Dick
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I have a different take on this, I guess. My favorite two films of the series (thus far) are the first two. Each has a genuine sense of awe and discovery, and what is best is that I actually felt as though I had spent a full year with these characters in school in both of them, as I expect one does when reading the books. The next several films do not have that sense of time passing - they hone in on specific characters and events and feel truncated to me, despite their length. I love the atmosphere created in the first two films, but find that lacking in the subsequent ones. Each film has its own merits, but I think Chris Columbus has been getting ragged on quite a lot in these threads and I personally think he has provided us with two tremendously entertaining movies that I will treasure for many years to come.