Two final thoughts:
1) I didn't like director Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon the first time I saw it either, so maybe this film will grow on me as that one did.
2) Whoever thought this difficult, difficult movie was going to make Spider-Man style bank was probably literally on crack.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Certainly the best of the series thus far. Rowling does "unfair" better than anyone else I can think of. I think the success of the series directly stems from the way she is able to convey the capricious, arbitrary, vindictive exercise of power by adults and bullies over children, something to which all children can relate. And I think what makes the books so quickly-readable is that readers want to plow through the unfairness until they get to the point where the unfairness is exposed and Harry is vindicated.

Two minor gripes about the ending (SPOILER ALERT!!! gosh, that was fun to write):

1) Gee, you mean Harry and Voldemort's destinies are inextricably linked, and one day they'll have a duel to the death? Get out of here! I had no idea!!! Seriously, that was the big secret? Talk about a lousy payoff.

2) The last chapter, as I noticed when I first read the Table of Contents, is called "The Second War Begins." Uh, really? Looked to me like Harry got on a train and went home, just like he did in the last four books. If you're going to title a chapter "The Second War Begins," how 'bout, I dunno, beginning the Second War in it?

Sean T. Collins will soon be getting a Tolkien tattoo on his left arm to match the Rebel Alliance insignia on his right. He blogs at Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat, where this post originally appeared.