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Post by Babycakes on Jul 17, 2011 16:44:25 GMT -4
Did you all laugh at the hug? LOL I was like -- um, am I supposed to be laughing right now? But everyone else did too. There were lots of hugs in the movie, so I assume you mean the Creepy Grandpa Voldy hug? Because yeah, my theater laughed at that too. I just got back. I was a theater full of non readers. You could tell by all the gasps when it was revealed that Harry was also a horcrux. I was the only one that laughed at the Voldy hug. I don't know if people thought he was sincere, or were too repulsed to react. My theater was pin drop silent from the moment that they destroyed the diadem. It was eerily silent. I heard a fair few sniffles and one honking nose blow during the Prince's Tale and The Forest Again. And everyone clapped at Molly's big line, and Neville's crowning moment of awesome. No one reacted to Voldy dying though. The Malfoys' retreat got a snigger. All in all, it a pretty decent movie going experience. No cell phones, and only two babies that got quieted down within the first 5-10 minutes. I think I'm going to see it again in 3D or Imax 3D, but I really don't think I'm missing anything by not seeing it in 3D first. One question though: In the ROR, Ron goes charging after Goyle after he tries to AK Hermione, and he says something like, "That's my girlfriend you---". I couldn't make out what he said. Anyone know?
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robneville
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Post by robneville on Jul 17, 2011 21:53:48 GMT -4
I KNOW! This is what pissed me off so much about the movie...like, there were some really great moments that were spoiled by some bizarre little detail. I was crying my eyes out when Harry was saying his goodbyes to Ron and Hermione, but then Ron just stood there awkwardly and didn't do anything while Emma got a big emotional moment to play. Poor Won-Won, after finally getting something to do in Part 1, he's back to being comic relief (THAT"S MY GIRLFRIEND!). Or The Forest Again, which is pretty much word-for-word what it was in the book...including Harry mentioning Teddy, who has, until this point in the movie, never existed or been mentioned. And the last 20-30 minutes was super anti-climactic. Hermione trying to kill Nagini by throwing rocks at her? Whaaaa? About weird things in the scripts- I've seen the movies but never read the books so maybe someone who has could tell me if it was explained in the books how they can do something one moment but not again later when we've just been shown they can do that thing. What I'm referring to is their ability to move through time and space when it's convenient ( in hallows pt 1 escaping the wedding reception attack in the blink of a CGI and reappearing on the streets of London or hallows pt 2 where the scooby gang go from a beach cliff to outside the bank in a swirl of CGI or Snapes bailing on a fight by going all swirly and disappearing out a window or Snapes in pt 1 arriving at Hogwarts in stream of black smoke ) And then suddenly not be able to in a similar situation ( They got TO the bank that way but can't get OUT that way, they have to ride out on the back of a dragon. Then have to leap in the water off it's back instead of zapping themselves on to the nearby ( dry ) shore.Or "there's no way into Hogwarts" really, are you sure we just saw you zap yourselves from a beach to a bank but there's no way into Hogwarts except a passage way behind a painting?Or we saw you escape a wedding attack by disappearing but when a big snake is coming for you you can't escape the same way? Huh. what the...? Can only the bad guys move around like the smoke monster from lost? But didn't we see in the third or fourth movie ( which ever one Gary Oldman got killed in ) that everyone in that fight was moving around with blinding speed but for the final film where it's not convenient for Ron and Hermione to escape that way they suddenly can't. Or escape a burning room Or a Giant Ogre chasing them. Sorry to be a jerk, it's just that many things about what everyone is capable of doing had been established in one film or another and then at convenient moments those same abilities are nowhere to be seen and it's confusing to be watching this stuff and see people not do something we've seen them do before to get out of a similar situation.
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livviebway
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Post by livviebway on Jul 17, 2011 22:00:19 GMT -4
The disappearing and reappearing is called apparating in the books and it is made clear that there are certain areas that are protected by magical charms that prevent apparation or disapparation. It's stressed many times throughout the series that you can't apparate in Hogwarts (and it's more obvious in the scene where Snape runs away that he literally just jumps out the window and flies away, rather than disapparating). I suppose we can assume that the wizarding bank would also be protected by similar charms against people randomly appearing or disappearing within it (and when they arrived there they apparated to a street near the bank, not the bank itself).
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robneville
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Post by robneville on Jul 17, 2011 22:11:52 GMT -4
The disappearing and reappearing is called apparating in the books and it is made clear that there are certain areas that are protected by magical charms that prevent apparation or disapparation. It's stressed many times throughout the series that you can't apparate in Hogwarts (and it's more obvious in the scene where Snape runs away that he literally just jumps out the window and flies away, rather than disapparating). I suppose we can assume that the wizarding bank would also be protected by similar charms against people randomly appearing or disappearing within it (and when they arrived there they apparated to a street near the bank, not the bank itself). Thanks, that clears up some things for a non reader.
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Post by BoroKat on Jul 17, 2011 22:16:43 GMT -4
Just got back a little while ago and I am still sorting out my thoughts. But until I can find words again......Alan Rickman. Brought. It. I outright bawled during the Prince's Tale, I am tearing up right now.
It's really over, guys. I cannot believe it.
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Post by forever1267 on Jul 17, 2011 23:30:47 GMT -4
I liked it, but I didn't love it. I just got back, too, and am still processing it (and my panic disorder acting up during the movie didn't help.) I did love The Big Kiss and The Prince's Tale section was really good. I haven't re-read the book since it came out, so some of it was surprising to me.
One question: who was the dead blonde kid that the Werewolf was... eating(?) that got blown away by one of The Trio? It looked like one of the Cheevey(sp?) kids.
Edited to add: Thank you and... that was a girl? Some odd shots in this one. hunh. Thank you!!!
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Post by BoroKat on Jul 17, 2011 23:33:54 GMT -4
That was Lavender Brown, Ron's ex-girlfriend.
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Post by sugarhigh on Jul 17, 2011 23:35:22 GMT -4
That was Lavender Brown.
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Post by save lilo! on Jul 18, 2011 0:02:53 GMT -4
Ha! Well that's a simplified way of putting it. In the book it's spelled out that Lily's sacrifice (throwing herself in front of baby Harry) created a sort of magical force field. The cost of her life provided a life long protection against Voldemort. Yea, in the books Dumbledore always says something about how Lily's sacrifice of love for her son is a type of magic in itself, one that Voldy doesn't understand so he never expected that kind of rebound effect. Something like that. Either way, it is a beautiful message of how strong love can be. It was like a manifestation of her love that protected him. Wasn't JK Rowling a single mother when she started fleshing out the stories? It's not perfect of course, but I really enjoyed the books and the movies because it was all about cheering on the characters and really caring for them and wishing them well. I also loved how intricate and connected everything was---SO MANY seemingly insignificant details in previous books really did have some kind of importance later. I loved the scenes where McGonagall stood up to Snape and when she gleefully did that cool spell. All the adult actors were superb. I'm so sad it's all over, but you just KNOW there will be another remake/retelling of these movies in a decade or so.
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Post by jynni on Jul 18, 2011 1:42:33 GMT -4
IRRC, Lavender was the student Greyback was attacking in the books but it was never confirmed in the book if she lived or died.
Just came back from a second viewing in regular D. Pretty much the same reaction as the first time. Loved it up until the last 15 minutes or so where the screenplay went off the rails. The end is just so anticlimactic whereas in the book it just built and built with anticipation and the reader being in on the secret that Harry is alive till the moment where Harry reveals himself with "PROTEGO!" to protect Mrs. Weasley from V.
I'm just going to have to not watch those parts and mentally re-arrange things to be the way I want them. I guess I should be happy it's only fifteen minutes rather than a whole movie (Azkaban & Phoenix).
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