I SAW HP. // the end of an era ;'(
been excited for it but still remember i already know what happens, lol, because of the books. so in a way it's not whole excitement.. if that makes sense.
some dumbfucks seem to forget that the books are the realdeal -_- + i was bitter bc everyone was booking up the cinema and i knew they hadnt read the books. fuckers.
it saddens me that everyone just has not much interest for things considered 'boring' (reading) and they can get everything from movies and visuals. :/
where are people's imaginations going? ugh. they just have to rely on movies out, or they just won't bother, it seems.
either way i love the movies and tbh my childhood would not be the same without them; as i was about 2/3 when
the first book came out so i kinda had to rely on the movies in a way. though i read the books like as soon as i could around 7/8/9 idk i wasn't/am not that smart lol. don't judge
tbh these books and movies will be eternal for me; il always go back to them and they are forever! :)
sob!
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i thought pt 2 was brilliant.
cinema was crowded as ever but the atmosphere was good.
and i know this is meant to be one of the most faithful adaptations of books but... i still wouldve loved everything to be in there.
IE; r/hr kiss. how hard would it have been to just have them out of the chamber like in the books and for people to have seen.. etc. that's superficial, i know.. another fuckery was that they probs changed it cause they didn't bother
putting any elf story stuff in. ie SPEW... :'( (although this made hermione annoying as fuck but still..)
obviously the kiss was amazing because how could it not have been but i feel they didnt show it thorougly.. if that makes sense.. like, they zoomed out...
i guess i kinda was expecting it to be like the j/b eclipse kiss. ;/ 'cause you couldn't see their faces in this.
on the subject of kisses -- i swear ginny is like a friggen.. idk. the movies did ruin harry + ginny for me - 'kissing him like never before'?!
hahahah, NO.
but i do love ron and hermione in the movies and they are the ones for me so it's all good :3
on the subject of superficiality hahha, and how shallow i am.. i thought many people looked at their best in this movie.
the trio loooked hot and really grown up as did draco mmm. also neville. Oh... :3
lots of others looked amazing too but i'm not gonna get into that.
eta.
i'm thinking i am going to wait until i see this a second time before i make full judgement, lol.
im pretty sure i'm seeing it tomorrow and hopefully i will be able to pick up on a few more things, and
be more coherant because at the moment & whilst watching it for the first time i was pretty overwhelmed, haha.
i dunno, just wanted this to be something i could look back on like all my journal entries, and yeah.
this does mean a lot to me, and all i can think of is HP at the moment.. don't want this to end!
so i will be back tomorrow possibly next day for my full thoughts. i have to write them down somewhere ahaha.
at the moment, rereading DH. x x
i saw it for a second time! obviously it was just as amazing if not more second time around!
first time seeing it i didn't feel well, cinema was absolutely PACKED and it was absolutely boiling hot.
well it was more packed than i thought it would be last night but tbh it is a huge film..
idk im gonna start now...
first of all, i'm just gonna say rn that it does kinda get on my nerves the way they split it into two.
i suppose their excuse is it's too long but i swear it's only like a bit longer that HBP..? also i suppose it's to generate more suspense & success. (read money, lol..)
but idk, it just seemed a bit awk, the starting, for me. like, and also the way they had to go over everything that had happened in pt 1. i hated the way they explained everything too.
like, why would people go see pt 2 anyway if they hadn't seen 1. ugh. i got the idea that maybe the explaining was for younger viewers ..
but then again i wouldn't have been able to understand any of it if i was like 9.
it's for older children, end of, imo... yeah so i felt the beginning and just the way it like.. cut to it was kinda odd..
it felt like there was no buildup, but obvs the buildup was in pt 1.. it just felt like it was all battle, but obviously can't complain -- i think i would have done better if they had been shown back to back, lol. i think when i get the DVD i'm going to watch one after another lol otherwise itll just be annoying..
as i said before, soo many of the characters looked flawlesss...
i think if harry took the glasses off he'd be just as flawless hahaha but he's not him without them. anyway why am i so shallow?!?!? i apologise.
i'm no critic of acting..(?) or whatever but i thought everyone did an amazing job tbh. i bet everyone else is saying the acting wasn't up to scratch but i don't see how, they were brilliant imo.
k i'm just gonna get down to it..
the flowing from burying dobby (sob!) in pt1 and then going back to the same spot at the start of 2 was nicely done,
as just as a little reminder. although, i remember in the book being a little.. not bored, but just, fed up as to a lot of the stuff that followed immediately after dobby's death.
i swear there wasn't that much kinda stuff for dumbledore! or maybe i am forgetting (it's been years since i read the books..), but idk. actually, i think back then dobby just annoyed me a little bit? like, i think it stemmed from me being soo annoyed with him in CoS (i was young, no judging hahah) when he stopped harry from going to school -- i just thought that was horrible of him. obvs my tiny little brain didn't properly realise that it was 'for harry potter's own good' omg as if i am quoting here... :'( gonna cry in a minute.
but yeah, i think that still translated into the fact that i didn't really want l loads of dobby-is-dead-crying-sad-scene in the film. but that's pt 1! but obviously i've seen the light since i was like 7, and i love dobby now.
now, another thing is, i could have sworn shell cottage belonged to tonks' mother and father? (there is probably a v reasonable explanation for this in the books but as i said -- long time no see..) and they were no-where to be seen. actually, it's probably just the silly producer not putting them in for some random reason or the next.. not majorly important but did pop into my head.
the conversation with griphook -- the first thing i really noticed was that ron and hermione were standing away, like right by the door. they're not just some acquaintances of harry's who just happened to be there; they're in it with him.
that kind of annoyed me. plus it happened again with ollivander. they could have just sat on the bed or something. they're with him, fgs! i suppose it was sort of ~symbolising the way that they will always be there but ultimately neither can live while the other survives' and it's ultimately harry.
so yeah, that irked me but tbh the movies could never be perfect imo unless they were completely canon compliant and they basically put in every little detail from the book. then it would be like 6hrs.. i wouldn't complain!
breaking into gringotts was amazing! i'm just gonna say now that loads of scenes weren't the same as the book which kinda annoyed, because small details -- like their CLOTHES are easy to sort, aren't they? i know it's petty but i like detail being there...
i loved the breaking into the vault scene also, and when they broke out, THE DRAGON!
but, another of my petty views -- im sure in the book (i'm still rereading, it's been a while..) that none of them took polyjuice potion. so why was hermione disguised as bellatrix? :/
kinda petty but it does stand out but i suppose it was there for like entertainment and to get the actress more screentime..
the dragon -- it was so qt! the way it got it's revenge on it's captors! it was precious!
the scene where it just breathed in the air for a few seconds when it got out! so lovely. also being in 3D was amazing, as it made the whole gringotts scene more amazing.
i would've liked a bit more dragon flying close-up action but i guess it's hard to produce..
thought the bit where ron and harry stripped off (wow that sounds odd writing..), was a little clue to how the series has grown up tbh. i didn't see hardly any little kids at the cinema and i think that's the way it should have been. like, nothing against them (okay, maybe i am a bit prejuidicial..) but in my defense at a young(ish) age like below 10 maybe, i would have had no clue as to what was happening tbqh.
anyway, yeah. more grown up, in a good way. gives a nod to all us teenagers/adolescents/young adults out there!
this is turning out to be less of a 'review' more of a my thoughts on the whole HP 'debacle' hahaha!
so yeah i think they showed how the cast has matured mainly the trio but also others.
i am forgetting what happened now! as im rereading it is so confusing to talk about the movie esp as it's part 2. and the book of course isn't split into parts and dgldflgjdf my brain gets messed up. maybe i should just not write this until i have finished rereading dh. ah but that's impossible!
okay. i could probably rewatch some of in on here but that just seems like.. wrong, in a way. besides, hp neeeeds to beat twilight (read every other movie) so i should just be going back to the cinema when i feel like watching it again tbh!
okay... i feel like such a bad fan, but for real i was getting my facts confused about the sword. like, it has been such a timeee since i read dh and yeah. i still feel like a failure D: basically i need to read over a few things but i think the main reason is bc of it being split into the 2 parts and that's confusing me! as pt 1, 2 AND the book is swirling around in my head! and it's confusing. but i suppose, im glad they didn't dumb it down (too much!), so really, you do have to have read the books and this proves that. makes me happy bc i think people try and be lazy and not read the books and see the movies and tbh... it's not the same and i hope people find that..
(ot but i am listening to the soundtrack(s) at the minute and lily's theme is so haunting and sad. omg.)
okay... bit of a disclaimer here, i do love the way it's split into two parts , it is good, although tbqh i would sit through it if they had put EVERYTHING in down to each detail and it was 4hr+! - but i do love like.. the less battle-y scenes. like, ofc, i love that they defeated voldemort, and in the book i loved the battle of hogwarts, and yes i do realise that all that came up in pt 1 -- but i still missed like.. more non battle-y scenes in this movie. i felt there was like, not much of a buildup but ofc that was pt 1, so in a way, the two parts do flow on and this is visible. idk, i guess i just .. the movies will never be as good as the books to me! which is evident as i don't know if that is the aim for page-to-screen adaptations? either way i did just feel something.. else when i was reading the books that wasn't there in the movies. i guess it's imagination, really.
i have this odd theory thing.. well it's not a theory.. but in all the released pics/posters and general publicity for the movie, the characters are generally wearing clothes in which -- idk how to say this, - they are doing the 'best' or main scene in. and from seeing all the posters and pics from this movie i knew that when the characters were in those clothes it would sort of be the end, and the main scene. so for this movie i knew that when harry was in that jacket and hermione in the pink hoodie and denim jacket and ron was in the stripy jumper, -- that would be the 'end'. which was soo odd because that was like half an hour into the movie!
i don't know whether this is a bad or good thing but yeah...
with the scene at aberforth's o m g . so much backstory (essential, and amazing, imo!!) was missed out about dumbledore and his family and stuff. they brushed on it but this is where i am torn between liking the fact that it means people may be persuaded to read the books and the fact that it's not adding all the amazing details from the page. i, for one, loved reading about dumbledore's earlier life and his family and i missed it.
also, another thing that i don't particularly like about movies is that it sort of dimishes your imagination. like, when reading the books (i am mainly talking about hp here, bc it's so big to me, but happens with other movies too,) you have your own visuals and how things look in your mind and in films it's just a few people and their imaginations, almost, supplanting those visuals. /: im being nitpicky here imo but yeah...
plus all the stuff about dumbledore and grindelwald. that comes under his earlier life but just wanted to specify. ugh. /:
i'm sounding so negative but i did love this movie mostly. well, i have mixed feelings but yeah it is my favourite -- the whole of deathly hallows both parts are..
so yeah but idk what the whole thing about aberforth being all 'youll find out' and random suspense?!? like, was something scary supposed to come out of the passageway? and the way when ariana was walking back, the neville was hidden behind her. and it was meant to be all ~scary?!? random imo and trying to make it scary when it's just.. not meant to be & odd.
although i was suitably creeped out because i thought something sinister was going on and then i thought , what?
i liked when neville, harry, ron and hermione walked through the passageway and everyone was there. but if i remember correctly neville was like 'look whos here' and harry like stepped forwards and everyone clapped. BUT RON AND HERMIONE WERE BEHIND. like, he may be the 'chosen one'~ but they are just as good if not more. /; ties in with the start were ron and hermione just stand at the door. like, they are involved!
ginny and harry were qt but tbh can't ship them too much in the movies cause they kinda murdered them for me...
i just want to interrupt this to say something super quick. i've come to a realisation about this movie and now come to think of it all of them.
they miss out many of the themes, and many of the backstories -- just to get to the 'exciting' bits - the action, which draws people in and keeps their attention.
that's why, the main theme of love, and the power of it and also important (imo, they are!!) backstories, that possibly only people, (true fans tbh) who have read the books think are important. most moviegoers just want stuff that is easy to understand and digest and watch (which is why i think movies are dumb people's books -- ways of knowing books without reading them) which imo is really a travesty because people who don't read miss out on sfm. /:
so yeah, come to realise that they DID miss out a lot of stuff like emphasizing love being the strongest magic of all, and how harry could always defeat and would always defeat voldemort bc he understood love so well and voldy (lol) couldn't. + they missed out huuuge chunks of snape (PUT IN END about princes tale..)
also
some dumbfucks seem to forget that the books are the realdeal -_- + i was bitter bc everyone was booking up the cinema and i knew they hadnt read the books. fuckers.
it saddens me that everyone just has not much interest for things considered 'boring' (reading) and they can get everything from movies and visuals. :/
where are people's imaginations going? ugh. they just have to rely on movies out, or they just won't bother, it seems.
either way i love the movies and tbh my childhood would not be the same without them; as i was about 2/3 when
the first book came out so i kinda had to rely on the movies in a way. though i read the books like as soon as i could around 7/8/9 idk i wasn't/am not that smart lol. don't judge
tbh these books and movies will be eternal for me; il always go back to them and they are forever! :)
sob!
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i thought pt 2 was brilliant.
cinema was crowded as ever but the atmosphere was good.
and i know this is meant to be one of the most faithful adaptations of books but... i still wouldve loved everything to be in there.
IE; r/hr kiss. how hard would it have been to just have them out of the chamber like in the books and for people to have seen.. etc. that's superficial, i know.. another fuckery was that they probs changed it cause they didn't bother
putting any elf story stuff in. ie SPEW... :'( (although this made hermione annoying as fuck but still..)
obviously the kiss was amazing because how could it not have been but i feel they didnt show it thorougly.. if that makes sense.. like, they zoomed out...
i guess i kinda was expecting it to be like the j/b eclipse kiss. ;/ 'cause you couldn't see their faces in this.
on the subject of kisses -- i swear ginny is like a friggen.. idk. the movies did ruin harry + ginny for me - 'kissing him like never before'?!
hahahah, NO.
but i do love ron and hermione in the movies and they are the ones for me so it's all good :3
on the subject of superficiality hahha, and how shallow i am.. i thought many people looked at their best in this movie.
the trio loooked hot and really grown up as did draco mmm. also neville. Oh... :3
lots of others looked amazing too but i'm not gonna get into that.
eta.
i'm thinking i am going to wait until i see this a second time before i make full judgement, lol.
im pretty sure i'm seeing it tomorrow and hopefully i will be able to pick up on a few more things, and
be more coherant because at the moment & whilst watching it for the first time i was pretty overwhelmed, haha.
i dunno, just wanted this to be something i could look back on like all my journal entries, and yeah.
this does mean a lot to me, and all i can think of is HP at the moment.. don't want this to end!
so i will be back tomorrow possibly next day for my full thoughts. i have to write them down somewhere ahaha.
at the moment, rereading DH. x x
i saw it for a second time! obviously it was just as amazing if not more second time around!
first time seeing it i didn't feel well, cinema was absolutely PACKED and it was absolutely boiling hot.
well it was more packed than i thought it would be last night but tbh it is a huge film..
idk im gonna start now...
first of all, i'm just gonna say rn that it does kinda get on my nerves the way they split it into two.
i suppose their excuse is it's too long but i swear it's only like a bit longer that HBP..? also i suppose it's to generate more suspense & success. (read money, lol..)
but idk, it just seemed a bit awk, the starting, for me. like, and also the way they had to go over everything that had happened in pt 1. i hated the way they explained everything too.
like, why would people go see pt 2 anyway if they hadn't seen 1. ugh. i got the idea that maybe the explaining was for younger viewers ..
but then again i wouldn't have been able to understand any of it if i was like 9.
it's for older children, end of, imo... yeah so i felt the beginning and just the way it like.. cut to it was kinda odd..
it felt like there was no buildup, but obvs the buildup was in pt 1.. it just felt like it was all battle, but obviously can't complain -- i think i would have done better if they had been shown back to back, lol. i think when i get the DVD i'm going to watch one after another lol otherwise itll just be annoying..
as i said before, soo many of the characters looked flawlesss...
i think if harry took the glasses off he'd be just as flawless hahaha but he's not him without them. anyway why am i so shallow?!?!? i apologise.
i'm no critic of acting..(?) or whatever but i thought everyone did an amazing job tbh. i bet everyone else is saying the acting wasn't up to scratch but i don't see how, they were brilliant imo.
k i'm just gonna get down to it..
the flowing from burying dobby (sob!) in pt1 and then going back to the same spot at the start of 2 was nicely done,
as just as a little reminder. although, i remember in the book being a little.. not bored, but just, fed up as to a lot of the stuff that followed immediately after dobby's death.
i swear there wasn't that much kinda stuff for dumbledore! or maybe i am forgetting (it's been years since i read the books..), but idk. actually, i think back then dobby just annoyed me a little bit? like, i think it stemmed from me being soo annoyed with him in CoS (i was young, no judging hahah) when he stopped harry from going to school -- i just thought that was horrible of him. obvs my tiny little brain didn't properly realise that it was 'for harry potter's own good' omg as if i am quoting here... :'( gonna cry in a minute.
but yeah, i think that still translated into the fact that i didn't really want l loads of dobby-is-dead-crying-sad-scene in the film. but that's pt 1! but obviously i've seen the light since i was like 7, and i love dobby now.
now, another thing is, i could have sworn shell cottage belonged to tonks' mother and father? (there is probably a v reasonable explanation for this in the books but as i said -- long time no see..) and they were no-where to be seen. actually, it's probably just the silly producer not putting them in for some random reason or the next.. not majorly important but did pop into my head.
the conversation with griphook -- the first thing i really noticed was that ron and hermione were standing away, like right by the door. they're not just some acquaintances of harry's who just happened to be there; they're in it with him.
that kind of annoyed me. plus it happened again with ollivander. they could have just sat on the bed or something. they're with him, fgs! i suppose it was sort of ~symbolising the way that they will always be there but ultimately neither can live while the other survives' and it's ultimately harry.
so yeah, that irked me but tbh the movies could never be perfect imo unless they were completely canon compliant and they basically put in every little detail from the book. then it would be like 6hrs.. i wouldn't complain!
breaking into gringotts was amazing! i'm just gonna say now that loads of scenes weren't the same as the book which kinda annoyed, because small details -- like their CLOTHES are easy to sort, aren't they? i know it's petty but i like detail being there...
i loved the breaking into the vault scene also, and when they broke out, THE DRAGON!
but, another of my petty views -- im sure in the book (i'm still rereading, it's been a while..) that none of them took polyjuice potion. so why was hermione disguised as bellatrix? :/
kinda petty but it does stand out but i suppose it was there for like entertainment and to get the actress more screentime..
the dragon -- it was so qt! the way it got it's revenge on it's captors! it was precious!
the scene where it just breathed in the air for a few seconds when it got out! so lovely. also being in 3D was amazing, as it made the whole gringotts scene more amazing.
i would've liked a bit more dragon flying close-up action but i guess it's hard to produce..
thought the bit where ron and harry stripped off (wow that sounds odd writing..), was a little clue to how the series has grown up tbh. i didn't see hardly any little kids at the cinema and i think that's the way it should have been. like, nothing against them (okay, maybe i am a bit prejuidicial..) but in my defense at a young(ish) age like below 10 maybe, i would have had no clue as to what was happening tbqh.
anyway, yeah. more grown up, in a good way. gives a nod to all us teenagers/adolescents/young adults out there!
this is turning out to be less of a 'review' more of a my thoughts on the whole HP 'debacle' hahaha!
so yeah i think they showed how the cast has matured mainly the trio but also others.
i am forgetting what happened now! as im rereading it is so confusing to talk about the movie esp as it's part 2. and the book of course isn't split into parts and dgldflgjdf my brain gets messed up. maybe i should just not write this until i have finished rereading dh. ah but that's impossible!
okay. i could probably rewatch some of in on here but that just seems like.. wrong, in a way. besides, hp neeeeds to beat twilight (read every other movie) so i should just be going back to the cinema when i feel like watching it again tbh!
okay... i feel like such a bad fan, but for real i was getting my facts confused about the sword. like, it has been such a timeee since i read dh and yeah. i still feel like a failure D: basically i need to read over a few things but i think the main reason is bc of it being split into the 2 parts and that's confusing me! as pt 1, 2 AND the book is swirling around in my head! and it's confusing. but i suppose, im glad they didn't dumb it down (too much!), so really, you do have to have read the books and this proves that. makes me happy bc i think people try and be lazy and not read the books and see the movies and tbh... it's not the same and i hope people find that..
(ot but i am listening to the soundtrack(s) at the minute and lily's theme is so haunting and sad. omg.)
okay... bit of a disclaimer here, i do love the way it's split into two parts , it is good, although tbqh i would sit through it if they had put EVERYTHING in down to each detail and it was 4hr+! - but i do love like.. the less battle-y scenes. like, ofc, i love that they defeated voldemort, and in the book i loved the battle of hogwarts, and yes i do realise that all that came up in pt 1 -- but i still missed like.. more non battle-y scenes in this movie. i felt there was like, not much of a buildup but ofc that was pt 1, so in a way, the two parts do flow on and this is visible. idk, i guess i just .. the movies will never be as good as the books to me! which is evident as i don't know if that is the aim for page-to-screen adaptations? either way i did just feel something.. else when i was reading the books that wasn't there in the movies. i guess it's imagination, really.
i have this odd theory thing.. well it's not a theory.. but in all the released pics/posters and general publicity for the movie, the characters are generally wearing clothes in which -- idk how to say this, - they are doing the 'best' or main scene in. and from seeing all the posters and pics from this movie i knew that when the characters were in those clothes it would sort of be the end, and the main scene. so for this movie i knew that when harry was in that jacket and hermione in the pink hoodie and denim jacket and ron was in the stripy jumper, -- that would be the 'end'. which was soo odd because that was like half an hour into the movie!
i don't know whether this is a bad or good thing but yeah...
with the scene at aberforth's o m g . so much backstory (essential, and amazing, imo!!) was missed out about dumbledore and his family and stuff. they brushed on it but this is where i am torn between liking the fact that it means people may be persuaded to read the books and the fact that it's not adding all the amazing details from the page. i, for one, loved reading about dumbledore's earlier life and his family and i missed it.
also, another thing that i don't particularly like about movies is that it sort of dimishes your imagination. like, when reading the books (i am mainly talking about hp here, bc it's so big to me, but happens with other movies too,) you have your own visuals and how things look in your mind and in films it's just a few people and their imaginations, almost, supplanting those visuals. /: im being nitpicky here imo but yeah...
plus all the stuff about dumbledore and grindelwald. that comes under his earlier life but just wanted to specify. ugh. /:
i'm sounding so negative but i did love this movie mostly. well, i have mixed feelings but yeah it is my favourite -- the whole of deathly hallows both parts are..
so yeah but idk what the whole thing about aberforth being all 'youll find out' and random suspense?!? like, was something scary supposed to come out of the passageway? and the way when ariana was walking back, the neville was hidden behind her. and it was meant to be all ~scary?!? random imo and trying to make it scary when it's just.. not meant to be & odd.
although i was suitably creeped out because i thought something sinister was going on and then i thought , what?
i liked when neville, harry, ron and hermione walked through the passageway and everyone was there. but if i remember correctly neville was like 'look whos here' and harry like stepped forwards and everyone clapped. BUT RON AND HERMIONE WERE BEHIND. like, he may be the 'chosen one'~ but they are just as good if not more. /; ties in with the start were ron and hermione just stand at the door. like, they are involved!
ginny and harry were qt but tbh can't ship them too much in the movies cause they kinda murdered them for me...
i just want to interrupt this to say something super quick. i've come to a realisation about this movie and now come to think of it all of them.
they miss out many of the themes, and many of the backstories -- just to get to the 'exciting' bits - the action, which draws people in and keeps their attention.
that's why, the main theme of love, and the power of it and also important (imo, they are!!) backstories, that possibly only people, (true fans tbh) who have read the books think are important. most moviegoers just want stuff that is easy to understand and digest and watch (which is why i think movies are dumb people's books -- ways of knowing books without reading them) which imo is really a travesty because people who don't read miss out on sfm. /:
so yeah, come to realise that they DID miss out a lot of stuff like emphasizing love being the strongest magic of all, and how harry could always defeat and would always defeat voldemort bc he understood love so well and voldy (lol) couldn't. + they missed out huuuge chunks of snape (PUT IN END about princes tale..)
also