for me the duel scenes in the movies seem to be very unimaginative...in the books they are so much more exciting!!

I like duels in books more, because I like imagine my version of that. Otherwise, most of duels in movies are too short for me

I prefer duels in the books because I like to imagine this by myself. Besides, most of duels in the films is too short for me.

yes.even the most important duels are rushed in the movies.

The duels are not rushed

I prefer books because in movies you don't get the feel of everything, you can't just keep re-reading it over, well, you can pause and rewind, but in a book you can know what the characters are going through. You recognize everything, it's not in a spur-of-the-moment thought, you can see it clearly, as if it's all slow motion.

I find duels in books more satisfying, plus, in movies, they can't just have a whole slow-motion fight scene, it'd look weird and out of place, and I don't blame them, movies try their best, but books will always beckon to me, and with a good author, they fulfill the daily dosage of bad guy butt kicking I need.

They ruined the duels in the last 4 movies aka David Yates' movies

Books > Everything.

@BellaLovett, true. But Voldemort vs. Harry duel in DH Part 2 was much better than the books.

Overall in the movies you get to SEE the action.

The books go into more details...
Besides, the movies don't have all of the duels.

they almost ignored Sirius-Bellatrix duel...Snape-McGonagall,Molly-Bellatrix was poorly done...the only one they paid a little attention to was Dumbledore-Voldemort duel...but i didn't like that either(fire+water=blah)

Nice to actually see the fight.

If we are talking strictly about duels I think they are more exciting in the movies. Visualize you know *giggles*

I think it's more exciting to read them personally. Movies don't do duels justice.

Movies, i LOVE the books too,but is better that Watch the movies, and read all the books one more time,but the books is Amazing too:)