Comments | infinite_whimsy: I FINALLY SAW DEATHLY HALLOWS!!!

infinite_whimsy

I FINALLY SAW DEATHLY HALLOWS!!!

Nov 30, 2010 11:16

Please excuse the excess of exclamation marks. But MOVIE!

( Spoilers? Yes, please! )

movie: deathly hallows pt.1, squee!fangirling

Comments 6

keladry_lupin November 30 2010, 18:30:40 UTC

I saw it for the first time last night, and I pretty much agree with you on everything. Including me not being a real HP fan if I waited any longer.

infinite_whimsy November 30 2010, 20:23:42 UTC

Did you notice the weird echoes of LOTR? Between the silver paint on Horcrux!Harry and Horcrux!Hermione (shades of evil Galadriel) and the it's-strangling-time locket-of-doom bringing to mind the One Ring abandoning Isildur... I was wondering if it was only in my extremely geeky head. Any thoughts?

keladry_lupin November 30 2010, 23:55:13 UTC

Yes to both questions! I kind of liked the way they animated the Horcrux images of Harry and Hermione, even though I expected them to shriek "All will love me and despair" at any moment.

memorysdaughter December 1 2010, 01:13:18 UTC

I totally <3 Luna Lovegood. We'd be best friends if she was real. :)

borg_princess December 5 2010, 04:27:06 UTC

I remember reading the book and getting frustrated that JKR was all “HEY MAJOR PLOT POINT GUYS, I’M JUST GONNA INTRODUCE IT RIGHT HERE”

YES, THIS. I see little connection to the rest of the series. It kind of annoys me that the key to defeating Voldy was something that she introduced so late in the game in such a clumsy way and which totally wrecked the mythology she'd established so far.

OH MY GOD HOW HORRIDLY AWKWARD ARE RON AND HERMIONE!?

Lol, funny you say that- I hate the ship as much as the next non-shipper, but I didn't really mind them...except for that random 'stroke on the cheek' moment in the diner, 'twas a bit weird, but hey. *shrugs*

infinite_whimsy December 5 2010, 12:56:18 UTC

There were a lot of fanficcy pet peeves that JKR raised and/or created with book 7. Some of it felt lazy, I thought. However, the movie version didn't do too badly translating the novel into a screenplay.

Ron/Hermione just doesn't work for me at all. I think it's not even about them anymore, it's about the autocratic way that JKR finalized everything in that hateful epilogue. It makes me crazy, yo. Crazazy.