Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows

[EJames2100]

I like how they improved the Hedwig scene, never got why she was stuck in a cage in the book.

The 1st 30 Mins I thought was slightly rushed tbh, but the rest of the movies was pleasing.

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Grindelwald didn't die, not a major thing, but the book had it so it would have been a nice few seconds added in.

And just my rant on the Harry Potter movie series

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The 1st 2 movies to me, were literally magical, probably the best 2 movies they did.
I didn't like how they changed how Dumbledore looked(Yeah I know the original guy died, but that doesn't explain why they changed how he looked).
I didn't like how they seemed to change Hogwarts Grounds/Territories, Castle stuff, every movie after the 2nd.
Seemed more focused on relationships and making the audience laugh in the 5th and 6th than on the actual storyline.
The series missed Peeves out O.O, such a shame.
and many other flaws.

However I think the biggest flaw I've seen with the movies(that isn't even book releated), is how the 5th, 6th and 7th don't have any colour to most of the spells.
The 1st 4 the colours were there, yest in the rest they wasn't, simple enough, I just didn't like that.
And yet somehow looking at a trailer, they colours seem to magically occur once in #7 Part 2 which is ridiculous and won't get explained other than, different director, different view.

Well all I can say is the director from 5 onwards sucks.

 

[The Pi]

I've yet to see the 7th movie (and the 6th one actually

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I've read the books so I found it really funny when all the lazy people posted on facebook "OMG dobby died WHY????"

And I was like I read that AGES ago

 

[Gariscus]

Just saw part 1. It was amazing and I'm really glad they've split the last book into two.

I was really happy that Dobby(instead of Neville doing everything that Dobby did in the books) was in this one(the last movie he was in was the Chamber of Secrets). But I preferred the way he looked in Chamber of Secrets.

 

[Paarish]

Just saw part 1. It was amazing and I'm really glad they've split the last book into two.

I was really happy that Dobby(instead of Neville doing everything that Dobby did in the books) was in this one(the last movie he was in was the Chamber of Secrets). But I preferred the way he looked in Chamber of Secrets.

He looked the same to me

 

[Gariscus]

Just saw part 1. It was amazing and I'm really glad they've split the last book into two.

I was really happy that Dobby(instead of Neville doing everything that Dobby did in the books) was in this one(the last movie he was in was the Chamber of Secrets). But I preferred the way he looked in Chamber of Secrets.

He looked the same to me

He's smoother, his skin is lighter, he has less wrinkles, his eyes are a different colour. I suppose the main reason he looks different is technology has gotten better since then. But he looked better in Chamber of Secrets... IMO.

 

[Wizerzak]

no the simple answer is that, now he's a free elf, he can go to boots and buy some face cream for the wrinkles...

 

[Finwen]

So so. I hope the second part tells more about the history and show more details.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

As much as I liked Deathly Hallows part 1, unless you've read at the very least the wiki, its still convoluted to the uninitiated, who have only seen the films. For example when Grindelwald was mentioned in the film, I could not help but think of the history between him and Dumbeldore, and the pain it caused Dumbeldore to finally face him and defeat. There were other references like that that would have had more meaning if better explained, but then it would be a 4 hour long film.

Having said this, my favorite HP film will forever be The Prisoner of Azkaban, Alfonso Cuaron's direction was genius.

note, I'm not bashing the Deathly Hallows part 1 because I really enjoyed it.


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So so. I hope the second part tells more about the history and show more details.

I concur.

 

[granville]

Deathly Hallows Part 1 isn't my favorite in the series. Solid movie that does the book justice i'd say (in most ways), but i don't particularly like the first half of the book in the first place. First half of the book drags on a bit. So some of the same flaws present in the book are present in the movie. When it shows the interesting parts, it generally gives an excellent payoff. But it drags at the same parts as the book.

Some really great scenes though, Ministry raid scene was brilliant. Generally all the really important scenes were well done. The only real disappointments were things that occurred spontaneously in this movie that appeared in earlier books, but didn't make the cut in previous movies. Specifically, scenes with Kreacher were rather rushed and unfeeling. Dobby got far better development in the series (he was in books 4-5-6 i believe, but in none of those movies). So his character seems abrupt (sad though). And the shard of glass is given no explanation in the movie at all, which is just downright ridiculous. Grindlewald was badly explained and the scenes with him are very awkwardly told and hard to discern.

My favorites in the series are probably 2, 3, and 6. Sorcerer's Stone was a fun entry in the series, but not among the best in the series. It's a great charmer though, and introduced us to the series. Some bad acting though. POA had the best director and atmosphere to me, probably the best attempt at capturing the spirit and feel of the books, as well as being a very well constructed movie.

2 had some embarrassing acting and such, but stayed very close to the book's plot (and had some great payoff action near the end). Snake language was horribly done though. 6 was a pretty decent adaptation (liked Malfoy's development in it a lot). My least favorite is the fourth movie, which is probably my favorite book in the series. I watched it with my mom a few years ago. I knew every in and out of the book, she never read the book. We both felt it was disjointed and horribly paced. I felt it changed and glanced over way too much. Felt rushed. It's the worst adaptation in the series IMO and i think it's a bad movie in general (sorry fans). Movie 4 onward generally started leaving way too much vital information out (and adding some of its own fluff to replace what they cut). 5 was better, but still had some lingering issues similar to 4.

I'd probably rank Movie 7 part 1 an 8/10. Fun watch that i would recommend to fans of the movies and/or books. It's solid.

 

[Wizerzak]

another bad thing about film no. 5 i think it was they completely missed out the part about the doors and harry's dreams and showed little of his connection to voldemort....

 

[tenshinoneko]

voldemort and dumbledoore kiss tease FTW =D