Shia Kyosuka wrote:What's HBP?
Harry Barry Potter?
It is the most recent of the Harry Potter books.
I went at midnight to see the movie. If you've never seen a massively popular movie at midnight, you're really missing out on one spectacular experience.
My thoughts are as follows:
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1. Overall, I thought the movie was very good. I'll have to see it a second time before I can truly tell for sure how I would rate it, say, on a scale of one to ten. The critics are calling it the best Potter movie yet, and I'd say they could very easily be right (I was a huge fan of Azkaban, so I'm a bit biased
)
2. What I loved about this movie was the interaction amongst the trio. It was spot on and fabulous. All of their acting abilities have been tested and stretched in this movie, but I believe they've all really come out shining afterwards.
3. There were some slight innuendos that you could tell the director/writer indulged in since it was quite obvious from the start that the mere subject matter constituted a PG-13 rating. It was nothing that big, but I was still like 'Oh, please. This is Harry Poter, for heavens sake!" *thinks* Then again, there was a lot of snogging going on the HBP. . .
(For fans who've read the book, you'll notice that the Moaning Myrtle of the movie is much more perverted than the Moaning Myrtle of the books. Bad, Myrtle.)
4. Dumbledore was a disaster. The actor who has stepped into the massive shoes of Richard Harris was stumbling around in them during the film like a little girl in her mother's high heels. At one point, in a completely un-Dumbledore move, he literally grabs Harry, shaking him slightly, and demands information. Dumbledore would never do that. The Dumbledore of this film resembles the Dumbledore one would imagine finding in some illly-written fan fic. Half way through, I started expecting him to turn to Minerva and say, as he placed his hand on his hip, "Do you think I'm good enough? I'm just feel, like, so uncofident in myself lately."
5. Because of the length of the movie, a lot had to be cut. That means that a lot of the characters got short changed, but, honestly, I expected that to happen. The were not going to make the movie 6 hours long--though I don't see why not
-- and something had to go. Overall, they only threw out one element that I think would have been better left in: That being Rita Skeeter being an Animagus. It is mentioned somewhat extensively in Order, but I guess you could short cut that if you wanted.
6. The Yule Ball scene was fabulous. While the weird sister's performance as well as the crowd surfing Fitwick felt a little weird to me, it couldn't even dimly take away from the spectatular performance turned in by Emma Watson. She earned her stars with that scene and especially with her final telling off of "Ronald" at the end of the scene as well as her "There you are, Harry. You boys need to go to bed right now." I know many of you boys won't realize this, but it's a very tragic moment when a woman, in tears, takes off her high heeled shoes. Poor, dear, Hermione.[/spoiler]