DH2--Spoilers within...you have been warned

[rayvyn2k]

The things I liked overall:

• Loved Shell cottage. Loved Bill and Fleur together.
• Loved the entire adventure in Gringott's. Especially the dragon getting its revenge.
• The Room of Requirement was awesome.
• Ron and Hermione in the Chamber of Secrets.
• Loved McGonagall--in fact, all of the teachers. Loved that they got to show that they are 'rather good at magic' this time.
• The duel between Snape and McGonagall. Awesome.
• Neville and Luna! (I've written that pairing!) asylums.insanejournal.com/wizard_love/19798.html
• Fiendfyre
• Snape's death. I had tears in my eyes.
• The Prince's Tale. Done very well--even if AR was too old for some of the scenes--the scene when he is cradling Lily's lifeless body on the nursery floor--I wept fresh tears. Wish they would have left in the line "Would you like me to do it now? Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?"
• Neville frigging Longbottom.

Things I didn't like so much:

• They didn't explain about the Polyjuice.
• No House Elves helping (or anywhere)
• Snape's memories were in his tears? No, just no. They could have done the memories correctly.
• No Centaurs in the forest or the battle (that I could see).
• The film was so DIM. Not DARK but dim. I had read a review that mentioned that and I have to agree. The print was poor.
• I was disappointed that there was no Trelawney heaving crystal balls from the top of the stairs.
• Very disappointed that Snape didn't get to say "Lately, only those I could not save."
• The Malfoys leaving Hogwarts. I HATED that part. As I said on shiv5468 's journal comments, if that was Jason Isaac's big contribution, it sucked. The Malfoys were to be in the Great Hall, redeemed at the end. Not slinking off like thieves in the night.
• The final confrontation was not in the Great Hall. Didn't like that the conversation between Harry & Voldemort was shortened. I wanted to hear him defend Snape.

• 19 years later. *shudder*

All in all, I liked it. I think it is the best of them all. I want to see it again!

Tell me what you thought, f-list!

Comments

[daireen.livejournal.com]

Neville was supposed to slash Nagini right in front of Voldemort and everyone. Dagnabbit, it was his one big ROCKSTAR, You Picked The Wrong Boy Who Lived, Muthafucka moment, and nada. WTF.

"Not my daughter, you bitch." - said in the most bland tone of voice ever. No sense of satisfaction from that at all.


In general, though, I loved it. Cried like a total baby at all Snape-related things. Sniffly as I think about it now.

[rayvyn2k.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was disappointed in Neville's big scene. But I wasn't disappointed in Matt...wowza.

Molly's line got applause in the theatre I was in...

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think JI let us down there.

[rayvyn2k.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Very bad form. Along with Narcissa's hair. WTF?

[islandsmoke.livejournal.com]

I liked the magical protections they wove over Hogwarts - beautiful!

I loved the moments of humor that snuck up on you.

Didn't like the Room of Requirement, actually. Didn't like the sets much at all. Just didn't look like Hogwarts. Reminded me of some ancient ruin, or something. I would have thought that it might have even more impact if the place looked like ordinary Hogwarts getting destroyed, not... where ever that looked like. *Let me amend that. I didn't like the RofR that they were living in. The one that burned was awesome. And the Fiendfire! Yes!

The dragon looked very... real.

Neville's moment, yeah. *grumbles* He was a rockstar, he deserved that moment!

That line of Snape's about the epitaph was classic - it should have been there! But I suppose I can see why they cut it....

The memory tears? Yeah, fail. Would have been fine, if we didn't know better.

If you weren't up to speed on what was going on, I think you'd have been lost, it was full on the moment it started. And Fred? You hardly knew he died. :(

I wish so much hadn't happened at night. My overall impression of the movie is the color gray.

But I did like it! And will be seeing it again next week in 3D.

The 'nineteen years later' sucked. But it did in the book, too.

One thing that I didn't like, and it happened all in my mind, was at the moment of Snape's death scene, I remembered a funny little thing I read about, "How long does it take Alan Rickman's characters to die?" It was a listing of just how long his lingering deaths on film are, from George in Robin Hood, to Rasputin, his characters do seem to take their time. I hate it when my brain does that!

[rayvyn2k.livejournal.com]

Loved the magical protections!

The RofR in the movie, with all the hammocks, was as described in the book...I pulled my book off the shelf to check something else and re-read that bit. Although it was TOO DARK. The lighting was really off.

I had never heard that about AR...but I've only seen him in a couple of things...Die Hard, Robin Hood & Truly, Madly, Deeply.

And of course, this.

[islandsmoke.livejournal.com]

He dies in a number of his movies, and his characters never "go gently into that good night." In fact, they frequently take a good bit of time doing it. Heck, in TMD, he took the entire movie - lol!

The RoR with the hammocks just wasn't as I'd pictured it. It was more of that 'gray' look that I didn't imagine it having. Just about everything had that too dark look.

[rayvyn2k.livejournal.com]

I only saw TMD once...before I had the AR love...so I didn't remember! *snort*

You're right! I read somewhere that the final print of the film was dim...so the entire film looked darker than it already was...

But there was no reason for the RofR to be that dark.

[snegurochka_lee]

Oh, good points, all of these! I too liked the teachers actually getting to do some awesome magic. Not having centaurs or house-elves really did affect the battle. I suppose they blew their CGI budget on other things, but it would have been nice to have all those creatures brought together again. And the Malfoys, yes!

Also, I heard someone else pointing out that they left the theatre with a friend who hadn't read the books, who said, "So, was Snape evil or not???" *facepalm* That totally wasn't clear, that even as Snape died, Voldemort had never discovered him as a double agent!

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