I say again, OMG OMG OMG:
Fans can rest assured…that their patience will be paid off fully, and some, in the final epic Harry Potter chapter.
The eighth and final installment goes out with a bang, pulling on heart strings at every turn.
In this, the grandest of grand cinematic endings, Harry Potter finally confronts and conquers dark Lord Voldemort in a momentous and, at times, terrifying showdown that easily equals Lord Of The Rings or Star Wars in terms of a dramatic and memorable battle between good and evil.
Can’t. Wait.
P.S. Other critics agree. Though I’m going to try to resist the urge to read all the reviews, and learn all sorts of mini-spoilers.
Who is this Harry Potter fellow?
By the way..I just bought a new HD TV and a Blue-Ray player. I’m thinking of buying the LotR extended versions. Are the added scenes worth getting the extended versions?
Yes. Though admittedly, I never watch the cinematic versions anymore, so I barely remember what’s “extended” and what’s not — to me, the extended editions are the “real” trilogy. But certainly, it’s worth it for Return of the King alone, as the omission of the Gandalf-Witch King battle at the gate of Minas Tirith is the single biggest error in the editing of the cinematic films IMHO. The film trilogy isn’t complete without that scene, which appears only in the extended edition.
I’m going to try to resist the urge to read all the reviews, and learn all sorts of mini-spoilers.
How can there be mini-spoilers if the movie is faithfully based on a book you’ve already read?
How can there be mini-spoilers if the movie is faithfully based on a book you’ve already read?
Because, for one thing, the movie is NOT fully “faithfully based” on that book — the trailer already makes crystal-clear that they’ve taken tremendous liberties with the final battle scene. Which, in principle, I’m perfectly okay with. I just want the broad outlines of the plot to be followed, and the end result to be awesome. But anyway, the fact that they’ve changed some of the details means there’s more to “spoil” than there otherwise would be.
Also, precisely because I know the broad outlines of the plot, the way in which they render the details (both the ones they’ve changed, and the ones they leave alone), the way they translate them from book to big screen, is really what I’m looking forward to, and what I don’t want to have spoiled. For instance: is Neville killing the snake AWESOME, or THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER? I don’t want to know in advance! 😉
Finally, above all, although I assume they will include Molly Weasley’s all-important “NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH!!!” line — because if they don’t, there will be a massive fan revolt, led by me — I don’t actually want to know, for sure, whether they included it, until I see it in the theater. (This is part of the reason I want to see a midnight show… though that looks unlikely at the moment.)