An enjoyable bit of Harry Potter-dom.  The magical creatures were the best part not surprisingly.  Also not a surprise, the villain reveal.  And the Shaw family stuff felt fairly pointless.  Honestly the movie probably would have been tighter and a better story if it jettisoned all the excess plot and just concentrated on the whole fantastic beasts ( Read more... )

An excellent ending for the film version. In fact I'd say it handled both the Battle for Hogwarts, the Snape face turn and the final Harry/Voldemort confrontations better than the book. Even the postscript doesn't feel tacked on the way it did in the book. It also felt like the director was attempting to downplay Neville's total bad-assitude at ( Read more... )

The first half of the final book adaptation works much better than the previous one. And on several levels better than the final book. Harry and Ron both come off as a lot less inept and douchebaggery. The Death Eaters takeover of the Wizarding World and their pursuit of the heroes feels scary and oppresive. Helena Bonham Carter continues to be ( Read more... )

A pretty good movie. Though the majority of the impact of the confrontation between Harry and Snape at the end is gone since much of the drama between the two earlier in the book is left out. The revelation of who the Half-Blood Prince also comes off as very flat. Much of what is cut for the movie version is the extensive world building from the ( Read more... )

mightygodking does an extremely amusing recap of HP7. Full of spoilery spoilerness. So if you haven't finished and want no spoiling DO NOT CLICK. Still the Batman joke is both spot-on and nerdtastic...

Finished it last night, but the internet at work went kablooey. Anyhow that was a bit of a blood bath wasn't it? Tired, need sleep. More later. 'Cept for one spoiler...

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Poll Unlikely spoilers for Deathly Hallows

I was going to talk about seeing Order of the Phoenix. And then watch a movie. Instead I'm going to try and work off some anger by playing a game where I can kill things...

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