BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2

Subject: RE: BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 06:23 AM

Saw it last night. Great fun - but it is kid's film lacking as it is in anything so much as resembling character and development, much less story. The acting, as ever, was atrocious - apart from Tom Felton, always under used as Draco Malfoy. The smug sense of Messianic Righteousness ruins it; the only point it became in anyway real for me was Snape's back story which would have made a far more interesting film. But great fun as I say.

Plot spoiler: it was the hat's fault all along!

Subject: RE: BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 06:17 AM

No, not at all, Michael. There are plenty of people who don't particularly like it. As you say, different tastes etc. Funny thing I have found though is that the people who seem most vociferous about it have not read the books or seen the films! Not saying that is so in your case but it does surprise me how many I have come across like that!

Such is life as they say,

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2
From: alanabit
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 06:09 AM

I have enjoyed the books and films from the start. The books progressed into something darker and more mature over the years, as did the characters and the actors who portrayed them. The films stayed essentially true to Rowling's vision and will last because of it. I enjoyed the final film as much as any of them, although it did not convey the same amount of suffering and grief to me as the books did. Maybe that would have been impossible. Another criticism, which is likely to be made of the film, is that the plot only really works for those who know the whole story. That did not bother me at all - and neither will it trouble most viewers, who have been following it from the start.
The actors will now be able to get on with the rest of their lives. As for Rowling, who knows. She will never create a world as complete as that again, but she may well go on to spin a few more entertaining stories yet. I bet they won't have spells and magicians in them though!

Subject: RE: BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 05:35 AM

Do not wish to piss on anyone's parade, de gustibus, tastes vary, no accounting & all that ~~

but I thought I was the only person in the entire History Of The Universe to regard the Harry Potter thing as nothing but a perfectly agreeable but by no means exceptional bit of kiddy whimsy - not in same league as e.g. Phillippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden; till I found a couple of people expressing similar opinions in the current Spectator.

Sorry. I have done. Carry on from where you were...

~Michael~

*A pic in The Times of J K Rowling a few days ago, BTW, bears a strong resemblance to my wife Emma. Oh for resources to match!

Subject: BS: Deathly Hallows Part 2
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 05:23 AM

Saw it last night - Very enjoyable indeed and certainly not a kids film. I wonder if there are any other instances of the actors growing with the characters?

Anyone else seen it yet?

Cheers

DtG