Finally Saw Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
Did I love it?
...I can't tell yet. I feel like I felt after I saw Alan Rickman in John Gabriel Borkman. I couldn't decide how I felt about it until well after the fact. Then I decided that I didn't like it. Still loved Rickman, was quite impressed by the great Lindsay Duncan and blown away by Fiona Shaw. But I didn't like it.
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...I can't tell yet. I feel like I felt after I saw Alan Rickman in John Gabriel Borkman. I couldn't decide how I felt about it until well after the fact. Then I decided that I didn't like it. Still loved Rickman, was quite impressed by the great Lindsay Duncan and blown away by Fiona Shaw. But I didn't like it.
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I knew it wasn't going to be true to the book, which actually in this case I considered a GOOD thing! LOL
I'd actually had hoped that the DH movies would have shown more of what was going on at Hogwarts while the Trio was in hiding, but DH1 showed that that wasn't going to happen.
But my biggest gripe with DH2 is that it didn't even stay consistent with MOVIE canon. And the fact that it shows what looks to be tens of thousands of Voldemort supporters attacking Hogwarts! :-P
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I knew it wasn't going to be true to the book, which actually in this case I considered a GOOD thing! LOL
True. I didn't like DH the book, lol.
I'd actually had hoped that the DH movies would have shown more of what was going on at Hogwarts while the Trio was in hiding, but DH1 showed that that wasn't going to happen.
I refused to see DH1 in the movies because I was SO disappointed with what happened with HBP. And feel you on this point. I had hoped the film would open up things more too, show us more. Although I wanted more of the Prince's Tale and MUCH more of Severus as the actual headmaster. There was one PR still that showed him behind the headmaster's podium and I REALLY wanted to see that. So much for that!
But my biggest gripe with DH2 is that it didn't even stay consistent with MOVIE canon. And the fact that it shows what looks to be tens of thousands of Voldemort supporters attacking Hogwarts! :-P
Yes I agree. I think the really big problem is the ( ... )
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Who knew Slytherin House was pretty much every witch and wizard in Great Britain except the people in the castle? ::g::
And NO explanation for where they came from or how they got there! I mean they sure didn't LOOK like Hogwarts grads. Maybe I'm being a bit of a snob, but sheesh, lol
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And one can only imagine how much more richness and depth there would have been if Harry and the others had been told this story early on combined with having a moral framework in which to handle such choices rather than having to make them helter skelter. Because at the end they just recreate the old biases that helped lead to the war. And what's the point of that? This. You have just put your finger right on it, my dear, and the problem's not only in the films (though it's really blatant there), but in the books too. Other than patting little ASP on the head and telling him it's OK if he ends up in Slytherin (the old attitudes are still there if little James can make a painful tease from it) there's no acknowledgement that the house you're in doesn't automatically destine you for evil. Of all ( ... )
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Other than patting little ASP on the head and telling him it's OK if he ends up in Slytherin (the old attitudes are still there if little James can make a painful tease from it) there's no acknowledgement that the house you're in doesn't automatically destine you for evil. Of all of the twisted morals of the wizarding world, the one that decrees the abandonment of 11 year old kids who are sorted into the 'wrong' house as lost is, imho, one of the worst.
Yep. Makes me a bit ill actually. I mean of course this isn't the real world, but in some ways it's as if Snape's death was in vain. And for me it puts his death,from the canon point of view, in a new light. I see now why he didn't let Dumbles tell anyone about his love for Lily. Their bias was so deeply ingrained it wouldn't have changed their world view at all. And he would have been mercilessly mocked to the end of his days. And that's DAMN shame =^(
On the other hand, I suppose it's rather like a Grimm's fairy tale isn't it? The original ones weren't so much about right and ( ... )
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Other than that, though, I was pretty pleased with the movie. I was sad that Draco went over to Voldemort's side and then that the Malfoys ran away, but I thought it was depressingly in character for them. I also wanted to see more of the cut footage of teenage Snape that was *supposedly* saved from OotP. But overall I was very happy with the way they dealt with Snape...the film was FAR better in that regard than the book. They got rid of stalker!Snape and you'll-love-me-if-join-the-DEs!Snape and whining-and-pleading-not-to-die!Snape. They gave him a much-improved death scene, and the flashback to the night of Lily's death was heart-wrenching. Even though Rickman didn't get to spend a lot of time on the screen, he certainly made the most of it.
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I know, weird right? I thought in the book that the Slytherins simply didn't fight of their own accord. But it's been so long I'm not sure that's how it happened. But yeah, that kind of stinks.
Other than that, though, I was pretty pleased with the movie. I was sad that Draco went over to Voldemort's side and then that the Malfoys ran away, but I thought it was depressingly in character for them.
Aww, really? The movie was okay as a movie and the 3-D was cool though not overwhelming. As for the Malfoys, as I said, I preferred their book ending where they were in the castle at the end, having tacitly renounced Voldemort and that in the epilogue Draco and Harry show some kind of detente if not genuine tolerance of each other. I absolutely HATED having Lucius running away like a coward. He ran to the castle to look for ( ... )
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