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Harry Potter Again
maxusy3k:
That's what I thought about the HBP line being pointless, really. If Snape had reflected the spell, walked over to Harry and just said "You dare to use my own spell against me?" or whatever he said, that would have been it, mystery solved, Snape is the Half-Blood Prince. Show, not tell, in a backhanded kind of way. Takcing on the "Yes Harry I am the Half-Blood Prince" was ridiculous and redundant. It's the kind of thing that would have some kind of DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUUN music behind it in a spoof movie.
I generally wasn't sold on this one... I'm not much of a Potter fan regardless, but I enjoy watching movies, particularly at the cinema, and have seen all the HP films so far ( it is like a tradition for my mother and I now) but this is the first time I've ever left the cinema feeling underwhelmed after any of them. Most tellingly is that even my mother didn't really enjoy it, for many of the same reasons I didn't.
I eventually came to the conclusion that, had the entire film be a sort of 'break from the norm' of the HP films and focus entirely on the characters as they develop into young adults, relationships and all, that it would have been a better film and a much better lead-in for the next. As it was it felt like the film-makers were finishing up the script, realised they were running out of time, and shoved all the exposition in for the last twenty minutes, in a very basic synopsis-like (synoptical?) fashion. "Okay, they find a Horcrux in a cave, go back to Hogwarts, Deatheaters attack, Malfoy can't kill Dumbledore so Snape does... that covers it, right?"
I also thought - admittedly I haven't been bored enough to read the most recent book yet - that it doesn't seem to be as much of a shock when Snape kills Dumbledore... the fact he knew Harry was down there seemed to suggest he had ulterior motives in doing the deed, which I'm led to believe is because it is part of The Plan and Snape is a good guy? I don't know if that's true or not. Reading the book it was much more of a hammer blow and completely out of nowhere.
Blyss:
I have yet to see this - however, my other half went to see it, and I will report, as best I can recall, what she said - verbatim.
"We were told it was going to be 3-D. The only thing 3-D was the intro, and then we were left holding onto these stupid glasses for two hours."
"In the other Harry Potter movies, you could always just jump in, no matter where the movie was, and you could expect a reasonable amount of fun, magic, and just generally enjoy it. It didn't have to be prefaced with, 'well, this is what happened before to lead to this'. I felt like this one needed that. There was definitely a lack of fun - and the scenes where they could have gone crazy with CGI magic, they didn't. It's like they held everything back for some reason. They barely even showed any moving pictures, and that's been an inclusion of all the other films; the photos in the newspapers moved, the paintings came alive, and there was almost none of that."
"I really wasn't impressed, and wish they'd not only made it shorter, but maybe used someone that could have done a better job of depicting the Harry Potter world."
Now, some disclaimers here: She has not read any of the books, so she had no idea going in what to expect, because I expressly did not tell her. I wanted to know what she thought about it without knowing. She's not a huge fan of Harry Potter, even though I am - and she knows that I am. She's just your average viewer, that went to the movie without the knowledge of what the book held. Without knowing what was canon or what wasn't - this was what she thought of the movie.
Myself - I will be waiting for it to hit DVD before I bother with it.
johnreynolds10:
I've watched Harry Potter 1-5 but I never watched them again. I am wondering if anyone of you watched the latest Harry Potter. Was it good?
Orbert:
Waht?
LTK:
The only thing I can say about this movie is that even though it's been a while since I read the book, and the movie is always significantly cut in some places, I felt like I just saw half of what actually happened. I think they were focusing too much on the romance and too little on what was actually going on behind all of the hormones.
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