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[circa_eve]

Just got back from seeing Harry Potter. At 9 AM. Yes, one advantage of living where I live is that the closest movie theater starts showing at 9 on weekends. It was blissfully free of people. I would totally see a 9 AM movie again!

Comments

[merelyn]

I agree! The visuals and cinematography were easily the best things about the film (besides Harry being high on happy drugs, Ron being high on love potion, and Luna in general

[circa_eve]

They definitely could have smoothed it out, considering they invented a whole scene with the Burrow burning down, just to show off Ginny's selfless devotion to Harry's safety.

That's really it! I feel especially pissed because I know that he is going to die in the next book and one of the redeeming factors about that was that he at least got a good story line in HBP. (Snape shoving Draco against the wall = almost best moment ever. Best moment ever would have been if it had been Harry, but can't have everything. Wall pushing icon expresses approval of such things.)

I just read the EW review, and it said that Kloves was going to write the last movie too. :( I just hope they keep the cinematographer, because he did stunning work.

[merelyn]

Yeah, uuuuuuuugh Harry/Ginny blahblahblah.

And yeah, I hope they keep the cinematographer. An interesting tidbit, apparently the first cut of the movie had an even more radical color pallet, and when the studio heads saw it they made David Yates and co. go back and tweak the color balance of the whole film. Still looked pretty awesome though.

[wordweaver06]

I pretty much agree, although I do think that they took the cue from the book on how much romantic/non-plot story they focused on. Mostly what I remembered from book nine was the scene where Dumbledore drank the potion to get the hoarcrux (which I thought was suitably disturbing in the movie) and a bunch of romantic nonesense. I just wish they could have let a little of that fade to the background in the movie