Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Enjoy

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"enjoy"

lol.

I can't help but feel some excitement

screw you guys! i may be a man now but at least i am man enough to admit i effin love these books,as wil my children and theirs. Just look at all the other book-film adaptions (ahem...twilight...)
and you will appreciate these films.

Originally Posted by EireEmerald

screw you guys! i may be a man now but at least i am man enough to admit i effin love these books,as wil my children and theirs. Just look at all the other book-film adaptions (ahem...twilight...)
and you will appreciate these films.

The Harry Potter books got far too dragged out for my liking, Rowling was never under any obligation to create a book for every year of Harry's time at Hogwarts. After about book three it got worse for me, and the plots became too convoluted, so I gave up on reading them after book 5.

Originally Posted by cpdwane

The Harry Potter books got far too dragged out for my liking, Rowling was never under any obligation to create a book for every year of Harry's time at Hogwarts.

Not in any contractual sense, no. But she repeatedly stated that she had planned a series of seven books.

After about book three it got worse for me, and the plots became too convoluted, so I gave up on reading them after book 5.

Translation: "me no follow plot! Me try eat soup with fork now!"

Originally Posted by Kamos

That was always something that baffled me, here you read about all these powerful wizards and they do all these incredible things having these incredible battles then Harry uses a ****ing stun spell.

It's kinda his signature attack; it's also very symbolic of - to kill requires hatred, and he, being the good guy, used an incapacitating spell to not let hatred consume him like it did Voldy. Think of it like Solid Snake; a Snake using the stun pistol is a very different person than a Snake that just busts in the room, shooting everyone with a FAMAS.

Plus, I'd think that in he hands of a powerful enough wizard, a stun spell could be enough to incapacitate and paralyse a target for a good while.

I'm aware I'm quoting a post made over a year ago. Bite me.

Originally Posted by cpdwane

The Harry Potter books got far too dragged out for my liking, Rowling was never under any obligation to create a book for every year of Harry's time at Hogwarts. After about book three it got worse for me, and the plots became too convoluted, so I gave up on reading them after book 5.

I absolutely concur. I was particularly underwhelmed by Rowling's idea for Snape's motivation. Pathetic. I'd much rather kids read Earthsea. Ged "I could annihilate Harry Potter and Voldemort without even disturbing the Equilibrium" of Gont was a much better character.

Otherwise the first few minutes of the film were thrilling enough, but it did feel a bit too dragging overall.

I quite liked them actually. But the later books had some glaring flaws: Rowling wanted to portray an ever grimmer world full of dangerous mages and murderers, while still needing to work with a lot of rather childish stuff from the first books.

For example the magic in battles, they used a ing laughing spell till the last book. Hell, there's only two spells that seemed like real combat spells: the avada kedavra one, and one that Snape had written down in his textbook (sictusempra?).
Likewise, for such a powerful mage, Voldemort's bodycount is pretty low. Considering Grimwald was part of the cause for WWII, that's very underwhelming.

Originally Posted by Manco

I quite liked them actually. But the later books had some glaring flaws: Rowling wanted to portray an ever grimmer world full of dangerous mages and murderers, while still needing to work with a lot of rather childish stuff from the first books.

For example the magic in battles, they used a ing laughing spell till the last book. Hell, there's only two spells that seemed like real combat spells: the avada kedavra one, and one that Snape had written down in his textbook (sictusempra?).
Likewise, for such a powerful mage, Voldemort's bodycount is pretty low. Considering Grimwald was part of the cause for WWII, that's very underwhelming.

That was always something that baffled me, here you read about all these powerful wizards and they do all these incredible things having these incredible battles then Harry uses a ****ing stun spell.

Liked the 1st movie but after that, each new one was "eh, I guess it was ok".

Seen most of them, but I only watch them on HBO and only because g/f likes them.

Those subtitles were really lame, and Daniel Radcliffe still can't act it looks like! They also kind of spoiled the ending with their choice of scenes.

But it looks amazing!

Honestly, however they were given different motivations.

I liked the books and films but the last film was a complete up.. This one looks promising though

I lost interest in the film series after watching Goblet of Fire, however I really enjoyed reading HP and the Deathly Hallows, so I might consider watching its film adaptation : )

I enjoyed the book, the two past movies ahve been crap, I hope that this delivers.

From what I saw, I can't wait. The Harry Potter Series was the first major book series I started reading. Deathly Hallows was badass and the opening to that trailer with Voldemort confronting Harry looked emotional and well-done, just like in the book. Having it in two parts seems to make it more complete and helped visualize some of the stuff that was hard to visualize myself. If they can get down the whole extremely somber and depressed atmosphere and don't screw up Neville's personality, this will be incredible.

Yeah I have to admit I love the books. The films gradually got better but the last one was still only just about adequate.

Weird, some people loved half blood prince film and others hated it...

The thing was, (for me at least) that half of the book was missing in the movie! The battle at the end of the book? Non existant in the fil, Dumbledore´s funeral? Non existant! They have such a good chance to portray how everythhing was going to hell in the magical world and they just focused on teenage love.