My problem with the Columbus movies is that he didn't reformat anything for the movies. Also, way too many establishing shots of "LOOK WHAT WE MADE! IT'S JUST LIKE THE BOOKS!"

But that's just me. PoA is my favorite one, but that may be because it was the first one to blow my mind. I hadn't read the books, so all of the twists had me on the edge of my seat. I realized that they weren't little kid books at that point and read them all. I'm not huge fans of the post-me-reading-them movies, as I know what is going to happen and I just sit in the theater waiting to see how they did such-and-such or who they got to play so-and-so.

I'm a firm believer in experiencing the movie first, then reading the book. In most cases. Maybe I should write a blog post on that...