SPOILERS!SPOILERS!SPOILERS!!!!! AND EPIC PICSPAM!: stella8h8chang

stella8h8chang

SPOILERS!SPOILERS!SPOILERS!!!!! AND EPIC PICSPAM!

Jul 16, 2009 21:04

Apologies this is so late. I've been a bit sick lately. Temperature's come down from 39.5C on Tuesday night (yes, the day of the HP premiere, but I'd already paid for tickets so I wasn't going to miss it, plus I didn't actually feel that ill and I wasn't coughing or sneezing) to about 37.5C today (but I'm coughing like crazy now).

The GoodThe BadThe Meh

GETTING A POSTER WHILE QUEUING UP!!!
Opening in 3D
Emo!Draco
Pyro!Bellatrix
Lovely!Luna
Drunk!Harry
Drunk!Hermione
Drunk!Ron
Movie Ron = Musical Ron = snack monster
Hermione's hair getting more and more bushy as she got more and more flustered
Slughorn
Snape's cloak
Hermione's knitwear
Luna's jacket in her first scene
Mini-Mort
Quidditch
Dumbledore's knitting patterns line
Dumbledore's comment in the hospital wing after Ron was taken out
The Cave Scene!!
McLaggen pukes on Snape
The opening flashback to Movie 5
"take Weasley with you - he's looking far too happy over there" and every other line McG had
Lily and the goldfish...aww...
Malfoy's Pimp Cane
The colour palette of the whole film

Snape (more accurately, the lack thereof, as Alan Rickman was brilliant for what little time he had. OH MY GOD, I WANTED TO SEE HIM TEACH DADA!)
Snape/Harry duel (or lack thereof)
Draco/Harry duel
NEWT classes (or lack thereof)
Ginny/Harry (I haven't got much against this couple in the books, but here...aarrrrrgh)
The Burrow Burning
Draco being exempt from school uniform
The Pensieve's makeover
An excess of nonverbal and/or wandless magic
Horcrux discussion (or lack thereof)
NO DIADEM?!?!
Dumbledore asking about Harry's love life (I thought when he was asking about his “outside of class” activities he meant QUIDDITCH, stupid me!)
Poor Ollivander's going to be held in the Malfoy Dungeon for a good year-and-a-half
Hardly any memory scenes. With the emphasis placed on them in the trailers ("to save the future you have to look to the past" or something like that...)...y'know, I had expectations!!
The weird wands-raised-to-the-sky bit after Dumbledore's death...
THE ENDING

Dumbledore for pretty much all of the movie
Missing the line, “I am not worried, Harry, I am with you...” GAH! GAH!
“Don't Call Me Coward!” got axed (well, they'd better not do the same with “...you bitch!”)
Harry for most of the movie...
Hermione's hair most of the movie
Hermione looking perfectly groomed for most of the movie
OWL results not explained at all
Cormac McLaggen was hot and is supposedly an underwear model
Tonks/Lupin isn't explained at all...
Narcissa casting
Harry wasn't punished for use of Sectumsempra
Random waitress in opening
Snape's moral ambiguity has been somewhat ruined.
Corny “I never realised how beautiful this place was...” despite having had nothing to compare it to except the Burrow, Grimmauld Place and Privet Drive
The DeathEaters all seem to be able to fly like Voldie (John Noe doesn't like this)

Er...less capslocky stuff will come later, I promise! Overall, I liked it more than OotP, and a lot more than GoF, but less than PoA (and the first two, I think, are in a bit of a class of their own because they weren't so much aiming to be epic fantasty films as kids' movies?) This movie could more accurately be titled Harry Potter and the Pure-Blood Princess Emo, but I can imagine this has made a lot of people very happy...**cough** shorelle