Finally saw it!

[Carol]

I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would despite not enough Snape. The only serious problems that I think the filmmakers made for themselves with their alterations were the burning of the Burrow (no follow-up reactions by Ron and Ginny and no indication where the adult Weasleys will live now--and the Burrow will have to be restored for the wedding with some sort of tacked-on explanation--and the nonsense about Horcruxes being ordinary objects like Portkeys. How extraordinarily misleading and unhelpful). The scene with the Inferius pulling Harry into the water made me jump even though I was expecting it, but I thought it was too prolonged (and may well have ruined the story of Regulus in DH1--how can they tell it in a flashback sequence without duplicating the scene with Harry)?

I actually think that given Rickman!Snape's expressions and the quick scene with him and DD in the tower before DD left that his true loyalties have been almost adequately foreshadowed. I'm glad, however, that I came to the film prepared for the deletions and alterations. Otherwise, I'd have been massively disappointed and wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. The person I saw it with had the "right" reactions, so it seems as if the cinematic adaptation worked.

Carol, who will talk more about it later when she has more time