Soooooo that was disappointing.
Want a summary?
Harry is suddenly, out of blue, without any set-up, madly and irrevocably in love with Ginny, while both Hermione and Ron (not to mention Lav-Lav, here adapted to fit the Cullen family's special brand of clingy psycho), are all feeling "love's keen sting". Many love-lorn antics ensue; ranging from the hilarious (which was annoyingly used up in trailers), with Ron's unfortunate brush with a particularly strong love potion; to the downright bizzare, with Ginny's strange shoelace scene.
So, where's the summary you may ask. That's it. No. Really.
Oh yeah, and Draco is Evil (with a capital D for Death Eater), Snape is Evil (with a Capital D for DOUBLE -CROSSER, at least from Harry's view point), and Dumbledore is Dead (with a Capital D for .. Dead.)
oh and *ACTUAL MOVIE SPOILER AHEAD*
WTF the burrow burns down when Bellatrix and Greyback show up, Harry follows them (because, hey get with the times, he has blood grudge against our favourite nut-case Ms Lestrange, donchaknow) into...corn fields? around the Burrow? ANYWAY so there's a ring of fire (not dissimilar to the one I would like to roast David Yates in for this travesty), Ginny follows Harry (because SHE'S just mad about the boy), and as if all this crap wasn't enough Lupin and Tonks are ALREADY TOGETHER! DAMN IT YATES! could you not have cut out some of the nauseating Harry and Hermione pining-away-for-their-unrequited-loves scenes and replaced it with the genuinely sweet Lupin and Tonks one? WHY THE HELL NOT!?!?! Back to my original WTF, WTF BURROW BURNS DOWN. huh?
My Main rant, though, has to do with the pensieve memories. The only ones we see have to do with horcruxes, there is no mention made of Riddle's mother, his family history, his reason for hating muggles, any of it. Its incredibly frustrating, because it felt like Yates missed the whole point of this book. It was about Harry truly understanding Voldemort, not just in the whole "you destroy the horcruxes to kill him" way, but in the "hey, Voldemort has this one key vulnerability, THIS is the power you have that the Dark Lord Knows Not, THIS is what you will use to defeat him, and Harry, it all comes from you, not from some outside source". I dunno, just really annoying that they cut out Voldy's emotional stuntedness in favour of a focus on his physical issues. meh.
Overall, waaaaaay too much focus on the romance in this, there's not nearly enough use of Ron (he's just a comic relief, which is incredibly annoying), and Dumbledore toes a fine line between the guy we know and love (his scene with the Inferi at the cave is a complete Crowning Moment of Awesome, and he has some great one liners), and the guy Michael Gambon seems to think he is (weird questioning of Harry's love life, anyone?).
Sigh. On the OTHER other hand (I think at this stage I have like 5 hands)...Tom. Freaking. Felton. My God, I love him in this. He has really been coming into his own in the past few, but his amazingly tortured performance in this one reeled me right in. I think I might be a little bit in love.
Oh and also: Harry on Felix Felicis? F.U.N.N.Y. I love Dan Radcliffe when he's being comic, it really works on him.
I dunno, I might be being a bit harsh because I'm still in the throes of disappointment's "keen sting", maybe I'll soften up a little after the second viewing?
Rating? Horcrux. Slightly creepy, genuinely jumpy (in parts), but not enough soul for me.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment