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I thought the third movie was beautiful, but then again it had the benefit of a good director. The plot wasn't rushed, it wasn't flashy or tacky, it didn't try so hard to impress with CGI or any of that shit. It was just more subdued in all the right places. The edits were more controlled as opposed to getting out of hand, like they have in all the other movies. The problem with the 3rd movie though is that there was never any connection made between the Marauder's Map and its creators (in reality, not just their nicknames). I am trying not to speak too openly about the books in this thread anymore, just in case someone becomes interested, and I wouldn't want to spoil anything for them. Anyway, I just thought that making that connection would have given the movie a little more weight. Other parts were left out, like Sirius's break-in to the castle, and how he escaped from Azkaban in the first place. On the DVD there is a deleted scene pertaining to the former. But, every one of the movies has left out just as much, if not more, and that movie was so well-done otherwise that it deserves a break. I mean, the entire Time Turner sequence was astounding. Seeing that onscreen was pretty intense, I gotta say.