Harry Potter 7

Good movie, but it really wasn't very exciting. I always try my best to not watch the entire moving looking for what was changed, removed or trimmed, but this one just really made it too hard. It felt, I dunno how to describe it...stale? While the first half of the novel is certainly not as exciting as the second, it still felt much, much more enjoyable while reading it. Too little explanation, too little sense of anything else in the movie! While reading it, I felt this overwhelming sense of dread around them--the deaths all around, the horrible state of Hogwarts, etc etc... It didn't feel like it was there in the movie. A sense of sorrow for sure, but you didn't really know WHY (besides oh hey, Voldemort is in power so things must be bad). Movie adaptations are always going to suffer, and this one is certainly staying more "true" to the story than some of the others, but my goodness we REALLY need that Part 2 to redeem and complete this movie!

That aside, I went in absolutely terrified they were going to take out one of my favorite lines and butcher the scene, but I was wrong. So wrong. It was AWESOME. The Horcrux locket destruction scene. It was actually even better than expected, AND they left my favorite line in! Least loved, always... That made it all worth it. On the other hand, I was quite disappointed how they changed the Malfoy Manor scene at the end (especially concerning Pettigrew).

I dunno I enjoyed it. haha Can't be too picky. It was dark and great build-up for the second part (which is going to be the awesome one, no doubt).