Sindatur
Regular
Saw it yesterday, it was fantastic.
They did a superb job with cutting characters out, and transferring little things to other characters and the little tweak here and there to the plot line.
The only minor little quips I had was until they got to school, it was even difficult for me to keep up with the choppiness and the quick progression of plot. Would it really have made much difference if the studio had goven them just 5-10 more minutes of air time to change scenes in the beginning more comprehensively? When we went yesterday (12 noon showing) we got there at about 11:50, and it wasn't sold out, and we got good seats (it was showing on 4 screens, starting about every half hour). So, I think 10min longer movie wouldn't have had any impact on theatre's opportunity for # of showings, so no box office impact, IMHO.
I also think it would've been nice had we seen at least a snippet of the other 3 champion's dragon bouts, but, I understand those had to be cut, still, even 30 seconds each (Like maybe just show them getting the egg).
So much of the movie actually surpassed my imagination visually, it was stunning.
The graveyard scene, yea Pettigrew was a little too willing to "give his right arm", but, they still kept his grovelling weaselyness, so, that was OK to me in the interest of saving time on not trying to weasel out of it. Voldemort was great, but, I expected his voice to higher and raspier (more snakelike) and was he supposed to have red eyes, or was that my own interpretation?
I definitely give it at least 9 out of 10, it was far and away the best yet, and far better than I dared hope for.
OotP has the potential to be incredible, Thestrals, the MoM, Grimmauld place, etc. And HBP with cave scene and the inferi.
They did a superb job with cutting characters out, and transferring little things to other characters and the little tweak here and there to the plot line.
The only minor little quips I had was until they got to school, it was even difficult for me to keep up with the choppiness and the quick progression of plot. Would it really have made much difference if the studio had goven them just 5-10 more minutes of air time to change scenes in the beginning more comprehensively? When we went yesterday (12 noon showing) we got there at about 11:50, and it wasn't sold out, and we got good seats (it was showing on 4 screens, starting about every half hour). So, I think 10min longer movie wouldn't have had any impact on theatre's opportunity for # of showings, so no box office impact, IMHO.
I also think it would've been nice had we seen at least a snippet of the other 3 champion's dragon bouts, but, I understand those had to be cut, still, even 30 seconds each (Like maybe just show them getting the egg).
So much of the movie actually surpassed my imagination visually, it was stunning.
The graveyard scene, yea Pettigrew was a little too willing to "give his right arm", but, they still kept his grovelling weaselyness, so, that was OK to me in the interest of saving time on not trying to weasel out of it. Voldemort was great, but, I expected his voice to higher and raspier (more snakelike) and was he supposed to have red eyes, or was that my own interpretation?
I definitely give it at least 9 out of 10, it was far and away the best yet, and far better than I dared hope for.
OotP has the potential to be incredible, Thestrals, the MoM, Grimmauld place, etc. And HBP with cave scene and the inferi.
). When you get down to it, the part I really wanted to see was that last 15 minutes with Voldemort. He's the "A" Story. The Tri-Wizard Competition is really the "B" story. But I liked it anyway. They also nailed the mood swings of teenagers perfectly.
