Harry Potter and the ASDFGHJKL;AJDSGJKJFHKASJHAK

[sexyscholar]

crwilley, here is that picture of Luna wearing the scarf. I knew I had it somewhere. :)



I thought the movie was excellent. David Yates has done a fabulous job here. He's managed to pull together the visual beauty that was PoA and the crisp storytelling that was in GoF, and it came out beautifully. I know he's signed on to direct HBP, and I hope he'll stick around for the movie version of DH.

Surprisingly, I didn't miss "Weasley is our King" one bit.

Daniel Radcliffe's Harry has improved so much! I was really impressed with the range he's able to display now. I actually like Harry now. PLZ DON'T KILL HIM. DO NOT WANT.

I'll admit, when I first heard that Imelda Staunton was going to be playing Umbridge, I was uneasy. I thought she was going to be too mousy for that part. I am happily disproved -- her Umbridge is spot-on. She's like a pink, saccharine-laced confection that hurts your teeth when you first bite into it, only to chew and chew and discover that the inside has gone rotten, but your mother makes you finish it anyway. Delightfully evil.

I AM COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH EVANNA LYNCH'S LUNA.

My only disappointment with the casting was Natalia Tena as Tonks. She was just ill-suited for the part in my opinion. Thankfully, she's not on screen very long.

Emma Watson's eyebrows kicked into gear about 4-5 seconds after she appeared. Bleh.

I'm kind of mad that Bellatrix was only in the movie for five seconds. It was a hot five seconds though.

Okay. Now.

David Yates, you have my eternal thanks for getting Ron Weasley right. You all know how much I adore Rupert Grint, not to mention my love for the character of Ron, but Movie!Ron has always left me disappointed story-wise.

Not this time. Ron is Ron -- funny, awkward, and scared but willing to be one of the first to stand by his friend. In the scene where fellow Gryffindors, particularly Seamus, are kind of laying into Harry about lying about Voldemort's return, Ron's stands beside Harry to defend him -- ready to take on anyone who might even think about browbeating Harry. *wistful sigh* I love him so much.

And oh man. He looked so fecking good.

I went with my non-squeeing friends, and I think I did very well for the most part at keeping the squee inside. There were two moments where it came out, though.

The second was when Hermione called Ron clever and he said, "It's been known to happen." Yeah. I squeed. I couldn't help it; that was a really hot moment for me.

The first (and yes, I realise I did them out of order) was during Harry's first Occulemency lesson, surprisingly. The interaction between Harry and Snape was incredibly hot, and for a moment -- a very brief moment -- I had seriously considered reading some Snarry.

mightyafrodite and I are planning to see it next week, and we'll do the HP Squee Team version then. I can't wait. *flails*

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[myaddictionx.livejournal.com]

Emma Watson's eyebrows kicked into gear about 4-5 seconds after she appeared. Bleh.


hklsdh;gdsa
srsly. they have like, minds of their own
>_<


and I personally thought that David did an
AH-MAZING job
like when Harry fell down (I don't know why, but I laughed at that part) and it was in slow-mo

and when Harry's all "NOOOOO!!" when Sirius died, it was all quiet

I was like
"Wowzuh, that be uhmaizeeng"

[single-path.livejournal.com]

yeah, I liked that they did that in silence. It seemed to add more power. And you didn't need to hear the scream, to know the intensity behind it.

[myaddictionx.livejournal.com]

Yeah,
I honestly think that the silence made it more dramatic

[octagonal.livejournal.com]

I wonder how weird Tonks seems to someone who hasn't read the books... ahah.

I was SO happy with Ron in the movie.

LUNA ahdjjgkslghaksjh!!!

[single-path.livejournal.com]

yes, you did a very good job in not squeeing every time Ron showed up on the screen. And the times you did were times when you couldn't possibly hold it in.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the picture! I have a guess for how to duplicate the scarf, but do you mind if I share it with the other PotterKnitters who were lusting after it?

There were two things from the book I thought should've been added back in - and I don't think either would've taken more than 5 minutes. Not having the scene at St. Mungo's Hospital added to the feeling that the OoP adults were there mostly as props, and the scene with Dumbledore at the end was so much more emotional in the book, where Dumbledore explained about the prophesy.

Other than that - right there with you. Mostly. My biggest dissatisfaction with the movie was that there was not enough of the actual Order of the Phoenix (and there was scheduled to be less, except that JK had told the producers that if they didn't leave one particular character in, they'd run into trouble filming Deathly Hallows...), so I honestly don't know if we saw enough of Tonks for me to decide whether I liked the casting or not.

And I wanted more Bellatrix!