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Deathy Hallows 2 is a very good movie.

 

Unlike Transformers, you never look at your watch and wonder when the action's going to start again and why it feels like it's dragging.

 

Personally, I liked Cuaron's Potter the best, but Yates and his crew have actually done a better job with these last two movies than the final book itself.

 

As far as the 3D goes, it's just not worth it. I expected to be blown away by both Transformers and HP in 3D and still don't get it. The only movies I loved in 3D were Avatar (obviously) and How To Train Your Dragon. Nothing else comes close.

 

Still think there will never be a movie battle scene to equal "Helm's Deep" in LOTR, but there's really a lot to like about this movie and I'm glad I had the patience to stick with the franchise all the way to the end.

 

 

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QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 09:43 PM)
Watched Road to Perdition today. Forgot how much I loved that movie. Hadn't seen it in a long time.

 

So underrated. I watch it everytime I see it on HBO

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Are you rating the music and girls' dominatrix outfits or the actual movie itself??

 

Everyone besides Abbie Cornish was ridiculously bad in that movie....I mean, errr, extended video game/music video.

 

It couldn't decide if it was a male fantasy pseudo-softcore porn movie or an action adventure. It turned out to neither. Interesting visually, but the screenplay made Avatar look like Grapes of Wrath or War and Peace.

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I am in the apparent vast minority of people who were let down by Deathly Hallows 2. It is admittedly because I can't avoid making comparisons between the book and the film.

 

I completely understand the need to streamline a story and cut out a lot of peripheral detail for the sake of a compelling and tight film with such a shorty run time. But there were so many plot deviations that they seemed to do for no reason at all and that didn't enhance the storyline in any way and it was really irritating.

 

I will go out and see it again soon (with the advantage of having not just sat through 21 hours of prior Potter installments like I did before yesterday's midnight showing), and hopefully I warm up to it a bit more.

 

I will end by stating that I strongly disagree with caufield's earlier assertion that the film versions of Deathly Hallows were better than the book. Like all of the other Potter film installments. This last one isn't in the same league — or even in the same solar system as the source material.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 11:06 AM)
Are you rating the music and girls' dominatrix outfits or the actual movie itself??

 

Everyone besides Abbie Cornish was ridiculously bad in that movie....I mean, errr, extended video game/music video.

 

It couldn't decide if it was a male fantasy pseudo-softcore porn movie or an action adventure. It turned out to neither. Interesting visually, but the screenplay made Avatar look like Grapes of Wrath or War and Peace.

 

I think the whole concept of the dream world was pretty neat. The music and visuals really did carry the movie as, like you said, the acting wasn't very good, but I was really just in it for the visuals anyway. Sometimes I pick out a movie just for the artistic visuals.

 

On that, my next movie on the list is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Has anyone seen it?

 

Another related note: I absolutely LOVE Mirrormask. It melts my face off, highly suggest it.

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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 03:28 PM)
I am in the apparent vast minority of people who were let down by Deathly Hallows 2. It is admittedly because I can't avoid making comparisons between the book and the film.

 

I completely understand the need to streamline a story and cut out a lot of peripheral detail for the sake of a compelling and tight film with such a shorty run time. But there were so many plot deviations that they seemed to do for no reason at all and that didn't enhance the storyline in any way and it was really irritating.

 

I will go out and see it again soon (with the advantage of having not just sat through 21 hours of prior Potter installments like I did before yesterday's midnight showing), and hopefully I warm up to it a bit more.

 

I will end by stating that I strongly disagree with caufield's earlier assertion that the film versions of Deathly Hallows were better than the book. Like all of the other Potter film installments. This last one isn't in the same league — or even in the same solar system as the source material.

Agreed, the emotion isn't the same in the movie as it was in the book but i still really enjoyed the film version. My only real problem was three of the main deaths in the book and movie were kind of just glossed over in the movie with a quick cut scene. Still was fun and was 20 times better than the first half which I really was disappointed by.

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QUOTE (The Baconator @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 05:15 PM)
I think the whole concept of the dream world was pretty neat. The music and visuals really did carry the movie as, like you said, the acting wasn't very good, but I was really just in it for the visuals anyway. Sometimes I pick out a movie just for the artistic visuals.

 

On that, my next movie on the list is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Has anyone seen it?

 

Another related note: I absolutely LOVE Mirrormask. It melts my face off, highly suggest it.

 

If you liked Mirrormask, then you should like Imaginarium, they have similar alternate realities. My daughter loves Mirrormask, I have rented it for her a few times

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QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 02:27 PM)
Deathly Hallows Part 2 was amazing.

^^^^

 

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 05:18 PM)
Agreed, the emotion isn't the same in the movie as it was in the book but i still really enjoyed the film version. My only real problem was three of the main deaths in the book and movie were kind of just glossed over in the movie with a quick cut scene.

My wife was was sobbing in during that scene.

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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 16, 2011 -> 10:08 AM)
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Somehow, it looks like even more fun than Pineapple Express.

 

Wouldn't take much.

 

/runs and hides

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