{"id":14,"date":"2010-11-19T10:19:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:01:55","slug":"mark-watches-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2010\/11\/mark-watches-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the film adaptation of <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em>, Voldemort is full of glee, Steve Kloves continues to ship Harry\/Hermione so goddamn hard, and jesus christ I teared up so much in Godric&#8217;s Hollow. And we&#8217;re left with a movie that&#8217;s actually pretty good? If you&#8217;re intrigued, then it&#8217;s time for Mark to watch <em>Deathly Hallows<\/em>. Part I, of course.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I will do my best to make this post as coherent as possible, but I slept for three hours before I had to come to work. Time is <em>LITERALLY<\/em> oppressing me right now. \u00c2\u00a0So I&#8217;ll depend on a format I&#8217;ve come to feel comfortable with in moments like these: A LIST.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear you judging me so <em>stop it immediately<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and for the record, <strong>this is full of spoilers<\/strong>, so if you haven&#8217;t seen either the movie or read the books, I suggest you not read this.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THE GOOD<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite scene: Bathilda Bagshot in Godric&#8217;s Hollow. Every moment she was on screen was steeped in suspense and terror. Beautifully filmed and played out.<\/li>\n<li>Ron finally being more than just WEEPY and WHINY. Especially after he came back to the Forest of Dean.<\/li>\n<li>How close it stayed to the book. Obviously, some things were changed or left out, but this is closest to the source material since the first two movies. I dig it.<\/li>\n<li>Dobby&#8217;s scenes in Malfoy Manor and his death. His CGI has gotten better to the point where he almost looks real. (Same with Kreacher, but we&#8217;ll get to Kreacher in a moment.)<\/li>\n<li>The cinematography. Much like my favorite movie, <em>Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em>, this movie almost made the locations a separate character. I will admit that when Harry and Hermione camped on that one hillside and it looked like it was some sort of ancient lava bed, I did laugh because it looked as if it was the most uncomfortable place to camp ever. Still, so much of this movie was crisp and had a beautiful, grim tone to the color of all the scenes. I appreciated it.<\/li>\n<li>Hedwig&#8217;s death. I thought they were going to get rid of it and was PISSED, but she died and WHY AM I SO HAPPY ABOUT HER DYING?<\/li>\n<li>Luna Lovegood. Even if she&#8217;s speaking lines that aren&#8217;t in the book, the writers still nailed her character perfectly. I think Evanna Lynch is perfect for the role.<\/li>\n<li>Watching Hermione remove the memory of herself from her parents. I never thought we&#8217;d SEE that moment, and I instantly teared up. Shit was SO REAL.<\/li>\n<li>All of Godric&#8217;s Hollow, for that matter. Filmed beautifully. I love the shot where Hermione finds Peverell&#8217;s grave and the camera turns to Harry in the distance, completely still. And you know he&#8217;s found his parents&#8217; grave and then you get that lump in your throat and then everything is depressing and awful. Bravo.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming. <\/em>Actually, I think the line was slightly changed, but I was so happy it remained.<\/li>\n<li>I thought everything inside the Ministry of Magic was flawless. Just seeing Dolores Umbridge made my blood boil. But yes, near-perfect execution.<\/li>\n<li>Neville. &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THE NOT-SO-GOOD<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to start with the obvious. Steve Kloves, stop trying to make Harry\/Hermione happen! It&#8217;s not going to happen! And look, I love Hermione until the end of time when I cease to be, but jesus christ, man. I understand why the dancing scene happened and it was cute in theory, but the entire time, I thought, &#8220;THEY&#8217;RE GOING TO MAKE OUT, AREN&#8217;T THEY? PLEASE DON&#8217;T LET THEM MAKE OUT. WHAT THE FUCK.&#8221; Even worse, though, is NAKED HERMIONE AND HARRY MAKING OUT. Like&#8230;.seriously? Steve Kloves, STOP IT. WHY. WHY. WHY.<\/li>\n<li>Why on earth was Voldemort so <em>happy<\/em> in this movie??? He was absolutely giddy throughout, except in Harry&#8217;s visions of him. The Malfoy Manor scene in the beginning of the movie is supposed to be foreboding, but I felt like we were in some weird alternate version of the Brady Bunch or something. We&#8217;re supposed to be terrified of the dude and he&#8217;s always laughing. Voldemort doesn&#8217;t laugh unless puppies are being crushed by a steamroller made out of your hopes and dreams.<\/li>\n<li>Hinting at Potter Watch and then not playing it. I mean&#8230;without Ron looking for Potter Watch on the radio, they made him look very strange, as if he had no reason to listen to the radio. Well, I suppose you could say that Hermione&#8217;s reason she gave, about him NOT wanting to hear bad news sort of works, but they made him look irritating.<\/li>\n<li>Hinting at Voldemort&#8217;s name being a trace and then not explaining it. I mean, they literally included every scene that would lead to Ron returning and telling them how they were found before, and then&#8230;nothing. Perhaps it will be explained in Part II?<\/li>\n<li>No Kreacher&#8217;s tale. That part is such a huge moment in the whole series, and we didn&#8217;t get a second of it. BOOOOOO.<\/li>\n<li>The pacing. SO. ODD. I thought that many scenes were allowed to breathe instead of the choppy treatment they were given in <em>Half-Blood Prince<\/em>, so let me at least appreciate that many parts of this movie were given space. But it still felt really bizarre in terms of flow; it didn&#8217;t segue very well a lot of the time, as if you simply were waiting for each part to happen instead of seeing it as a larger narrative. I will admit this might be because I am familiar with the book.<\/li>\n<li>NO LUPIN. YOU ASSHOLES. How is it going to make his death <em>the most tragic thing imaginable <\/em>if you don&#8217;t include his whole tantrum? UGH. Was so upset that was left out. \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EXTRA THOUGHTS<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>What happened to the scene that was released before this movie came out where the Death Eaters attacked that bridge in London? THIS WAS CLEARLY IN <em>HALF-BLOOD PRINCE<\/em>. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.<\/li>\n<li>Peter Mullan, who played Yaxley, is in EVERY MOVIE EVER, I SWEAR. And it&#8217;s so hard to see him as Yaxley because I&#8217;m like OH HEY, YOU&#8217;RE THAT FUCKED UP PRIEST IN <em>RED RIDING<\/em> or YOU&#8217;RE SWANNEY IN <em>TRAINSPOTTING<\/em> or YOU&#8217;RE SYD IN <em>CHILDREN OF MEN<\/em>. It was kind of distracting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s everything I can think of. I&#8217;d give this movie a solid B. Compared to <em>Half-Blood Prince<\/em>, it&#8217;s perfection, but just as a general movie\/adaptation, a good B is fine. It&#8217;s still strange and the pacing bothered me, but I enjoyed it more than I expected it to.<\/p>\n<p>All right, let&#8217;s get to discussing! What did you think of the the film if you saw it? I&#8217;m hoping the comments will trigger some other thoughts of mine that I may have glossed over, but again, I&#8217;m running on three hours of sleep. Cut me some slack!<\/p>\n<p>GO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort is full of glee, Steve Kloves continues to ship Harry\/Hermione so goddamn hard, and jesus christ I teared up so much in Godric&#8217;s Hollow. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2010\/11\/mark-watches-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,11,9],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-harry-potter","tag-harry-potter-2","tag-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows","tag-mark-watches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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