A question for HARRY POTTER fans out there. With the remaining films in the series, since the books are so involved, would you rather see those novels filmed in two parts each or would you rather see the condensation or elimination of subplots to make the movie a single 2 1/2 hour version of the story?
I'd rather see the elimination of the subplots and subcharacters, as they did with
Goblet. None of the films have been the worse for the elimination of Peeves, for example, a character who has appeared in every book.
The only problem is that astute viewers/readers can perform some reverse engineering, because of what has been eliminated, figuring out which plot threads are important and which are not. For example, Percy Weasley played what most would think was an important part in
Goblet, the novel. He was missing from the film, but not missed. So, too, was the house elf Winky not included in the film (and thus was also eliminated Hermione's creation of S.P.E.W.).
I'd list more that was missing in the film, but that would create spoilers for the future films, not something I care to do here.