I was warned that the last Harry Potter movie was really boring, but I went to see it anyway and ended up leaving about half way through. I’ve read all the books and have seen all the movies up to that point, but the film was pure drudgery and I stopped watching during a particularly tiresome party scene. That was last year’s two and half hour lonh Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the sixth film installment in an otherwise solidly entertaining young adult fantasy series.
The last book in the seven part series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be made into two 3D films for maximum profit story-telling ability. The first installment in the finale will premiere this October and the final is out in July of next year. The trailer recently came out (above) and it looks action-packed, but it just doesn’t hold the same appeal for me. The anticipation is gone and I’m kind of over HP. I think that the mediocrity of the last film, the rise of Twillight (which is much more mediocre but kind of steals HP’s thunder), along with too much time between sequels, helped kill it for me.
I still enjoy Harry Potter though and I’ll probably go see this. I’m in my late 30s and I have a son who isn’t old enough to watch the much darker and scarier Harry Potter. The series just doesn’t hold the same appeal for me as it did a few years ago and I still can’t enjoy it with my son.
Lainey loves Harry Potter and is massively excited for this film. What about the rest of you – do you care? Are you particularly invested in Harry’s fate? I vaguely remember what happens in the book, along with my incredible disappointment at the lackluster epilogue by Rowling. I like Harry Potter and the books and movies have lasted longer than most. The public has been sold six movies so far over ten years, though, and there are plenty of us who won’t be running out to see the last two. My mind could be changed, though, if advance reviews are good.
Digital Spy has a frame-by-frame picture analysis of the video if you’re interested. (Warning: spoilers in that link.)
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