The Official Harry Potter Thread

[eternitygoddess]

Cormac looked like a young Ryan Phillipe! Albeit a rather sleazy one.

On a sidenote, I could not believe the NERVE of Summit to show the New Moon preview in a HP film.

[Ophelia_Immortal]

Mine didn't have one. Thank the Gods...I would have walked out.

[chic stranger]

SPOILERS ALERT!!! I finnally saw it last night and I have to say that I really liked it! definitely different from the book and there were things I certainly didn't like but overall I thought it was really good.

one of my favorite parts was definitely harry on felix! I love the comedy scenes the movie had! the very beggining was so shattering because you see dumbledore put his arm around harry to protect him and if you read the books you know what's coming and the whole movie I was just sort of readying myself for that moment, yet, I didn't cry, I felt the scene was maybe too short, too lacking in emotion in a way and I feel that harry should have been petrified like in the book because he would never would have stay hidden under the staircase watching the whole thing, he is braver than that, but I did found very endearing how the students honor him even though I hated not having a proper funeral scene. the ending I thought could have been better too, it just felt like it was missing something, I would have love having the dialogue in the book where hermoine and ron tell him that they'll be there for him and going with him wherever he goes instead of Hermione telling him he was being "thick", it would have at least been a better closure to the film.


I loved the scene in The Burrow with Bellatrix, even though is not in the book and I do feel that time could have been use to explain some things better and go deeper in other scenes I'm not going to complaint because I love The Burrow and I was always rather cross they didn't show it more in the other films! MORE scenes in the burrow I say!

the one part that really sort of bother me was in the room of requirement because again if you read the books you know that harry uses an "item" to remember where he left his book and this is a major thing in the deathly hallows so im just curious as to how is going to play out in the seventh film.

WORSE THING: the girls screaming in the theatre when the new moon trailer came out, I felt like I was at a disney concert of some sort, it wasnt new, it's been shown before, doesn't look that good so I don't really understand the reaction of these girls. no need to scream.

[Torchb3arer]

OMG some of you know like every charactar in Hogwards, what a shame that i only know Hermine, Harry, Rohn, Bellatrix and the cute owl by name

[eternitygoddess]

WORSE THING: the girls screaming in the theatre when the new moon trailer came out, I felt like I was at a disney concert of some sort, it wasnt new, it's been shown before, doesn't look that good so I don't really understand the reaction of these girls. no need to scream.

I would've hurled my popcorn at them.

[simons]

i dont know if this has been posted, but it got me thinking how i would rank the movies.. im divided if i should rank the movie as just a movie or a movie based on a book.

curious to know everyone else's thoughts.
right now its 536412.. but ill probably change my mind.

[chic stranger]

Originally Posted by eternitygoddess

I would've hurled my popcorn at them.

Oh, trust me, I wanted to so bad, but what if I got kicked out? I needed my harry potter fix. haha! some guys were laughing and booing so hard just making fun of all the girls screaming their heads off! I'm not exagerating it was insane!I was just so surprised they showed it in the first place, I hate that they are lumping the films together when they have nothing in common in my opinion. maybe cause robert P was in the goblet of fire? nothing against twilight, to each their own but I just don't understand the need to scream and shout and swoon about it. I just found out that J.k Rowling has say in all the HP merchandise, which I didn't know and I'm so grateful about cause the day I walk into a store and they have a whole isle of HP perfume, games, etc... I'm putting my foot down. haha she kept it very classy.I'm so ready to see the deathly hallows!

[nijuyanah]

Argh... I really need to see the new movie but haven't found any time until now. My friends who've already seen it, said it wasn't that overwhelming but I don't care because The Half-blood Prince is probably my fav one of the books and: Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix is just Can't wait.

As for showing a New Moon trailer in a HP movie: that is miserable indeed.

[Label Basher]

Originally Posted by eternitygoddess

On a sidenote, I could not believe the NERVE of Summit to show the New Moon preview in a HP film.

as much as I'm anti-Summit you can't blame them. The Promos ads are given to the cinemas and then they chose what is shown. It's a combination of when they will be released, ratings and if the movie is aimed at the same audience (which it is -fantasy and teens).

Also sometimes they do the same company like another Warner Brothers movie shown in front of HP. I had Sherlock Holmes which is also WB but then we had Inglourious Basterds which is Weinstein/Universal. I first saw the HP promo before Star Trek and that's is by Paramount.

My friend had New Moon and she's a huge Twlight fan but she kept her cool.

[irulan]

I've been thinking...

Ginny hid Harry's Potions book, right? He did not see where she put it.
Bad! Cause, in the book, Harry bestows a wig and an old tiara on a bust close to the HBP's book so that he can find it again later. That tiara later turns out be the fifth Horcrux. How's Harry going to know where it is?
Ahh, those screenwriters.

[HSantorini]

^ Maybe the tiara is going to stay in Ravenclaw's common room forever who knows?

[chanelnumber5]

Originally Posted by nijuyanah

Argh... I really need to see the new movie but haven't found any time until now. My friends who've already seen it, said it wasn't that overwhelming but I don't care because The Half-blood Prince is probably my fav one of the books and: Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix is just Can't wait.

As for showing a New Moon trailer in a HP movie: that is miserable indeed.

She does not disappoint at all!! She is so good, she is totally convincing - she is so scary/insane as Bella.

Can I join the Cormac appreciation group? He was so freaking hot, I love the bit at the dinner w/Slughorn where he was licking his fingers

[Label Basher]

Originally Posted by irulan

I've been thinking...

Ginny hid Harry's Potions book, right? He did not see where she put it.
Bad! Cause, in the book, Harry bestows a wig and an old tiara on a bust close to the HBP's book so that he can find it again later. That tiara later turns out be the fifth Horcrux. How's Harry going to know where it is?
Ahh, those screenwriters.

I know and what about the cup that he didn't even get to see or the fact that Dumbledore didn't really explain about the ring which is infact a hallow.

They really f*cked us on the Riddle memories that's for sure.

[irulan]

Totally true. That's gonna be massive problems with the next movies. They should've gone a bit less into the awkard-teenagers-in-love-thing and maybe abit more into the complex story. But then again that is the old Hollwood thinking of 'moviegoers are more stupid than a bucket full of sh*t'.

[Ophelia_Immortal]

The movie was good on a humorous side. But the emotion was lacking from everywhere else.

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and omg...I don't flippin' care how long it would have taken to film a 10 minute scene of everyone gathered around Dumbldedore's funeral...it was DUMBLEDORE! What a bunch of bs from those stupid people.