kyuuketsuki wrote:
The movie was mediocre. I know I know... people are thinking "WAIT WHAT?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Bear with me on this...
First off the movie didn't feel like Harry Potter, it felt like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. That didn't make it bad, but really annoying.
Then we have the issue with character deaths, or namely how downplayed they were. Major characters of the series were killed and there was barely any reaction from anyone. Hell we didn't even get to SEE their deaths. They just appeared dead.
There were some good lines and the action was good (Again the action was very RotK like).
Also, I felt as if they padded out the first movie to make it into two shorter movies instead of one long movie. There was so much padding it was insane. There was little to no development in this movie. I suppose they put all of that in Part 1. For a 2 part movie they cut a lot out and padded way way too much. This could have been one 3 hour movie instead of two 2 hour movies.
Not to mention that the book focused on several people, and the movie basically concentrated only on Harry.
i was very much reminded of rotk as the death eaters are approaching hogwarts and voldemort is trying to break down its defenses.
still, the character deaths being downplayed is pretty faithful to the book- one of the main complaints people had about the book was that character after character died and that the deaths just sort of happened. still, i agree on the padding part- lots of dialogue was taken out... and in its place we got characters staring into space and shot after shot of broken pillars and empty corridors.
as for the focus on harry part, i can't complain too much about it. harry is the main dude and while it was disappointing to see the other characters not get their place in the sun, i can't say i cared that much about the characters who died (the only characters i really cared about throughout the series were the main five good ones)
and the final battle- the whole point of it in the books is that it is something of an anti-climax. harry and voldemort chat for maybe a page or two, the spells get cast and that's it. the movie tried to make it longer and more epic, which was unnecessary (it also made it so that no one was watching, a bizarre and awful decision).
that being said, i am pretty much obligated to like the movie because of the malfoy scene. them running away with lucius nervously looking back was just perfect.
though they did ruin snape's character with him saying the mother's eyes bit to harry.
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