It was BRILLIANT!
Absolutely AMAZING!!!
I'm not going to say that the book was better rah rah ...
But, everything everyone said here was 100% correct!!!
Though one thing, i'm so glad I read the book before watching the movie!!! :-)
SSSooo many things were left out, and only very briefly touched upon in the movie that were sssoooo detailed in the book ... That's what I love about the book ,.. the subtilties ... (sp?)
Having said that, cinamatographically (if that's even a word LOL :-)) it's FUCKING BRILLIANT!!! Unbelieveably amazing!!!
(This ones for the LJ peeps) You know that song i'm always going on about ... the "flying music" by Vanessa Mae (which I will post up soon enough sorry for the tardiness) ... well that song is PREFECTLY captured in the scene where Harry rides the hippogriff!!! That's it there! The song personified ... or movieonified :? whatever ...
Gosh the landscape is stunning! England is sssssoo beautiful.
Was it shot in England? Well where ever it was shot was spectacular!!!
Sooo many times you get goose-bumps, and you lose your breathe slightly
oh gosh I could go on for DAYS about it ....
Jules you were right in everything you said ... and I want to see it again LOL :-)
whoever said that none of the sub-plots were followed and only the main one was ... only one main plot ... yeah I see how that worked now ...
shit there was NO WAY they could fit everything though ... good idea to read the book first ... I don't think they BUTCHERED the book like someone says, but ... it's a good idea to read it first ...
though, the director does a MARVELLOUS job ... what's his name? He does a good job in keeping faithful to the book ... they don't leave out THAT many things ... definately not any of the MAIN things ... the more subtle things ... well what do you expect! If the movie went for 5 hours, you'd also complain... so basically it's a good balance ...
anyway, that's why you READ the book ...
Whoever said Ron was comic relif .... omg ... RON IS A CRACK-UP!!!
He's great .. I never used to be a big fan of Ron, and they do give him sort of a dopey role in the movie ... he's a little more heroic in the book ... but ... still, he's great value :-)
Those facial expression ... those little things he says when everyone's comcentrating on Harry .. and he sneaks in a sly/dumb comment ...
omg and when he's talking about tap-dancing spiders ROTFLMAO!!! I was in stitches!!!
And Hermione!! You fall in love with her character .... she's not an "insufferable know-it-all brat" at ALL!!!
She's rather endearing in the movie I though! SHe's lovely, and she's vunerable in the movie ... so much better than that hard-shelled unbreakable character she is in the book ...
And Harry ... *sigh* :-) I love Harry ...
Whoever said the new Dumbledore is ... too energetic ... YYYEEESSS ... the old Dumbledore had an aire about him ... wise, and noble and clean .. this one is excited and he ties up his beard! what's with that! It looks dirty too :? You don't feel he's in total control ... you don't feel he's someone that Lord Voldemort would be petrified of ... you don't feel he has that aire about him ... :?
I love the cinematography ... gosh England truely is a magical place.
Whatelse ... um, yeah I could seriously go on for days :-)
It was very very good ....
And whoever said they got their tickets early ... good idea ... the cinema had 5 sessions going, and all 5 were sold out!
And this is a school-night at 9.30pm ... even the 7.30pm session was totally sold .... I don't want to know about a weekend, or Friday night ...
Hey they gave out free posters too :-) w00t!!! :-D
My friends all gave me theirs :-) I have lots of Harry Potter posters ... I'll put one in the lab at work, one in the lab at Uni, and one at home :-)
I'm all Harryied out now :-)
I'm a pot-head ;-)
