“What the hell is a Hufflepuff?”
Dumbledore, in the books, mentions that he thinks they sort too soon…
“What the hell is a Hufflepuff?”
Dumbledore, in the books, mentions that he thinks they sort too soon…
Hearing Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds featured prominently was intensely strange.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I suppose that’s the theory, along with trying to at least instill some kind of social conscience into the rat bastards while you can. Think in terms of a separate school set up by Slytherins without the influence of the rest of the school. Though I think restructuring it would have been in order long ago.
But god. The fucking woods. The movie cuts it down and it’s still not enough. Let this be a warning to you if you ever become a famous author: For the love of god keep your fucking editor.
Stephen King’s Disease.
If you’re serious about trying to reform students who qualify for Slytherin, the LAST thing you want to do is put them in the same house, where their bad tendencies will receive constant reinforcement. They should have been dispersed throughout the other houses where their attitudes would have been in the minority and the mighty forces of peer pressure would have worked to counter them.
Ha! I saw this last night and that was my reaction, too.
…except, again, the idea behind Slytherin house isn’t “hey, let’s all be assholes.” It’s “hey, we’re all super-ambitious and want to get the most out of their powers.” Having that as a valued attitude isn’t exactly worthy of reformation.
Ron’s declaration that “all the wizards who ever went bad are all from Slytherin” in the first year was the utterance of an eleven-year-old and not exactly the gospel truth on the matter. We have seen time and again that Slytherins are not all evil, and that other houses are just as capable of producing assholes.
Oh, I know. I posted earlier about Slughorn being an example of a non-evil (though ambitious) Slytherin. I said if you were serious about wanting to reform them, then do blah blah blah.
What was the part with Harry and Voldemort falling off the cliff about?
Most likely some sort of dream or maybe an internal imagery sequence, but I don’t remember anything like it from the books.
It’s a change. I liked the glimpse of Molly dueling!
Arise!
Anyone else fool enough to go see this at midnight last night? Well I was, and I’m quite glad I did.
I love the sense of camaraderie everyone feels at a midnight movie on opening night, especially for a movie like this.
I haven’t read the books, and I don’t know if this has traditionally been a spoiler thread, so I’ll skip all that for now, but I was quite pleased. I felt like the pacing was much better than Deathly Hallows Part 1, and while I can’t pretend like I was especially SURPRISED at the direction they took the story, I was pleased with it. This movie was very much what I was expected, but that’s not a bad thing, except to say that it didn’t exceed my expectations either, lol.
I give props to all involved…the Harry Potter franchise as a whole was much, much better than I expected.
I work at a university and they arranged with Warner Bros. to have staff-only screenings on Thursday after work at a local AMC. Gotta love those ivory towers…
Overall I was satisfied, but I wasn’t overwhelmed. I think the emotional highs and lows of the book were somewhat muted by the movie. I don’t think that I’ll be able to put my finger on it before having another viewing, but here are a few observations:
-It could have been longer. Certain scenes (ie- Snape’s death) felt rushed.
-More blood? As in, should there have been more? The series had gotten pretty brutal by the 7th book as we know, but it seemed like the movie version of events was a bit sanitized for the younger crowd. Most of the Death Eaters (and Voldemort to boot) had rather neat deaths…insofar as you could tidy up after them with a broom.
-Why include Dumbledore’s brother and sister without addressing any of that back story? I don’t think it was needed, but that was a major dangling thread as they presented it.
In any case, not the easiest movie for the non-book readers as I found out when my fiancee turned to me as we were leaving and asked, “So Snape was Harry’s father?”
work at a university and they arranged with Warner Bros. to have staff-only screenings on Thursday after work at a local AMC
Wife’s job got us in for staff-only show at the Cinerama, in 3D. Flick was OK, but for some reason my fantasy tastebuds have been reset by “A Game of Thrones”, and I was waiting for Luna to lean over to Harry and whisper, “Winter is coming…” or something. Then my mind went to something inappropriate, considering the ages of the characters the movie’s actors are portraying. (Shrug).
Definitely darker and more deaths-per-scene than any earlier Potter film, though. Folks muttering about missed opportunities and rushed plot points are forgetting just how big the last three or so Potter books were, though, and at least the movie distilled down a couple of plot points that were tediously muddled in the books. And the Dumbledore gay scene brought the house down.
And free popcorn. Cinerama makes good chocolate popcorn. Never had it.
I thought the movie had great pacing. Considering how dense the book was, they did a good job cutting it down to size and dealing with most of the important stuff.
My only comment is that the Snape pensieve scene is pretty twisted. It clearly is aimed at the audience out beyond the 4th wall while ignoring the effect it would have had on the actual audience of the memory.
Snape’s revenge from the grave, perhaps?
Thought it was pretty not great. Not a lot happens (not that there was a lot left to happen, but I felt like the movie spent its time on nothing and blazed through all the plot stuff).
Dissappointed. First half was just laaaaaaame(honestly can’t think of a better way to describe how it made me feel past “meh”) and the second half failed utterly at conveying a climactic incredibly destructive and deadly battle. A fitting second part to the previous movie, as that was thoroughly meh too.
Sounds like a pretty faithful adaptation, then.
Some of the actors were not convinving as teenagers OR late 30 year olds. I wish they cut that terrible epilogue, which adds nothing to the story/denouement.
Overall, it was a pretty middling experience. I liked 3 and 5 the best, but otherwise the movies have not been very exciting standalone products.
On the upside, when reading the books you can watch the fifth movie in place of the book. A vast improvement I daresay.