Jasonic's Favorites: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Hello, and good evening, Internet! Harry Potter remains one of my favorites and I continue to revisit the movies in our current climate of us fans getting a new show at HBO Max. Released in 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the first of the Harry Potter films directed by David Yates and continues to prove the success of the Harry Potter film franchise beyond the first four movies. It was a great opening weekend -- one, if not THE biggest at the time -- and box office success, and critics generally enjoyed it. As an adaptation of the thickest book in the series, it, shockingly, clocks in as the single movie adaptation with the shortest runtime -- that is only if you count Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 as a single project, in which case, Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the shortest on its own. In all my years of watching Harry Potter and engaging with the fans and watchers, people have either liked this movie the least or remembered it fondly, and I might be in the latter...