I'm not usually a fan of going to see movies the first day of release because i find it very hard to enjoy it with 200 other people chewing popcorn, laughing like injured hyenas and generally being assholes. But, being the avid Harry Potter fan that i am, i decided this was the time to just grin and bear it.
My first thought about the movie was that it is most certainly made to cater to the people who have not read the series of books at all or as closely as other HP fans. There were a lot of tiny details missing from the movie, most of these small snippets of dialouge from the book that gave better background information and a deeper backstory.. Not exactly relevant to the overall story, which is what most people seeing the movie are only interested in, but I feel it is definetly missed by fans of the books. For example, the deaths of a few central characters were not actually shown in the movie and all we see is the aftermath... that being their dead bodies lying on the floor. These were pivitol moments in the book and its sad to see that they were left out of the movie.
The special effects are mind blowing, as usual with the harry potter movies and areas of the story that need a real life visual representation to truely understand the importance of it ( the journey to the vault in gringotts for example ) are brought to life through amazing CGI, amazing costuming and set design and in the case of the journey to the vault in gringotts,the flight on the dragon and certain parts of the final battle, amazing attention to the detail JK Rowling has given us in the book.
Fun thing....as, a girl i am aloud to appreciate that all the male actors are so damn hot when their all sweaty and bloody... And believe me, their is a lot of blood and sweat...and dirt...and glass... and rock and brick and stone... I think their may only be about a 20 minute period in the movie when harry, ron and hermione are actually clean...after that, its all dirt and blood... Again, this is all down to the awesome jobs of the special effects and make up guys... They really know how to make someone look like they've actually been in an avalanche.
As i am a huge fan of the books, more so than the movies, i do wish that they could have spent a tiny bit more time on certain aspects of the story because it seems like we've been waiting to see the finale on the screens for years. But i guess after 8 movies and 10 years, they have to cater to everyone. I mean, looking around the cinema today it seemed that most of the children there were under the age of 12 and being accompanied by their parents... children who would have only been babies or not even born when the first book was published.
Overall though, i am immensely happy that i went to see it today. The amount of hype that it has built up is definetly deserved. I am happy that i got to experience the world of Harry Potter, both through the books and the movies... I read the books as i grew up and as the story changed and got older, i and so many others grew with it, still reaching for the books or watching the movies as we passed our teens and into adulthood. The story and the characters that JK Rowling has created have been like a friend to so many and when they see it come to an end not only on paper but on the screen then they can say goodbye to that old friend and hope that a whole new generation can appreciate it in the same way we did.
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