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Jul. 16th, 2011 05:07 pmSaw the final Harry Potter movie this morning by myself, since the ex-roomie was entertaining out of town friends and C-note figures he can wait until it comes out on Redbox. Its ridiculous that the theater was packed even at the 1030am showing. But I guess its an extremely popular franchise.
It was pretty good, though I think of all the movies, its the one least able to stand on its own. They definitely had to split up the last book for a reason, because even splitting it into to two 2 hr+ movies, there are still a couple of things cut or they had to go over really briefly. I know some people are thinking they just split it into two to make more money, but I don't think they could have satisfyingly done the last book in just one movie (unless they wanted to make it ungodly long).
But yeah, this movie is basically the climax of the last movie, so you definitely can't see this one without having seen the previous one, though I doubt anyone would do that anyways. Its pretty telling when the first half covered several months, and this movie covers only a couple of days. It didn't hit me until Harry was all, "Oh, the other night..." and was referencing something that had happened in the previous movie.
Heh, I did hear a spoiler that I'm glad was actually a foiler and not true, because I would've been so pissed! ( spoiler cut )
Owel, its the end of an era. But dang, I had said the world better not end before Lost ended or the last Harry Potter movie came out. But now what is there for me to want the world to keep on going? Actually, I'd be annoyed if the world ended before the Song of Ice and Fire series ended. Both the books and the show!
Also, it was weird to see some people in the FNL forums talk about how sad they were about both FNL and Harry Potter ending this weekend. But since I saw the end of FNL a few months ago when it first came out on DirectTV, I've considered FNL over for a while!
Anyhoo, after the movie, drove down to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
psyched_out's new house to pick him and his wife up and take them to the airport. They just moved in, and its a really awesome place. Like if I were his kids' age, I would be totally jealous of them. Because not only will they have their own bedrooms growing up, those rooms are friggin huge!
It was pretty good, though I think of all the movies, its the one least able to stand on its own. They definitely had to split up the last book for a reason, because even splitting it into to two 2 hr+ movies, there are still a couple of things cut or they had to go over really briefly. I know some people are thinking they just split it into two to make more money, but I don't think they could have satisfyingly done the last book in just one movie (unless they wanted to make it ungodly long).
But yeah, this movie is basically the climax of the last movie, so you definitely can't see this one without having seen the previous one, though I doubt anyone would do that anyways. Its pretty telling when the first half covered several months, and this movie covers only a couple of days. It didn't hit me until Harry was all, "Oh, the other night..." and was referencing something that had happened in the previous movie.
Heh, I did hear a spoiler that I'm glad was actually a foiler and not true, because I would've been so pissed! ( spoiler cut )
Owel, its the end of an era. But dang, I had said the world better not end before Lost ended or the last Harry Potter movie came out. But now what is there for me to want the world to keep on going? Actually, I'd be annoyed if the world ended before the Song of Ice and Fire series ended. Both the books and the show!
Also, it was weird to see some people in the FNL forums talk about how sad they were about both FNL and Harry Potter ending this weekend. But since I saw the end of FNL a few months ago when it first came out on DirectTV, I've considered FNL over for a while!
Anyhoo, after the movie, drove down to
psyched_out's new house to pick him and his wife up and take them to the airport. They just moved in, and its a really awesome place. Like if I were his kids' age, I would be totally jealous of them. Because not only will they have their own bedrooms growing up, those rooms are friggin huge!
