Some Initial reactions...

[Dave Hardenbrook]

Valerie Flowe:
>For the first time I was disappointed that Yates followed JKR verbatim
>on the Fred/Tonks/Lupin are dead scene. I hated that in the book, how
>JKR was like "oh yeah and those 3 are lying dead". I was so hoping
>that Yates was going to give them a heroic death, tho I guess that was
>the intent when Tonks & Lupin reach for one another...
Dave:
I agree...  After seeing that bit in the trailers, I was hoping we'd 
at least see Remus and Tonks bravely standing tall and holding hands 
as an unidentified agent of death engulfed them (a little like George 
C. Scott and Joanne Woodward at the end of the film _They Might Be Giants_).

I was also kind of hoping they might have Tonks in the Resurrection 
Stone scene, to show that she and Remus will "go on together"... But 
for all I know, that would go against JKR's theology.


tripchick2001:
>The one thing that did seem cool in 3D to me, was the confetti 
>effect after Bellatrix and Voldemort disintegrate

I think the sole reason for having the Big Three (LV, B, and Nagini) 
suffer "death by confettization" was for the sake of the 3D.


Child of Midian:
>Not thrilled with the idea of 3D because they didn't film ANY of it with 3D
>cameras, as is true of about 90% of 3D film releases. The 3D is all done
>digitally and usually sucks so bad they decided not to even use it in part
>one. Then there's films like Clash of the Titans and Last Airbender where
>the fake 3D made the film blurry and painful to watch.

Dave:
Thanks for this info -- That would explain why things in a 3D scene 
so often just look like flat cutouts at different distances from the 
camera. -- I've noticed this ever since those "ViewMaster" 3D viewers 
I had as a kid.  Also, any kind of motion blur looks annoyingly 
artificial.  I think it gave me a headache too.  Am I the only one 
who thinks 3D will prove to be a relatively short-lived fad?


Steve:

>I didn't so much want to see Harry use the Curcio, as much as I did 
>want to see Harry defend McGonagall's honor.

Dave:
Me too, and he could have done that quite easily with "Stupify" or 
even "Levicorpus".  I still think the whole point should have been 
(and originally was, in OoP) that Harry is too pure of heart to 
effectively cast Crucio (or AK).


Cat:
>Also, the girl that Greyback was ravaging (that Hermoine 
>killed..yea!) was it Lavendar Brown?

I've only seen it once so far, but I'm pretty sure it's a boy -- 
Either Colin or the non-Canonical "Nigel"...


Darby:
>What was the point of Harry and Voldy falling off that cliff? It 
>wasted time and didn't really achieve anything.

I guess they wanted a "Reichenbach Falls" moment... :|


>Voldy should have died from his own killing curse rebounding. I 
>think that's important because he caused his own final demise. And 
>the final battle really should have been as described in the book. I 
>think it's more exciting the way it happened in the book.

I agree with you and others who made this point -- That he caused his 
own demise absolves Harry of having to kill anyone, and proves that, 
as Dumbledore said, prophesies can be and are wrong.


>They should have shown Percy coming to help.

No point, since they never depicted Percy's falling out with his 
family in the first place.


Alla:
>Thats because my email is really old and I started out really liking 
>Dumbledore's character, however when I ended up really hating his 
>character, I did not want to bother changing the email.

Reminds me of a couple of women I know who have been divorced and 
remarried, but their unchanged E-mail addy still bears their ex's name.
(One reason I favor women just keeping their own names.) :)


Dave



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