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I know 3 friends who saw it last night and they all said the same thing. Basically that the changes cause the events to loose all their impact, they completely fuck up the snape kills dumbledor event at the end, totally fuck up the set up for the last movies and doing an all around awesome job at ruining a story that worked. I'll probably try to see it for myself some time this week.
El Guapo from Latino Review who read the books said the exact opposite.
Well my one friend could pretty much dictate everything that happened in every one of the books off the top of her head. I'm gonna side with her on this one. During the final climatic scene, when Snape kills Dumbledor, Harry is neither under a petrification spell, nor is he hiding under his invisibility cloak. The whole big fight at the end, with the death eaters attacking kids, that in the next book causes everyone to fear them for their kids safety, seems it doesn't happen that way, it was almost made to seem like to me like they just walked out of the castle like nothing happened. Basically the 3 people I talked to who none of them know each other said the first half was mostly good, the second half completely ruined everything. Which I believe, they pulled that shit in the last few movies. Taking these huge gigantic climatic scenes, or things that pay off later on and changing them so they can fit in some more teen romance. Sucks that the series is ending this way, cause I thought movies 1 - 3 did a pretty damn good job of portraying the books.
He downplays the changes and thinks it works out well in the end. I'm still leery about it, guess I have to wait to see it to really see how drastic the changes are. The other review by Ron is...weird. He said he stopped reading at book 4 so he seemed pretty lost. Very different takes on the movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
saw it last night.
I liked who they cast for the new teacher
They did shit all to hide that snape is a double double agent meaning that he is killing dumbledore to make himself look evil so the other evil people trust him
and the ending part with snape is so bad it is funny.
shush harry, I'm off to kill Dumbledore =D
I ended up seeing this twice already. Great movie. It will be interesting to see what Davy Jones does for Scrimgoer in the next two films.
And yes I have read all the books. I don't find myself missing too many of the little details because these films MOVE.
I'm not holding my breath for Charlie Weasley to show up in the next one since they've managed to work around him thus far.
3 was my fav, and was directed by Mexican film maker Alfonso Cuarón. The first two are, imo, shit.Quote:
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Edit: Which has been pointed out.
David Yates didn't direct until 5.
5 was a good movie, I think. This one wasn't terrible. It actually felt a lot more like the Columbus movies. Lots of silence, scenes with no music, characters staring at each other.
This one was, I think, a good adaptation of one of the worse books. It's hard to believe half the shit going on considering the atmosphere and people dropping dead left and right both in the movie and the book.
Slughorn was great. So was Snape, but he's always been pretty good. Casting really worked well here. I still don't like new Dumbledore but he does well here I think. Warmer, a little. Friendlier.
Bill's gotta get married still.
I don't really think these films "move" all that much all the time. This one lingered on the teen romance and moved quickly through some other sequences that I'm more interested in, but honestly I feel like this was one of the more faithful adaptations, really hit on every salient point without changing around the order of events too much.
I'm not looking forward to seeing what happens to the Weasley twins.
shush, I'm off to kill Dumbledoor
This movie was crap.They put the focus on the tween romance bullshit and left out the stuff they really shouldnt have: the Deatheaters fighting in Hogwarts, Dumbledores funeral, more Tom Riddle/Voldemort memories.And yeah, they completely borked up the latter half of the movie with the Snape scenes somehow.
But,ugh,just plain boring most of the time. I read the book and dont remember it as being nearly this bad.
I really,really liked the last movie too.Saw it twice in the theater actually.So way disappointed in this one.
So basically the stuff that was good: Slughorn (this guy played him great), the second generation Tom Riddle in Slugs memory (the kid just nailed the evil role and facial mannerisms...whoever he was), the Twins' joke shop, the inferi scene,....and....thats about it.Oh, the hot babe in the train station at the beginning too.Which oddly kind of weirded me out that a late 20 something supermodel was macking on a 'younger' (16 year old?) Harry.And I guess Dumbledore really is gay because he cockblocked the shit out of Harry on that one...
Very worried on how Deathly Hollows will be handled now...