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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I. Dir. David Yates, 2010.
As has become tradition, I went to see this with my dad and my sister on Christmas Eve. What a happy holiday movie! Or NOT.
I liked the movie, bleak though it was; I've enjoyed the later movies for the way they imbricate Harry and his friends in the Muggle world as thoroughly as they do in the magical, and the way the movies overlay those two worlds on each other much more closely than the books can or do. This movie isn't immune to the essential plotting problems that make the first half of the seventh book such a slog, but it does manage to move things along slightly quicker, which is good, because there's horrible things to see and favorite characters to be killed off, damn it! (As time goes on I get less reconciled to many of JKR's decisions in these last three books, I have to admit.)
I sort of found myself annoyed that, because of time constraints in earlier movies, a lot of characters whom we already know from way back had to be introduced for the first time at the beginning of this movie, but I was glad to see them, and I thought this movie did really well at conveying a strong emotional tone, strong enough to carry us across the six month gap until the next and final film. It ends at basically the lowest point possible, which is a good spot, because at least there's nowhere to go but up.
And, yeah, Harry and Ron wouldn't last two days without Hermione: Ron's always right when he's being sarcastic. Whoever called this movie Hermione Granger and the Two Boys She Saves Repeatedly was totally right.
As has become tradition, I went to see this with my dad and my sister on Christmas Eve. What a happy holiday movie! Or NOT.
I liked the movie, bleak though it was; I've enjoyed the later movies for the way they imbricate Harry and his friends in the Muggle world as thoroughly as they do in the magical, and the way the movies overlay those two worlds on each other much more closely than the books can or do. This movie isn't immune to the essential plotting problems that make the first half of the seventh book such a slog, but it does manage to move things along slightly quicker, which is good, because there's horrible things to see and favorite characters to be killed off, damn it! (As time goes on I get less reconciled to many of JKR's decisions in these last three books, I have to admit.)
I sort of found myself annoyed that, because of time constraints in earlier movies, a lot of characters whom we already know from way back had to be introduced for the first time at the beginning of this movie, but I was glad to see them, and I thought this movie did really well at conveying a strong emotional tone, strong enough to carry us across the six month gap until the next and final film. It ends at basically the lowest point possible, which is a good spot, because at least there's nowhere to go but up.
And, yeah, Harry and Ron wouldn't last two days without Hermione: Ron's always right when he's being sarcastic. Whoever called this movie Hermione Granger and the Two Boys She Saves Repeatedly was totally right.