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So who's going to see it tomorrow? Maybe this weekend or next week?

I just saw it, and it was awesome!! Kinda sad it's over tho....

witchy wrote:I just saw it, and it was awesome!! Kinda sad it's over tho....

Really? It was good movie, but I've not seen it yet. So there will not the next Harry Potter movie anymore at all?

I saw it with my 14-yr-old daughter, her friends, and another mom. First time we've ever done the midnight movie thing, and it was a blast to be part of that insanity.

As a movie, it wasn't really my favorite of the series. It was "Part 2" of the final novel, and it pre-supposed that the audience already knew the story from Part 1 (a pretty safe bet for the midnight crowd). Consequently, it was not a "stand-alone" movie. And a whole lot of it was taken up with the final battle between Harry & Voldemort at Hogwarts, so it was long on action and short on relationships, I thought. However, I do think they did justice to the death of Snape (by far the most fascinating character in the series), as well as Harry's final, out-of-body meeting with his deceased mentor Dumbledore. And they kept the epilogue, although they omitted some details from it that I had especially loved in the novel.

I think the HP movie series is enjoyable, but the books are superb. I expect I 'll re-read the whole cycle at some point. Even my husband, who is not a novel reader, was enthralled by them.

Oh--and we saw it in 3-D, but I don't think you need to do that. The only moments where I thought the 3-D effects truly enhanced the experience were when the fire-demon was chasing the kids, and when Voldemort died. Oh, maybe the Gringotts sequence, too, but I could have enjoyed the film without the 3-D effects.

Some rumors say that this is going to be the end of Harry Potter movie?!? WHY???

iHaunt wrote:Some rumors say that this is going to be the end of Harry Potter movie?!? WHY???

It's not a rumor, it's a fact. The Harry Potter movies are based on the novel series, and this movie finished the dramatization of that series. In fact, they divided the last novel into two movies (Part 1 screened last November), so they actually made 8 movies out of 7 books.

If you enjoyed the movies but haven't read the books, you really ought to do that. IMO, the books are superb and better than the movies, though I enjoyed the films, too.