Escape to the Movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

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bigredlyms

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THE QUOTE CONTAINS A SPOILER!!
Wulby said:
I just got back from seeing it. Great movie, great review.Best movie in the series (if you were following it. otherwise it's just not understandable).
First time someone in the main cast other than Emma Watson showed some acting skills, and Watson showed she probably has a chance in other movies. She's a good actress.

One thing that bothered me, and I'm pretty sure someone will make a big dig deal out of it (Not really an important piece, and if you read the book - no real spoiler here, but still):

*Spoiler Warning*

So at the Malfoy mansion, at the point where Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter, awesome as usual) tortures Hermione, that what also in the book, no problem there. But in the movie, Bellatrix uses her knife (also mentioned in the book) to carve the word "mudblood" on Hermione's INNER LEFT ARM. For those of you who aren't as familiar with the Holocaust, the Nazis tattooed a number on each Jew (and I think also everyone else, but I'm not sure. They, for obvious reasons, teach mostly on the Jewish Holocaust in Israeli schools) INNER LEFT ARM. This was one of the many ways to dehumanize people, and to destroy morale.
See the correlation?

This wasn't in the book, and it's a bit more than just a coincidence. I get the reasons behind it, and it's frankly quit clever, since the books don'y really give us to see the way Death Eaters treat muggles, and a hint for the way Nazis treated Jewish people is a smart hint.
But I can predict now that someone, somewhere, will find it offensive.

*End Spoiler and a very long analyse of it's meaning*

And for a recommendation? Well, if you've seen the ones before, you will see this one, one way or the other, right? Then do it now, since it's good.
If you haven't seen them, and didn't read the books, (*insert bad British accent*) then just go read the bloody books, they're the most important books since LotR, Bloody fool! (*end bad British accent*) And forget the movies, if you didn't care for them until now, you never will.
AND SO DOES MY RESPONSE!!!!

i also noticed that in the M.o.M., all of the guard seemed to be wearing a red band on their arms, kinda similar to....... you guessed it! Nazis.
 

Distorted Stu

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I loved it. I thought the film was rather dark, like Bob said, getting to the point where "shit gets real".

If i was a kid, the Three Brothers animation mid-movie would fucking give me nightmares for years.
 

shadyh8er

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*sigh* Is it any coincidence that I'm watching this a day after getting flamed for not knowing what the Tri-Force was?
 

Harkonnen64

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Ha! I got to see it Thursday at midnight (or rather early Friday morning as it took them 40 minutes to fix the projector...) and it was awesome! My favorite part was Harry and Hermione dancing. Radcliff's theater skills really come into play there.
 

RockyMotion

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Well, saw it yesterday and liked it much more than the former ones. The series' mood in the books has been darkening progressively, and it was nice to notice that in this movie. It's so much different of the cheerful and childish feel of the first two movies (but i was a kid back then, so they did their jobs nicely back then).

After the 3rd movie I always walked in the theater biased because of the awful amount of story details they left out in each movie. The 4th and 5th did reasonably in this aspect imo, but the 6th let me down like the 3rd. This one doesn't have that problem of overlooking important story moments because it is split. The inconvenient is that the plot can drag in the middle of the movie, and the moment where the thrilling action scenes will begin is left out for the 2nd part. But some scenes that better characterize the trio of friends weren't left out so I'm not complaining about the movie being split. If it wasn't split, I bet they would let out the part where SPOILER Ron parts ways with the other two, or the scene where they infiltrate the Ministry. That would be awful.

SPOILER: the dance scene between Harry and Hermione was a very nice addition in my opinion, it did a good job cheering the mood up a bit i the middle of the movie. The animation with Hermione narrating the tale of the deathly hallows kicks ass too.
 

NKnight

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Good news... and well, it may be because i grew up watching this stuff, but I like all the movies overall. It's a nice world, "a la lord of the rings" kinda of stuff, you know?
 

Redd the Sock

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Nice to know there's someone else out there that acknowledges that, love it or hate it, just pulling this all off with as few hicups as they had was a minor miricle.

I expect to enjoy it, but I'm waiting a while for the kid and fanboy crowd to die out first. I might do otherwise for part two which, given where people say this one ends, will be mainly the bank heist and final battle spread over 2 hours, so I should at least get my money's worth out of the 3D glasses I'll probably have to get.
 

mptothedc

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Someone has to stand up to those whalers. They're only doing it because it's not being enforced properly. It's no different than groups like Green Peace. They just have a show for it.

Anyway, I saw HP opening night and it was really good. Alot of the scenes in the movie were how I imagined them while reading the book. If that's not good film making while staying true to the book then i don't know what is.
 

Grey_Focks

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Saw the midnight release, enjoyed the movie, LOVED the "three brothers" animation scene it it. That was seriously just awesome, and it had one of the best Grim Reapers I'd seen in a movie in ages.
 

godlymcjesus

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i am planning on waiting for both movies to be on a compilation five hour dvd but thanks for the video. now i may actually watch it in Imax
 

Yoseph

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Before this review I was almost definitely not going to see it, but now I might give it a try. The 'might' is because I thought that all of the previous movies were meh, expect for the 6th which was perhaps the shittiest hardest to understand movie I've ever seen, even though I've read all the books twice.
 

WrongSprite

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Wow, I came to this thread ready to shoot MovieBob down. But I'm really glad he agrees with me, this was an absolutely cracking film.
 

MrRags

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Actually this convinced me.

Im a huge Harry Potter fan, that is why I walked out of the theater for only the second time in my life when I saw #4. I havent scene 5 or 6 because that one was sooo bad. But because they split this movie up, i was considering seeing it, now I will.

Thank you Bob
 

beema

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hehee great episode this. all the video game references and other allusions were funny.

I'm going to go see it just because: I've seen all the other movies and I need some closure.
They were ally pretty decent, so why not.
Although, I thought the most recent one (half blood prince?) was probably the crappiest of all of them, mostly because the plot didn't make any sense and I had to look it up on the harry potter wikia and read summaries of the novel to make sense out of it. They cut out of a lot of really important shit apparently.

Anyways, one of my friends organized a group outing to go see it tomorrow night and bought us all (expensive as fucking hell!) tickets. So I guess I'm all set. Jesus christ though, $16 for one ticket? Shit is getting absurd with movie theatres.