What No Harry Potter 6 thread...u people dissapoint me

[Demo]

So spill it who else went to the midnight showing...
Did you feel it lived up to your expectations?
Anyone disappointed?
Favorite part??
Parts you would have liked to see left out?

although It continues in the sad tradition of never living up to the books I think they pulled the off the content shown rather well. I was very pleased with the actor who played professor Slughorn he brought a lot of his personality out, and gave it a good comedic touch.

One thing i found interesting it seemed like they tried to make young Tom Riddle into a young Hitler, voldemort is supposed to have allusions to Hitler but it kind of felt like they took it a step further and even gave him a slight German accent. Any one elses take?

[velderia]

I can't really afford to go until next week, but at the same time I'm not really sure if I want to see it. The Harry Potter stuff is.. Well, maybe not getting old, but it's so ingrained in everyone at an international scale that I'm not surprised no one made a thread about it.

Book 7 came out a long time ago. I read them all. The movies just seem like a visual byproduct now instead of a tradition.

[Straight Edge Ryan]

is that Hermoine chick legal yet?

[Mr.Delicious]

I thought it was boring. There wasnt much build up or climax I dont think. Felt a little too drawn out D:

the effects were cool though, and the general art direction :)

[Rusty]

Well, they made mince meat outta this one and veering far from the book didn't help much either, kinda foretelling on how bad they are gonna screw up the Deathly Hallows if you ask me. Performances on the whole were just lackluster, even Alan Rickman was boring as f*ck which kinda disappointed me because he's great on the previous films, Gambon just sucks ass.

Other than that i thought Jim Broadbent was fantastic as Slughorn and the actress who played Lavender Brown had her moments, the visuals are top notch.

I'm hoping hard to be proven wrong about the last film, but so far i just don't see it happening :( Your better off listening to the audio book imo.

[mathias92]

I think it was pretty good. Cool effects and stuff. I think it was really funny actually.

[m@.]

I thought it was boring. There wasnt much build up or climax I dont think. Felt a little too drawn out D:

the effects were cool though, and the general art direction :)

same thoughts here.

[papervampire]

I thought the last one was pretty awful so I don't think I'll see this one... :(

so far the third is the only one I've been satisfied with...

[Dizon]

I thought it was boring. There wasnt much build up or climax I dont think. Felt a little too drawn out D:

the effects were cool though, and the general art direction :)

That's how I felt! It was like, "Huh, is that it?"

Felt more like a set-up for the last films...

[Mock]

I'm a huge HP fan so I was pretty sad that they left the entire Bill/Fleur relationship out of the movie and did the corn field scene instead. I think Jim Broadbent was an absolutely amazing Slughorn and the effects were awesome. The acting has definitely gotten better, and Tom Felton really stepped up to the task of playing Draco's role in this film. He's always been just this snotty little prick, but HBP was as much Dracos story as it was Harrys, and I felt they managed to show that.

Overall I liked it. I just have to consider it a separate entity from the book and keep in mind that if they were completely loyal to the books, I would have been sitting through a 5-hour movie. Also, Dumbledore is a fucking badass.

[capulet_]

I loved it, I thought the slow build-up gave the climactic scenes a much greater impact (dumbledore's fire magic at the lake, great hall desctruction and harry doing sectum sempra on draco were all beautiful scenes). The build-up itself was quite funny, I'm glad the writers have suddenly figured out how to make jokes work. The main reason why I enjoyed it was that, like the third film, it seemed to have the same sense of richness that makes the books good. You know, that feeling of history, that what the characters are doing makes so much sense, and their actions have been in motion for a long time.

..Having said all that, I saw it again, this time with someone who doesn't really like harry potter, and NONE of the above opinion applied. When trying to see it from the viewpoint of a regular person who isn't caught up in love for the series, the acting is unbearable! :p

[Moai]

Spoilers ahead, and all that.

Yet another movie adaptation that simply Got It Wrong.
The acting was decent. The movie looked great. The music was beautiful. But when it came to story and plot, this failed.
The most interesting and memorable part of the book, for me, was when Dumbledore showed Harry the story of Voldemort's origins with the pensieve. You got to see his grandfather, mother, and uncle, and there was an interesting backstory about how he was born. The film only shows the scene from the orphanage and Tom Riddle's conversation with Slughorn. That part of the story just felt shoved to the side.
The climax of the film was handled poorly as well, in my opinion. The timing was off, the shots and camera angles were off. Having Harry huddling below rather than being paralyzed underneath his invisibility cloak was an unnecessary and ineffective change. Plus, the Death Eaters just waltzed in, killed Dumbledore, and waltzed back out. In the book, the teachers and some members of the Order of the Phoenix battle them. Why the fuck did the filmmakers cut that part out? Too much excitement for them?
I imagined Slughorn as having a somewhat different appearance and personality than in the film, but that's a matter of personal interpretation, or perhaps some misreading on my part. He was nevertheless quite enjoyable. The part when Harry and Dumbledore retrieved the horcrux from the cave at the shore was handled very well, with the same sense of darkness, death, and desolation that that sequence had in the book. The lead up to that scene was so ineffective, though, that it still held little dramatic or emotional weight for me. In the book, that scene, and the following scenes at Hogwartz, was a tour de force.
Compared to the book, the whole movie just felt drawn out and flat and empty.

As usual, I've seen the movie and decided to share my views long after everyone else. I fully expect this thread to sink down into oblivion again, without any further posts or attention from anyone. I had to post my thoughts on it somewhere, though.

[Rusty]

Fully agree, I was quite bemused why the whole back story of Tom Riddle was cut,i personally felt that part added more weight, tragedy to Riddle as a character rather than just being the boring two dimensional bad guy he is in the movies, i thought they'd put the Merope Gaunt back story in at the very least.

Same about the end battle being cut but maybe they decided it would clash with the hallows ending? just a thought, even so they f*cked it up anyway, heh! Ginny hiding the potions book i'm guessing the script writers wanted to see more Harry/ Ginny action going on for the last films.