Comments on: Artistic License

By: Kallisti

Kallisti — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:01:31 +0000

What was up with pretty much ignoring Ginny for most of the movies (even though she is present a lot in the books and winds up being pretty damn important to Harry) yet they somehow managed to find time for Harry's snogging sessions with Cho?

By: Orf

Orf — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:23:45 +0000

I stopped watching the movies after the first one, since I liked the books so much, I didn't want to surrender myself to someone else' interpretation of it.

By: Squirrel Hacker » Daily Digest for July 20th

Squirrel Hacker » Daily Digest for July 20th — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:47:23 +0000

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By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:29:27 +0000

If there had just been the big fight at the end, i would have walked out of the movie feeling completely content. everything that needed to be compromised b/c of space/time wouldn't have bothered me if they had just had the damn fight scene at Hogwarts!

By: geekygirluk

geekygirluk — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:07:37 +0000

Completely agree with Bluenight – it was the main scene that sets Snape up for the last book/2 films. He was meant to be in pieces, but all we got was another Rickman monotone! Has his face fossilised and he can't emote any more? I still say Alan Cumming would have been a far better Snape!

With regard to losing the funeral scene, I'm guessing they'll have it at the beginning of DH pt 1 but without it you don't get the sense of loss, emptiness and determination that Harry is starting to feel. It seems like he just feels like – oh it's sad, Dumbledore's dead – gotta find the Horcruxes myself now. There wasn't enough to give you a true sense of the closeness of their relationship or the sense of safety Dumbledore gave Harry.

I'm now wondering if it's Dumbledore's funeral that the death eaters attack, given that the Burrow is now a charred cinder.

The two characters that were left out that bother me the most are Dobby and Kreacher – they're both important in the last book and to leave them out really would be unacceptable.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:56:11 +0000

Is nobody going to mention the SWEET DUCKTALES REFERENCE?!?

By: ThunderingBlurb

ThunderingBlurb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:35:23 +0000

Yeah it seemed like they just got to the end and yelled 'CRAP WE HAVE 15 MINUTES FOR 100 PAGES OF MATERIAL'

A few great moments which got left out that I think the actors really could have run with.

And yet – still very much enjoyed the flick.

By: Duckamuck

Duckamuck — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:10:10 +0000

Heh… it's crazy how so many people have so many different opinions about the same thing.

I thought of all the movies, THIS one held the closest to the book. Then again, I didn't reread it and didn't remember a lot of it until it started enfolding on the screen. Grayback was too easy to miss in this movie, as was his wanted poster.

My husband thought the movie totally lacked any action. I think that's fair, but the book kinda did too… until the very end.

My biggest disappointment was Fawkes. He was supposed to be there, singing, the whole time… not just when he flew away. I was looking forward to hearing what kind of song they would give him.

Also, my husband leaned over and whispered, "count how many ejaculate references they make with Hermione's mouth." The Harry/Ginny shoe thing fit right in. You all remember being teenagers, right?

By: ThunderingBlurb

ThunderingBlurb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:53:32 +0000

The only thing that truly annoyed me about the end was the cop-out for Harry and Ginny's talk. The yspent SO MUCH TIME with the two of them that not seeing Harry tell Ginny he can't stay with her was really, really disappointing.

Would have loved to see the fight and the funeral but for whatever reason, the Ginny thing made me feel robbed.

By: BlueNight

BlueNight — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:23:58 +0000

They'll get to Riddle's past in the next two films. I liked how they foreshadowed the Deathly Hallows, and the Horcruxes; this film could never have been made quite as well before the release of the final book; I consider this to be the beginning of a trilogy. However, I'll never pay to see this film again, for one reason, and one reason alone: they completely wasted Rickman's performance in his final scene.

"Kill me then," panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. "Kill me like you killed him, you coward -"

"DON'T -" screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them – "CALL ME COWARD!"

And he slashed at the air: Harry felt a white-hot, whiplike something hit him across the face and was slammed backward into the ground.