Potter Opinions

[melchar]

Saw the new Harry Potter movie and enjoyed it. They left out -tons- of the book but left much of the important plot points. It was not so chopped up that it was -too- sketchy, but I hope the DVD has an expanded version. Gary Oldman was great and the gal who played Luna was marvellous. All the actors did well their roles IMO.

But -dang- I hope they do the next book in 2 parts.

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[gil-liant.livejournal.com]

Well I want them to film "Half-Blood Prince" and "Deathly Hallows" together. (Cf., "The Three Musketeers"/"The Four Musketeers", "Lord Of The Rings 1-3" and "Pirates of the Carribean 2 & 3") It would let them 'catch up' to the rate at which the actors are aging, and there won't be any reason for further delay, once the seventh book is out. Not to mention they'll have to continue cutting out side-storys and peripheral issues anyway just to make it all fit -- and that makes for trouble later on, since it's difficult to "add back in" something that was removed from an earlier movie.

By now, they should know where the last two movies need to go and at which stops they simply must stop along the way. I doubt that, even with two movies, they'll have much time left for digressions after taking care of the essential plot and character elements.