WE'RE ABOUT TO GET TAKEN TO A DREAMWORLD OF MAGIC.
I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY NEW DEFAULT ICON. IT'S MOTHERFUCKING SPOCK WEARING MOTHERFUCKING SPECTRESPECS. I CALL IT "SPOCKTRESPECS". OR MAYBE "SPECTRESPOCKS". IDK I CAN'T DECIDE BUT THE POINT IS YOU KNOW EVEN SPOCK DOESN'T WANT NARGLES ALL UP IN HIS SHIT. IT'S JUST LOGICAL. BUT ENOUGH ABOUT STAR TREK
THIS IS MY HBP POST.
+ CAN WE START BY APPRECIATING THIS FIERCE BITCH RIGHT HERE:
GODDAMN LOOK AT THIS HERE MORALLY AMBIGUOUS MOTHERFUCKER. JESUS CHRIST JUST LOOK AT HIM. YOUR MUGGLE ASS CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THE SHEER AMOUNT OF BADASSERY CONTAINED IN THIS MAN. HE JUST GETS SEXIER WITH EACH SEQUEL. HE'S SO GQ HE'S WEARING AN ASCOT FOR FUCK'S SAKE. NOT EVEN DUMBLEDORE COULD PULL THAT SHIT OFF AND DUMBLEDORE CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS LIKE APPARATE OUT OF FUCKING HOGWARTS. AND LOOK AT THAT HAIR, HE ACTUALLY SHAMPOOED IT FOR ONCE BUT YOU KNOW YOU'D STILL HIT IT WHEN IT'S GREASY. AND THE PART WHEN HE MAKES THE "SHHHH" FACE AT HARRY? IT'S BEEN 3 DAYS AND MY OVARIES ARE STILL EXPLODING. AND DON'T YOU EVER CALL HIM A COWARD OR TRY TO USE HIS OWN SPELLS AGAINST HIM OR HE WILL FUCK YOU UP SO YOU BETTER FUCKING RESPECT.
+ DanRad played Harry the same as always. But the scene where he's on Felix Felicis? SO MUCH WIN. SWEET JESUS I haven't laughed that hard during an HP film ever. In an interview, DanRad said he based his performance in that scene on how spazzy he is IRL. If so, DANRAD YOU ARE A FUCKING CRACKHEAD AND I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE. I'm dying to see this movie again for those scenes alone.
+ Emma Watson must have taken some acting lessons because in this movie she finally managed to act, and without any assistance from her eyebrows. For the first time she was believable to me as Hermione. I'm almost impressed.
+ Rupert Grint has a real talent for comedic acting, and I hope he continues in that direction after HP is over. OTOH, did anyone else get pervy vibes from the scene when he's playing Quidditch and they have all those gratuitous shots of him with that broomstick between his legs? :3 I don't find him attractive looking in the least (sorry), so I know it ain't just me projecting dirty fantasies onto the screen. David Yates, I'd like you to have a seat over there...
+ TOM. FELTON. GUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I don't have words. Draco is utterly heartbreaking in this film. Tom Felton totally nails how scared shitless and desperate Draco is.
And the Sectumsempra scene was very well done, although it strikes me as odd that they don't show Harry facing any repercussions from attacking Malfoy? Then again I don't remember what happened in the book there. :/ Oh Harry, he just gets away with everything. I get why Snape hates him so much. Speaking of Slytherin fangirling...
+ SNOOP SLUGGY SLUGG!! I ♥ SLUGHORN. H_E members may have noticed I always get squee-ful whenever someone shows Slughorn love in their sorting apps, and my Squib trigger finger gets twitchy when someone brings the Sluggy hate. I think he's one of the most interesting and 3-dimensional characters in the series. When I heard Jim Broadbent was cast in the role I was SO EXCITED because he's who I pictured while reading the books (okay, more of a Moulin Rouge-esque Broadbent, but all the same), and the man DID. NOT. DISAPPOINT. :D I love his interpretation of Sluggy.
+ They sure didn't lie when they said a good part of the movie was centered around teenage romance. It wasn't as bad as I expected, but it took up a bit too much space, especially considering how much got cut out to make room for this (the Hogwarts battle scene? HELLO?) I especially hated at the end of the film when they're basically like, "WELL DUMBLEDORE JUST GOT KILLED BY SNAPE AND THE HORCRUX IS FAKE AND THIS WHOLE ENDING IS ANTICLIMACTIC, BUT RON THINKS IT'S COOL IF HARRY GETS IN GINNY'S PANTS SO THAT MAKES EVERYTHING OKAY!!! :D!" What the FUCK? Who actually thought it was appropriate to throw that line in there during such a poignant scene? I'M LOOKING AT YOU, KLOVES. D:< The Ron/Lavender bits were funny at first, but it started to get old quick (it got old quick for me in the book too). The Harry/Ginny parts were cute I guess, though I was sorry Harry's chest monster didn't make an appearance (in my head it would be played by the cloverfield monster/Delta Vega monster). I definitely could have lived without Hermione's pining after Ron every 5 seconds, and the "Oppugno!" scene was done all wrong. But at least in the movie Ron/Hermione somehow came off as more believable to me than it ever did in the books. I don't know how, but it did. BUT O HAY SPEAKING OF ROMANCE...
+ REMUS/TONKS FUCK YEAH MY OTP. A movie full of romantical bullshit and yet these two only get like 5 minutes of screentime. :( But that's okay, I'll take it and be happy they didn't cut them out of the movie altogether. I quite approve of the decision to have them already be in an established relationship at this point. It was really nicely done as opposed to the emo madness JKR put them through in the book. I'm a happy shipper.
+ BUT. I do NOT like how Tonks got the shaft in this movie. Why were her scenes from the beginning of the book given to LUNA? Tonks is the one who finds Harry on the train (because she's a fucking AUROR). Tonks is the one who fixes Harry's nose. Tonks escorts Harry up to Hogwarts (again, because she's a fucking AUROR and the Aurors were GUARDING HOGWARTS hello). Ugh it's one of the few times in the series we get to see her using her mad skillz and instead she's pretty much reduced to love interest. *HEAD-->KEYBOARD. REPEAT* OKAY GOING TO STOP BEING OVERPROTECTIVE OVER MY FIERCE PUFF BB TONKS NOW.
OK JUST ONE MORE THING: what was that mullet 'do she had going on? Girl can have any hairdo she wants any time she wants and she picks some scary mullet thing? NOT A GOOD LOOK D:
+ Not gonna lie, watching the Burrow burn down made me lol. Because I'm a bitch who doesn't care about the Weasleys. Otherwise, my thoughts echo that of my girl laurel_tx, who I am quoting below because she puts it so well:
I do, however, have a huge problem with them inventing this new event all for themselves... and having absolutely no reaction from the children at all the entire rest of the movie. Let's consider some of the things that could have been said:
* RON: "My motherfucking house burned down. This is bullshit. I am in a bad mood now because my HOUSE BURNED DOWN. With ALL MY SHIT IN IT. It is ALL GONE."
* GINNY: "Where are Mum and Dad living now? Seriously, I'd just like to know."
* RON: "Harry, yeah, we'll totally go with you to find the horcruxes. Not coming back to Hogwarts. Really, not even going back home, because--no house, ya know? And it's not like Mum and Dad have my shit and I need to get it from them. It's all fucking gone. I only have what I packed for school."
* GINNY: "How the fuck am I supposed to offer Harry going away sex in the next movie in my bedroom if I don't even have a bedroom?!"
* RON: "Hermione, how about some comfort sex to cheer me up? I'd say your place or mine, but. My house is GONE."
Maybe we're meant to assume that y'know, since they're wizards and stuff, they can just whip up a new house with a flick of a wand so it's no big deal? If anything, it gives Molly something better to do with her time than knit more fug sweaters.
+ GOOD RIDDANCE MICHAEL GAMBON. I'll admit, out of the 4 films in which he's played Dumbles, his performance annoyed me the least in this one. But it's too little, too late. Every time I see him, all I can think of is this comic:
I did get schmoopy over the scene where everyone held up their wands after Dumbledore died. I guess it makes up for the lack of a funeral scene. Obviously they didn't have time for one due to 10 minutes of Lavender and Hermione getting jealous over Ron in the hospital wing being far more integral to the plot. *grumble*
+ CORMAC MCLAGGEN. I knooooooow he's supposed to be a giant douchenozzle and he is but DAMN THAT BOY IS FINE. He can stick his quaffle in my hoop anytime IYKWIM.
+ BB VOLDEMORT IS ONE CREEPY KID. How could Dumbles not see how evil and creepy he is? Daft old codger.
+ The part at the beginning with Harry in the restaurant and the waitress. So not in the book but so cute! :D Much better than if they had gone with the beginning of the book ("The Other Minister")
+ NEEDS MOAR NEVILLE.
+ AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, THE FINEST MOFOS IN THIS FILM:
(well except for snape, but don't tell them that)
I'm positive there's so many more things I could say but I can't remember right now, which just means I need to see this AGAIN. :D I give this movie 4 stars out of 5, or as I said on Twitter, 80% awesome 20% fail. B+++ WOULD LOL AGAIN. Even with the fail parts, it turned out way better than I expected.
As for the actual experience of going to the midnight premiere, the moviewatching gods must have smiled upon me, Vanessa and so_severus because not only did we get there early enough to snag prime seating, but the audience was perfect! Usually we get stuck sitting next to non-fans who ask inane questions throughout ("WHICH ONE IS SNAKE AGAIN??") or, like last time, teenagers who make out through half of it (seriously why are you spending $24 to make out), and psycho 12 year olds who forgot to take their ADD meds. But this time our audience was mostly filled with college kids, and then people a bit younger and older (like us) on the ends of the bell curve. Everyone was into the movie, no talking, and the theater was dead silent after Dumbledore died. It was really great. A lot of people dressed up too; I remember seeing a Lucius with a pimp cane and a girl dressed as Bellatrix, crazy hair and all. Jenn and Vanessa wore their Harry and the Potters T-shirts, and I would have worn mine but I was coming straight from class where I dress like a grownup, so I wore grey slacks and a white blouse and then threw on my Slytherin tie at the theater ;D (I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING HUFFLEPUFF DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT ROTAE.) And then I ran into the lovely ihateclooney who said, "I know you! You're a Star Trek person!" LOLZ yay for being a fandom whore!
ETA: LOOK HOW GORGEOUS THESE TWO ARE. I CAN'T EVEN. BRB GIRLCRUSHING
THIS IS MY HBP POST.
+ CAN WE START BY APPRECIATING THIS FIERCE BITCH RIGHT HERE:
GODDAMN LOOK AT THIS HERE MORALLY AMBIGUOUS MOTHERFUCKER. JESUS CHRIST JUST LOOK AT HIM. YOUR MUGGLE ASS CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THE SHEER AMOUNT OF BADASSERY CONTAINED IN THIS MAN. HE JUST GETS SEXIER WITH EACH SEQUEL. HE'S SO GQ HE'S WEARING AN ASCOT FOR FUCK'S SAKE. NOT EVEN DUMBLEDORE COULD PULL THAT SHIT OFF AND DUMBLEDORE CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS LIKE APPARATE OUT OF FUCKING HOGWARTS. AND LOOK AT THAT HAIR, HE ACTUALLY SHAMPOOED IT FOR ONCE BUT YOU KNOW YOU'D STILL HIT IT WHEN IT'S GREASY. AND THE PART WHEN HE MAKES THE "SHHHH" FACE AT HARRY? IT'S BEEN 3 DAYS AND MY OVARIES ARE STILL EXPLODING. AND DON'T YOU EVER CALL HIM A COWARD OR TRY TO USE HIS OWN SPELLS AGAINST HIM OR HE WILL FUCK YOU UP SO YOU BETTER FUCKING RESPECT.
+ DanRad played Harry the same as always. But the scene where he's on Felix Felicis? SO MUCH WIN. SWEET JESUS I haven't laughed that hard during an HP film ever. In an interview, DanRad said he based his performance in that scene on how spazzy he is IRL. If so, DANRAD YOU ARE A FUCKING CRACKHEAD AND I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE. I'm dying to see this movie again for those scenes alone.
+ Emma Watson must have taken some acting lessons because in this movie she finally managed to act, and without any assistance from her eyebrows. For the first time she was believable to me as Hermione. I'm almost impressed.
+ Rupert Grint has a real talent for comedic acting, and I hope he continues in that direction after HP is over. OTOH, did anyone else get pervy vibes from the scene when he's playing Quidditch and they have all those gratuitous shots of him with that broomstick between his legs? :3 I don't find him attractive looking in the least (sorry), so I know it ain't just me projecting dirty fantasies onto the screen. David Yates, I'd like you to have a seat over there...
+ TOM. FELTON. GUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I don't have words. Draco is utterly heartbreaking in this film. Tom Felton totally nails how scared shitless and desperate Draco is.
And the Sectumsempra scene was very well done, although it strikes me as odd that they don't show Harry facing any repercussions from attacking Malfoy? Then again I don't remember what happened in the book there. :/ Oh Harry, he just gets away with everything. I get why Snape hates him so much. Speaking of Slytherin fangirling...
+ SNOOP SLUGGY SLUGG!! I ♥ SLUGHORN. H_E members may have noticed I always get squee-ful whenever someone shows Slughorn love in their sorting apps, and my Squib trigger finger gets twitchy when someone brings the Sluggy hate. I think he's one of the most interesting and 3-dimensional characters in the series. When I heard Jim Broadbent was cast in the role I was SO EXCITED because he's who I pictured while reading the books (okay, more of a Moulin Rouge-esque Broadbent, but all the same), and the man DID. NOT. DISAPPOINT. :D I love his interpretation of Sluggy.
+ They sure didn't lie when they said a good part of the movie was centered around teenage romance. It wasn't as bad as I expected, but it took up a bit too much space, especially considering how much got cut out to make room for this (the Hogwarts battle scene? HELLO?) I especially hated at the end of the film when they're basically like, "WELL DUMBLEDORE JUST GOT KILLED BY SNAPE AND THE HORCRUX IS FAKE AND THIS WHOLE ENDING IS ANTICLIMACTIC, BUT RON THINKS IT'S COOL IF HARRY GETS IN GINNY'S PANTS SO THAT MAKES EVERYTHING OKAY!!! :D!" What the FUCK? Who actually thought it was appropriate to throw that line in there during such a poignant scene? I'M LOOKING AT YOU, KLOVES. D:< The Ron/Lavender bits were funny at first, but it started to get old quick (it got old quick for me in the book too). The Harry/Ginny parts were cute I guess, though I was sorry Harry's chest monster didn't make an appearance (in my head it would be played by the cloverfield monster/Delta Vega monster). I definitely could have lived without Hermione's pining after Ron every 5 seconds, and the "Oppugno!" scene was done all wrong. But at least in the movie Ron/Hermione somehow came off as more believable to me than it ever did in the books. I don't know how, but it did. BUT O HAY SPEAKING OF ROMANCE...
+ REMUS/TONKS FUCK YEAH MY OTP. A movie full of romantical bullshit and yet these two only get like 5 minutes of screentime. :( But that's okay, I'll take it and be happy they didn't cut them out of the movie altogether. I quite approve of the decision to have them already be in an established relationship at this point. It was really nicely done as opposed to the emo madness JKR put them through in the book. I'm a happy shipper.
+ BUT. I do NOT like how Tonks got the shaft in this movie. Why were her scenes from the beginning of the book given to LUNA? Tonks is the one who finds Harry on the train (because she's a fucking AUROR). Tonks is the one who fixes Harry's nose. Tonks escorts Harry up to Hogwarts (again, because she's a fucking AUROR and the Aurors were GUARDING HOGWARTS hello). Ugh it's one of the few times in the series we get to see her using her mad skillz and instead she's pretty much reduced to love interest. *HEAD-->KEYBOARD. REPEAT* OKAY GOING TO STOP BEING OVERPROTECTIVE OVER MY FIERCE PUFF BB TONKS NOW.
OK JUST ONE MORE THING: what was that mullet 'do she had going on? Girl can have any hairdo she wants any time she wants and she picks some scary mullet thing? NOT A GOOD LOOK D:
+ Not gonna lie, watching the Burrow burn down made me lol. Because I'm a bitch who doesn't care about the Weasleys. Otherwise, my thoughts echo that of my girl laurel_tx, who I am quoting below because she puts it so well:
I do, however, have a huge problem with them inventing this new event all for themselves... and having absolutely no reaction from the children at all the entire rest of the movie. Let's consider some of the things that could have been said:
* RON: "My motherfucking house burned down. This is bullshit. I am in a bad mood now because my HOUSE BURNED DOWN. With ALL MY SHIT IN IT. It is ALL GONE."
* GINNY: "Where are Mum and Dad living now? Seriously, I'd just like to know."
* RON: "Harry, yeah, we'll totally go with you to find the horcruxes. Not coming back to Hogwarts. Really, not even going back home, because--no house, ya know? And it's not like Mum and Dad have my shit and I need to get it from them. It's all fucking gone. I only have what I packed for school."
* GINNY: "How the fuck am I supposed to offer Harry going away sex in the next movie in my bedroom if I don't even have a bedroom?!"
* RON: "Hermione, how about some comfort sex to cheer me up? I'd say your place or mine, but. My house is GONE."
Maybe we're meant to assume that y'know, since they're wizards and stuff, they can just whip up a new house with a flick of a wand so it's no big deal? If anything, it gives Molly something better to do with her time than knit more fug sweaters.
+ GOOD RIDDANCE MICHAEL GAMBON. I'll admit, out of the 4 films in which he's played Dumbles, his performance annoyed me the least in this one. But it's too little, too late. Every time I see him, all I can think of is this comic:
I did get schmoopy over the scene where everyone held up their wands after Dumbledore died. I guess it makes up for the lack of a funeral scene. Obviously they didn't have time for one due to 10 minutes of Lavender and Hermione getting jealous over Ron in the hospital wing being far more integral to the plot. *grumble*
+ CORMAC MCLAGGEN. I knooooooow he's supposed to be a giant douchenozzle and he is but DAMN THAT BOY IS FINE. He can stick his quaffle in my hoop anytime IYKWIM.
+ BB VOLDEMORT IS ONE CREEPY KID. How could Dumbles not see how evil and creepy he is? Daft old codger.
+ The part at the beginning with Harry in the restaurant and the waitress. So not in the book but so cute! :D Much better than if they had gone with the beginning of the book ("The Other Minister")
+ NEEDS MOAR NEVILLE.
+ AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, THE FINEST MOFOS IN THIS FILM:
(well except for snape, but don't tell them that)
I'm positive there's so many more things I could say but I can't remember right now, which just means I need to see this AGAIN. :D I give this movie 4 stars out of 5, or as I said on Twitter, 80% awesome 20% fail. B+++ WOULD LOL AGAIN. Even with the fail parts, it turned out way better than I expected.
As for the actual experience of going to the midnight premiere, the moviewatching gods must have smiled upon me, Vanessa and so_severus because not only did we get there early enough to snag prime seating, but the audience was perfect! Usually we get stuck sitting next to non-fans who ask inane questions throughout ("WHICH ONE IS SNAKE AGAIN??") or, like last time, teenagers who make out through half of it (seriously why are you spending $24 to make out), and psycho 12 year olds who forgot to take their ADD meds. But this time our audience was mostly filled with college kids, and then people a bit younger and older (like us) on the ends of the bell curve. Everyone was into the movie, no talking, and the theater was dead silent after Dumbledore died. It was really great. A lot of people dressed up too; I remember seeing a Lucius with a pimp cane and a girl dressed as Bellatrix, crazy hair and all. Jenn and Vanessa wore their Harry and the Potters T-shirts, and I would have worn mine but I was coming straight from class where I dress like a grownup, so I wore grey slacks and a white blouse and then threw on my Slytherin tie at the theater ;D (I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING HUFFLEPUFF DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT ROTAE.) And then I ran into the lovely ihateclooney who said, "I know you! You're a Star Trek person!" LOLZ yay for being a fandom whore!
ETA: LOOK HOW GORGEOUS THESE TWO ARE. I CAN'T EVEN. BRB GIRLCRUSHING