About Deathly Hallows 2
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melliciousI was gonna put this over on Google Plus and then it got kind of long - at least by what I think of as Google+ standards - so I'm gonna put it here and link here instead.
I'm trying to write down what I thought about it before I read what anybody else thought, although everybody seems to like it, as far as I could tell, and I know everybody went to see it.. $186 million, was it? But I stayed away from specifics as much as possible. Aaaand, well, I liked it, first of all. Overall it did a really good job.
We were sitting in the 3rd row at the 3D showing, which was fine once the movie started, but some of the previews were very disconcerting from that distance. Did everybody get the preview for that Rock-em Sock-em Robots thing with Hugh Jackman? What the heck was that? And something called Hugo that looked very steampunky and sort of terrible? But anyway...
The movie really jumped right in there at the beginning, didn't it? I wasn't sure at first if it was the movie or yet another preview. The Gringotts segment was good - am I right that they embroidered on the way the tram thing works? I'm pretty sure it didn't do all that spinning and stuff ten years ago! That'll be a ride at Orlando by next year, I bet. Mostly they stuck right with the book through the early bits, and that's good. They left out a lot of things, of course, but it's a long book, even with four hours+ to play with between the two movies, they had to leave out a lot, let's face it. But they did a good job with choosing the most important parts.
Oh - there's Aberforth. I happened to see this week that Ciaran Hinds was playing Aberforth, which I had forgotten if I ever heard it before - but my god, he looked so different, I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't known who it was I wouldn't have figured it out. His voice sounded familiar, that's all - I would have been thinking "Who IS that?" the whole time. (Which is something I do all the time, when it comes right down to it.)
Now when Ariana came back with Neville... I kept seeing people carrying on about the hotness of Neville last week after the premiere, and to tell you the truth I was not really seeing it in the pictures from the premiere, but I have to say he looked pretty good, and yes, hot, in the movie. He's about the only one that really looks all that different from how they looked as kids. You'd think more of them would, really!
The battle seemed more sort of streamlined from the book, which is okay, but... I really wanted to see more of those little moments from the book. I'm not sure what it is I wanted, exactly. I don't know, but I did feel like something was missing in there. I didn't have that much of a problem with the way they made Voldemort's ending happen with just him and Harry instead of with an audience. Except wouldn't people be wondering if he was really gone, if a lot of people didn't see it? (Think Osama bin Laden.) But that's a minor quibble. Really all my quibbles are pretty minor. Even the 3D was well-handled. It was a dark movie, as it should have been, and - here is what it comes down to - they didn't mess it up. (Think Return of the King there, which I did not like so much.)
(I'm sure I will think of a zillion more things that I wanted to say later that I forgot, but that's it for now.)
I'm trying to write down what I thought about it before I read what anybody else thought, although everybody seems to like it, as far as I could tell, and I know everybody went to see it.. $186 million, was it? But I stayed away from specifics as much as possible. Aaaand, well, I liked it, first of all. Overall it did a really good job.
We were sitting in the 3rd row at the 3D showing, which was fine once the movie started, but some of the previews were very disconcerting from that distance. Did everybody get the preview for that Rock-em Sock-em Robots thing with Hugh Jackman? What the heck was that? And something called Hugo that looked very steampunky and sort of terrible? But anyway...
The movie really jumped right in there at the beginning, didn't it? I wasn't sure at first if it was the movie or yet another preview. The Gringotts segment was good - am I right that they embroidered on the way the tram thing works? I'm pretty sure it didn't do all that spinning and stuff ten years ago! That'll be a ride at Orlando by next year, I bet. Mostly they stuck right with the book through the early bits, and that's good. They left out a lot of things, of course, but it's a long book, even with four hours+ to play with between the two movies, they had to leave out a lot, let's face it. But they did a good job with choosing the most important parts.
Oh - there's Aberforth. I happened to see this week that Ciaran Hinds was playing Aberforth, which I had forgotten if I ever heard it before - but my god, he looked so different, I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't known who it was I wouldn't have figured it out. His voice sounded familiar, that's all - I would have been thinking "Who IS that?" the whole time. (Which is something I do all the time, when it comes right down to it.)
Now when Ariana came back with Neville... I kept seeing people carrying on about the hotness of Neville last week after the premiere, and to tell you the truth I was not really seeing it in the pictures from the premiere, but I have to say he looked pretty good, and yes, hot, in the movie. He's about the only one that really looks all that different from how they looked as kids. You'd think more of them would, really!
The battle seemed more sort of streamlined from the book, which is okay, but... I really wanted to see more of those little moments from the book. I'm not sure what it is I wanted, exactly. I don't know, but I did feel like something was missing in there. I didn't have that much of a problem with the way they made Voldemort's ending happen with just him and Harry instead of with an audience. Except wouldn't people be wondering if he was really gone, if a lot of people didn't see it? (Think Osama bin Laden.) But that's a minor quibble. Really all my quibbles are pretty minor. Even the 3D was well-handled. It was a dark movie, as it should have been, and - here is what it comes down to - they didn't mess it up. (Think Return of the King there, which I did not like so much.)
(I'm sure I will think of a zillion more things that I wanted to say later that I forgot, but that's it for now.)
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Date: 2011-07-17 09:42 pm (UTC)1st thing I meant to comment on and I forgot: I only cried once, for what that's worth, and it wasn't at the end. I think it was Snape's death. Usually I am a fountain of waterworks (I suppose that phrasing is redundant, isn't it), so that really does say something - I'm just not entirely sure what!
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Date: 2011-07-17 10:21 pm (UTC)2. (in the list of things I forgot that I wanted to say) Hermione trying to be Bellatrix was hilarious. Emma Watson did a really good job with that. (On the whole, the kids' acting was pretty darn good.)
3. The Gray Lady/Helena Ravenclaw was pretty scary. And was that Kelly Macdonald? If so, I didn't recognize her at the time - I only guessed this because I saw her name in the credits. That woman is everywhere.
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Date: 2011-07-18 05:10 am (UTC)