I should admit that I never read a single HP book. At the time the first one came out, I was too busy being a rebellious teenager to subscribe to fads. Everyone in school was reading it, which only meant that I wasn't going to. By the time all my friends were on book 3, 4 or 5, I convinced myself that I was doing the right thing by sticking to my very adult-like classic literature. By the time the last book was published I was just finishing college and too busy with more artsy, dark, contemporary literature thanks to my (new) artsy, dark and contemporary friends. So in short, I just didn't have the time to read Harry Potter.
However, I, never missed a single one of the movies.
And here I am, puzzled as ever, as to why I continued to waste my time and money with a plot I couldn't follow or understand. I like the Harry Potter movies, I really do, but if you ask me who is who, or what they do, or whether they are a bad or a good guy, I would probably not have an answer for you.
Combine the lack of context with my inability to understand the british accent and you end up with 19 hours and 38 minutes, and at least some $120 (some popcorn included) of my time and money completely wasted.
HP&TDH Part 1 was impossible for me to follow for the reasons above. Luckily Part 2 had more action than lines, so it was far more entertaining. A few things that I took from the movie:
1. Daniel Radcliffe is very short. Seriously, he makes everyone look like giants.
2. This guy:
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It's Willow!!! I never noticed him before but today I did. Now there's a movie about wizards that I love.
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Not that I would watch it again, it would probably ruin it for me.
3. These kids are grown up! Deathly Hollows Part 1 and 2 had some serious adult scenes. There was some naked making-out action on Part 1 and several very bloody (and one very abstract) scenes on part 2. This last movie was rated M (recommended for Mature audiences) in Australia.
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4. Whatever happened to the Asian girl that Harry had a crush on? When did Ron all of a sudden have a sister? And when did she and Harry fall suddenly in love?
5. Thumbs up. Even though I still don't know who's who in the world of HP, I think I was able to tell that there were some bad guys who turned out to be good, and some good guys that were not so good. And there were a few loving characters that evolved from being nobody on movie 1, to being the hero who saved the day on movie 7. I quite liked all the twists they added at the end.
6. I don't want to spoil it for you, but the ending is nothing short of cute.
So will I read the books now? Probably not... but maybe I should watch all the movies again.
2 comments:
I watched the first two movies, then read the first book, then also decided to just keep along with the movies. I think I've kept track of who is good bad and likes who, but also no motivation to go back and read the books.
More importantly, I LOVE Willow. I've totally watch that again.
Read the books. They are definitely worth a few days of doing nothing else!
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