I saw Harry Potter 7/1...

[delorita]

And I gotta admit, I'm impressed...cut for mega spoilers

They are really very close to the book, I'd say. (Read it a long while back). It's definately no kids movie. I'd say Harry, Hermoine and Ron were played very mature by their actors. The grief, the angst, the cluelessness, the deep sadness throughout the whole movie was very well shown. I had the same feeling like when I read the book. Everything felt so without hope. Loved all the things Hermoine had in her bag (even though I imagined it to be a bit more glittering.) Harry definately became a handsome young man and Ron really well build :D I think it was very appropriate that they looked so worn out, exhausted, tired. HThe ermoine as well. I am surprised she still looks like almost like a girl. But as always I loved her smartness.
The waiting and researching and reading my be a bit boring for those who don't know the books, but I thought it was done just right. Again exactly the same feeling as I had while reading. One thing though, that didn't occure to me while reading the book was the wearing of the medaillon. It so reminded me of LOTR when it turned them into moody people...

The shock effects would have been really shocking if I hadn't known what would happen (Especially the old woman/snake part). WELL DONE! I also think the greyish/blueish/cold effect they used as overall impression worked very well too.

I felt so sad for Hedwig and even more for Dobby! I had forgotten all about his heroism by rescuing them!

The Grimmauld Place scenes made me so sad as well, knowing Sirius wouldn't be there. But then I had ingrained the fanfic "Of wolf and man" so much into my brain, that I had trouble to keep it out of my line of thought, especially when Remus was there for those few scenes. *sigh* Did they show the piano in one of the other movies? I can't remember...

The Harry/Hermoine fans certainly will be happy over a certain short scene. The Harry/Ron fans surely will find stuff to write about. Harry/Ginny...well, like it the book, it was somewhat forced on us and somehow odd feeling.

Oh one more thing. We get to know Billy Wesley, who fits right into the family.

And Grindlewald (sp?) has been also a good looking man.

Lucius Malfoy looked good with his scruffyness, all arogance gone before his master. Severus still is very believable as a Dead Eather. Both just too less in the movie.

I think that was it for now. Hope everyone enjoys it/appreciates it! (I heard it got bad critics, can't see why.)

Comments

[black-dragon.livejournal.com]

I'm going today after the work, and then taking my Mom tomorrow evening. Really looking forward to it ;-)

[delorita.livejournal.com]

HOW did you like it?????

[black-dragon.livejournal.com]

One word - WOW!!!!

[gaudy-night.livejournal.com]

I was finally able to see this yesterday afternoon (yay!) and I agree with your review. The color palette the director used was perfect, and to have seen the way these young actors have grown into adulthood and in this movie portray all those emotions -- that was a treat.

I'm very glad they split this into two movies. Any less would have lessened the impact we felt and would have completely killed the story-telling aspect.

[delorita.livejournal.com]

Hi Gaudy! SO glad you saw it and liked it and share my opinion! It could, under no circumstances, have been shorter! I just wrote another biggish comment to Siriala down here hin this thread, if you are interested to read more about what I think of it. (Sorry I DO repeat myself in places lol)

[siriala.livejournal.com]

I saw another one of your posts and remembered to come read this one now that I've seen the movie (it only opened on Wednesday here). This was not my favourite film of the whole series but I did like it, and I think I'll like it even more when I watch it again. I knew going in that there would be no resolution by the end and it feels a bit like an episode in a TV show, that moment when it has to get worse before it can finally get better.

To answer a few of your points : the three heroes actors are definitely getting better and better. Well, you know I always thought Rupert was great but the two others feel less "forced", they get into their characters more and more in my opinion. As for Ron being well built, I think I was drooling in front of the screen ;)

I was a bit underwhelmed by the special effects used to show Ron fighting his biggest fears before he destroyed the locket. I haven't read the books but so many fanfics have given me a very strong personal idea of what this moment should look like (and how he saved Harry) that it's not really surprising that I wished for more on screen, whatever that "more" may be.

I was sadder (sp?) about Hedwig than Dobby, maybe because it was understated, and Dobby still feels like an animated effect, as good as that effect is. On the other hand, I liked very much the cartoon part about the Tale of the three brothers, it was nicely done. I felt a bit cheated that we didn't get to see Mad Eye's death, is it described more precisely in the book ?

Some of my favourite moments were with the Weasley family and all the people we got to know and love in the previous parts. As much as I like the quest, I still missed them all in that part of the film. Lucius Malfoy was incredibly sexy like this (still don't care about his son) and I love Helena Bonham-Carter, she's scaring the shit out of me in this role, she feels so malevolent, and enjoying every minute of it. And I felt for Snape, knowing he couldn't do anything and had to watch his colleague get killed, powerless.

To end this very long rambling (sorry !), I'm not sure there will be many fics written after the movie. The plot has already been used when the book was released and the fandom these days is fairly... dormant. Though I'd very much love to read some new Harry/Ron funny-sexy stories !

[delorita.livejournal.com]

Dear Siriala!!! I'm SO HAPPY that you answered this!!!! I wanted to go look at your LJ what you thought about the movie but always got distracted. I didn't know you just had it this week! I thought it would come out again everywhere at the same time!

This was no rambling at all! Love your thoughts about it!

1) When I saw Ron, I was thinking of you and KNEW you'd adore him and his mature looks! I am feeling a bit sorry for Daniel that he seems to be one of those fragile, not so tall and slender men. But with Gary's help he WILL become an excellent actor, I am certain of that! When I saw Emma in the premiere things with her short hair I wasn't certain if I liked that or not. They are all very rich by now already anyway...no need to work for them anymore lol

2) Ron destroying the lock...I am surprised to hear that you didn't read the book! I say, it was exactly like that! I was even a bit surprised at how BIG the smoky cloud was and that they showed Harry and Hermoine almost naked and kissing for such a long while. I DID feel a bit too animated for me somehow.

3) Lucuis...YES! He was majorly sexy looking! BUT there was something missing. We don't get to know WHY he looked like that! In the book it's much more described how he's struggling, how much he fears Voldemort and somehow daubts him (I gotta read again, I think)

4) Snape...I wanted to see more of him! And yes, I felt sorry too! I can't describe what I feel for him... I assume you KNOW what happens in the end, even though you haven't read the book??

5) Belatrix...WOW! I thought WOW! She got right back to were she left off in OotP! I thought she was as excellent as in that one! Totally focused and in character and baaaaaaaaaaaddddd and crazy! Perfect job!

6) Weasleys..I want to know MORE about Bill! That was wayyyyyyy too short! In my favourite fic, he has so much to do (and if I rember right in the book as well)! And I think they did choose a nice looking guy! Loved the scar. I, too, missed more scenes with the older cast. So less of Hagrid and REMUS. I missed the lightness of the first movies somehow, even I knew this one would be as sad and serious as the previous one.

7) Mad eye... I gotta admit, I don't remember what she wrote in the book. I think his death was only mentioned as well, we didn't "see" it happen.

8) They missed to mention, that Hagrid and Harry flew on SIRIUS' BIKE!!!!! I thought that was a major mistake. It felt so odd that Sirius didn't get mentioned at all! Grimmauld's Place freaked me out without him but Kreacher still in there!
In the book it also was way better shown how much Hedwig's death had an impact on Harry. But that's the good thing in books and fic, you can write down the character's thoughts. You can't show them very well in a movie.

All the things with the wand makers probably were a bit confusing, when you didn't knew the book. It was already confusing when I read it. I also missed the true confusion Harry felt when he found out that (I almost wrote Gandalf lolol) Dumbledore didn't tell him much about his life, that he even lied to him. All that inner struggle was missing. But well, then the movie probably would have been wayyyy longer and I bet some people already thought it boring...Did you read any reviews?

oooppsss...see...I was much more rambling lolol