I guess it's time to face the music and blog about the movie. I really was trying to avoid it, but Niccole specifically requested (via comment on Sarah's blog) my opinions and who am I to turn down a chance to voice my opinion? You can call me a copycat if you want, but I'm going to go short bullet point style because it's easiest and I can jump around as thoughts come to me.
- I haven't sobbed yet. I feel sad but the first time I was too hyped up on caffeine and the second time I was trying to get over throwing up a cheese dog. TMI? Yes, I think so. I feel sad and I feel the Harry shaped hole in my life, but I have yet to cry my eyes out during the movie (though I did tear up repeatedly both times).
-Not helpful: my dad comparing my sadness to his as a kid when the took Roadrunner off the air. Thanks for minimizing my pain, dad.
- Only slightly related: Hopefully I'm going to Alamo Drafthouse with my sister when I go home to see the movie and eat the Harry Potter themed food including Amorentia. I'll update you.
- The beginning was perfect. I loved how there weren't logos or sound effects it just went straight from trailer into Harry Potter.
- Oh my gosh all action all the time! I was afraid of falling asleep during the movie the first time (because really, movies make me sleepy) but I needn't have worried because you'd have to be dead to sleep. I suppose it's time to get specific.
- First thing that bothered me: Why didn't Harry fix his wand? Is he just all of a sudden ok with having Draco's wand? I think not. Dear Harry, fix the stupid pheonix and holly wand so you can be Harry Potter.
- I thought Daniel Radcliffe rocked the epilogue. The others did well, but he rocked it.
- One friend blogged that the way Naigini attacked Snape repeatedly was too graphic and violent, I thought it was appropriately so.
- I could have done with more verbal spells. I wanted Harry to have that final expelliarmus. I also wanted Harry to get to explain to Voldemort why and how he was wrong and why his plan failed and to rub in his humanity by calling him Tom. Also, I wasn't a fan of the blowing away in the wind of Voldemort as he died. It made me think of the dust storm Quirrel/Voldemort for Sorcerer's Stone in which case he wasn't really dead.
- I've never been a huge Snape fan, but this movie made me a believer out of me. I still think he's mostly evil and self-interested, but the movie redeemed him a little.
- Why in the world did his memories come out of his tears? Weird. Also, the pensieve was all strange this time.
- I know I'm coming across ultra-critical right now, but I LOVED this movie. I'm ready to see it for the third time. One thing I loved: Harry hiding among the students in the Great Hall then confronting Snape. I thought it was very stunning.
- The twins crying and having their moment on the roof is so tender to me, but why didn't we address Fred being dead a little more directly?
- Where did Blaise Zabini disappear to?
- Also, what happened to the Hallows story line? If you read the book you know Harry's cloak is THE invisibility cloak, but that wasn't addressed. In fact, the whole uniting the Hallows plot didn't even exist.
- Ditto Dumbledore's past. I was wondering if they would make it seem like he loved Gridewald (which didn't come across in the book).
- Why does my dad (and apparently other people) think they wanted the audience to believe that Snape was Harry's dad? How dare you sully the name of Lilly Potter that way.
- Going into the forest scene? Oh my gosh I was going to die. All the people he loved were there and his momma and his dad and it was so precious. I wish he had hugged Ron before he left.
- Thank you movie makers for giving us a look into the Chamber of Secrets for horcrux destruction.
- My friend Sam is a hater and blogged about it. It's depressing. He basically called out everybody having a sad heart over the end of their childhood and dresser-uppers and said JKR isn't that great of a writer. Rant over on that.
- I loved the Snape flashbacks, but I wanted a little more. I think I want a lot because I'm such a fan of the books.
- Like Sarah, Hermione as Bellatrix was amazingly done. Helena Bonham Carter is pure genius and so scary.
- McGonagall is such a BAMF. She was funny and also amazing and hardcore. Loved when she called the statues to protect Hogwarts. Also loved Seamus.
- I don't know what else to say right now. I have an opinion on pretty much every part so if you have a specific question please ask.
Sidenote: most overused costumes are Luna and Trelawney.
P.S. This is my 199th post. I didn't do anything for 100, what should I do for 200?
6 comments:
-How about that AWKWARD moment when Voldy hugged Draco. First of all, NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. Voldy is an a-hole, like he hugs ANYONE. Second of all, AWKWARD.
-Isn't the tears thing how they get the memories from everyone? Besides using your wand or some crap? I thought that was in the books. But also I could be wrong because I haven't read them in awhile.
-Helena as Hermione as Bellatrix was also one of my favorite parts. Shamazing.
-I agreed with you on pretty much everything, so I'm just going to stop now.
-Sam needs to get over himself.
Also, this is what I did for my 200th: http://brittanywarnock.blogspot.com/2011/04/200-posts-later-and-i-still-hate-coming.html
Looking back on it, some of these questions are really gay, but you can change them or come up with really funny answers for them. Also, it turned out this wasn't my 200th post because I had unfinished drafts in there and did you know they count those????? But let's just keep that between us.
K, I'm leaving you alone now.
Yes. Awkward to the max. It was so bizarre. Thank you for pointing that out.
Yesssss thank you Ginger!! I love everything you had to say. Now let's go see it together.
deal!
umm... also. neville was robbed.
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