Looks quite good. Helena Bonham Carter makes good crazy and Tom Fenton’s “lean and hungry look” is great for Malfoy. I still wish they’d gone withIan McNeice for Slughorn, but Broadbent’s a great actor. I’m not sure how they’re going to work in Harry running around stark naked and gouging the eyes out of horses, but I’ve seen the footage elsewhere on the Internet so it must be in there.
I want a trailer with a lot more Helena Bonham Carter. I suspect somebody is anxiously waiting for this film to come out so they can do a trailer mashup between this one and “Fight Club”:
My God. I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.
Hey, for some magic, things gotta die. Don’t you remember the Mandrakes screaming bloody murder then being chopped up?
Ahem. Okay, to add something a little more substantial to the conversation…
The trailers look great, as always, but I admit I’m a little worried about this one because Kloves is back as screenwriter. He’s the guy who seems to want to make Hermione the main character, with Harry as sidekick and Ron as stupid clown hang-along. This is the guy who took one of Ron’s most important lines in the entire series (“If you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us first!”) and gave it to Hermione.
Can’t wait for the Won-Won stuff, though. And I hope we’ll hear a rousing version of “Weasley is our King.”
Interesting to see the Burrow under attack…that’s nowhere in the book, but I think it might work well. We’ll see.
I’m still irked at the July 18 date I must admit. It’s been ready to go for months; release it already! You’ve still got two more movies (last I heard Deathly Hallows was still two movie) to milk the money cow.
Exactly. Not only that, but I see these movies as November ones–they are dark and bleak at times, like Nov. Summer blockbusters are silly, action packed nonsense, IMO.
It does look good. No idea how they will now work in the wedding at the burrow if it’s destroyed in this film, but we shall have to stay tuned…
I won’t be going to the midnight opening this summer, unless #2 son wants to. He’s more into Star Wars, though. I will catch the film as a matinee in that first week (cheaper that way).
This looks excellent. Even if the shot of the inferii crawling out of the water makes me suspect that my dormant zombie phobia will rise again after this movie.
I was thinking while watching this that Richard Harris were still alive he’d have been 78 while shooting this movie and for Dumbledore it’s probably the most physically demanding, so here’s where they very possibly would have had to recast the role anyway.
This one’s going to have to be nearly 3 hours to have a fraction of what’s in the book: the opening with the Dursleys (who are listed in the credits), Snape’s oath (which has to be in there), Tom Riddle’s back story (much of which is important), Kreacher’s adventures, explaining what horcruxes are and going to get them, Sectumsempra, the “fluff” pieces with Ron and Lavender and Quidditch (which are obviously in the trailer), the battle and final segments, etc.- it’s action packed. This one could easily be two movies.
I hope Imelda Staunton has a cameo (as Umbridge did at the end of the book). She was absolutely dazzling in OOTP- probably the single greatest performance in any of the movies so far (though it’s my least favorite of the movies because of all the abridgements [some of them VERY important stuff]).
The most evil wizard who ever lived is back to full strength and has reassembled his army, preparing for a full on war, and they still have time for school sports? Why are they even still in school for that matter? It seems like everyone is being rather complacent in the face of imminent chaos, war and death.
People still try to live their lives even in the face of war. This is partly because there will, one day, be an end to the war, so those kids will still need their schooling, partly because lots of people don’t really believe it’s all that bad, and partly because it’s a way of staying sane.
What else are they going to do - spend their entire lives hiding in the basement thinking ohmygodohmygodohmygod? That’s not a life worth living. When London was being bombed to hell in WW2, people still went to work and played football and carried on as usual, as far as possible.
Hogwarts is also supposed to be a particularly safe place.
That’s a joke. Look at how many times the kids have almost gotten killed because of the shenanigans that have occurred at Hogwarts across the span of seven books. I’d argue that there’s no more dangerous place for a young wizard than Hogwarts.
Does Kreacher have an adventure in HBP? As far as I can recall, the most adventurous thing he did was sort of half-heartedly keep Draco under surveillance.
And I suppose if they do Dumbledore’s funeral,they’ll have Delores there.
Does the sound version of that trailer make it clear that the Burrow is under attack? It looks like Mr. and Mrs. Weasley might happen to be on the grounds of Hogwarts looking at the Dark Mark along with everybody else. At least, I think I see Neville next to them at 1:51. They did show up for the face-off between the Order of the Phoenix and the Death Eaters, and although they clearly were not outdoors when Snape fulfilled his Unbreakable Oath, the movie could have fudged that bit.
I kinda left that open so that someone would make that comment.
The main characters have almost been killed several times, but they’re different. Subsidiary characters don’t seem to be at great risk. When they are, parents start withdrawing them from school. After Voldemort, everywhere’s risky - but a place with tons of protections is less so.
Hermione’s parents, OTOH, should have taken her out of the school in about year 2.
If anything, they could skip the house-elves trailing Draco. I haven’t seen any hint of those scenes in the trailer. Also the Christmas scene with Scrimgeour interrogating Harry. Or leave out Scrimgeour and Fudge altogether.
Another thing I noticed is that, in a departure from the book, it seems like all the Gryffindor boys in Harry’s year are in Slughorn’s Potions class.
I haven’t watched the youtube trailer yet, but in the most recent trailer at the apple site (see my link in the previous post), it is most certainly the Burrow under attack. From the previews, my guess so far is that there is a scene where Fenrir Greyback tries to lure Ginny to her doom, and that this happens near the Burrow.
ETA: Look at the 1:44 mark of the trailer at Sampiro’s second link. That’s the Burrow.
By the way, can someone explain to me the scene at the 1:31 mark in the trailer at the second Youtube link in Sampiro’s post, which is also the last video at the Apple site? There is someone standing on a bridge with Hogwarts in the background. I can’t tell what that scene is supposed to represent.
