Official Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2 thread (w/poll)

[Anubis]

what's to be proud of?

being a moron apparently.

while ill prob wait till its on TV i have seen all the other minus part 1 of the last 2. they aren't bad movies. some are actually quite enjoyable. however i don't get the fanatical attachment some people have with them and HP in general

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm looking forward to seeing this but waiting another week or two due to some scheduling conflicts. It's not like I don't know what happens next though.

 

[Krynj]

Just got back from seeing it, and I was rather unimpressed. Book was way better in this case. I bought the book at its midnight release in 2007, and it was fantastic. I finished it within 2 days, and the last 20-30 pages had me in tears the whole way through.

The movie however, I didn't find it to be all that gripping either. They quickly glossed over the deaths of certain characters, and the final battle was way different from the book. For wrapping up the series, Deathly Hallows part 2 fell really flat.

 

[ProfJohn]

I hate to say it, but I was a little disappointed.

Maybe I expected more or maybe because I read the book I never felt any danger since I knew what was going to happen.

There were some great moments in the final battle, but they never did a good job of focusing in on anything specific. They could have slowed it down and shown individual characters fighting instead of just one big blur.

I also thought the Harry v Vold sorta sucked. Maybe I expected better after the Order of Phoenix battle. Sad to say that the best wizard battle in all the movies occurred in that movie instead of the grand finale.

When it comes on DVD I'll watch it again, maybe I'll like it better the second time in my living room. But overall I wished they would have slowed it down a bit and added a few more quiet moments, especially towards the end. It all happens too fast IMO.

 

[Alone]

The final battle sucked. They made it look as if the death of Nagini was the end of Voldemort, or that Harry defeated him with no effort.

Complete fail.

PLUS, no one witnessed it, so who's to say he's even dead?

 

[RedCOMET]

I saw it Friday night and the initial though i had about the film was a reverse Kill Bill. KB1 was pretty much all action while KB2 had less action and developed the story that was sorta started in part 1.

With HP7, Part 1 was the story and Part 2 felt like one never ending climax ( that's what she said) that eventually ended well... until the 19 yrs later scene ( insert some sexual reference joke here). I will say tho, I enjoyed all the Potter movies and the books as the series progressed. But, I don't feel HP7 Part 2 was 10/10... It did a great job at telling the story that was 2nd half of the Deathly Hallows, but if I feel the only way to understand what is happening in Part 2 of the movie you had to see Part 1, and this movie made the assumption. To bring it back to Kill Bill, if you wanted Vol 2 with out seeing part 1, you could at least get an idea of what happenend. I felt with Potter... HP7 Part 2 was an orphan that was all action and not much story unlike Part 1 which had a good mixture of both while not getting bogged down.

Over all if you like the HP movies and books, Part 2 is worth seeing on the big screen.

 

[KLin]

I cracked up when finnigan says to ron when ginny sees harry for the first time:

Spoiler

<Ron> I'm her brother
<Finnigan> Yea but she has lots of those. She only has one Harry.
<Ron> Shut up, Seamus

 

[cronos]

I will try to catch a weekday showing at AMC or matinee at Marcus next weekend (both are $5).

IMAX/3D show at AMC on weekdays however is only $5 more so a total of $10. Do you guys think it's worth the double admission price?

 

[ProfJohn]

I didn't think the 3d was worth it.

The movie wasn't made in 3d and they should have left it in 2d as intended.

I think the whole 3d conversion thing is going to kill 3d. When done right 3d is amazing. Avatar, Tron and Tangled were all amazing in 3d. Of the 3d conversions I have seen only Alice in Wonderland was worth it, both Thor and Harry were a waste.

 

[John P]

I didn't think the 3d was worth it.

The movie wasn't made in 3d and they should have left it in 2d as intended.

I think the whole 3d conversion thing is going to kill 3d. When done right 3d is amazing. Avatar, Tron and Tangled were all amazing in 3d. Of the 3d conversions I have seen only Alice in Wonderland was worth it, both Thor and Harry were a waste.

Yeah, now I'm wishing I had seen it in 2D. Guess I'll have to wait for the Blu-Ray to come out.

 

[cronos]

Thanks guys. I think I'd just opt for the 2D version then, and treat myself a large pop-corn

 

[ChaoZ]

I thought the 3D was amazing.

 

[John P]

I thought the 3D was amazing.

This was my first 3D movie so I really can't compare but my kids said it stunk compared to Transformers 3 and some other movies they have seen.

It bothered me in a lot of scenes where the figure the camera was focused on was popping out of the screen and the figures 10 feet behind them were totally out of focus. It just didn't seem realistic at all. But yes, in the few scenes where the 3D was appropriate it was pretty cool.

 

[ProfJohn]

^ it is very hard to convert 2d to 3d due to the focus field issues.

Our eyes can see things close and far away and have them both in focus. In a real 3d movie you can create this effect because things further away look further away.

But a 2d camera can't do this and instead things close are in focus and far away are out of focus. That makes it harder to do the conversion hence one of the reasons 3d conversions are never as good as true 3d movies.

It is like converting a black and white film to color, the details aren't there in the film to get it right.

 

[masterxfob]

i remember being extremely dissapointed after watching part 1, but part 2 was just pretty damned f'ing awesome. well, the 19 years later bit was kind of lame. actually, i thought it was nice that harry paid tribute to snape.

 

[Alone]

It was part of the book, but I hated it both times.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

The final battle sucked. They made it look as if the death of Nagini was the end of Voldemort, or that Harry defeated him with no effort.

Complete fail.

PLUS, no one witnessed it, so who's to say he's even dead?

To be fair, Harry did pretty much defeat Voldemort with ease in the book, and it all had to do with the fact that Voldemort was hell bent on killing Harry himself because of a prophecy he never truly understood (ie he didn't really have to kill Harry). When Dumbledore learned that he cleverly went about making sure that the Elder wand would be useless to Voldemort (by willingly allowing himself to be disarmed by Draco and then killed by Snape), and when the final battle came Voldemort could do no harm to Harry with the Elder wand because Voldemort was not its master, and the fact that the wands allegiance was actually to Harry it wouldn't even hurt him let alone kill him.

But I otherwise agree. The final battle was changed and contrived for typical movie fare, and it was done rather poorly. I really think they screwed it up when they strayed from the book by having Voldemort chase Harry all over the castle in battle, when they really just should have stayed true to the book where we get a good sense of just how powerful Voldemort is when he takes on several powerful witches/wizards (including McGonagall and Kingsley) at once before Harry finally intervenes and is able to defeat Voldemort because the Elder wand is fundamentally useless against Harry.

I also thought the Harry v Vold sorta sucked. Maybe I expected better after the Order of Phoenix battle. Sad to say that the best wizard battle in all the movies occurred in that movie instead of the grand finale.

I didn't care for it either, but as I've said before its not like that fight was epic in the book either. Granted that didn't mean they couldn't have produced an epic battle by having Voldemort fight other wizards before Harry could confront him, which did happen in the book (albeit those events weren't fleshed out at all in the book, only that Voldemort was holding his own and even beating several powerful wizards all at once)

Its a shame really, as there was a flash of brilliance in the "duel" between McGonagall and Snape in this movie that was reminiscent of Voldemort vs. Dumbledore but it was just too brief to be anything spectacular.

 

[mrkun]

I saw it on Sunday at 5 PM and there were only like 15 people in the theater.

 

[JEDI]

I did a search, but didn't see anything.

I will see this in the theatres, but not sure if I'll brave the crowds this weekend. Anyone else?

CBC review

Spoiler

the way snape died was SUCH as let down.
for such a powerful wizard,

he didnt even put up a fight vs voldermort.

i expected a grand duel.

WTF?!

 

[ProfJohn]

It was the same in the book.

I think he took him be surprise in the book though.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

he didnt even put up a fight vs voldermort.

i expected a grand duel.

It was the same in the book.

I think he took him be surprise in the book though.

It may be a combination of both; he was taken by surprise by the snake AND he knew that he had little/no chance of survival against V. I mean, if you recall in order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore at best drew against V even with the Elder Wand. What dueling chance did Snape have in comparison?

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally Posted by ChaoZ
I thought the 3D was amazing.

This was my first 3D movie

It bothered me in a lot of scenes where the figure the camera was focused on was popping out of the screen and the figures 10 feet behind them were totally out of focus. It just didn't seem realistic at all.

But yes, in the few scenes where the 3D was appropriate it was pretty cool.

Speaking of realistic

We went to the Muvico that just had DBox seats installed.

For those that do not know what DBox is, the seats move in all directions.

It is similar to Universal Studios rides where the seats move but this is your individual seat moving. It works quite well. They have a controller so you can dial down the amount of movement for those that it is too much for.

In Potter the roller coaster scene with DBox was awesome.

 

[darkewaffle]

After being a devoted fan since I was in elementary school I finally sat down and watched the Deathly Hallows movies for the first time ever, back to back in wonderful HD.

I wasn't blown away of course, knowing what would happen and all, but I thought they were executed extremely well and I loved seeing them at last. There were only a small handful of things they left out that I thought would have added to the film, but nothing major. Also I thought it was funny as fuck that during the epilogue they gave Ron a beer gut.

I've actually really enjoyed some of the special features available on the DH2 disc so far too, I'll be checking out some more of them retroactively I think since before that I'd mostly just checked out the deleted scenes. But just watching Rowling and Radcliff chat for an hour was really enjoyable, at least for a fan.

Further, I can't help but be curious about Pottermore now as well, is anyone in the beta?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Further, I can't help but be curious about Pottermore now as well, is anyone in the beta?

Pottermore?

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.pottermore.com/

What is Pottermore?

Pottermore is an exciting new website from J.K. Rowling that can be enjoyed alongside the Harry Potter books. You can explore the stories like never before and discover exclusive new writing from the author. It is FREE to join and use, and is designed to be safe for people of all ages.

it'll be WoW for HP nerds and a way for JKR to keep getting $$$

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EynP7DqjaS0&feature=endscreen&NR=1