Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Part 2

[redhawk23]

What annoyed me about HBP is how the adult characters were mostly just used to be standing in the background and comment on all the relationship stuff. However, if you are going to go the route of the relationship stuff, why cut out so much of Harry and Ginny?

 

[Crockett]

Here's a short review I managed to scrambled up.

It’s finally here and I could start off by saying it doesn’t disappointed me, right from the beginning it doesn’t waste time and you just plunge into a roller-coaster ride. Radcliffe, Grint and Watson who has brought the characters alive for many years now and seeing them maturing from the child actors they were to the young actors they are now, it’s itself a spectacular sight. The acting from the others are good as well, especially Rickman, when it was his moment it was handled well but since the focus here is squarely on Harry it allows Radcliffe to truly shine and he gives his best.

It’s typical that when it comes to adaptation that they can’t fit everything and while there’s stuff that were in the book that didn’t make it or which I thought could’ve handled better but Yates, who seems to manages to handle better and better for every movies balanced well between most of the expected action-spectacled scenes and the equality to dramatic progression in the narrative. I gotta to say though that the [BLACKOUT]epilogue[/BLACKOUT] was awkward. Particularly the make-up which aren’t really convincing and I can't help but giggled a bit.

But that doesn’t made me left the theatre unsatisfied. After ten years the Harry Potter movie series has come to an end, and I can say it’s an achievement itself that the series maintained a high quality throughout the years and wrapping up with a wonderful conclusion to a great series.

4/5

 

[kane9321]

I got my 12:15am tickets...hell yes I'm pumped, 4 theaters are sold out

 

[chaseter]

Brits say Happy Christmas!?

You crazy Brits.

 

[chaseter]

Oh, POA is beautiful that's for sure, but has no brains. Some of the adaption choice in that film are absolutely ludicrus. I enjoy the film, but Curaon seemed more interested in making a pretty artistic film than finishing some storylines.

I think HBP is the second best in the series.


I find POA to be the second worst.

Holy crap

POA had brains It was a mystery movie and then you throw in time travel and figure out that they already time traveled but haven't yet experience it. BRILLIANT

 

[redhawk23]

 

[Poeman]

Its almost over ...sad face

 

[Infinity9999x]

For the people who've seen it, can you tell me how the

Spoiler

Prince's Tale

was handled? Did they get all the memories in there?

 

[chaseter]

Lemme guess...that's going to make or break the movie for you?

 

[Infinity9999x]

Lemme guess...that's going to make or break the movie for you?

Oh definitely not. It's just one of the parts that I'm most excited to see. Ever since I read the chapter in the book I've been waiting to see how Rickman plays them.

When I watch the movies, I try to separate them from the books and view them as two different media. For example, I enjoyed GOF as a film the first time I watched it. It was funny, it had good action, good production value etc. It's my least favorite HP adaptation, but I still thought it was a good film.

I'd be disappointed if they cut the Prince's Tale short, especially since it's such a huge plot point. But there would have to be a lot of things wrong with the film to "break" it for me.

 

[redhawk23]

Sums it up.

 

[Wolfwood]

Just got my tickets for Saturday, can't wait.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Sums it up.

You know, it's funny. I think I was 14 when the 5th book came out, and at the time I was all for Harry. Completely "Yeah man! I'm with you! Everyone else is a *****e! F'em all!"

And now, being 22, when I look back at it I find myself thinking "seriously man, stop your b*tching for two seconds!"

 

[rashad]

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[luke1234]

my god, 7 hours to go till "It All Ends"

 

[danoyse]

You know, it's funny. I think I was 14 when the 5th book came out, and at the time I was all for Harry. Completely "Yeah man! I'm with you! Everyone else is a *****e! F'em all!"

And now, being 22, when I look back at it I find myself thinking "seriously man, stop your b*tching for two seconds!"

I was 29 when that book came out, and that was the book I found Harry was the most difficult to put up with. Not in an annoying way, but reading it as an adult, it was so obvious he was just a kid who clearly didn't understand what the other adults were trying to make him understand.

Life would have been so much easier if he just pretended to put up with Umbridge, since she was clearly trying to provoke him. It reached the point where every time he mouthed off to her, I was just like

 

[danoyse]

my god, 7 hours to go till "It All Ends"

Doesn't end for me for another 2 days...

 

[luke1234]

Doesn't end for me for another 2 days...

hang in there danoyse, i'm sure you got your level of anxiety under control haha

 

[Infinity9999x]

I was 29 when that book came out, and that was the book I found Harry was the most difficult to put up with. Not in an annoying way, but reading it as an adult, it was so obvious he was just a kid who clearly didn't understand what the other adults were trying to make him understand.

Life would have been so much easier if he just pretended to put up with Umbridge, since she was clearly trying to provoke him. It reached the point where every time he mouthed off to her, I was just like

Yeah, it's really been interesting growing up with these books. When each one came out, I could relate to Harry perfectly. As a 14 year old, whenever Harry mouthed off to Umbridge, I found myself being right there with him most of the time. Even if people find it annoying, I think JKR really captured the frustration of that mid-teenage phase a lot of kids go through. You're old enough to not be a kid anymore, and you can understand a lot of adult problems and situations...but you're not quite emotionally ready to fully deal with them yet.

And reading the book now, eight years later, I have a much different perspective. That's the thing I love about them though, you find new little things as you age. They have something for everyone in them.

 

[danoyse]

hang in there danoyse, i'm sure you got your level of anxiety under control haha

Well, I have to wait because I'm going to a Paul McCartney concert at Yankee Stadium. That should take up the time nicely.

 

[Marvolo]

Yeah, it's really been interesting growing up with these books. When each one came out, I could relate to Harry perfectly. As a 14 year old, whenever Harry mouthed off to Umbridge, I found myself being right there with him most of the time. Even if people find it annoying, I think JKR really captured the frustration of that mid-teenage phase a lot of kids go through. You're old enough to not be a kid anymore, and you can understand a lot of adult problems and situations...but you're not quite emotionally ready to fully deal with them yet.

And reading the book now, eight years later, I have a much different perspective. That's the thing I love about them though, you find new little things as you age. They have something for everyone in them.

Its the exact same for me and OOTP. Its still prolly my favorite book, but I want to strangle Harry sometimes when I read it now.

 

[marty mcfly]

I'm a huge fan of the movies and a huge fan of the books, but in my circle of friends and family I'm the only one who can clearly separate them from each other...

I honestly thought each book was better than the book before it and I thought (save for Goblet of Fire) each movie was better than the last. One of my buddies absolutely DESPISES Order of the Phoenix (movie) because he says they "got it wrong" with Umbridge breaking into the Room of Requirement...

I guess I just empathize with the filmmakers because they have a really tough task... They have to take an 800+ page book and condense it into a 150 page script that will become a 2 hour movie. On top of that, they have to make sure it is faithful to the source material and please fans + the general public. Things are gonna get cut, things are gonna get changed. It just kinda drives me bananas when people shout, "THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK!" because when you're dealing with a film adaptation of a book, it's going to be different.

I thought OOP, HBP and DH1 have been the best in the series from a movie-making point of view (even though my favorite story is POA, if not my favorite film). I am SO pumped for tonight because, even if they change some things from the book, I think it will be a perfect ending to seriously one of the best franchises in movie history.

 

[redhawk23]

You know, it's funny. I think I was 14 when the 5th book came out, and at the time I was all for Harry. Completely "Yeah man! I'm with you! Everyone else is a *****e! F'em all!"

And now, being 22, when I look back at it I find myself thinking "seriously man, stop your b*tching for two seconds!"

I know exactly what you mean, which is why I thought the above graph was so lolworthy.

 

[redhawk23]

So apparently there's already a line at the theater I'm going to tonight.
thats nuts.

 

[Infinity9999x]

I'm a huge fan of the movies and a huge fan of the books, but in my circle of friends and family I'm the only one who can clearly separate them from each other...

I honestly thought each book was better than the book before it and I thought (save for Goblet of Fire) each movie was better than the last. One of my buddies absolutely DESPISES Order of the Phoenix (movie) because he says they "got it wrong" with Umbridge breaking into the Room of Requirement...

I guess I just empathize with the filmmakers because they have a really tough task... They have to take an 800+ page book and condense it into a 150 page script that will become a 2 hour movie. On top of that, they have to make sure it is faithful to the source material and please fans + the general public. Things are gonna get cut, things are gonna get changed. It just kinda drives me bananas when people shout, "THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK!" because when you're dealing with a film adaptation of a book, it's going to be different.

I thought OOP, HBP and DH1 have been the best in the series from a movie-making point of view (even though my favorite story is POA, if not my favorite film). I am SO pumped for tonight because, even if they change some things from the book, I think it will be a perfect ending to seriously one of the best franchises in movie history.

I try to view them the same way. Though I view POA as one of the best made films overall (with DH1 right behind it). POA, as a film, was the one that tied up the story the tightest.

For me though, the only things I get mad at are when they don't keep characters true to the spirit of their book counterparts. I get that these are films, they have to make some changes simply because it's a different medium. But the one thing they should get right is keeping characters true to the spirit of their book incarnations. If they don't do that, I get annoyed. And I'm not talking about imposing from the book dialogue or anything like that, just have the characters act the way they do in the books. That's why GOF is my least favorite film as an adaptation.