>>42874 >a lot of HP fans think the last two are the best because they're 'more mature' (read: boring) Do they? Most HP fans I know of loathed the last 2 films, at least relative to the others.
What I meant about the films being good cinematographically is ironically that "camp holiday" you refer to, because it's actually misinterpreted heavily. The trio are, in the story, camping out for weeks, if not months and obviously they aren't doing nothing, but at the same time they have little choice to be careful in their actions after the Ministry-Locket debacle and how they're hunted by the entire Ministry and Voldemort. So we get excerpts of them, for lack of better words, surviving and trying to live, and it leads to developments like Ron leaving (and then returning), and the various traveling they do trying to find a clue as to what to do next.
A good line for example
>“Did you think we’d be staying in five-star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by Christmas?” That particular argument with Ron is a blatantly misunderstood in the film and book as RON being an idiot, rather than the whole lot of them falling apart as their aimless, fruitless attempts to achieve their task are clearly yielding nothing and they all know it, and the consequences of it. This wouldn't be such a big deal, as it's actually pretty accurate to how a bunch of barely of-age teens would be when given such a monumental task.
What undermines this is how quickly they find and destroy the other Horcruxes. The camping stuff is not a major part of the film, most of what we see is them interacting; the initial healing of Ron and their struggles to remain hidden, then after a relatively brief montage of them surviving as they can, we get to moments that push the plot forward as well as their moving around across England, Godric's Hollow and so on.