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Saw DH2, gonna see it again
I haven't read DH since it last came out, and that was through frustrated tears because I had to read it from a bootlegged version because the one I ordered was never delivered on time, so a lot of the details are just fuzzy for me. So! Bullet-point time:
- McGonagall is so badass. "I've always wanted to do that spell!" LMAO
- Two Slytherins in the RoR with the DA? Oooh.
- Dammit, just because Pansy wanted to give Harry up shouldn't mean ALL the Slytherins have to go to the dungeon. Rar. (Yeah, I know, shut up.)
- Didn't mind the Neville/Luna. Neville's actually really cool and Luna is too.
- Poor Ginny. They got one kiss and even in the end, it all came down to the Trio anyway.
- I adored Narcissa here. I know it happens differently in the book, but when she was all "Draco come here" and stalks out of Hogwarts like she's all "K we done here C YA BAI" was just. Hysterical. Also Caroline pointed out the awesomeness of her being basically the only one who STILL managed to have perfectly coiffed hair and smooth robes. She's legit, yo.
- I have no shame in saying this but I am probably going back to the movies to see the 10 seconds of family time Draco has with Astoria and Scorpius. Astoria is cute, but I barely saw Scorpius. She's all fussy over her baby boy, d'awww.
- At last, R/Hr!
- Little underwhelmed by Fred and Remus and Tonks dying. :( Also it looked like Lavender died.
- SNAPE. HOMG. SNAPE. D:
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Oh Ginny. I've always felt that she got the short shrift, both in the books and in the films, and never was it more in evidence than in this film. Even in the books, I've always thought Ginny was supposed to be a lot more awesome than we were actually shown she was, and in this film she got something like two seconds of screen time total, so it wasn't exactly a chance to showcase her best side. I felt bad for Bonnie Wright, who deserved more.
Watching character body language in this film is fairly telling: the only female who spends a lot of time in Harry's personal space is Hermione. In fact, in a lot of emotional scenes she's filmed closer to Harry than to Ron OR Ginny, which is a problem when the director tried to sell an epic Hermione/Ron romance to me. I don't really have any shipping loyalties in HP fandom, but to me it looked pretty clear that this film posited that Harry and Hermione had (at the very least) an oddly close relationship. I mean, the final shot is her pressed up behind him against his shoulder, with Ron standing further away and in the background. I'd have rather had a shot of the three of them side-by-side, if they were going for Trio shots.
Rickman fucking KILLED the Snape role in this film. From that opening shot of him standing in silhouette on the tower, to his final death scene, I was impressed. Radcliffe was also notably good, and has grown so much as an actor. I thought that his Harry had some really subtle moments in the film, and he made the most of them. A far cry from the 'bash over the head' acting of the first or second films, and a testament to his maturation as an actor.
Narcissa was indeed awesome. That little shot of her grabbing Draco and marching out of Hogwarts, spine straight, head high, while her husband cowered terrified behind her? Fantastic.
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What I liked about her in the book version of DH is that she didn't sit around wallowing for Harry while he was gone--with Neville and Luna, she became something of a kickass leader of the DA, and that was sadly missing in the movie. I don't get into the Gryffindor ships much but I'd have liked to find Harry/Ginny believable.
I noticed that final shot too--firstly that Ginny had blended into the background then cut out entirely, and yeah, that Hermione was leaning towards Harry. Man, don't even get me started on Hermione. I think that's almost entirely on Kloves, possibly Yates and Cuaron too. It's no secret they're more enamored with the idea of Harry/Hermione and they've stated that they like exploring what H/Hr would be like. It shows too, and even though I think JKR is also of the opinion that yeah, Hermione could have gone either way, she was still writing R/Hr.
Snape's like the true hero of this series. ♥
Yes. There were many kickass scenes in the movie--that was definitely one of the biggest ones for me.