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pbray) and I went to see HP7, Part 2 this afternoon. My general impression of the movies up to this one has been . . . meh. They are fun, they are entertaining and good way to spend a few hours (especially if the theater is ACed and your apartment is NOT and it's 90-something out). I've read the books, so there isn't going to be much in the way of a surprise, and honestly, it's the surprises that make the book/movie for me. If someone can surprise me, then they've done something special.
There were no real surprises in HP7, Part 2, except that I thought the way the screenwriters altered the ending made MUCH more sense than some of the stuff that happened at the end of the book. It was just . . . cleaner. Some of what was in the book just couldn't happen onscreen, and that was probably a good thing. Once again, I thought it was a good movie . . . not great, but again . . . no real surprises.
One of the things that I've complained about regarding ALL of the movies is that the directors, especially of these last few, haven't edited the movie so that the battles and drama escalated and put me on the edge of my seat. I WANT to be on the edge of my seat. There was huge POTENTIAL for me to be on the edge of my seat. And the directors would start to GET me to the edge of my seat . . . and then they'd back down and the intensity would die for me. So the movies were never as intense for me as I wanted them to be, and there was plenty of opportunity to make them intense.
Patricia pointed out after the movie today that she thinks this is because they could never decide who exactly their audience was. I want the intensity, but making the movie that intense starts pushing it out of the young crowd and into the adult crowd exclusively. The kids just can't take the emotional intensity that I want. So the directors start pushing the action toward the adult intensity, but then have to tone it down before the really BIG moments because they want to include the kids in the movie as well. After some thought, I think this is correct.
They should have made 2 version of the movies--one for the adults and one for the kids. I'd really like to see the adult, high-intensity version.
But this version was good. In fact, as most have been saying, it's nearly the best out of all of them (Prisoner of Azkaban is still my favorite). There were some really good scenes and sections in this one. There were some better emotional scenes in previous movies, but this one had the best action/drama.
But I still think they should have had a major battle at Hogwarts at the end of the sixth movie, like in the book. Saying they were "saving" everything for this last battle was a cop out.
pbray) and I went to see HP7, Part 2 this afternoon. My general impression of the movies up to this one has been . . . meh. They are fun, they are entertaining and good way to spend a few hours (especially if the theater is ACed and your apartment is NOT and it's 90-something out). I've read the books, so there isn't going to be much in the way of a surprise, and honestly, it's the surprises that make the book/movie for me. If someone can surprise me, then they've done something special.There were no real surprises in HP7, Part 2, except that I thought the way the screenwriters altered the ending made MUCH more sense than some of the stuff that happened at the end of the book. It was just . . . cleaner. Some of what was in the book just couldn't happen onscreen, and that was probably a good thing. Once again, I thought it was a good movie . . . not great, but again . . . no real surprises.
One of the things that I've complained about regarding ALL of the movies is that the directors, especially of these last few, haven't edited the movie so that the battles and drama escalated and put me on the edge of my seat. I WANT to be on the edge of my seat. There was huge POTENTIAL for me to be on the edge of my seat. And the directors would start to GET me to the edge of my seat . . . and then they'd back down and the intensity would die for me. So the movies were never as intense for me as I wanted them to be, and there was plenty of opportunity to make them intense.
Patricia pointed out after the movie today that she thinks this is because they could never decide who exactly their audience was. I want the intensity, but making the movie that intense starts pushing it out of the young crowd and into the adult crowd exclusively. The kids just can't take the emotional intensity that I want. So the directors start pushing the action toward the adult intensity, but then have to tone it down before the really BIG moments because they want to include the kids in the movie as well. After some thought, I think this is correct.
They should have made 2 version of the movies--one for the adults and one for the kids. I'd really like to see the adult, high-intensity version.
But this version was good. In fact, as most have been saying, it's nearly the best out of all of them (Prisoner of Azkaban is still my favorite). There were some really good scenes and sections in this one. There were some better emotional scenes in previous movies, but this one had the best action/drama.
But I still think they should have had a major battle at Hogwarts at the end of the sixth movie, like in the book. Saying they were "saving" everything for this last battle was a cop out.
