Amazing! Fabulous! Incredible!
Filed under More Harry Potter Dorkyness......
The movie was visually stunning. The Hungarian Horntail Dragon kicked ass on screen as did the sweeping visuals of Hogwarts. The whole movie was far and away darker, more exciting, funnier, and far better acted that the three previous movies combined. The kids are growing up and it's a good thing. I can't wait to see it again!
My only "complaints" such as they are is that there is a LOT more I would have liked to have seen. The Dursleys at the beginning (when Fred and George slip Duddley the Ton Tongue Toffee), Bill and Charley Weasley, more about the Rita Skeeter (closet animagnus) stuff, more of the Quidditch World Cup, Sirius there to comfort Harry after the Tri Wizard Tournament, Dumbledore making the command (at the end) for them to "get the old gang back together," basically just more.... I would have liked the movie to have been 5 hours long with an intermission halfway through, truth be told.
I would think that knowing the background would be pretty necessary to follow along and "get" the nuance and skimmed over parts of the story without having to work too hard. But really, the movie was great. So exciting, lots of laugh out loud moments, parts that make you jump (even when you know what's coming) and deep sadness. They did a great job bringing forth the emotions of the story -- fear, joy, excitement, grief -- it's all there. And it works...
Mad Eye Moody steals the show (many times) and I look forward to seeing his character again in the 5th movie. Ralph Fiennes is incredibly (and believably) evil as Lord Voldemort -- an enemy of epic proportions. And his countenance? The stuff of nightmares -- very, very scary....
I loved, loved, loved (!) this movie. Eye candy of the best kind, IMO..... (and only 6 days 'till I see it again!)
The movie was visually stunning. The Hungarian Horntail Dragon kicked ass on screen as did the sweeping visuals of Hogwarts. The whole movie was far and away darker, more exciting, funnier, and far better acted that the three previous movies combined. The kids are growing up and it's a good thing. I can't wait to see it again!
My only "complaints" such as they are is that there is a LOT more I would have liked to have seen. The Dursleys at the beginning (when Fred and George slip Duddley the Ton Tongue Toffee), Bill and Charley Weasley, more about the Rita Skeeter (closet animagnus) stuff, more of the Quidditch World Cup, Sirius there to comfort Harry after the Tri Wizard Tournament, Dumbledore making the command (at the end) for them to "get the old gang back together," basically just more.... I would have liked the movie to have been 5 hours long with an intermission halfway through, truth be told.
I would think that knowing the background would be pretty necessary to follow along and "get" the nuance and skimmed over parts of the story without having to work too hard. But really, the movie was great. So exciting, lots of laugh out loud moments, parts that make you jump (even when you know what's coming) and deep sadness. They did a great job bringing forth the emotions of the story -- fear, joy, excitement, grief -- it's all there. And it works...
Mad Eye Moody steals the show (many times) and I look forward to seeing his character again in the 5th movie. Ralph Fiennes is incredibly (and believably) evil as Lord Voldemort -- an enemy of epic proportions. And his countenance? The stuff of nightmares -- very, very scary....
I loved, loved, loved (!) this movie. Eye candy of the best kind, IMO..... (and only 6 days 'till I see it again!)
posted by Richmond | 7:25 PM
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