Monday, August 8, 2011

So I saw Harry Potter.

There are many Thoughts I have about this movie, and the whole movie arc in general, but I'll try to keep it short.
1. Something I didn't understand: when they want to get at Bellatrix's vault, and they ask for identification/her wand, um, why exactly don't they just give it to them? They have the wand; they proved that. I just don't get it.
2. I was fine with the epilogue in the book, because it gave a chance to see the future for the characters, but in the movie...well. I would say the two Weasleys aged the best, with Rupert Grint truly looking almost 40; Emma Watson, on the other hand, looked her age, and seeing her with chidren was...unsettling.
3. I'm not sure where the Ariana storyline went, but I missed it; it helped explain so much about Dumbledore, about why he never told Harry he needed to die. (As a matter of fact, I miss all of the storylines that they just completely dropped from the movie. Not that I'm still bitter over HBP. Never.)
4. Speaking of Dumbledore, I really dislike Michael Gambon playing him; he's too angry. And then, in King's Cross - just, not. I don't know.
5. Also, the gleeful McGonagall thing was a bit much in the movies; the "I always wanted to do that" was out of place, and the "Send all of Slytherin to the dungeons" was just wrong - I know you can say what you will about making an "evil" house (which, to be honest, isn't all that evil all the time - I think in times when Voldemort wasn't in power/his followers weren't the parents of the students, Slytherin House wasn't necessarily evil. Look at Slughorn, or Andromeda Tonks, for example) - but seriously, this is the sort of thing that the book would've addressed as something that makes us them, becoming the enemy, etc.
6. I have to say, I actually thought the two Fred deaths were both pretty comparable, in terms of emotional impact; in the book, there's the obvious shock and the fact that you can see/hear what Harry's thinking, but in the movie there's the scene with the whole Weasley family crying over him, which is much more emotionally stirring to see, rather than read about.
7. Neville and Luna are a thing in the movie! It's adorable!
All of this being said: I thought the movie was fairly well done, and I cried at the appropriate moments, but...I don't know. There was something missing. It just didn't...feel right.

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