Harry Potter and the what the F*$%
I am a big fan of the HP series. At age 32 it seems ridiculus - including the fact that I recognize that word as the charm to get rid of a bogart.
I am a bigger fan of the books.
Which leaves me with the title of this blog.
I understand that there are inconsistencies between a book and how its potrayed on the silver screen. I even at some level understand that climaxes need to be altered to make the hero look good. Case in point - Patriot Games.
But this movie takes the cake.
It starts off wrong. Spoiler advance notice. Don't read beyond this point if you have not seen the movie and will sit thru 2.5 hrs of hell regardless of my opinion.
I could have done with a little less "won won" snogging to get a better duel between Snape and Harry in the end.
Harry was in a body bind curse under his invisibility cloak when Dumbledore gets killed not hiding like the wimp shown. If we know anything about his character from the 7 books or the previous 5 movies, we know he would have jumped out wand in hand to take on Draco and Snape.
I havent taken a refresher from the book, but I don't remember The Burrow burning anytime. A burnt burrow will not be able to host Bill and Fluer's wedding in part 7.
There was a huge battle between the order and the death eaters when the school is attacked. That was significant as Bill gets bitten by Fenir and turns into a warewolf, which leads to Fluer getting accepted by Mrs. Weesley as a good DIL which leads to Tonks and Lupin getting together. Tonks and Lupin are shown together in the start of the movie.
Ginny kisses Harry after Gryfindor win the Quiditch cup and not in the room of requirement.
Basically they made a total hash of the end of the story, screwed up the middle and started off wrong. In brief, a total disaster !
I am a bigger fan of the books.
Which leaves me with the title of this blog.
I understand that there are inconsistencies between a book and how its potrayed on the silver screen. I even at some level understand that climaxes need to be altered to make the hero look good. Case in point - Patriot Games.
But this movie takes the cake.
It starts off wrong. Spoiler advance notice. Don't read beyond this point if you have not seen the movie and will sit thru 2.5 hrs of hell regardless of my opinion.
I could have done with a little less "won won" snogging to get a better duel between Snape and Harry in the end.
Harry was in a body bind curse under his invisibility cloak when Dumbledore gets killed not hiding like the wimp shown. If we know anything about his character from the 7 books or the previous 5 movies, we know he would have jumped out wand in hand to take on Draco and Snape.
I havent taken a refresher from the book, but I don't remember The Burrow burning anytime. A burnt burrow will not be able to host Bill and Fluer's wedding in part 7.
There was a huge battle between the order and the death eaters when the school is attacked. That was significant as Bill gets bitten by Fenir and turns into a warewolf, which leads to Fluer getting accepted by Mrs. Weesley as a good DIL which leads to Tonks and Lupin getting together. Tonks and Lupin are shown together in the start of the movie.
Ginny kisses Harry after Gryfindor win the Quiditch cup and not in the room of requirement.
Basically they made a total hash of the end of the story, screwed up the middle and started off wrong. In brief, a total disaster !
posted by Umesh at 3:54 PM
1 Comments:
Being a big fan of the books, the movies have not really lived up to the expectations - but this one was by far the worst. I'd compare this to the 3rd movie where the broomstick shows up randomly at the end. The special effects as always were the saving grace and are the only reasons I'd consider watching the HBP 3D version. The ending was a complete disappointment, maybe they could have just tagged another 20 minutes to leave the viewer with a better sense of following the storyline from the book?
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