Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows

[Eric]

Okay I admit it, I'm a huge fan of these books. The movies haven't been that amazing, but this trailer looks pretty sharp. I hope they nail it with these last 2...

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[Chadwick]

they have been a little up and down but overall quite good. I did not find the books to be really any better. The movies in many cases cut out unnecessary fluff and boredom. Although the later ones tend to cut too much.

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th movies i thought were very good. I think they dropped the ball on the latest one some as much of the rich details were lost in the conversion.

I have high hopes for the last one/two as well but i do think there are some similar hurdles to overcome...

[Naya]

So I hated the 5th book, but the movie made up for it. It took out all the whiney teen-age bull that Harry went through. Made the story better.

I'm hoping the fact that they had to split the last two books in to two movies means they wanted to add more details that were getting omitted from previous books. Because Deathly Hallows has a lot of details that absolutely CANNOT be left out.

Anyone who has just seen the movies knows nothing about S.P.E.W, the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare. Hermione makes me laugh. Granted that part, which was in only a couple of the books, had very little to do with story progression.

Luke was lost when he watched the 6th movie. And I think a lot of people who didn't read the books were totally confused, especially about the Half-Blood Prince and who R.A.B. was and just how important he really is.

If you've seen the movies and haven't read the books, I still recommend going back and reading them. They're great reads. Not the best books I've ever read by far (Sword of Truth) but definitely on my list of must-reads.

[Eric]

http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/img/deathlyhallows-teaserposterfullsize1.jpg

Um...this looks interesting.

If you read my review of the last Harry Potter movie, you'll see why I was really disappointed in it:


The battle of Hogwarts at the end of Book 6 was completely omitted, and I was so excited to see that part of the book translated to the movie. They left it out and the ending fell flat on it's face (IMO) mainly because I was frustrated how they had changed the story.


Anyway, from the looks of this poster, they may have pushed it to the new movie! Fanboy alert: I so excited.

[Chadwick]

If you recall there is a battle in both the 6th and 7th books. The one in the last book is just more epic.

[Naya]

I don't remember the big battle at Hogwarts at the end of the 6th book.

As soon as I finish Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy, I'm going to reread the harry potter books. Its been a long time since I've reread them.

[Eric]

If you recall there is a battle in both the 6th and 7th books. The one in the last book is just more epic.

WTF I don't remember that either...

Curses...time to re-read?

[Chadwick]

The one in the 7th book is basically a barn burner. They really level the place, but from what i am seeing of the trailers they took it to another level beyond even what she describes in the books as far as decimating hogwarts.

[Klaus]

Umm spoiler tags?


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[Eric]

Hey, I used them!

[Chadwick]

Bah, im not giving anything away. Certainly not anymore than you see in the picture and trailers above.

[Jomama]

Dumbledorf fists Harry Potter and finally confirms that this shit is gay

[Naya]

Saw this Friday night, it was great. I don't think Luke liked it though.

I'm really excited for the last one next year now.




This happens with each movie, but they did change some things up. Nothing extremely crucial to the plot line, just some continuity things.

Luke complained about the middle of the movie being slow because of all the camping and not much going on. He also didn't understand why they ended up camping to begin with, and this was mainly because of how the three of them escaped the Ministry after their disguises wore off. This was changed in a subtle fashion, but so much so that it did leave room for misinterpretation (even though Hermione does explain to Harry she had to bring them to the forest when they had almost made it to Grimauld Place because that Ministry guy had a hold of her arm and she couldn’t shake him off before they got to the house.)

I heard a couple ladies bitching about the same thing as we were leaving. They didn't like how the camping dragged on. If you read the book, you know that part dragged on and it was intentional ... it made finding the sword and killing the locket horcrux feel that much more important and that much bigger of a relief than if there had been minimal frustration in accomplishing that.

There's a lot of confusion left for those that haven't read the book because they don't yet know who helped Harry/Ron find the sword; there's still a lot of unanswered questions. I just hope the last movie doesn't screw those things up.

[Ender]

I wasn't big on this movie, though I liked it a bit more than the last one. The beginning was OK, but the rest of the movie dragged on and although I understand the reason why they did that in order to build tension and emphasize the drama of the story , it did not work well in my opinion in the movie.

I have not read the books still, so I am speaking strictly from the perspective of watching the movie only without any knowledge about how it works into the rest of the book.

[Klaus]

I haven't seen it yet but I hear their is a lot of camping and being lost in the wood.... sounds wonderful ;)

[Naya]

Did you read the book, Scott?

[Klaus]

No, but I keep thinking I want to go back and read them all because as I am trying to re watch some of the earlier moves I feel lost at times (if that makes sense). Hope to see the movie soon.

[Naya]

There's a lot of camping in the movie because there's a lot of camping in the book. I thought it was completely validated.

[Klaus]

Well they did cut Tom Bombadil out of LOTR sooo you aren't required to put everything boring into the movie ;)

But seriously I am sure I will like it.

[Naya]

Did you like Half Blood Prince?