harry potter seven spoilertastic review
So I loved this movie.
Things I loved:
&hearts THE THREE BROTHERS STORY SEQUENCE!! It was really beautiful visually and explained the story quite possibly better than the book did.
&hearts Bathilda was SO SCARY. UGH REVOLTING. I had to hold someone's hand through that scene, srsly.
&hearts the ministry-invading scene. :D They're all so cute and awkward!
&hearts the beautiful scenery in the camping trip part - so pretty omg.
&hearts Ron can act! :D
&hearts George creeping into the kitchen while Harry and Ginny are making out.
&hearts The twins in general &hearts &hearts &hearts
&hearts Malfoy Family. Draco looks so scared and hesitant and unhappy, it's perfect, and I even feel bad for Lucius, because he looks so unkempt and disheveled and has totally lost any power he had over the situation. Narcissa, well, she was also good but I hate her hair.
&hearts Grindelwald god so beautiful. by the way, look at this picture, and how beautiful these two are, and rejoice in your hearts:
&hearts Scabior. In the books he's a Snatcher and one of Fenrir's minions, but in this Fenrir is sort of his minion? That is fine with me, because Fenrir terrifies the everliving shit out of me, whereas Scabior I want to do naughty things with. >;)
&hearts the heartbreakingly sad scene at the beginning where Hermione Obliviates her parents.
&hearts SNAPE BEING A BAMF
&hearts Voldemort being wildly overdramatic at all times. Love it.
Okay, now complaints:
&clubs some epic infodumps that were a little annoying, including The Who's Bill and Hi Fleur, and the This is Mundungus Fletcher, He's Important or Something.
&clubs epic lack of infodump about the mirror, which Harry has and plays with the whole time. They never showed him receiving the mirror in HP5, and it's a really important plot point so you'd think they'd explain why he's so attatched to this broken piece of glass, but whatever.
&clubs Some of the deaths were a little rushed. "Ohai gaiz, Moody's dead."
&clubs I have very mixed feelings about the dance break. I thought it was cute, and helped to break up the sadness of Ronlessness, but it was a little too Harmonic for me (can I use that as an adjective here? Get it? Like SS Harmony, the H/Hr ship?)
&clubs They changed Dobby's voice actor and his animation a little, which I thought was distracting. I was never as attatched to Dobby as a lot of people I know, so although his death scene was done very well, I didn't exactly sob my eyes out or anything.
&clubs GRINDELWALD DENIES EVER HAVING THE WAND IN THE BOOK. Voldemort immediately sees through it, of course, but the point is that he does try to lie. This is very important to me because that was one of the supports of the Grindeldore ship - that Grindelwald lies about having it because he still cares about Albus. (I personally don't think he regrets the reasons he's been put into Nurmengard, the whole being wizard Hitler part - denying he had the wand because he actually wants to do something *~Good~* seems like a unbelievable change of character to me. Albus, however, was still important to him after all those years, and he wanted to help Albus, even if he didn't give two shits about the war.)
The soothing balm in all this is the fact that per this interview (ignore the stupid Twilight picture) Jamie Campbell Bower is pretty sold on the whole Grindeldore thing, which I can only imagine will inform his acting in the flashback scenes. I mean:
You say Grindelwald and Dumbledore are "possibly" lovers…
Well obviously, because it's a 12A film, there are going to be no hardcore love scenes. Put it that way.
That's not even taken out of context.
this has turned into a grindeldore rant, so I'll end it here. Thoughts? Comments? Obvious things I forgot?