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Current mood:	sleepy
Entry tags:	harry potter movies

The good, the bad and the ugly




As usual, I went to the first show of the first day.

The crowd was impressive, as was the heat.

We had nice seats, previously booked, and the peach-flavoured tea was good. The people weren't too noisy, but it started to be really hot and there was no break.

I do like to watch movies from start to end but I do like breathing more.

Now, let's talk about the movie.

I don't even want remember the starting scene. It made no sense on any universe known to mankind, not even on the astral plane.

So, let's talk about how cool Tom Felton is, because wow, I liked him in this movie a lot, he was just as I would have imagined Draco and adorably cute when he cried. And hot. I wanna thank whoever choose his wardrobe from the bottom of my heart.

Seriously, he was the best thing of the whole movie. The Italian dubber did a magnificent job for once, but Tom Felton's body language was what made him perfect for the part. He looked so unwilling, so scared, so unsure, but also so determined and so grown up... Harry and friends still looked like teenagers, Draco seemed to have already become a man (having a madman force you to kill a powerful wizard can do that to you).

Also loved the locations, the twins' shops and the Burrow were cool, didn't like Spinner's End much (too clean, houses too high, too colourful. I imagined it a lot more depressing.)

The romance was... blah, I don't even know where to start. Ron and Hermione were cute, and quite ok. Lavender was just for laughs, and that's ok too, but Harry/Ginny... I want to hear what the people that didn't like how their relationship turned out in the books think about the movie. Really, it makes even less sense.

I cheered myself up by looking at Blaise and Cormac McLaggen.

Major WTFs? The attack at the Burrow, Tonks calling Remus 'love' (or was that just the Italian translation? Because OMG WHAT?! THEY RUINED ALL THEIR BACK-STORY IN A SINGLE SENTENCE!!!!!), Ginny and Harry's kiss and the Sectumsempra that didn't cut Draco's shirt. That was just DUMB.

By the way... HOW MANY SCENES DID THEY CUT FROM THE MOVIE?

No Sanguini! No DADA lessons! No "It's over"!!! I saw those scenes in the trailers, somewhere, and in pictures, but they weren't there!!! Why???

I know I should stop being disappointed by how little space they give Snape in the movies, but in this one it was just unfair... I mean, he was there now and then, but you could easily have forgotten him... The scenes in which they put him looked pasted on hurriedly and useless, not to mention the way they strode out of the castle without an effort and without apparent reason, and how nonchalant he reacted to Harry calling him coward while in the book he gets so angry... And I really wanted to see the DADA lessons, dammit >_<

Anyway, the worst thing was probably the end. Firs, that Harry isn't under the cloak. Second, that he can move. Third, that Snape stops and shushes him. Third, the Death Eaters all there to watch and the slow pace at which the whole thing was going. Fourth, DRACO SHOWING THE MARK ON HIS ARM... Fifth and last... how could the fact that the DEs left after killing Dumbledore (and so easily! Where was the battle?!) make sense to those who didn't read the books?! They just... left. No one was chasing them but Harry, and they left anyway. Sense, you're not making any.

But really, the confrontation between Snape and Harry was so bland at the end, and the movie as a whole felt really watered down.

I know it's a kids series (or is viewed as one, anyway), but it showed so much potential from that trailers, that seeing it ruined just because they didn't take the time show some plot because they had to add totally useless and non-canon scenes makes me wonder what they will do with the next ones.

Please, someone fire Steve Kloves and whoever thought it would be a nice thing to have him back.

P.S: I forgot... when the Inferi grabbed Harry's hand, the whole theatre seemed to get whiplash. It was like a wave of people suddenly jumping back and crying out. It was AWESOME.