The worst thing about this announcement is that Joe Johnston, JP3's director, was talking about it only a few days ago. He's "got a few ideas" which can only mean he's lobbying to direct the next instalment. Steven Spielberg hasn't made a good movie since JP1/Schindler's List so it's not like...
And I think what's worse, truly worse, is that they ruined Harry and Voldemort's final confrontation in the Great Hall. By, uh, not doing it. I was reading an interview with Yates yesterday (I can't remember where, I'm afraid) where he spoke of sitting in his garden, sipping tea (how quaintly...
No it did not. DH was broken in a lot of places structurally (the camping, Snape's demise/memory reveal etc.), but we're not dealing with a book here. We are dealing with a movie.
Except it's not, at all. There's no weight to this final confrontation between good and evil, with the freedom of the wizarding (and muggle, I guess) world hanging in the balance. It's fizzled through without a sense of pace, just as the events of the last four movies have been since Newell and...
It's quite promising to see so much passion and love being poured into the production, from the director, through to the cast and down to the crew - it bodes well for two very good films.
**** YEAH.
I haven't been following filming at all, but am I right in guessing they're filming at Pinewood to save Christopher Lee the effort of travelling to New Zealand?
Didn't she only give Dumbledore depth in the final book, though? According to Snape's wikipedia page she has called him a "give of a character". Fair enough, I won't deny liking Snape. But that's pretty much because he's your only character with dimension.
I don't think that's true. Rowling has said on a few occasions that the epilogue is something she'd had written for several years prior to DH. But then, that's just "according" to Samon, whose word, apparently, is as trustworthy as your girlfriend's. How does that grab you.
I think that's a fair assessment yes. On a more serious note, all of that's true except for the 'making a big deal' (mostly because the cinema was packed with legions of Potter fans, all of which sniffed and snuffled their way through the film's more emotional sequences). I wasn't interested in...
Putting aside the fact that this "prequel" should not exist, this trailer was balls. It's essentially Carpenter's masterpiece again but a whole lot shittier in every regard - recycled scenes and cornball explanatory dialogue.