Reply #17: No, he isn't. [View All]

[WildClarySage]

They are alternating directors so that they can begin shooting the next film as soon as they've finished the last, so that they can get the movies made while the main 3 actors are still children. Cuaron may direct 5 though, not sure. But they've been working on 4 for months now.

It would have been nice if they'd done more with the the map, and I think they did a real disservice by not touching the whole hermione/house elves angle. There's important social commentary being ignored there.

I got the feeling that they tried too hard to pack too much into the movie and rejected the things that made you care about Hogwarts and the characters. Like showing only a brief part of the Quiddich game. And more of Professor Trelawney & that class would have given the movie more oomph. Like they did with the Leaky Cauldron. They gave us some more insight into Harry's world that way. The movie needed more of that kind of thing. The first two did a better job of that. But I guess if they did it my way, the movie would have been 5 hours long! And I really liked the cinematography and the "feel" that Cuaron gave this one.