Yesterday was a success! Two friends and I went to see the eighth Harry Potter film. Quite a sentimental event for me. The Harry Potter films began when I met the majority of people I know to this day; now they end when we all part ways to different sixth forms and the like.
As you may have gathered, I love to read, although I started reading Harry Potter quite late. After the fifth film, I read the first book. I enjoyed it, but I didn't think about the others too much until two years ago when I went to holiday to Scotland. It would have been a pain to bring six books with me, so I got the audio instead. Stephen Fry was a good reader and I enjoyed them, too. Audio books aren't the same, so after Scotland I sought the books and read four to seven because no one had two or three.
For all those interested, here, in dual positions, are the Books and Films in the order of favouritism.
First Place: .........One, Seven.......................................................Five, Eight.............
Second Place: .....Three, Six, Five............................................Four, Six, Seven........
Third Place: .......Two, Four.........................................................One, Two, Three.....
NOW THE REVIEW:
Utterly amazing. I sat down with my bag of Magic Stars and the meaningful music began.Anticipation, at the max. The footage started, and it was a good choice. They had the Voldemort ending from the last film and made it the beginning of this film. The flash of white was bigger, and in this case that made it better.
The way they constructed this film from the book, the choices of what was kept, changed or left out, was sheer brilliance.
However, I hold strong to the belief that the two films should have been one long one. No part is boring. I can prove this with my friends. One of the ones that came with us hates 'magical humbo jumbo' but she was transfixed. She said she wanted to see more!
As always, whilst excusing my use of character names, five of the characters really stood out: Le Strange, Snape, Luna Lovegood, McGonagall and Mrs. Weasley. All are based on superb, flawless acting, and the last two are on events, too.
I loved that Mrs. Weasley got some fighting action, but I was sad to see Le Strange go: she does the lunatic role well.
McGonagall having a lot of screen time was a good decision because as an actress, she is one of the best and she deserves all the screen time she got and more. Doing her 'always wanted' spell and fighting Snape were very entertaining.
Things that tickled me:
McGonagall's 'always wanted' spell
Seamus getting to blow things up
Dumbledore telling Harry 'well of course its inside your head'.
Nineteen Years Later. Using the music from the first film was a great decision.
But herein lies my, I'm quite proud to say, only complaint: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny. What are they wearing? The year of killing Voldemort is 1997, add nineteen is 2016. People would not wear those clothes in 2016! Or have their hair like that. The only thing realistic was the bear bellies on the two men!
Herein closes my only complaint.
The rating: *****. I don't think there's much more to say.
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