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Saw Harry Potter last night. OMG. It was good, but I'm just gonna rant about the few things I hated in this cut.
The 'acting' - If that's what you can call it. It's like saying you're a 'writer' if you can spell.
Daniel Radcliffe is perhaps the least talented actor ever to amble across the screen. He's just impossibly dumb looking the entire time. The one good bit was Harry and Ron's 'How could ANYONE work that out?'. The rest of the time I was sitting there thinking 'It can't get any wor- woops. There it goes.'
Crying at the end - hilarious. His face looked like two lobsters having a brawl. And the sound? Oh. Em. Gee. I laughed. Cedric (who was both hot and also talented) had just died, and I was laughing. I felt like I was kicking a tiny, doe-eyed puppy. It was that kind of guilt.
Harry's interactions with Cho (pretty. And her accent? Class.) weren't all that bad, but it would have been nice to see some sort of change in Harrys face. An 'I-like-you' smile. SOMETHING to indicate he liked her, other than the badly articulated words he threw up on her. I realise now that Daniel Radcliffe actually wears a mask, and it can only do two facial expressions, and the neutral position. Most of the scenes go thus:
Mask: Okay, neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, AND GRIMACE! back to neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral, LAUGH!... ad infinitum.
And could they possibly cater any more for H/Hr shippers? Even though THAT'S NOT CANON? *sigh* This is a rant for later on. I was talking about the acting.
And so, we move on to Emma Watson. The wonderful Hermione. The girl who throws her heart and soul into every line. I mean it. Every ounce of her being, she puts into her work.
And misses completely. It's almost painful to watch. The part we found most hilarious - 'It's all going to change now, isn't it?'. '...Yes.' Us: BWAHAHAHAHAH!
She's so perfectly spoken - I like her voice, I really do. It's that she doesn't vary it - at all.
The one actor I really do adore? Rupert Grint. Fabulous. 'Oh bloody hell.' 'Piss off.' Terribly British. Terribly adoreable. He's the only one of the three that can actually deliver a witty one-liner. That's not to say the others don't try - gotta give 'em credit for trying...
Other things?
The fact that no character development actually occured. They took all the big events in the book, and stuck them together back to back. They had no friendship moments, etc. It wasn't even clear what was going on half the time. Hermione's crying on the stairs (that just reminds me of Dylan Moran 'Nobody likes my shooos!') was completely disjointed - She yells at Ron for something they don't actually show in the movie. I think.
And H/Hr... Oh. wow. Despite it NOT BEING CANON, they still throw it in. The general thing about this movie seems to be 'To hell with CANON, this is hollywood!'
I liked the movie - I really did. But... seriously. Get the kids some acting lessons!