So yesterday, I watched Deathly Hallows part 2.

Horrible movie, by the way. It would have been better if they'd based it on the last Harry Potter book.
But anyway, we're all watching the Battle of Hogwarts or whatever, and they show that

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the Quidditch field is burning. And my sis says "Aaw, why'd they burn down the Quidditch field?"
And I said "Maybe Voldemort never made Seeker." XD

 

Wrong, it was possibly the best in the series if you did not read the books first.

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I dunno, I thought it was a pretty good adaption.

There were some parts (like the wand) that I thought were not as good as the book, but the movie itself was still able to stand with the book more or less.

 

Voldemort, that rascal. He was so cute in that movie though, always trying to get Harry with the good ol' "My force versus yours!". It was so cute and cuddly.

 

I thought it was a great movie.

 

Oh, you're right. Sorry about that, I'll edit right away.

 

I on the other hand agree with Marushi. It was a pretty bad movie lol, and it had baaaad writing. I've never read the book, but on its own I thought that the film had terrible writing. It went beyond deus ex machina at times and just started pulling things out of its ass.

 

It wasn't that bad. They actually did the epilogue in a way that made me care for it a bit more than when I first read it. The only things they did wrong in my opinion were the wand and the statues.

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The army of elves was great to read, though I can see why they went for the statues in the film.

 

Also, I read the books before watching the movie, so everything was bad to me. They left out important battles so they could add new ones that didn't make sense, they left out entire characters, they changed important bits of information for special effects scenes, they completely never went into

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Ariana and Grindelwald, They just left that to the imagination of the veiwer,

They

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killed Griphook and other goblins, which NEVER HAPPENED btw,

And they completely messed up

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Lady Rowena's story.

And that's not even the half of it. I could go on for pages and pages, just listing all the messups in the plot and characters, but that would take up too much of my time.

 

You also gotta remember that they had to fit everything into two hours.
They already had to split it into two movies just to stuff everything in, I'm sure they did the best they could.

 

Yeah, but even trying to fit everything into two hours, they could have at least kept the original battle scenes, instead of creating entire new ones! They could have cut a whole bunch of unneccassary clips here and there that never happened, and replaced them with important plotlines, and they would have had the same timeframe. The thing is, they wanted to show how cool their special effects were, and in order to do that, they cut out important information so they could show

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Neville taunting an army of wizards who couldn't get through the magical defenses. All the death eaters shooting magic bits of light at the defenses to break it. The defenses falling down like ash. Neville running away from the army of wizards as they're chasing him. Neville destroying a bridge as he runs across, thus killing an entire army of evil wizards.

None of that really happened in the book, and was completely unneccessary to the plotline. It's only purpose was to show off the special effects of

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the magical defenses showing up. The magical defenses burning. The bridge falling. An army dying. It was all about the special effects, and if they'd left that scene out, they might have actually been able to mention Percy's return to the goodside.

 

Wait... You go to watch Harry Potter for things other than the special effects?

 

lol, yups. Call me crazy, but I actually expect a storyline from the movies I watch. Besides, the book was so good! It had a great message, amazing plot twists, real characters, and the movie didn't show any of that.

 

I really like this movie. Yeah it doesn't follow the book, but since they had to fit stuff into a 2 hour movie, I think they did really well. Even if they had to change stuff, you don't think they did it for the better? I think that even with the changed stuff, they did really well following the general plot of the movie and stuff.

 

Yeah, see, that's where our opinions differ. I think they did a pretty bad job sticking with the plotline, leaving it so they could add special effects. I agree, the new scenes are very cool looking, but they aren't a good substitute for plot.

 

You've got to understand though, that were they to include everything that happens in each book, in the movies, the movies would be twice as long as Lord of the Rings. They cut things out and changed things around, firstly, because of time constraints, and secondly, because they wrote the movie script. It's technically an adaptation of Harry Potter and the [Insert movie title here] and an adaptation is really the best they can do. Money means nothing. Effects mean nothing. I personally think they did each movie brilliantly, although, hed they stuck with the same director for the wrole series, things would have been different. Each director thinks differently, and invisions a story differently.

This is all coming from someone who didn't want to watch the last movie, because that would have been the end of it for me. I watched it anyway, and walked out of the cinema crying, because I loved it that much.

 

ah well, to each his own I suppose

 

It is one of the most renowned book series' of the newer generation, one should expect it to at least have above-average writing. Harry Potter films past number three do not have above-average writing. Quite frankly, I can imagine the later stories just being pieced together from fanfics.

 

I'm not saying that I wished them to follow the book word for word, but it would have been nice if they'd actually included some of the more important plots into the movie, and this goes for all the other movies too. Take, for example, The Half-Blood Prince.

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If they had actually included Dumbledore talking to Harry about the other Horcruxes instead of just the locket, then Harry would have already known what the other horcruxes were, instead of having to waste time in Deathly Hallows having Harry "hear" the horcruxes talk to him. If HBP actually included Harry hiding the book on his own, instead of having Ginny hide it for him (Which they did to include a romantic scene), then Harry would have known exactly where the diadem was, instead of wasting time having him slowly walk around, looking for it while listening to it talk in his head.

Again, I could go on and on, mentioning major plot events that they removed in exchange for unneccessary scenes that only serve to show off effects.

 

The book was more to lead to the part where Harry goes "HOLY ****ING **** I CAN HEAR THESE THINGS I CAN USE THIS POWER TO FIND THEM HUZZAH!" instead of aimlessly asking students if they've seen a hunderds of years old crown lying around the castle.