Oh my Goodness!! Final HBP trailer

[Carol]

Kemper wrote:
> I liked the CGI Beaky as well.  Hated the flight over the grounds.  I also liked the CGI dragon.  Hated the chase scene across the grounds.
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Carol responds:
It's all a matter of taste, I guess. I loved the flight over the lake. It seemed real, and Harry reacted realistically (as did Hermione later with her "I hate flyingggg!"). Loved the music, too. Maybe it's the sentimentalist in me.

As for the CGI horntail, it didn't look realistic to me, and wasn't it supposed to be black? I hated having them ignore the fact that these were females guarding their eggs (real ones as well as the gold one--why would a male dragon defend a golden egg?). I was disappointed that we didn't get to see all the other dragons, at least in miniature. And, like you, I hated the chase scene over the grounds. It wasted screen time, did needless damage to the set, and it killed the poor dragon. Why not leave that scene as it was in the book? I guess they thought that a chained dragon wasn't exciting or dangerous enough! (While we're at it, I hated the maze scene as well. No Sphinx, no acromantulas, no Blast-Ended Skrewts, just evil hedges and a sinister atmosphere. Possibly, it was more sophisticated and "mature," but it wasn't what I was expecting. Did like Cedric, though.)

Carol, who thinks that the episodic structure of GoF nearly ruined the film