Master of the Fork
Cid's Knight
Harry smurfing Potter and the end of my childhood part 2
IT was awesome. Pure Awesome. People in the theater were cheering and crying and it was awesome. I'm going to miss it so much. Discuss how you loved the movie and if you didn't gtfo of my thread.
I made butterbeer for the occasion. And by butter beer I mean Cream soda with Butterscotch schnapps. Yum!
I really enjoyed it. I didn't read the books though, except the epilogue. I heard Rowling liked the movie end battle better, yes?
Waahhhhh I don't wanna see it! It'll be too sad =( I'm just going to pretend like it never came out and I'm always expecting it to.
I just came back from seeing it...
I shed a little tear when I arrived back home. Think about it. Think about those kids back in 2001 appearing in The Philosopher's Stone for the first time. To watch them now, really does me feel like I grew up alongside them all.
That being said, I did read the books. Well, I was almost completely satisfied, but there is a couple of things I would like to point out, though.
1 - First of all, I was hoping for some kind of elaboration on Dumbledore's life. I was really disappointed that they almost completely cut out that part of Harry Potter. Dumbledore was such a great character in the books, but he really did feel minimized in the films.
2 - Second of all is the last battle. Well, not sure of they could have made it differently, but we don't actually see a whole lot of battling in the movie. It felt rushed, and I was just a tiny bit disappointed with the final battle.
That being said, I was pretty satisfied, and I still cannot wrap my brain around the fact that it has been ten years. Time really does fly...
i think the Biggest mistake you can make here is reading the book before the movie.
i did that with The Halfblood Prince, and by reading the book u get too much expectations wich results in a big dissapointment @ the film.
i thought the movie was absolutely perfect! i loved it!!
the part that really hitted me was where harry looked in Snape's passed and (SPOILER)found out that Snape actually loved lilly once
But really .. ... a-ma-zing movie
i too grew up with harry potter (i was 9 i think) and im sad that its all over now
Stone soldiers!
10 years of my childhood, over. God. Time flies.
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The film was really good fan service. It also portrayed the action very well. It was good, as a movie, but it wasn't that enjoyable because my favorite parts of the book were the things they never even mentioned (Grindlewald, Dumbledore's past, the pensive scenes, etc).
Though I admit they did the Snape revelation scene REALLY well. I was kind of bawling.
BTW - how did the butterbeer come out?! We wanted to make our own take on butter beer, doing our own concoction by mixing butterscotch schnapps, milkshake, cream soda, and a bit of rum. We may save it for another date, we had no time ;_;
Master of the Fork
Cid's Knight
It was really good! Very sweet. I've seen a lot of people adding ice cream to the mix but we just had the cream soda and schnapps and it worked perfectly fine.
That has to be my favorite part of the movie. That and when Snape is giving the memories to Harry in the first place. So sad ;_;.Originally Posted by Rye
Just got back from the film, thought it was completely 110% Awesomesauce!
I have ready the books and I still think the movie completely lived up to my expectations, the only minor thing I would have changed was to make the fight between Molly and Bella a little longer.
They didn't show the pensive scenes? That's unfortunate. I liked those scenes. I'll be seeing it this weekend or next. I heard there's a trailer for The Dark Knight Rises as one of the preview trailers. Can anyone confirm that?
There is, but the trailer sucks. Most of the scenes were from Begins. o_O
Really enjoyed it. I felt like the movies consistently got better and better, as did the acting for Harry/Ron/Hermione. This really was as a nearly perfect ending.
I loved:
Everything with Snape. Perfect perfect perfect. Sobbing throughout it all. And "You have your mother's eyes" just killed me.
All the parts leading up to the battle at Hogwarts. McGonagall is a badass.
Harry & The Forest Again. Again, PERFECT.
A few nitpicks:
I didn't think the battle scenes were as good as they could have been. I would have liked less random students fleeing in terror, giants stomping around, and bricks flying everywhere, and more shots of characters we know battling it out. Everything felt frenzied and hectic, but by the end of it, you don't really see much of the characters duking it out with the deatheaters. Especially would have liked to see more of the twins. All we get is a measly single line for them each and then... well, you know.
I didn't like how they changed the final showdown. I think it was important for people to witness the end. Not a huge deal, but it bothered me. I did like how they uh, (SPOILER)disposed of Voldemort's body. that was really neat. But the staging of it was really strange. (SPOILER)Time and time again, Harry is made to stand before Voldemort and his deatheaters. He's always either walking into, or being dragged into Voldemort's territory, surrounded by Voldemort's crew. And for the rest of the world, Voldemort was this nameless fear and then he was supposedly dead, and then alive, maybe not really alive? So much misinformation about Voldy. But in the final battle as it happens in the book, Voldemort finally has to stand before Harry and all of Harry's friends, fellow students, teachers, in the great hall of Hogwarts and battle for his life. And finally everyone gets to witness his downfall at Harry's hands. No more doubts, no more rumors and speculation. I don't know why they would take all that away? I'm guess they wanted it to be JUST Voldy and Harry at the end? But it sorta made it a bit anti-climatic.
Harry/Ginny relationship was such poop. Really, he had more chemistry in a single glance at Cho than he did while making out with Ginny. Such a waste. I don't know if it's because the actress who plays Ginny doesn't have any sort of spark in her at all, or if it's because the writers never properly developed their relationship, but all the bits that involved Ginny seemed forced and tacked on.
Overall I really enjoyed it, and I cried a ton. Nearly everyone in my theater seemed to be sobbing their hearts out.
Last edited by Miriel; 07-16-2011 at 02:00 AM.
I loved it. I laughed and I cried and I cheered and I cried some more.
It was a great ride. I am so sad thinking about the fact that that's it, no more looking forward to the next Harry Potter flick and racing to the midnight showing.
Even though I was already well into my teens when the first film came out, they still hold, and will always hold, a very special place in my heart.
I don't think I'll ever forget tonight because of it.
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