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Author Topic: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 11-26-2010 10:45 PM                    quote: David E. Nedrow Far too much action takes place off screen -- <SNIPPED COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE SPOILERS> All of those would have been more interesting than watching Harry brood away in the woods. And, way too much inaction is onscreen. Sorry, but that's exactly the way it happened in the book. quote: David E. Nedrow The other problem, is that there is no sense of time passage in the film. Starting out at the beginning of the school year and arriving at the graveyard on Christmas Eve didn't give you a hint? quote: David E. Nedrow It doesn't take much of a scriptwriter to format a book into script-ese. The same guy (Steve Kloves) did all of the screenplays, so I'm not sure what to make of that comment. Maybe he just got lucky the first six times.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 11-26-2010 11:06 PM                     I screened the first Harry Potter film and was bored out of mind. So I haven't seen any of the others til now. I was talked into it. Well, again I found myself bored out of my mind. Don't know what it is. I can sit through all 3 LOTR films (even the director's cuts) and not get bored.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 11-27-2010 01:56 AM                        CINEMA: Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons, Sandy, UT AUDITORIUM: 14 PRESENTATION: Dolby Digital Cinema DLP (apparently they let the THX certification lapse) PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: LF channel was out through the trailers and about ten minutes of the feature...smooth sailing after that. RATING: Three stars (out of four) THE PLOT: Horcrux hunting. Wackiness ensues. This is the first of the movies I've watched after having read the book. And based on the book, I was sort of dreading watching the movie. We all know how I feel about movies where the characters aimlessly wander the woods. But this totally worked for me. And it ended exactly where I thought it would. The experience of watching the worlds the book drew unfold on the screen was sort of amazing. I suppose that means I should read more. (I'm not going to read more.)  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 11-27-2010 02:19 AM                        Mark, I realize that the lack of anything interesting was exactly the way it happened in the book. I -- and my super Potter-fan wife -- both found book 7 borderline terrible. Had Kloves been able to write this for one film, I guarantee we wouldn't have to watch everyone walking around aimlessly for a good part of the movie. As for the time frame, I had no idea it was the beginning of the school year. I don't even remember them heading for Hogwarts. The movie starts and the main characters are already in "action". Maybe I was too bored to pick up on the time shifts, but I've seen it twice and it still seems random to me. I mean, why would they stay in the woods for weeks? Hiding? I thought they were trying to find Horcruxes (Horcruxi?). Even Radcliff has said in the past couple of days that re-writes were happening right up until the camera turned on each day. To quote him, "[this] was the most unsettled" of the films he had worked on. Sounds like they had no idea what to do when the decision was made to do 5 hours. Most all of this I blame on Rowling, because book 7 was, in our minds, so bad. My wife and I were talking today, and decided that neither of us even liked this film. And we thought the previous ones were great entertainment, though successively less so. A lot of people in the audience also miss the fact that Lucius Malfoy's wand is destroyed in Voldemort's first attack on Potter. I hear them coming out asking why he needed the Elder Wand when he already had Malfoy's. Oh, well, tomato, tomahto.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 11-28-2010 12:56 PM                     I don't know how director David Yates was given the assignment to direct this two parter since 'Half Blood Prince' was an insanely BORING (let me repeat that: B-O-R-I-N-G) movie (and I'm Potter film fan, never read the books, except for the audio book for 'Prizoner of Azkaban'). Here though I thought Deathly Hollow (Part 1) worked generally, except when Harry and Hermione went to find the horcrux' - then the movie became 'deathly dull' (whereupon I promptly nodded off) I'd give a 'B' The digital projection I saw at Tysons was good, but the sound - wow! this would have sounded amazing in 6.1 or 7.1  |  IP: Logged

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