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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (SPOILER ALERT!!)

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Anyway, saw this last night on an Imax screen. Really dark movie and started out nicely with some good action scenes. Then it slowed down to a crawl for what seemed like forever then picked back up a bit. Overall not bad.







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So, for those of you that have read the book.... how in the world do Harry, Ron, and Hermione get captured by Snatchers toward the end of the movie? Why don't they just blast it out with them? The Snatchers seem like a bunch of lowlifes and all the big 3 can do is blast a few week spells and run away?
 
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I have not watched the movie, but in the book they just got caught by surprise and got surrounded in a sudden without any chance of fighting back. And I couldn't remember this fact exactly but wasn't Harry's wand already broken at this point?

Sounds like a fun movie, not sure if I'll get a chance to see it this weekend. Maybe next week. Either way, the second movie should be much more awesome as it features one of the most amazing scenes ever (the Battle of Hogwarts). I hope the movie does the book justice on this. It's a truly epic scene.
 
in the beginning, why were all the death eaters afraid to give Voldermort their wand?

and OP, add *spoiler* in your thread title
 
it was pretty good. but now i want to get the book and re-read it.

though some of the camera work did the new "shaky cam" bullshit. i hate it when they do that.

otherwise it was a good movie.
 
In the book, the snatchers catch them by surprise because Harry says Voldemort's name which gives away their location.
 
I enjoyed it, cliff hanger at the end makes me want to kill someone though. I got the same feeling as I did at the end of LOTR1
 
Saw it last night. Best Potter movie yet. Godric's Hollow and the Three Brothers were the best parts of the movie, they were very well done, as was the Ministry scene.

Can't wait for Part 2 with all the stuff that's left to happen
 
Ns1 said:
I enjoyed it, cliff hanger at the end makes me want to kill someone though. I got the same feeling as I did at the end of LOTR1
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Well at least they did put 'part 1' in the title though I guess it would have been better if they had just ended it in mid sentence. 😉
 
I saw this but had no idea what was going on as I don't watch Harry Potter movies. I gotta go see the prior ones so I can understand what was going on.
 
I thought it was completely average, but mostly because the first half of that book was completely average. I actually ended up sleeping through about 20 minutes through a combination of exhaustion and boredom.

I've never really been a fan of the movies in general, so take it for what it's worth.
 
rcpratt said:
I thought it was completely average, but mostly because the first half of that book was completely average. I actually ended up sleeping through about 20 minutes through a combination of exhaustion and boredom.

I've never really been a fan of the movies in general, so take it for what it's worth.
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Yeah I had a feeling it was going to be the worst movie of the series because, as you said, the first half of the book was pretty average.

Did anyone else feel like they went the other direction on editing than normal? It seemed like they left a lot of fluff in and I'm sure it was so they would be sure to hit the 2:20-2:40 mark of the other movies. Can't have people thinking they decided to split the last movie into two 1:45 movies.
 
I might see it in the future but the whole first half of this book was awful. They spent like 1000 pages stumbling around a forest in Britain doing little of interest. So I will wait till the last part comes out to see it because thats were the action was in this book.

I always like Goblet of Fire best though.
 
zokudu said:
I might see it in the future but the whole first half of this book was awful. They spent like 1000 pages stumbling around a forest in Britain doing little of interest. So I will wait till the last part comes out to see it because thats were the action was in this book.

I always like Goblet of Fire best though.
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when i actually watched it on the screen i had to ask my gf "it really went like that in the book?"
 
I took the kids sat night. its a dark dark movie. its not like the sorcerers stone with a PG rating where Hogwarts is a magical wonderland. I would caution taking young kids to it thinking that its going to be like the first 2. my kids have grown up reading the books and we have seen all the movies in the theater. so they have matured along with the actors and content of the series.
 
I went to the midnight showing with my 9yr old son (I've read the book(s) he has not).

The movie was fine. Solid adaptation of the book, and yes, the running around in the woods was prety dull in the book, and they did their best to adapt it and make it decent for the movie.


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As a fan of the series, I had a problem with the stupid "Dance Sequence" when Harry and Hermoine were without Ron. I just didn't get it. There was NEVER any sexual tension between the two. In fact in the books, they make it a point to demonstrate over and over how they are very much brother and sister. At first when they started this "dancing" crap I thought "Oh man WTF is this!?!?!?" Then it turned into a joke between the two, seemingly to lighten their spirits at a dark time, and I thought "Oh man they burned me... I thought they were trying to imply sexual tension. THEN they ended the dancing and went back to the tension!?!? WTF?!?!!? They should have left it as a "joke" between the characters and a "gotcha" to the viewers. Lame. Same with the nekkid make-out "vision" that Ron had. STOOPID.

The opening scene with the death-eaters is tense. Very dark and miserable. Awesomely done. Polyjuice and escape from the Durselys was funny and awesome action. Wedding was well done. Godric's Hollow was awesome. Lovegood's was awesome. Camping was.... meh.

As for the snatchers. Yeah in the movie its a bit "dumb" Its A BIT more believable inteh book, as other's have mentioned it's way more a surprise, and Harry's wand is broken.

What drives me nuts is when they are taken back at the Malfoy's Mansion and Bellatrix, Lucious and even Draco isn't sure if it's them?!?!?! WTF people. You've seen them a BILLION times. Sure Harry's face is a tad swollen, but certainly you can still tell its him, let alone there's Ron and Hermoine. That part was lame.
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I will see it again soon I'm sure. (got some free passes as they double booked our reserved seats)
 
there was definitely alot of downtime between the action scenes...way too much IMO, but I guess they had to fluff it out...
 
What I wanted to add too was I think one thing that made this one "average" compared to the others (I agree) is that 75% of this movie is literally just the big 3. There's no Snape. There's no Fred & Ron. There's no Draco. No nobody. There's no 3rd party to break up the storyline. To add comedy, different characteristics etc etc. Again, that's how the book is written too (and why it is average too IMO). But, I am glad they are holding faithful to the last book for the last theatrical releases.

I'm still amazed that when when they KNEW they had a money machine on their hands that they didn't break up GoF, Phoenix, and Half-Blood Prince into two movies. They could have made those movies into 2 and still turned a disgusting profit.
 
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