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 !
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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 !