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Calamity
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10-18-2001

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Opens this Wednesday, July 15.

Cute little interview excerpt: NY Mag, 07/11/2009

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
DD and I will be seeing it Friday afternoon.

Pamplemousse
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09-28-2003

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamplemousse a private message Print Post    
DH & i talked about a midnight show tonight but decided not a good idea on a work night. probably will see it Thursday night

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
DS and I are seeing it tomorrow around lunch time. Hopefully it won't still be sold out!

Jkm
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jkm a private message Print Post    
DD saw it at 12:01 this morning - we're going after work today.... can't wait!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
It was fantastic! We loved it, and near the end - you could have heard a pin drop in a movie theater that was completely full! A true sign of a memorable movie moment. :-)

Jkm
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07-10-2002

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jkm a private message Print Post    
Depending on the people in the audience...
DD said the midnight show - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pee your pants...

Our evening show - laugh (not as much as the midnight crowd) and cry.....(no depends needed!)

Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spygirl a private message Print Post    
Wonderful movie! I went by myself yesterday afternoon and it was emotional - crying, laughing, etc. Teach, I had the same experience...the screen went black at the end of the movie and no one made a move. The credits came on and people slowly began to move. It was so quiet. Powerful emotional ending.

Pamplemousse
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09-28-2003

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 10:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamplemousse a private message Print Post    
just got in from seeing it..yep it was you'll laugh & cry...and our audience all walked out in silence as well. i really liked it.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Friday, July 17, 2009 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
We're seeing it on Saturday. I can hardly wait!

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
We saw this last night. I'm torn - some parts I really, really liked, some parts I found disappointing, and why did they (again) leave out really important stuff that's going to matter for the series ending? Especially when they added that scene at the Burrow? I realize there's going to be differences when translating the book to film but still...

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I know this will not be a popular opinion but I was really disapointed and the more I discuss it with dds and friends the lower my rating gets. ITA with Calamity about too much left out. First, the overheard discussions btn Snape and Dumbledore with Dumbledore insisting Snape carry through with something Snape didn't want to do. It's vitally important to events at the end of the movie and the next but glossed over in one rushed scene. Related to that is the scene at the end where Dumbledore pleads with a tone of desperation to Snape, at least in the book... in the movie it looked like it was no skin off Snape's nose. Did they run out of film and couldn't have put another moment or two of suspense in there? Most important though was that the entire intent of Draco's year long efforts was to allow the take-over of the school but instead they come in, do the deed and run away. No fight, no student involvement, no take-over and another improperly filmed scene btn Harry and Snape while Snape is leaving Hogwarts. My 17yr old had a thought that this movie was written and in production before the last book was released. Perhaps the director didn't GET the book and didn't have the last book to see where the storylines were leading?

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Oh and another thing that seemed messed up.... towards the end of the movie Harry and Dumbledore get to see the memory re: the Horcruxes and Dumbledore is SHOCKED (shocked I tell ya LOL) saying that he had NO IDEA that Voldemort had gone to those lengths then less then a minute later tells Harry how he has spend the last year tracking down the Horcruxes and already has two and that's how his hand was hurt. Which was it? Did he already know or was he shocked to find out?

On the plus side the relationship stuff was funny and well-done for the most part. Didn't explain the werewolf which will have to be done

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I'll start by saying that I haven't seen the movie yet. However, based on the prior movies I'm not surprised by the various comments. I kind of have a love/hate relationship with the movies. I love the cinematography and I think the movies do a nice job of recreating Hogwarts. I also think that the actors do a fairly good job portraying the characters and looking the part.

What I don't like (and what drives me crazy) is how they gloss over or completely leave out very important plot points. Leaving these scenes out changes the whole feel of the series. The books are really too long and detailed to be made into single movies so as a result we get jumps from one big special effects scene to the next with very minimal character and relationship development. I know they don't make TV mini-series anymore but this book series would have been ideal for a TV mini-series or better yet they could even make an entire TV series out of it with one season for each book. If they did that right it would be fantastic.

All of that said, I will definitely be going to see the movie!

Konamouse
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07-16-2001

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Konamouse a private message Print Post    
Loved the relationship parts, hated the missing plot points (I tried to explain to konashark who has never read the books - he doesn't want to be spoiled).

The ending seemed very very forced, contrived, wrong.



Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 1:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I loved it! I agree that some key plot points were left out or not given enough time/attention. I still loved it! It was very enjoyable and quite a bit funnier than what I remember of the previous movies.

I do understand somewhat about things getting left out. It was quite a long movie as it was. They want to sell tickets, not necessarily recreate the book. At least the next book will be two different movies.

Wish it was coming out soon!

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I agree with you, Konamouse, about the ending.

Harry: "It's a fake locket, so everything was for nothing (Dumbledore dying)."
Hermione: "Bummer. By the way, Ron is OK if you want to snog Ginny."

Ugh. I realized they needed to get both points in there, but it was very awkward.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
I have a very mixed reaction to the movie. On one level, I liked it, enjoyed it, was immersed in the Harry Potter world and was glad for it.

However, having read the books multiple times, looking for the telling of this intricate story in the movies is just not happening. There were so many details left out, glossed over, minimized. Scenes were ADDED that never appeared in the books, at the expense of leaving things out that WERE in the books that would have given the audience important facts leading into Book 7 (movies 7 and 8) that are vital to the story.

Wonderful acting, wonderful effects, great movie, love the actors and their portrayals. Bad bad bad story telling.

Msbullwnkl
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08-16-2005

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Msbullwnkl a private message Print Post    
While I thought the movie was okay, I am mad about how much creative license that was taken in this film. I know that some things needed to be left out or changed because of time limits. I as a Harry Potter fan love the details that JK Rowling included in her books, and hope that somewhere she is upset at what they did with her book 6. I was looking forward to the funeral scene (yes I am a bit morbid) because the director had such an oppurtunity to do it right.

BTW, anyone else notice that Helena Bonham Carter was definitely pregnant in the early scenes of the movie with Draco's mom and Snape. But by the end of the movie, she had her figure (and then some) back?

Msbullwnkl
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08-16-2005

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Msbullwnkl a private message Print Post    
Didn't Harry break up with Ginny at the end of Book 6? Because he knew that Voldemort goes after the ones Harry loves? Or do I remember that wrong.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Yes he did break-up with her but not very successfully.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
Yes Harry breaks up with Ginny in the book at the end. Just one of the many many differences between book and movie. I didn't notice that HBC was pregnant. I'll look for that when I see it again (I'll probably watch it on HBO a few thousand times).

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Happymom, you make a good point about plot points being left out of previous films as well. There are probably loads of folks with like-minded complaints about those movies which I loved. I guess I just felt that this time the omissions were important to the overall story. But I will say that the last book is being made into two movies when other books of equal length were just filmed in one..... perhaps the director is intentionally moving some of the material from half-blood prince to the 7th/8th film so he has enough material for 5 hours? Just a thought. Either way, I enjoyed it enough that I am taking the girls to see it again tonight at the drive-in.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I will say that as much as I love the books, J.K. does tend to ramble on a lot about non-pertinent plot points. For example, the entire giant sub-plot could have been omitted with very little effect. So there is considerable room for trimming. The ultimate problem though is that they are very long books and there is only so much trimming that can be done before it starts to affect how people feel about the story.

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
I like the rambling. The more the better as far as I am concerned. Though I realize this works for the books, not for the movies.

The issue here is that essential plot points and events have been omitted, added, shuffled, postponed, etc. To make a better movie? I'm not so sure that's the result.