I loved it. I thought it was very well done and really admired the graceful elisions and plot editing that Kloves made to the script.
I haven't read the book since it came out, so I didn't really know what I was missing. I thought it flowed really well.
The audience was absolutely riveted and quiet during those scenes.
From the moment
Hermione burst into tears till Harry actually died,
I was on the verge of tears. But half the audience was sniffling at that point, and one girl in the back was sobbing. But no one was laughing at her because we were all feeling the same way. I think it was the first time I'd experienced collective sadness in a theater rather than collective laughter.
As for
Neville's big scene, I did miss that it wasn't in front of everyone, but what I love about the way it was done in the movie is that it reads, "Harry kills Voldemort. NEVILLE WITH THE ASSIST!!"
In conclusion,
Hermione!Bellatrix
was hilarious.
We went to see HP7pt2 at midnight the night before last. I was very glad to have seen it when I wanted to - but on the whole, while I enjoyed it, I much preferred part one. In the end, it felt like there was too much in the book to be properly played out in the movie. The scenes that made me cry for a large proportion of the second half of the book left me mainly unmoved. Hmm.
P-C, relevant to your white font,
the importance of the Neville scene in the book particularly is that both Neville and Harry share a birthday, but by Voldemort going after Harry, he created his nemesis. He easily could have targeted Neville instead. So with both young men, born on the same day, being instrumental in Voldemort's death, the prophecy really did come true.
At the HP showing, we got trailers for the next Dark Knight (a bare glimpse) and the next Sherlock Holmes, which is slash slash slashier than ever. At least the trailer seemed to emphasize that.
The same trailers that were linked to here, or new ones?
We got those two plus a Captain America I had seen online.
I went to a discounted showing of HP7 for my company at 9AM. Discount, good, but I got one fucking trailer! I feel very cheated.
As for the movie,
FUCK YEAH NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM.
Also,
I cried at pretty much the points I expected to. The scene in the woods with Harry and his parents and Remus/Sirius was great.
Now to go reread the books.
Dropping out of lurkdom to say, that I did read one JK Rowling interview when the last book was published (don't remember where) in which she talked about the whole Luna/Neville thing and said that while she never intended them to be together (and she doesn't think they do end up together) that Luna and Neville always did unintentionally become linked together in scenes when she was writing them. And she said she could totally see why fans envisioned them together later.
Also, I saw the movie tonight and it was awesome. I also cried. For me it started the moment Harry got done reading the pensieve and sat there realizing he had to die and continued through the woods scene. They did a great job with those scenes. Daniel Radcliffe was terrific. I also love how since we've had 8 movies, that characters like Sirius can pop up for like, two lines, and be so affecting and heartbreaking.
Guilermo Del Toro and Gus Grisly are making a stop motion, very goth looking Pinocchio.
Why is it stop-motion works so well with gothic themes? Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Brothers Quya, Jan Svankmajer...
