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I really enjoyed watching the movie; so much of the adaptation was really well done. Perhaps it's in part because I read the book for the first time so relatively recently, but I felt more than any of the others that it was bringing scenes to life almost as I had imagined them.
At the same time, I thought it mostly failed at conveying the plot to anyone who hadn't read the books or couldn't remember them well - I saw them with my roommate, who read the book but had fuzzy memories of most of it, and she enjoyed it but was pretty lost most of the time as for why the Trio was going where they were going, what Voldemort was up to, etc etc. And, yeah, there was so much stuff, like the shard of mirror, that they had to squash into this movie without having set it up properly beforehand.
Of course, if they gave into the need for plot explanation and continuity, the entire movie would have been nothing but backstory - so instead they just worked their movie magic and hoped that people wouldn't ask too many questions. And of course, enough people have read the books that we can fill in the details. It's still sort of a weird thing to create, though, a movie that doesn't entirely stand alone.
Caveat: I don't remember the sixth movie very well, and so maybe it did a better job setting up for the seventh movie than I remember.
May I just say that Alan Rickman's approximately four minute performance was FABULOUS.
And I was SO EXCITED that they included Hermione's memory charm. I think they got her just right - utterly willing to do something that extreme to protect them, but heartbroken about doing it. I still maintain that Hermione's relationship with her parents would have been pretty screwed up after the events of the series, though. She hardly went home for six years, and she topped it off by magicking them to Australia....
At the same time, I thought it mostly failed at conveying the plot to anyone who hadn't read the books or couldn't remember them well - I saw them with my roommate, who read the book but had fuzzy memories of most of it, and she enjoyed it but was pretty lost most of the time as for why the Trio was going where they were going, what Voldemort was up to, etc etc. And, yeah, there was so much stuff, like the shard of mirror, that they had to squash into this movie without having set it up properly beforehand.
Of course, if they gave into the need for plot explanation and continuity, the entire movie would have been nothing but backstory - so instead they just worked their movie magic and hoped that people wouldn't ask too many questions. And of course, enough people have read the books that we can fill in the details. It's still sort of a weird thing to create, though, a movie that doesn't entirely stand alone.
Caveat: I don't remember the sixth movie very well, and so maybe it did a better job setting up for the seventh movie than I remember.
May I just say that Alan Rickman's approximately four minute performance was FABULOUS.
And I was SO EXCITED that they included Hermione's memory charm. I think they got her just right - utterly willing to do something that extreme to protect them, but heartbroken about doing it. I still maintain that Hermione's relationship with her parents would have been pretty screwed up after the events of the series, though. She hardly went home for six years, and she topped it off by magicking them to Australia....
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