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[The People's Choice]

I just saw this film. It was marvelous and I suggest anybody who is a fan of Harry Potter should see. Have any of you seen it? What did you think?

[King Mika]

I plan on watching both parts back-to-back when they come out on Blu-ray. 8-)

[JulietShadow]

Omg. I`ve been dying to see HP. I heard it`s great, which is good since DH was the best book out of all of them.

[Jason McCloud]

Supposed to see it today.

[JulietShadow]

I always see movies I really want to see the next day. My father doesn`t have enough money to take me, so I might have to touch my financial aid money in order to buy a ticket.

[sobamushi]

we might go see it today, but i don't like watching the movies without reading the book first, and I'm just about done reading it.

[The People's Choice]

King Mika said:

I plan on watching both parts back-to-back when they come out on Blu-ray. 8-)

Well then you will be waiting a while! I recommend seeing it now.

Seeing as nobody here has apparently seen it yet, I will not give away any spoilers. All I have to say is, it was a great film. I would give it a 9/10. It doesn't score a perfect 10/10 because there were some parts they left out, but it was a great film nonetheless.

[JulietShadow]

The People's Choice said:

King Mika said:

I plan on watching both parts back-to-back when they come out on Blu-ray. 8-)

Well then you will be waiting a while! I recommend seeing it now.

Seeing as nobody here has apparently seen it yet, I will not give away any spoilers. All I have to say is, it was a great film. I would give it a 9/10. It doesn't score a perfect 10/10 because there were some parts they left out, but it was a great film nonetheless.

They always leave parts out when a novel translates into a movie. If that's your rating, then they must've left some really good parts out.

[The People's Choice]

JulietShadow said:

The People's Choice said:

King Mika said:

I plan on watching both parts back-to-back when they come out on Blu-ray. 8-)

Well then you will be waiting a while! I recommend seeing it now.

Seeing as nobody here has apparently seen it yet, I will not give away any spoilers. All I have to say is, it was a great film. I would give it a 9/10. It doesn't score a perfect 10/10 because there were some parts they left out, but it was a great film nonetheless.

They always leave parts out when a novel translates into a movie. If that's your rating, then they must've left some really good parts out.

Why do you assume that? 9/10 is a good rating! They kept a lot of the good stuff. There were just a few things that could of been improved on.

[JulietShadow]

I thought it affected the movie. The Harry Potter series always deserve a 10/10 rating, except OotP and HBP. I had high expectations for those two.

[King Mika]

The People's Choice said:

King Mika said:

Well then you will be waiting a while! I recommend seeing it now.

Given the fact that I haven't read any of the books in the series: There's no way in hell I'm waiting a year to find out what happened after Part 1. I'd rather watch them back-to-back. I'll most likely watch Part 1 on Blu-ray, and then immediately watch Part 2 in theaters.

[JulietShadow]

I might be going this Wednesday!

[sobamushi]

King Mika said:

Given the fact that I haven't read any of the books in the series: There's no way in hell I'm waiting a year to find out what happened after Part 1. I'd rather watch them back-to-back. I'll most likely watch Part 1 on Blu-ray, and then immediately watch Part 2 in theaters.

that was what I was going to do, but then i just decided to read the book, the chances of spoilers are too high @_@!

[JulietShadow]

I have to prepare myself because I'm positive I will cry during the movie because I did while reading the book. I cried in GoF, OotP and HBP.

[JulietShadow]

I don't mean to double-post, but I watched the movie two days ago. I cried my heart out, like I expected.

[Jason McCloud]

JulietShadow said:

I thought it affected the movie. The Harry Potter series always deserve a 10/10 rating, except OotP and HBP. I had high expectations for those two.

I wouldn't say that, to be honest they were improvements over the first four.

1 and 2 were both so true to the book that they rarely bothered to branch out into any originality. It was practically superfluous to read the book if you saw the movie and vice versa. There was very little difference between the books and movies for the first two.

3 got a bit better, but they got a tad weird at the end by refraining from explaining to the audience how Sirius and Lupin knew so much about the Marauder's Map (it doesn't affect those of us who've read the books but for those who haven't, it's VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW), not to mention they don't explain the full body Patronus, or how Harry saw it as a stag, but once he went back in time and used it, it was just a massive bright light, which makes absolutely no sense.

4 got a bit better, but it was a bit of a letdown. No Quidditch match in the beginning? Would have been nice to have seen some of it! The dragon scene was really weak (I mean how the heck did Harry kill the thing? That has to be a really stupid dragon) and the whole Triwizard Tournament got jipped, especially the maze scene which Dumbledore made out to be so scary and deadly, yet what did we get? Random wind storms? Wow, I'm shaking in my boots. Where were the skrewts? The Sphinx? The giant spiders? The bogarts? I know they couldn't fit all of that in there, but some of it would have been nice! Not to mention Ralph Fiennes lackluster performance at the end of the movie, and the dumb looks on the Death Eater's faces when he took their masks off. The only truly good moments are the impact of Cedric's death and Mad-Eye Moody.

5 finally lived up to the vast majority of expectations. Umbridge was pulled off VERY well, they fit in details and condensed them as need be (such as the Occlumency lessons and Harry's trial), it fit the dark tone as well. I was only really disappointed in two things: Sirius' death wasn't as heartbreaking as Cedric's, and the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort didn't have any epic music to play... meh.

6 also took on its own tone and had such an excellent sense of darkness. They left out some details, I'll admit, but there was so much that was done so well, like Dumbledore's scene w/ the evil potion thingy, Slughorn's regret (and Aragog's funeral was kinda funny! Felix Felicis potion FTW!) And Dumbledore's death finally hit a heartbreaking death to equal Cedric's. It also showed a lot of originality by showing the kidnapping of Olivander in the beginning, which the book doesn't talk about (if I'm not mistaken).

[sobamushi]

OMGOMGOMG DUDE TOTAL SPOILER ALERT!

I'd have killed you twice over if i didin't know all that happened already

[Jason McCloud]

Well anyone planning on watching Deathly Hallows would most likely already be aware of this, and anyone who isn't probably isn't interested in watching it! :mrgreen:

[sobamushi]

:X...just watched the movie this afternoon with my hubby....it was probably THE most boring/disappointing HP movies of all the ones made so far...at one point I actually drifted in the theater and was thinking to myself when it was going to be over >_>;;

[Jason McCloud]

Part 2 will most likely pick up the pace a bit. It's going to be a blood bath as opposed to the previous ones.