2009-07-28, 08:06 PM (This post was last modified: 2009-07-28, 08:12 PM by Feileacan.)
I saw HBP 5 days ago b/c my mom wanted to see it for her bday. She loved the movie but thought the end was kinda boring... and she hasn't read the books. I, however, was vastly disappointed. I made sure not to read the 6th book before going to see the movie so I didn't end up sitting there the whole movie going "That's wrong, that's wrong. WTP, dementors don't pineappling FLY like that!!! Dumbpineapples. " Personally, I like the 5th movie the best just because I hate the 5th book... Harry's too much of a dramatic, angsty, whiny little peach and there's like 9809384023984092384 pages about Umbridge. God, it's borderline Tolkien with droning on about one thing for too long. *ahem* Sorry... mini-nerd rage.
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#1 biggest disappointment: Siege of Hogwarts... or lack thereof. Seriously... what the ? Book: Awe-inspiring page-turning rallying of the profs and of-age students to defend Hogwarts from a small contingent of DE's Movie: Oh look, Draco let in 4 DE's to play around in the castle. Goody. Why did they even bother with the stupid burning of the Burrow? That's good Siege of Hogwarts time they wasted on something NOT EVEN IN THE PINEAPPLING BOOK!!!
I almost nerd-raged in the beginning of the movie when I thought they left out the Unbreakable Vow.
Ugh, the Sectumsempra scene. Harry didn't seem to give a pomegranate what he had just done to Draco, Snape seemed just concerned for Draco's well-being as opposed to raging at Harry for using that spell. Then they all sit around staring at the book for half a day? nty. And couldn't they have found a better spot for that Harry-Ginny kiss? It's supposed to happen after they win the Quidditch Cup if I remember correctly... but due to time constraints they don't do more than one quidditch match per movie. Why stick the kiss THERE though and have Ginny hide the book? It's only because Harry hides the book and puts the diadem on top of the bust on the cabinet thing that he even KNOWS the diadem is real and... there. I wonder how the pineapple they're going to pull that out of their asses in the 7th movies.
I was displeased with Dumbledore's death scene as well. I think Felix expressed it the best so I won't go into it further.
FelixTM Wrote:
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FFFFFFFFFFFF And worst, WORST, of all was the Dumbledore death scene. HARRY POTTER WATCHING IT FROM BELOW? WHAT THE HELL. ....THAT COMPLETELY RUINS HOW POWERFUL IT WAS. HIM BEING TRAPPED IN HIS BODY, FORCED TO WATCH DUMBLEDORE BE MURDERED BY SNAPE IS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. But instead we get HERPA DERP I SEE YOU POTTER, SHHH NOW I GO KILL DUMBLEDORE LOL.
And goodness after he died. Well that's sad let's reflect. ;_; POINTING OUR WANDS AT THE SKY WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH!
Overall, it just seemed to lack passion in the emotions... except for the annoying bimbo, Lavender.
Honestly, I liked the music the best. I evoked the emotions in me that the scene being acted out was supposed to be doing. I think the whole reason I didn't completely hate the movie was because the music made it more than meandering drivel. Dumbledore and Harry landing on the cliff by the cave was an epic 5 seconds... it set things up nicely for the formidable task ahead.
Epic =/= HBP ending.