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alright, so I'm going to go against the prevailing wisdom here, and say that the latest potter was brilliant.. (spoilers)

Posted by mafic Jul 21 '09, 08:39

first and foremost, because it nailed the book's concept, as I envisioned it. everything about it except for harry/ron/hermione's dress was perfect wartime england. costume, architecture, lighting, background objects, even characters' attitudes was perfect. destroying the burrow and the millennium bridge I thought was especially evocative of london during the blitz. I also particularly liked how the tom riddle flashbacks managed to seem both more archaic, yet effectively unchanged from the present wizarding world. the scene of harry/dumbledore in the press scrum at the very start was also perfect archaic/magical tech.

that and I also saw it in a theatre full of harry potter nerds, and smuggled in a few flasks and played a good harry potter drinking game (every time someone speakz latin, take a drink. man, is there ever a lot of latin in that movie).

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i loved it while i watched it, and i plan to see it again, but it DID leave out vast vast amounts of info. (movie spoilers) - Andie Jul 21, 08:47 4
- spoilers - mafic Jul 21, 08:51
- I would rather have had the opening scene be as the book had it (spoils) - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:49 2
  - the movies are (spoilers) - Andie Jul 21, 08:51 1
    - Yeah and I'm not a fan of that after Book / Movie 5. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:55
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I believe that what most people disliked about the film is that it glossed over some of the more heavy elements. - Mop (still 235lbs... on a good day) Jul 21, 08:45 1
- Those kids bought the books en masse. You don't need to be overtly graphic in showing the themes in the book...but ignoring them...no chancwe. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:47
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- no! - mafic Jul 21, 09:00
One glaring alteration....just finished the book (spoils) - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:42 10
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  - Yeah, I know that part...but adding scenes annoys me. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:44 8
    - I haven't seen it, but in general the idea of adding scenes doesn't bother me in the slightest. - TFox Jul 21, 08:52 7
      - I might feel the same if they'd used the source material well in the first place. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:57 6
        
        yeah, but rowling had a fair bit of creative control. if she didn't approve, it wouldn't be there. - mafic Jul 21, 09:06
        
        I'll have to wait and see. I suspect I'm not going to remember enough line by line for it to bug me, but we'll see. -- nm - TFox Jul 21, 08:59 3
        
        I didn't re-read it till after the movie was out so I wasn't line by lining it. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 09:01 2
        
        except (spoilers i guess) - tRuMaN Jul 21, 09:03
        
        heh. - kelly Jul 21, 09:03
        
        I -- nm - TFox Jul 21, 08:58
Granted, I've only been paying the slightest attention to TT reviews, but I got the impression that the latest HP was well liked by TT. - musubi Jul 21, 08:41 5
- I haven't been reading in detail (to avoid spoilers), but my impression was 'not foreboding enough.' which is about the opposite of how I felt. -- nm - mafic Jul 21, 08:46
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  - Hmmm. My lack of interest must've cause me to miss a lot of those C's. - musubi Jul 21, 08:46
- I think it missed by a wide margin the theme of the book, much less the execution of it. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 08:42
- I'm not so sure. David liked it, for example -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 08:42
it was really really pretty.. (spoiler) - colinski Jul 21, 08:41 1
- honestly, I felt about the same as your IM as when I read it in the book. (spoilers) - mafic Jul 21, 08:44

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