I think I need more coffee. I am very tired.
I may or may not have seen Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix last night. At midnight. On IMAX. Where the last 20 minutes were in 3-D. While wearing a team shirt made for me by Stephanie.
I have fully embraced that I am a raging dork.
Initial Thoughts (with spoilers, natch)
I liked it. The 3-D stuff at the end was so flippin cool, most especially the climactic duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort. It was so totally worth the $16 ticket. But I'm always disappointed on what the directors/writers cut out or change. In the book Harry is an annoying, frustrated, pissy little punk. While reading you understand why he is all these things, and you sympathize, but you also want to climb in the book, twist him by the ear and yank him off his huffy bike. The movie sort of glosses over this a bit. Like, you see maybe 2 scenes of him being pissy and then he's normal Harry again.
I hated the woman who played Mrs. Figg. She was flat and monotoned. I wished I could have seen more from the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes storyline (although the Fred and George attack on Umbridge did not disappoint). Imelda Staunton did an awesome job as Umbridge, you hate her hard core the entire time, just as you should. The movie did a really good job of showing the bond between Harry and Sirius, your heart just breaks at the end. As always, big ups to my boy Alan Rickman who I adore as Snape (oh god, I can't wait to see what he does with the role in Half-Blood Prince). Michael Gambon needs to delve a bit deeper as Dumbledore.
Overall it's good fun. My favorite movie is still Prisioner of Azkaban, which I think really captures both the storyline and the essence of the book the best. Roger Ebert pans OOTP a bit, and I sort of know where he's coming from. The movie is missing something, it's hard to put your finger on what exactly. My guess is that because the book is so huge the movie has a lot to slog through, in this case it may feel as if the exposition fairy is laying it all out for you in the script and lines, instead of showing it and letting the camera do the work, especially if you haven't read the books. Still, I enjoyed it. It's worth seeing it in the theater, and the IMAX experience is worth it too for that neato 3-D.
Now, just 10 more days until Deathly Hallows!
I may or may not have seen Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix last night. At midnight. On IMAX. Where the last 20 minutes were in 3-D. While wearing a team shirt made for me by Stephanie.
I have fully embraced that I am a raging dork.
Initial Thoughts (with spoilers, natch)
I liked it. The 3-D stuff at the end was so flippin cool, most especially the climactic duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort. It was so totally worth the $16 ticket. But I'm always disappointed on what the directors/writers cut out or change. In the book Harry is an annoying, frustrated, pissy little punk. While reading you understand why he is all these things, and you sympathize, but you also want to climb in the book, twist him by the ear and yank him off his huffy bike. The movie sort of glosses over this a bit. Like, you see maybe 2 scenes of him being pissy and then he's normal Harry again.
I hated the woman who played Mrs. Figg. She was flat and monotoned. I wished I could have seen more from the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes storyline (although the Fred and George attack on Umbridge did not disappoint). Imelda Staunton did an awesome job as Umbridge, you hate her hard core the entire time, just as you should. The movie did a really good job of showing the bond between Harry and Sirius, your heart just breaks at the end. As always, big ups to my boy Alan Rickman who I adore as Snape (oh god, I can't wait to see what he does with the role in Half-Blood Prince). Michael Gambon needs to delve a bit deeper as Dumbledore.
Overall it's good fun. My favorite movie is still Prisioner of Azkaban, which I think really captures both the storyline and the essence of the book the best. Roger Ebert pans OOTP a bit, and I sort of know where he's coming from. The movie is missing something, it's hard to put your finger on what exactly. My guess is that because the book is so huge the movie has a lot to slog through, in this case it may feel as if the exposition fairy is laying it all out for you in the script and lines, instead of showing it and letting the camera do the work, especially if you haven't read the books. Still, I enjoyed it. It's worth seeing it in the theater, and the IMAX experience is worth it too for that neato 3-D.
Now, just 10 more days until Deathly Hallows!
2 Comments:
I just need to know...how hard am I going to cry at the, erm, scene with my Gary? A lot? I'm guessing a lot (favorite character + one of my favorite Brits).
I think I'm with Renee, I will problly bawl if that was done as well as I've been hearing it indeed was.
I was talking to a friend who lives near Lancaster not 20 minutes ago about meeting at KOP to see Harry sometime next week. I think you just convinced me to spoil myself for the very first time and see it on IMAX. I leave at 5:30am tomorrow for a weekend conference and I really should be packing rather then checking my logs.... or else I would have seen it today.
thanks for the review, can't wait to see it to chat with you about it.
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