Harry Potter Movies

[livviebway]

Jul 18, 2011 21:13:02 GMT -4 bklynred said:

I can't pick this apart. I thought Snape's death was especially horrid (didn't he just get an AK in the book?) and my whole theater (at the 10:30 am showing) gasped every time there was an attack. I thought his current look was meant to be harsh...dude has been a double agent for what, 17 years? That'll weigh on someone over time, I'd imagine.

He got chomped by the snake in the book too. He had to have a lingering enough death to pass on his memories to Harry.

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Ha BK, I remember the time that I ordered one of the books from Amazon and had to wait until UPS brought it at the very end of the release day! Never again, I vowed. I would be there when the bookstore opened next time. I was pregnant when Deathly Hallows was released and stayed up reading until almost 3am, which was not an easy feat. I had to read it in the living room because I was afraid that all my boo hooing would wake up my husband.

[bklynred]

livvie, thanks for clarifying. They changed the location for his death, I knew something was different (the never-before-seen boathouse)? I want to see Captain America but yeah, I'm totally plunking down cash for HP 3-D this weekend. I'll get to the Captain next week.

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Jul 18, 2011 18:59:15 GMT -4 GoldenFleece said:

Speaking of Movie!Ginny. Sigh. Once again, relegated to standing around with a confused look on her face. I cannot decide if Bonnie Wright is such a poor actor that they could not give her anything to do, or if they made a conscious effort to reduce her character to the background.

I think they reduced her character to the background because Bonnie Wright in the HP movies has been such a...mellow presence (I'll be nice), which was perfect as for Ginny the little sister in the background who blushes and puts her elbow in the butter dish around Harry. When Book!Ginny turned into the popular, feisty, sporty girl who makes Harry's "chest monster" roar at night, offers herself to him as a birthday gift, and has Slytherins and Death Eaters praising her beauty even as they try to hex her...well, the movies could have either let Bonnie have a go at playing that Ginny, or else they could have taken stock of her talents and her chemistry with DanRad and said, screw it, not even our special effects team can create that kind of magic. Do we recast? Eh, we don't need the headache from the purists. Even most of them don't like Harry/Ginny nearly as much as Ron/Hermione anyway. Let's just scrap all the heavy kissing for Harry/Ginny and...tell Kloves we need to give Dan more scenes with Evanna and Emma!

Lifetime's JKR biopic premieres tonight: Magic Beyond Words! The preview does makes it look better than the William and Kate movie.

I read a review of the Lifetime movie and it was LOLtastic.

I am hitting the double feature this weekend- DH2 matinee and then seeing the 7 o'clock Captain America. We have seen a movie every weekend this summer and I can't break the streak.

GoldenFleece, ITA with your assessment on milquetoast Ginny. But at least we did see some emotion from her when Hagrid was carrying Harry. Maybe Wright could have pulled off a spunkier Ginny.

I am looking forward to seeing it again this weekend so I can take in all the little details this time. I am hoping that the final battle plays a little better now that I know what is coming and not so intent on contrasting/comparing with the book. Which I told myself not to do in the first place, because it would just piss me off. I don't want to be one of those book snobs, but I still don't know why they could not have been more faithful with the final battle scene.

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Anyone heard anything abouthow Bonnie Wright was directed in the movies? Younger, untrained actors don't know that they are supposed to do their homework on ther character and show up on set ready to try different things out, so they do what the director tells them. Surely, any director can do 20 or 30 takes and eventually get a spark of something? Maybe movieGinny was supposed to be the strong, silent (bland) type?

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No idea, but it's so obvious how the other actors matured in their acting over the years...I can't imagine Ginny not being given notes on her performance as well. Either they meant for her to be played that way or were locked in with the actress before they realized how stiff she was.

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I just returned from my second viewing and I liked it much better the second time around. Not that I did not like it the first time, but I was less likely to nitpick, and concentrated more on the details that I loved. I will say that almost everyone got their moment, which was hard to do with such a huge cast. I still think that they aged DanRad the best, and he sold the Epilogue. I also thought that Ciaran Hinds was fantastic as Aberforth.

Bonnie Wright was still Meh- except the part when Hagrid was carrying Harry. That little part made me think that she could have handled more. *shakes fist at Kloves* The final battle still made no sense (especially Harry grabbing Voldemort and jumping off the tower- what? Why?), but it was epic and big, and fitting for a Harry Potter movie, if that makes any sense.

[bklynred]

I swear, someone was like "No one's ever dove off the tower" and figured it was their last chance to make it happen. Dumbledore fell (and in slo-mo, so it doesn't count :-p. I also forget, was it a given that HP and Voldy were Avada Kedavra'ing each other in their heads? All I know is, LOTR had a bunch of deleted scenes--and basically a great CD package for each of their movies, I'm hoping we get some of the same for DH.

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Me too, BK. I am hoping for a Fred death scene and more explanation on the whole Grindewald/Dumbledore subplot.

Cleolinda's review over at Live Journal was awesome. I also like her alternate name for Harry's younger son: Severdore. Much better.

[Shanmac]

I also forget, was it a given that HP and Voldy were Avada Kedavra'ing each other in their heads?

Heh. Hubby was asking me why no one was saying anything during the battles. "Don't they have to say something when they cast a spell?" And that's what I told him: "Um, they're saying it in their heads?"

I did love the final film, but agree that it seemed to downplay the deaths, especially Fred's. A friend of mine said people were sobbing in the theater when she saw it, but that wasn't the case when I went. I think the only time I got sniffly was when they showed Dobby's grave. It must have gotten to hubby, too, because when we left the theater, he told me he liked what was written on the tombstone. Aw.