If it's on the City Screen in the York I'll take Izzy to see it on Sunday.

Dunno, I'll wait for the reviews.

Love the books, but the movies don't do them justice.

Well, I just returned from a midnight showing. I'm not really a huge fan of the movies, they are fine for entertainment but none of them come close to being great cinema in my humble opinion. However, a friend had a ticket so off I went.

The time flew by surprisingly quickly, unfortunately as a result plot points made in the book were tossed aside. No one should really be surprised by this, but some reactions were tainted by that fact. Personally I felt they covered the major ground, which is the important thing for a film adaptation.

Acting was standard Harry Potter series acting; nothing to write home about but nothing to toss aside. It would be nice to see great actors like Rickman, Oldman, Thompson etc get more screen time but what are you gonna do?

it was interesting to people watch during the period before the movie. I hadn't seen a showing like this since Star Wars, though it seemed a lot more "watered down" if you catch my meaning. The movies aren't really deserving of the hype, but arguably neither were the Prequels so whatever people want to do is fine by me.

Is it worth seeing? Most definitely yes. So far this summer has been littered with horrendous films, with an occasional respite in the form of a Knocked Up or a Die Hard 4. Potter is entertaining, not ponderously long or complicated, and passes for decent fantasy. That's the best we're gonna get at this point in the summer.

Saw the 12:03 showing here... was good, I suppose! Hadn't seen any of the previous films, so I had not too much to compare it to in that respect. I do agree that it flew by, it seems so much more empty than the book, as it necessarily will given the feature length... filling out the experience with the random occurrences and events would have required too much more time.

The other movies were longer, were they not? I don't see why an extra thirty minutes wasn't possible.

Because the book is overly long and angsty anyway, and people just wanna see asses get kicked.

Anyway, I thought it was definitely the best of the movies. I was worried that the guy playing Kingsley Shacklebolt would suck (I expected someone younger), but he was pretty awesome.

And Helena Bonham Carter. ****. I do not even know how to express how awesome she was.

Yeah, I was disappointed about that too. Harry Potter has some very awesome actors in it, but not enough time to devote to them. McGonnagal had like 4 lines in the whole movie, and my favorite thing about the book was how *****y she was to Umbridge. But not enough of that made it to the movie.

And Oldman really should have been in there more. When he dies, it's like it hardly matters because he's only been in about seven scenes in the series.

PS:

Hot.

Well, sort of.

Way to complain about people posting spoilers, vinny.

Thanks for telling us all that Oldman dies. You know, not all of us read the books, but some of us are kind of into the movies. I'm supposed to go see this one, and.... that was just a dick move.

Sorry, statue of limitations on spoilers is um, just under 3 years.

Yeah well, the limit on reading garbage literature is just over.... my entire life.

The movies are okay. The books are terrible. I can't understand how J.K. Rowling is even looked upon as a good novelist when we still have the likes of John Grisham, Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton.

i'm totally gonna spoil the book for you now

Haha, that's like double the insult if you don't think those three are any good.

I was stating that I think those three are the best novelists we currently have. Or maybe I just misunderstood your comment.

Yeah, but if you don't care for those novelists then it's like saying JK Rowling's books are worse than zero. I don't particularly enjoy Tom Clancy or Michael Critchton, so that's how I read it.

Rowling is, like I said, a garbage novelist. It's a bunch of long winded, over-explanatory crap.

Dick move 1: reading a spoiler tag then complaining that it contained spoilers
Dick move 2: quoting the spoiler so the spoiler tags no longer work, and leaving it up there.

Spoiler tags get quoted too, vinny went back and edited the spoiler tags into his post.

Oh, my bad, sorry Antony. Didn't realize.
You could still edit the quote though =p

Dick.

All of this talk of dick's reminds me of something I heard about the books. Supposedly, if you replace the word "wand" with 'wang.' The entertainment value goes up.

eye of the beholder, my friend.

L o r d o f t h e R i n g s is moreso, and it's still a great book/series :P.

*shrug*

Writers don't just go from being broke to being the second richest woman in the world by writing crap. I love the books.

RL Stein made a lot of money, I'm sure.

Oh, and L Ron Hubbard.

I guess you could count the churches too for pushing their stuff

Then again, I hate Tolkien too. Well, I won't count him as a hack like the first two.

I think I love you.

In a totally mantrain sort of way, of course.

I hate you for doing that. :saddowns:

Darth Vader is Luke's father. And Enkidu dies.

Who the heck is Oldman anyway? If you care that much about the series you should read the books.

Talking about Gary Oldman's character. And I don't care about the series, I just think Vinny was being a hypocrite.

Oh, ok. Did he play Black or something? I can't remember.




I will never be able to see Harry Potter in the same light again.

Yeah, there's a thing on Bash about that.

Just in this film, Ron's mother said like "Just because you're at home now doesn't mean you have to be whipping your wands out left and right!"

I immediately thought of that wand=wang and almost burst out laughing in the theater.

Saw it last night. It was okay.

Edit: I agree with the following post 100%.

I just saw it and dont have much time to post too many thoughts now. So in short... Tonks is friggin hot.

The movie really captured the essence of the book for me with that spoiler Vinny gave away earlier in that in both reading the book and watching the movie I thought OK so he falls through a curtain and dies... wtf? What the hell is this curtain all about? But for the movie, did I hear right when I thought i heard Bellatrix using the avada kedavra on him? I mean THAT would explain why he died. In the book he just falls through the curtain and, whoops, he's gone.

Percy finally made an appearance. Havent seen him since the 2nd movie. He was looking rather smug.

There was no quidditch beat down like they had in the book. I was totally looking forward to Tom Felton getting his **** kicked.

Why did Dumbledore and Voldemort get into a Priori Incantatem during their duel? It was supposed to be a special connection made when "brother" wands duel, not just any wands. Maybe the writer/director should've read up on the novel... or he just wanted to do it because it looked cool in the last movie.

That part where Voldemort possesses Harry at the end confused me in the book, and now in the movie too. What was Voldemort trying to accomplish there?

They totally had people doing the Levicorpus spell... one of the spells Harry is supposed to learn from the "Prince" in the next book. Oh well I guess...

Harry and Cho needed to get a room. K nevermind I guess they had one. Of requirement.

Kreacher wasn't nearly enough of an offensive little *******, nor was he ugly enough, IMO.

Why did Richard Harris have to die? This Dumbledore sux.

I prefer Gambon worlds more as Dumbledore than Harris.

For bringing up Lord of the Rings or for making every letter of the spoiler individual, so you have to put your mouse over each one?

Just reading that last sentence, I can only imagine why it would be the latter...

Voldemort has been a huge disappointment for me, so far. In the books, he seems cold, calculating, and utterly terrifying to behold and be around. When he was resurrected in GoF, he had no red eyes, an obnoxious/humorous rasping voice, and quick, random flailing movements that remind me a bit of Jack Sparrow. Just not how I envisioned him, I guess...

Are you sure Levicorpus was a prince spell? Because that's what James used on Snape...

(Oh you're right, I looked it up.)

And yeah, the Priori Incantatum didn't make sense, but at least it was cool!



Not sure if you've seen Phoenix yet, but he's a lot better.

Hm, as for Priori Incantatum, it's not that much of a stretch to think Dumbledore has a wand with the same core, since Fawkes is his phoenix after all.