Comments | elapses: these last two weeks have been the ACTUAL WORST, btw, thank god for break

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these last two weeks have been the ACTUAL WORST, btw, thank god for break

Nov 20, 2010 00:40

I was like, moderately kind of apathetic about the Harry Potter release in a of-course-I'm-still-going-to-see-it kind of way until this morning in my bio lecture (omg it was like, an actual lecture, which was apparently way more than I could take slightly hungover on the Friday before fall break, because I ACTUALLY COULD NOT MAKE MYSELF PAY ( Read more... )

harry potter, star trekkin', friday night lights

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manasseh November 20 2010, 13:15:11 UTC

Sometimes you just gotta mess with the Sleakeazy's while you're doing your research, I GET IT GIRL.

lolling so hard omg. But yeaaaaah at the beginning I was like "DAYUMN GURL" and then I felt kind of bad because she was mind-wiping her parents and I was supposed to be sad about that. IDK which pre-title card scene I love more, the one for HBP (I SUPER REALLY LOVE THAT BIT WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHERS) or the one for DH1 (SUCH TIGHT STORYTELLING W2G YATES/KLOVES).

Oh the vistas were amaaaaazing. So many visually interesting places for them to camp! I really loved that, it made the camping seem so much cooler/less intensely boring than I remember. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE? I really dug the spot where Harry and Hermione talked about the snitch and Beedle the Bard.

AHHHH THAT SCENE AT THE BURROW AHHHHHH I LOVE IT. I WAS STUNNED IT HAPPENED AT ALL, THERE WAS SO MUCH RONALD ALL OVER THE PLACE THERE AND I WAS LIKE "DEAR GOD RON HAS SCREENTIME RON HAS SCREENTIME"

but the way this flowed kind of made me wish they had split all the books in two

lol inorite :/

elapses November 20 2010, 20:02:30 UTC

IT IS JUST SO MUCH LIKE, blonder and straighter when you look at what they were doing in the first film. Why is that so hard guys, SHE'D STILL BE REALLY PRETTY. But whatever. BUT UGH Y, both these two films have just pulled you straight into the story so TIGHTLY.

I loved when the popped up on the BEACH during the walking, and the mobile home thing was interesting too. And the one you said, HONESTLY THEY WERE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY VARIED? But yeah it totally amped up the camping. The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!! Oh well, I'm really just glad they split this one. Even if I thought it was kind of a dumb/money-grubbing decision when I first heard.

I KNOOOOOOOOOW IT WAS MY FAVORITE. It came up so early, I was so shocked/surprised! Ron doing something useful! Having more sense than Harry! THIS NEVER HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES.

manasseh November 20 2010, 20:09:28 UTC

I KNOOOOOW I rewatched the first six movies over the course of this past week and was like "ICKLE CHILDREN ;~; wait hermione's hair isn't bushy >:|" but then I rolled with it.

Varying the places RLY helped show the passage of time, you're totally right about that. I think it was cool for another reason -- people got to see all the different scenery in Britain. Logically I know the entire countryside is not all boring dreary foggy whatever but SEEING so many unusual places in the movie was AWESOME. AWESOME I SAY.

The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!!

lol possibly unpopular opinion but I wish Yates had been directing from the get-go. IDEK how much responsibility he has for how his movies have turned out but IDC. I think they've only improved since he's come on. IMAGINE HOW THE FIRST ONES COULD'VE BEEN WITHOUT CHRIS COLUMBUS.

AHAHA YEAAAAH I remember thinking "FUCK YOU YOU CAN'T HAVE MY MONEY fine you can have it" but now idc it'll be sweet. I bet/hope/fear the second part is going to be like 3/3.5 hours long. MY BODY IS READY.

INORITE IT WAS AWESOME

elapses November 20 2010, 20:38:19 UTC

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT TOO, ACTUALLY!! The first place they jumped to was so Britain-y, but a lot of the others were not what I expected, they did a really good job of varying the British landscape. I don't think I even knew it was that varied.

I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT'S UNPOPULAR OR NOT BUT I AGREE SO COMPLETELY. He really fucking knows how to make these visually interesting, 5, 6, and 7-1 were all visually pretty stunning. I thought 3 was pretty lovely too but 1, 2, and 4 are just so... blah in comparison.

I WOULD ENJOY 3.5 MORE HOURS OF THIS NOT GOING TO LIE

manasseh November 20 2010, 22:25:50 UTC

All the gorgeous scenery and sets in 7-1 have only made me more excited to see the stuff in 7-2. The bank heist, the fight in the Room of Requirement, the Battle of Hogwarts ahhhhhh so much stuff is going to happen! Even the epilogue will be cheesy glory, I feel confident of that.

VISUALLY INTERESTING IS RIGHT. So many good shots omg. The pensieve stuff in 6!! It was so strange going from 4 to 5 because 5 is actually good instead of a mess like 4. The opening in 5 is also a favourite scene, you could FEEL the heatwave in London because of how it was shot, and then the cold with the Dementors. SO GREAT. :DDD 3 was interesting to me mainly because of the fabulous transitions between scenes and the sort of whimsy the movie had.

INORITE. MAKE IT 4 HOURS AND THROW IN A 5-MINUTE INTERMISSION FOR THE OLD FOLKS TO USE THE BATHROOM. THIS IS A PLAN THAT CANNOT FAIL.

elapses November 21 2010, 00:27:06 UTC

I KNOOOOOOOW, it's going to be awesome. Also I think the epilogue is maybe the only thing I've seen set pictures of, and it was RIDICULOUS. But it will probably be entertaining all the same.

That was a super weird transition, especially since I really loved 4 the book and loved 5 the book less, so getting them swapped like that in movies was weeeeeeeeird. But yeah you kind of knew it was going to be well-directed from that opening scene. YATES IS REALLY GOOD AT THOSE. But yes, the transitions were amazing and so was the Hogwarts atmosphere it created? At the same time I'm not sure I would have wanted Cuaron to do all the films. I don't know what the difference is there.

You know it's funny though: I saw this with my brother and he was yammering on about how he wanted it to be long because he liked long movies and apparently this was longer than most of them? Which is so weird and interesting, because it's still only half a book. AND YET YOU COULD STILL TOTALLY MAKE THE OTHER HALF LAST FOUR HOURS.

manasseh November 21 2010, 00:35:05 UTC

I had totally forgotten about those pictures and now I'm loling all over again. ADULT DRACO!

That was a super weird transition, especially since I really loved 4 the book and loved 5 the book less, so getting them swapped like that in movies was weeeeeeeeird.

I'm the same way! I looove the first four books and wasn't exactly ~thrilled~ with the last three (although 7 had some rly good parts), but the movies are so fucking good. IDK how Cuaron would've done them, but I know it would've been different. The time-turner sequence in 3 was handled really well, and I definitely wouldn't have minded if he had done 4, but I'm so comfortable with Yates having done 5/6/7 that I wouldn't want to give them up. :<

Wasn't it the same length as 4? Except 4 felt like it was a zillion hours long. THEY COULD AND SHOULD. I wouldn't be surprised if 7-1 ran until February and then they did a limited-engagement rerelease in April or May before 7-2 comes out in June. THINK OF THE MONEY!!

elapses November 23 2010, 04:09:43 UTC

THEY JUST LOOKED SO WEIRD AND SHORT AND WRINKLY, ALL OF THEM!!!

HE WAS JUST MADE TO DIRECT HP MOVIES. It is a shame they didn't find him sooner.

I don't know if it was really longer than all of them, his words not mine. That was what was so weird about the fourth though, it like. Was so long and yet they cut out EVERYTHING INTERESTING. I don't even remember what because I've only seen it twice, but it was so blah. And god, they so will. ANYTHING TO MAKE US PAY MORE.

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