I found a gif of Voldemort hugging Draco.... :awesome

 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one enamored with Emma Watson's cleavage in the Belatrix get-up. I really hope she continues being an actress, not only because she probably shows the most promise of the main three, but because she is insanely hot. Between her and Rosie Huntington-Whitely(sp?) I'm in deep on my celebcrushes right now.

 

I forgot to write about the scene until just now, what did everyone think of the bit with Scabior and Neville taunting them and then running once the shield went down? I could litrally hear the people around me go "ofuck"

 

Harry dropping from Hagrid's arms and the fighting Voldemort? He wouldn't stand a chance, that's the reason Rowling used that stupid plot in the first place. Harry can not fight toe-to-toe with Voldemort, he would die in about seven seconds.

You all seem to think Neville was badass, I thought he was shockingly toned down. He never got his moment when he killed the snake in front of everyone, instead he backstabbed the Snake in some random corridor with no real show of courage.

There were too many moments when the movie was unintentionally funny. The Pensive scene where Snape hugs the dead body of Lily was so ridiculous, the whole theater was laughing.

Ron and Hermione letting Harry just go away to kill himself? Would never happen, they would try to find some way to help him. That moment was so good in the book, when Harry just walked by his friends because he knew they would not understand.

The movie ending happily (before the epilogue)? What the hell, they were sipping coffee and laughing ffs, they didn't even seem to care that Remus, Tonks, Fred and many others were dead.

Molly being in the castle from the get-go, not trying to persuade her kids to not fight? Wow.

The way Voldemort died was very strange as well. Harry and Voldemort had been trading spells for a long time and Voldemort had sent several green beams which Harry responded to with a red beam and Priori Incantatem was used. Yet, Voldemort's wand did not fly into the air, killing him? What was the difference that made it do so at that precise moment?


Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is a really good movie if you have not read the books recently and have set opinions on how everything should be. I can't say I was disappointed since I wasn't expecting much but mehhh

 

The only part of the movie I had a strong reaction to (apart from the pensieve scene, which is a given IMO) was the epilogue.

Just lol.

All in all it's more of the same really. You pretty much go in knowing what you're gonna get and it delivers. D:

 

Books will always get slaughterd in Movie adaptions. Just have to learn to live with it. Watch the fucking movie and enjoy it. At least you get the see the characters brought to life on the big screen. Albeit with less depth than they should.

 

Are we not writing spoiler tags any more?

Spoiler

I was a little confused at what actually killed Voldemort at the end. From what I can piece together his wand cracked and he got exposed to a spark of his Avada Kedavra, Yes I've read the book, and its described as a rebounded spell or something, visually it was a little confusing to watch.

So I wasn't the only one to notice the clevage drop. Was Harry blocking Avada's near the end?

I liked the flight fight between voldemort and Harry. Mainly because of the way they distorted Voldemorts face. At certain points he is fucking horrifying to look at. Like the epitome of an Evil clown. Like psychologically terrifying, in the way you can look at him and feel wrong.

Did anyone else kind of cheer when Luna stood up for herself with Harry. It was a little weird character wise but it worked.

Malfoy and his mother also worked IMO. Insert Incest joke here.

N. Malfoy was always a kind of motherly evil. She would screw the world over for her son.
L. Malfoy was a tool from the begining, but someone to be reckoned with.

Draco was just indecisive. The book had them cowering in the corner. But I liked the scene where they walk away from the battle hand in hand. Like they were saying fuck everyone else, we'll be fine. They didn't let the Battle of Hogwarts define them...

It worked is all I'm saying.

Harry going toe to toe against Voldemort actually always made sense to me.

Magic has been displayed in two forms in my mind. Actual spells and potions and whatever. The controlled, do this, say this and this will happen.

Then there was the uncontrolled will stuff that happend when angry or in danger.

The movies always demonstrated the most amazing magic when it was uncontrolled. Expecially the kids in this movie with the pensieve scene.

I like to think that the hogwarts spells where there to give perspective of the unique things that could be done, but at the end of the day, it was power, and will that seemed to be the more powerful aspect. The uncontrolled magic, Fueled by rage, hate, despair and will.

Thats why those scenes in this movie and all the others worked for me, because when you gave a spell a name and a intention that could be practiced, it became ho hum. But when you let it be nameless and wild it seemed more mysterious and well magical.

I like to pretend thats what harry and voldemort fought with. i would even classify the Priori incantantum as a form of this as it is so mysterious.

 

So after I saw the movie, I went home and looked up the soundtrack. I can't get over how beautiful this one track is. I smell an Oscar.

Lily's Theme

 

...really? That track sounds pretty damn generic.

 

Well, I like it. Somber and appropriate for the content. The interval progression is pleasing to the ear.

 

I'm surprised no one mentioned it, but the best part of the movie was the ending fight. Not because it was awesome, but even with all the Dark Magic in the world at hand, Voldemort chose to use the back of his hand. I was literally losing it when Voldemort was pimp slapping Harry around.

 

Lol, Wollongong. I thought it was the best HP movie of them all. It was much better than I thought it would be. Mind you I spent about 14 hours before hand watching all previous movies in order so maybe the whole experience made it better in my mind.

I'm probably one of the few people who did't find the Snape/pensieve scene that sad. It was heart wrenching but not the saddest. I cried when the first spells were cast at Hogwarts and the castle started falling apart, in my mind that was the beginning of the end, a symbol of the end of the era.

Mind you I didn't stop crying after that. Hogwarts falliing apart was like watching my childhood end, it really was.

 

I suppose it's been long enough that I don't need spoiler tags...

I got the sense that Voldemort died from 2 things: The loss of his Horcruxes weakened him and backlash from an insubordinate wand finished him off.

The Horcruxes bit was a liberty taken for the movie. He could feel the loss and his body seemed to necro-tize more and more with each horcrux loss, until his final death of just turning into a dead husk blown away by the wind. I image that the final 'death' came from his AK backfiring through the cracking wand.

 

The cracking wand thing kind of threw me a bit. It's the elder wand, right? I got the impression from the book that the wand just worked like a normal wand when he used it. And then Harry had it, and I guess it was broken? Except it wasn't. I don't understand why that happened.

 

I think it was more a "show, not tell" thing for the movie makers to get the point across that the wand wasn't working properly for Voldemort, to all the non-readers in the audience

 

You're 16. Be a child for a while longer before you feel the need to grow up.

 

Watched it on Sunday and the most prominent thing that hit me was that the actress playing Lily Potter was a MILF.

 

I hated the lack of green eyes so much. There were so many lines talking about how he had his mother's eyes, all while the camera is zooming in on fucking blue.

 

As far as I can tell, Geraldine Somerville has blue eyes - I'm happy to be corrected - so it does work, as he has his mother's eyes. The colour doesn't matter squat.

Anyway. Really, really enjoyed the film, despite annoying kids. I'm pretty certain some of it would have been incomprehensible had you not read the books, but most of it worked brilliantly. Certainly, I came far closer to tearing up than I did with the book.

 

Blue or not, they were way too dark. They almost looked brown to me. How hard would it have been to stick in some colored contacts into both or their eyes?