Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

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Sorry to the Harry Potter fanboys. I'm just hanging on. Only watching this one because I watched the first six. Don't remember enough about the first six for this one to make total sense. Just wishing it was over.

Plot summary: Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron are on the run after Voldemort has taken over Hogwart's. The V-dude's evil forces are everywhere, competent enough to place Harry in near-constant peril, but not competent enough to finish the job. Convenient! A number of people on Harry's side don't make it to the end of the movie. Harry, Ron, and Hermione bicker (tediously) just about all the time.

Here's an example of the kind of thing that got my goat: An epic battle between good and evil forces near the beginning of the movie is less than epic, because it focuses entirely on Harry. We learn afterwards about the killing of one good guy, and see that another's been seriously injured; why not show this happening during the battle itself? Things are edited MTV-style, fractions of a second per shot, it's difficult to tell what's going on. Didn't these guys see Braveheart or any of the Lord of the Rings movies?

It's very, very dark. In more ways than one. Specifically, two.

And for all the running about and special effects, the situation at the end of the movie isn't that different from the situation at the beginning, other than the body count. I'll put the last DVD into the Netflix queue when it comes out, but grudgingly.


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