Thoughts on the Latest Harry Potter Movie
1) It was tiresome. Actually tiresome. I couldn’t wait for it to end. The only reason I didn’t walk out was because it was that day where the temperatures reached record highs in Seattle, and the theatre was nice and cool.
2) I really, really hate the girl who plays Hermione.
3) What happened to Harry’s scar?
4) I understand it’s impossible to fit umpteen hundred pages in a two-hour movie. But still. They made characters do completely uncharacteristic things. Would Neville really tell Harry that his parents were driven mad by Lord V.? Would Cho have really been the one who snitched on the DA? Would Dumbledore really have COMPLETELY ignored Harry like that? These fell by the wayside in favor of special effects and suspenseful scenes. Which lasted for EVER.
5) So much charm was sucked out of the story. Like Dumbledore’s neat checkmating of Fudge during Harry’s trial.
6) Just wondering: would anyone who hadn’t actually read the book understand what was going on in the movie? This was the issue with number 3 too; when I dragged Steve, he kept on asking what the hell was going on.
7) Helena Bonham-Carter rocked. As did Ralph Fiennes. Dolores Umbridge was good, but didn’t mesh with my impression of her character at ALL.
Comments
Oh, so sad. The mister wanted to go see this and I just couldn’t find the will to go along…I guess now I know why! Sorry it was a bummer to watch.
Peoples’ reactions to this movie are all over the freakin’ map. Me, I liked it a whole lot.
The Cho betrayal/shunning/vindication bit was incredibly rushed, but in it Snape reveals that Umbridge used Veritaserum on her so she’s innocent of wrongdoing.
(I thought Dumbledore ignored Harry completely in the book, too, which was one of the reasons for his simmering anger throughout. Am I misremembering? It’s been ages.)