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A bunch of teenagers and young families?
Who's going to the midnight premiere tonight?
A bunch of teenagers and young families?
does anyone not planning to go for the past 4 months even have a chance at going?
Not going...at all.
Virgins???
Thought about taking my oldest, but will wait for Sunday instead. Had a funny conversation with my MIL about it though.
Me: I was thinking of taking the boy to the midnight showing of HPDH II.
Mom: Lots of rowdy crowds there at midnight showings.
Me: Yes, I'm sure it will be the rowdiest crowd of teenage girls and their middle-aged moms this side of a Justin Bieber concert.
Mom: Or a Twilight convention.
Not going to the midnight showing but will definitely see this. The movies doesn't do the books justice but I'm still going. And yes, gonna see this in 3d and yes will see this at the Imax. And no I don't give a how you guys will judge me.
^^Judging you as I type...
I'm sure the best part was TDKR teaser trailer
no doubt ^
Will be seeing it this weekend.
Just got back from the Palladium. The movie was good but it pissed me off more than anything. The director David Yates has the audacity to think he's a better storyteller than Rowlings for that he thought he should deviate from the book? him. If he would've stayed true, movie could've been epic. The battle scenes would've been epic, like LOTR ROTK epic. I expected to see more chaos like swarms of giants storming the Hogwarts against the defending stone soliders, centuars ripping out giant eyes, spiders ripping people to shreds, ect. They were there but not at the magnitude that I expected.
If you read the books, you may be disappointed. If you didn't, you may enjoy it a whole lot more.
Btw, Dark Knight trailer sucks.
take it easy
besides, the Numenorean King Aragorn would chop Harry Potter into a million pieces
they've only been shooting for like a month and a half. and it's a teaser trailer...most of the time they don't even show you actual footage.
brah.
Gordon Levitt tweet:
Who's going to see the #DKR teaser tonight? Er um I mean, the Harry Potter movie?
Saw it yesterday. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. By far the best of the acting. But my God, for something that was to cover 1/3 of the last book in over 2 hours, there sure was a lot of blink and you miss it sort of stuff.
Spoilers Below - You've been warned!
The thing to note before I say anything else is that the Weasley twins were my favorite characters in the series, books or movies. LOVE the Weasley twins. Love the actors who played the Weasley twins. Dreaded THAT moment, because it absolutely infuriated me in the books that she killed Fred, even though I predicted it beforehand. Had to kill a Weasley to 'make it more real' and the only one with enough emotional punch and not enough tie to Harry was one of the interchangeable ones. So he died. For no reason other than emotional tug (and don't get me started on JKR marrying the remaining twin off to his dead brother's girlfriend, because ugh!).
Nevertheless, it's a powerful moment in the books - even more so than Dobby's death. Precisely because it's so merciless and unnecessary and shocking. And given it's going to be played out by my favorite actors, I'm sort of looking forward to it. And I suppose all 20 seconds of it weren't bad. . .
Wait. If you saw the previews, you've pretty much seen Fred's death and the Weasleys mourning him. George isn't even touching his twin. He runs to Ron and then we get The Important Character's Reaction Shot and then . . . that's it. At least Yates gave us slightly more Remus/Tonks than JKR did (still angry they were killed off-stage and that was that). FFS - Dobby the ing cgi annoyance who was only in 2 of the movies, despite being in 5 of the books and having no relationship with Harry b/c of the cuts, had a bigger and more emotional death scene! That really annoyed me.
There were a lot of changes from the book that surprised me, having heard how true to the book it was. Surprisingly, most of them didn't bug me at all. I liked the change with Snape's death. I was shocked to find I really enjoyed the way Harry appeared in the castle, I thought it was great.
What irked me were the parts at which the effects overrode the story. I could have done with about a minute and a half less of the Grey Lady (esp since they went off-book anyway), and given that to say, FRED'S DEATH. Or the battle between Harry and Voldemort - which visually cool, felt like it dragged a bit for me, at least the flying around part did.
For as amazing as I heard the Prince's Tale was, it felt rushed to me. And whatever they did to de-age Snape was distracting. But Alan Rickman acted the out of it.
For once, Emma Watson didn't make me want to claw my eyes out. Rupert Grint, who I'd heard was a scene stealer, seemed more background than anything. And that kiss. Hahahahaha. Both the actors and the director said it would probably be anti-climactic, but I thought it was hilarious because you only see the back of Ron's head. There were boos in the theatre.
Neville was awesome - loved a lot of that. Loved Maggie Smith. A lot of the battle was hectic and confusing. I might like it better on a second viewing when I can see more of what's going on.
For as critical as I sound - overall, I really did enjoy the movie and thought they did a good job of a difficult task in ending the series in a satisfying way. I think they'd have done better if they never re-introduced Fleur and brought in Bill and gave that over to Remus and Tonks instead. Especially since the first mention of Remus' son comes when he's dead - and I was wondering just how Harry knew about Teddy, since no one told him in the movie . . .
And it's not David Yates (who isn't my fave director) who is to blame for the story - it's Kloves, the screenwriter. Definitely don't love him.
The movie lost me halfway through. They sacrificed the emotion from the book for action. Way too many scenes where they tried to fill the screen with as much as possible, aka 'The Star Wars Prequel effect.'
LOTR epic?.... HP was never on that scale. That's re ed to ask for.... people like you are the reason the movie sucked. Did you even read the book? Doesn't sound like it by your description and desires for the movie.
Lol So me wanting the movie to follow more closely to the book makes the movie bad? Okaaay. Anyway, did you even read the book? There was a massive battle that took place at Hogwarts. The whole point of Voldemort bidding his time was to create this huge ass army so he could invade Hogwarts and kill potter. That was the climax and they skimped over it. They already skipped the battle that took place after Dumbledore died. That was a let down too.
I'm just saying, it could've been epic. Why? because in the book it was epic. All of the tools in the book were there to make a huge battle. Giants, centuars, spiders, stone soldiers and thousands of wizards.
dude, no movie has been "epic" in more than a decade. that term gets thrown around too much these days and especially on the net.
I felt it was too epic. I think that it was too much of a focal point. Snape's, Vodlemort's, and Dumbledore's deaths were done terribly. Snape's entire essence in the book was the most emotional part... it was a 10 min scene in the movie. Voldemort's death took 10 seconds... in fact, now that I think about it, deaths in general in the movies were done terribly.
I don't understand how you read the books and want an epic battle out of it... the battle was a background occurrence in the book for Harry to destroy the horcruxes anyways.... and Voldemort's army looked as big as Sauron's Minas Tirith hoard... how can you complain about scale?
On top of everything, and after they did HP7 Pt 1 so well, and even the first half of Pt2.... they reverted back to the ty formula of one liners and CGI dominated scenes filled to the max, while characters and plot were ignored. I felt no emotion whatsoever when anyone died in the end, because the only thing I had been watching was a huge epic fight scene.
if you want a fight scene, then go see Transformers
I don't understand how you wouldn't want an epic battle scene after seeing how far they deviated from the book. You should've thought, "We'll since they deviated and killed most of the emotional keypoints of the book to turn this movie into an action flick, I should expect some good battles to make up for it."
That's the whole point of action flicks! Big ass booms to distract you from the big ass doom!
I don't see why you are even arguing with me, we both agree that they skipped major pivotal points of the book that should've been included. Whether you thought it was too epic or whether I think it was less epic, we still have a common grievance.
Last edited by Creepn; 07-16-2011 at 06:12 PM.
I'll agree with you... I'm arguing with you though, due to this: I feel that because Yates felt like people who are more interested in fight scenes and action (e.g. Transformers/Star Wars Prequel fans) would lead the movie to have more box office success, he consequently deviated towards the common CGI action formula that we see too much these days.
Your statements of wanting LOTR scale annoyed me, because you sounded like the epitome of fan that led the director to ruin the movie.
What was lost in translation, was your want of an epic battle was DUE to the level the movie dropped to at the end. That, I can understand, and humbly offer my apologies, and agreements to you sir.
No no, my apologies. I just didn't communicate that well. I can see where you based your argument because of it.
I never seen any of these movies ever. I guess cause no one I know likes it. I never really gave it a chance. Perhaps one day.
If you didn't read the books when you were younger, I don't see any reason to see the movies at this point.
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