because it does, it doesn't need a reason", whereas the books explain things. You ever wonder why it's a big deal Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew) is on Voldemort's side? That movie decided it wasn't worth it, even though it's part of a major plot point of the movie (yes, I mean movie). If they aren't going to explain it, just pull Wormtail out of the movie completely. As we've seen so far, he has essentially contributed nothing to the subsequent movies, so it's not like it'd be a gamebreaker.

It's been my experience that people who haven't read the books like PoA best because BY ITSELF it's a good movie, but when accompanying the entire series actually detracts from the myth arc. I can see your point how you'd like it as a casual fan who doesn't know what's coming down the line, but even when we were only a book or two ahead of that movie, it still made little sense that they pulled what they did in relation to what they left in.

I'm p.o.ed that they took out the fight scene at the wedding. Only because of Victor Krum 8(

The title here should read "Deathly Hallows," not "Deathly Hollows."

Sorry for the late comment, but the use of from MadWorld for your musical break is Epic Win. Keep up the good work!

Bill Nye would see the evil wizard, jump into to Nye Labs: London Branch. The roof would pop open relieving a strange yet awesome contraption and it would shoot out a weird wavy green wave that would latch onto the death eaters, pull them to the ground, and nullify they magic.

"Behold the power... of SCIENCE!"