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In Reply to: RE: Saw Harry Potter 7.2 with the kids posted by Brian A on July 16, 2011 at 13:50:21
1) Love Helena Bonham Carter's owning of the role of Bellatrix. Better than the book! She has an almost Manson Family-like air about her.
2) Snape's vital role in the saga got short shrift in the film. Changed the whole tenor of his character, made me feel let down.
3) Loved Raif Finnes' switch from invincible to vulnerable and how he portrayed "You Know Who's" false brovado toward the end.
4) Emma watson was very good at protraying Hermione's relentlessly striving for competence at everything she does. I think you got afeel for how hard Hermione tried to do the right thing at all times.
5) Neville's change was nice. My wife was struck by his sense of relief and inage of what self-discovery looks like.
6) The scene where Harry puts his face into the, was it, Bowl of Augury, was weak and could have used 5 more minutes to tell a better story.
7) They did a good job with Draco's cognitive dissonance.
8) I love the Weasley's, but when Mrs. Weasley finally goes off on a certyain character who was trying to attack her daughter, my prevailing feeling was, "Hey, lady, where was that intensity 30 seconds ago when you were also figthing for life and limb?" It was an odd time to see her turn up the volume rather than unleash hithertofore concealed power.
9) I would have liked more of Hagrid recruiting other species to the fight to counterbalance the bad guy's giants and spiders. Hagrid was a critical element in the book plotting.
10) I love Maggie Smith.
All in all, alot of fun, and I am merely quibbling.
Follow Ups:
1. Yes, all the British Actors are superb indeed! She even did a fair impression of Hermione acting as her.
2. Wholeheartedly disagree. I thought it did justice to the book and showed some excellent acting chops on the part of Allen Rickman. Neither my daughter or I could watch those scenes without strong emotional reactions.
3. Yes.
4. She was excellent as always. I am so glad she is over 18 now so I don't feel so creepy about myself admiring her. I really liked how her relationship with Ron grew and how he grew and she had to adjust to it.
5. Yes
6. Couldn't disagree more. Sure adding time would have been nice. But it was a highlight of the movie, if not entire series.
7. Yep
8. Yes
9. One problem though, you can really see these fine actors aging.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
I wished the film would have shown more about how Snape had really plotted and suffered to undermine Voldemort.
I thought showing it via the bowl was fine, but it didn't feel like enough for me.
Wasn't it great reading/seeing these with your kids?
All in all, I give the series highest marks for the pleasure it brought us.
I have read all the Twilight books and seen the movies with her. I also am reading "The Hunger Games" with her too now.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
My sons, lucky for me (?), they did not hit Twilight.
This week we are all reading "A Wrinkle In Time" together.
I kind of enjoy the chatting about what we read!
The Hunger Games was much more morose than I expected for a young reader book series.
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