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Harry Potter and the DH pt.2

Eggs Mayonnaise

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
Mmmm. Yeah! It's a big fat Bob Marley blunt. Breathe in the smoke. Hold it in long as you can. Exhale when you have to. Repeat.

Can't wait to see it again, and get misty again.

It's good, folks. Really good.
 
What a coincidence!! I'm seeing it tonight and we will have blunts with us. Bob Marley (and stoner Rupert Grint) would be proud.
 
I'm so fucking psyched to see this. Haven't been this excited to see a film for a long while. Just hope it comes out soon.
 
I probably won't get to it until tomrrow night. My friend still needs to see part 1, so I'm loaning out the DVD. CAN I MAKE IT ONE DAY THOUGH ARGH :rwmad:
 
Well I finally broke down and went and rented the part one of Hallows, HOLY SHIT does that movie just go on forever or what? My boy was bored, I was bored, and that movie was a mishmash mess. Glad I didn't pay for it...
 
Donovan said:
Well I finally broke down and went and rented the part one of Hallows, HOLY SHIT does that movie just go on forever or what? My boy was bored, I was bored, and that movie was a mishmash mess. Glad I didn't pay for it...
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The book was better?

(I haven't read the book or seen part one of Deathly Hallows)
 
Well that was kind of necessary, since there weren't many other ways to split the book into two films. They couldn't chop the book down to one movie and have the story still make sense, and the first part of the book is all plot devices that Rowland clumsily presented in order for the finale to have some kind of logic to it.

Luckily, the new movie is the shortest HP movie of all, and fairly taut in its pacing. Also, color-wise it's not a long blue/grey blob like Part 1 -- things blow up a lot to provide some color!

It's the price of doing business. Or something.
 
Snape's climactic scene is handled well. Some changes from the book (many things are changed from the book in some way), but they simplified events to the point where I could almost follow the long, twisted chain of his teetering motivations throughout time.
 
I really liked DH1 as well, despite it being rather clumsy due to it's efforts to be true to the story. I can see Donovan's point, particularly about the mish mash, but it is a glorious spectacle and I remember great portions of it vividly now.

I am also very excited about DH2...
 
headvoid said:
I really liked DH1 as well, despite it being rather clumsy due to it's efforts to be true to the story. I can see Donovan's point, particularly about the mish mash, but it is a glorious spectacle and I remember great portions of it vividly now.

I am also very excited about DH2...
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I expect I would have enjoyed the sfx parts a little better if I'd seen it theatre style, but on the small screen story becomes much more important. I think the "true to the book" comment is dead-on; I haven't read the books but I could see where they were shoehorning in unnecessary stuff to keep the fans happy. But it resulted in an overlong movie that had many elements not needed for the plot to move along. Movies are a visual medium but the story is still the engine. It felt like the DH1 was just a series of pretty scenes and anecdotal moments. Basically a filler movie.

I expect the second one will be better, if only because they're wrapping it all up.
 
I have enjoyed every single HP outing in varying degrees but the only movie that actually holds up as a great piece of cinema for me is The Prisoner of Azkaban.Alfonso Curaon nailed it big time.
 
Mentalist said:
I have enjoyed every single HP outing in varying degrees but the only movie that actually holds up as a great piece of cinema for me is The Prisoner of Azkaban.Alfonso Curaon nailed it big time.
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I'll agree with this, although at the time I remember being quite annoyed that something being advertised as a children's movie was so dark. Creeped the hell out of the kids I took to it and even me a little, although I thought it was very well-done. It was such a departure from the first two.
 
I watched Prisoner recently and Gary Oldman was (as ever) excellent. The Director not only delivered an impressive spectacle, he got some excellent performances out of the big names as well.
 
Oldman & Radcliffe's scenes in Order of the Phoenix were fucking killer as well.

Also, don't get me wrong from my earlier rant, I liked DH1 as well. But after seeing DH2, which was taut and action-packed, it seems like more of a chore to watch DH1 with its long, quiet stretches and its languid focus on smaller, more intimate moments with the characters.

Can't wait to watch them back-to-back when DH2 is available for home.
 
Prisoner was a tough book to adapt. Hermione's time travelling which basically bleeds into the main plot as well wasn't just a "throw awesome money to build awesome sets" situation. Cuaruon took a big risk in trusting the material and actors to perform and work in a more abstract and cinematic setting instead of trying to adapt scene-for-scene the book as the first two did. He adapted the story closely but set everything off kilter slightly, as opposed to the first two films, and in doing so gave legitimacy and believability to the universe.

It's deffo my fav film from the series but DH1 ranks really high. DH2 sounds like a winner so far so I can't wait
 
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