If she’s going to the AMC Maple Grove, I’ll be with the Luna and the Angelina Johnson lookalikes (TheKid naturally looks like Luna. Sometimes acts like her, too)
I’ve also got tickets to a 9 pm/midnight two-fer double feature tonight; can’t wait!!
If they had offered a straight-through 8-movie 24-hour marathon, I would have done it. I heard there was a place in Texas that did this, but the only special marathon presentations close to me I found went the wimpy route and split up the eight movies into two or four days.
But will he get nekkid? That’s the question.
I’m eager to find out what the scene in the trailer of Harry & Voldemort plunging off a castle walkway ala Holmes & Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls is about since I don’t recall it from the books.
And please please please have the “Not my daughter you bitch!” line.
On the “making of” specials that have been airing there was kind of a sweet scene of a teary eyed Alan Rickman saying goodbye to everybody after his last day of shooting. Kind of jarring seeing Snape and Harry et al smiling and hugging.
Sadly no.
the Gringotts break-in
It’s there and awesome!
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I read that the director did not have Radcliffe get naked. It would have been tremendously distracting to the scene.
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From what I’ve heard(haven’t seen it yet), the “bitch” line is in the movie. It was too good to not include.
No idea about that scene from the trailer. I agree that it is weird.
Well, at least some people cared enough to smuggle footage (inchage?) out of EQUUS.
I’m sure I’ll be seeing it in the next week.
Is this one a good 3D movie or a bad 3D movie?
-Joe
Seems kind of like a boneheaded thing to do to someone protected by horcruxes (horcruces?) when you aren’t.
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I don’t think it’s “born 3D”- the 3D was added. General rule of thumb is 3D works best for animated movies. I plan on seeing it in 2D by choice (I don’t like the light levels and all of 3D glasses) but will be curious to hear what others have to say.
Exactly, so I was wondering if it was a dream sequence, or perhaps some new Wizarding World dance craze (The Enemy Leap or Hogwart Hop or whatever).
It’s really awesome, though I’d have to see it again to decide whether it’s my favourite of the series. The midnight screening atmosphere was amazing (you could feel the anticipation in the room when it came up to the Molly/Bellatrix showdown, many people, like me, were leaning so far forward in their seats that we were almost standing up), and my sister, a crazy Harry Potter fan, spent much of the movie weeping. She’s a very emotional person.
I’m just back from seeing it! Not for the first time, the time difference between Europe and the US leaves me feeling unreasonably smug.
I stayed through the credits and I can say that there’s no extra scene or anything special at the end, but it was worth it to sit there and marvel at how many people were involved in making the film nonetheless.
I absolutely and in every way know what you mean with that last comment. That was part of why I stayed in my seat until the final Warner Brothers logo came on the screen and the the lights went all the way up. Time to reread the series from the beginning again!
Oh, bollocks, I messed up the multiquote. Give me a minute here to find my place again.
I’ve seen it, and yes - it lives up to the hype. To answer your questions…
Does he get nekkid?
Actually, 1/2 yes! He and Ron BOTH take their shirts off. Hermione looks like she’s about to strip too… then sadly puts a giant towel on instead.
Is the line in there?
yep
The “plunging off the castle scene”…
Happens just before the climactic Harry/Voldemort duel. It’s how they get from the castle to the courtyard and it’s actually probably gonna scare the poop out of some younger kids. By grabbing V and throwing them both off the tower, Harry forces V to use that strange black-cloud-flying trick he does, and the extreme close-up shots of V grinning/possibly trying to bite Harry (in 3D no less) are rather unsettling.
Well, no (to the spoiler). It’s part of the final battle at Hogwarts.
I have to say, I was enthralled the whole time. The acting was by far the best of the series, from all hands. Daniel Radcliffe has grown amazingly over the course of the movies. Since reading The Deathly Hallows, I have been tapping my foot waiting for the movie to see Neville and Molly in their big moments, and I was not a bit disappointed. The audience erupted into applause at both points.
Most definitely bring tissues for Alan Rickman’s scenes close to the end. Colin Firth is still on my list to be my children’s future stepfather, but I would so have a fling with Mr. Rickman. That voice.
Ralph Fiennes brings great expression to a noseless role. Helena Bonham Carter is just as lunatic as Bellatrix as before, but where she blew me away was in the scene at and outside Gringott’s, in which she played Hermione playing Bellatrix and just nailed it.
I saw it in 2D. I don’t know if the 3D version would be an improvement.
I’m pulling a double tomorrow at work, so I’m not going to go to the midnight showing (also, I’m pretty sure trying to buy tickets at the last minute would be unwise, at best), but the bf and I will probably see it at the earliest opportunity.
Also, NEVILLE.
That is all.
Saw it this evening. Firstly, so much better than part one it just isn’t funny.
Secondly, it is quite possibly the best of the lot.
Really very, very good.
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THANKS FOR THIS INFO! (Bolded so others will note it.) I hate waiting through 12 minutes of drivers and fifth lighting assistants and key grips to find there’s no real reason to do so.
i’m so, so glad to hear that some of my favorite scenes (molly, neville, the prince’s tale) have been done well.
this is going to be very emotional for me. i teared up seeing the scene with the resurrection stone in the trailer. when harry tells his mother “stay close to me” right before going to die, that’s about the point in the book where i break down. i hope that line is in the movie.
heading for the theater in a couple hours to line up for the midnight show. really, really can’t wait.
Has JK Rowling ever done a cameo in any of the movies?
I know that Bill Weasley is played by the real life son of Brendan Gleeson (Mad Eye Moody), but are there any other relatives on screen other than the twins?
I’m eager to see how they do the “years later” scene at the end. I read it gave the makers headaches; they’d originally wanted to cast 30-something actors with strong resemblances to the younger actors but then decided “No, people don’t want it to end on actors who aren’t Radcliffe/Watson/Grint/etc.”. Did they do a good job of making the actors look older?
It’s a post-conversion 3D movie, though done carefully. I’d see it in 2D, though. That’s how it was filmed.
Nope.