The hint of a familiar face
The fixed smirk, the playful gaze
The artless, rain stung face
It's in my memories that I lost you
The written word, the smudged lines
Bound by bruised twines
They were torn and buried in dismal confines
They were yours to take, not mine to keep
Stop. Turn back the time
Always my partner in crime
Hear the distant laughter chime
I never did master the craft of moving on
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Now I don't endorse the seven sins, but this one was Superbia!
I know, I know - I really must learn how to keep 'em titles short. But what fun is it saying "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 Review" (Actually, that's pretty long too). First things first - the movie does more than enough justice to the book. If this movie was a cake, I would put a Gemino* spell on it and keep eating it till.. well, till I got bored of cake. But it would take an awful lot of cake to get me bored.
Now, you do need some idea of the Harry Potter franchise to get most of what happens on screen. But you don't have to have read all the books (heck, I haven't (yes, I can hear all the gasps and you can close your gaping mouth now)) or paid extraordinary attention to all the movies.
In spite of being the finale and all that, the movie is rather breezy. None of the Order of Phoenix darkness or the Deathly Hallows part 1 gloominess. There are a lot of wisecracks and a whole lot more jesting even during the Hogwarts battle. There is the required melodrama, right amount of action, just about enough mourning and for the teen-tween audience some P.G. rated canoodling.
Of course, the movie skips over some parts and changes quite a few events entirely (I was saying "that doesn't happen in the book" a LOT). It also included some of the scenes that had gotten only a passing mention in the book (like Hermione's destruction of the Hufflepuff cup). Some of those changes made the movie better. I'll have to watch it again to determine if there were any changes that made the movie worse. As of now, I'm absolutely, head over heels in love with it.
Coming to the not-so-nice parts of the movie (there were very few of those). The junior artistes/extras within Hogwarts overdid the whole getting scared bit, hammed if you will. Next, soppy Snape* just doesn't do it for me. They should also just have skipped over the "19 years later" part. Come on, no one wants to see Ginny in a bad hairdo or Draco dressed up like the kid who played grandpa at school play (with a fake beard et al).
All in all, I give this movie an A. It has passed with flying (insert death-eater joke here) colors. The 3D was not really required. The plot, the actors and the Voldemort* carried the movie beautifully. I'm not complaining because I got a chance to discover the best 3D theatre in Bangalore (Urvashi*). I have to be cheesy and end the review by saying that the movie was, quite spectacularly, magical.
P.S. Since my train of thoughts gets lost very often and reaches the stations it is not supposed to in the brackets, I'm putting down the would-have-been-in-brackets-but-you-are-being-spared asterisked lines down
*Gemino - Spell to duplicate stuff. This reminds me that it is rather ironical that my name means unique but I'm born under the sign of the twins (yes, I always get this self important while in brackets. I also use the word "rather", rather lot).
*Soppy Snape - Professor who covets the Dark Arts Prof position, who later gets it and then kills Dumbledore. Snape is the quintessential stiff upper lip Brit and we love him for that. But when he gets teary eyed, the stiff upper lip starts drooping a bit.
*The Voldemort - The villain. I mean THE villain. The movie does depict him as cowardly and he doesn't seem as menacing in person as he ought to. But when his voice echoes all around, it is just wow.
*Urvashi - Theatre near Lal Bagh main gate, Bangalore. Previously, also, Urvashi - alternative when movies didn't get released in multiplexes. Previous to that, also, Urvashi - hangout for college kids.
Now, you do need some idea of the Harry Potter franchise to get most of what happens on screen. But you don't have to have read all the books (heck, I haven't (yes, I can hear all the gasps and you can close your gaping mouth now)) or paid extraordinary attention to all the movies.
In spite of being the finale and all that, the movie is rather breezy. None of the Order of Phoenix darkness or the Deathly Hallows part 1 gloominess. There are a lot of wisecracks and a whole lot more jesting even during the Hogwarts battle. There is the required melodrama, right amount of action, just about enough mourning and for the teen-tween audience some P.G. rated canoodling.
Of course, the movie skips over some parts and changes quite a few events entirely (I was saying "that doesn't happen in the book" a LOT). It also included some of the scenes that had gotten only a passing mention in the book (like Hermione's destruction of the Hufflepuff cup). Some of those changes made the movie better. I'll have to watch it again to determine if there were any changes that made the movie worse. As of now, I'm absolutely, head over heels in love with it.
Coming to the not-so-nice parts of the movie (there were very few of those). The junior artistes/extras within Hogwarts overdid the whole getting scared bit, hammed if you will. Next, soppy Snape* just doesn't do it for me. They should also just have skipped over the "19 years later" part. Come on, no one wants to see Ginny in a bad hairdo or Draco dressed up like the kid who played grandpa at school play (with a fake beard et al).
All in all, I give this movie an A. It has passed with flying (insert death-eater joke here) colors. The 3D was not really required. The plot, the actors and the Voldemort* carried the movie beautifully. I'm not complaining because I got a chance to discover the best 3D theatre in Bangalore (Urvashi*). I have to be cheesy and end the review by saying that the movie was, quite spectacularly, magical.
P.S. Since my train of thoughts gets lost very often and reaches the stations it is not supposed to in the brackets, I'm putting down the would-have-been-in-brackets-but-you-are-being-spared asterisked lines down
*Gemino - Spell to duplicate stuff. This reminds me that it is rather ironical that my name means unique but I'm born under the sign of the twins (yes, I always get this self important while in brackets. I also use the word "rather", rather lot).
*Soppy Snape - Professor who covets the Dark Arts Prof position, who later gets it and then kills Dumbledore. Snape is the quintessential stiff upper lip Brit and we love him for that. But when he gets teary eyed, the stiff upper lip starts drooping a bit.
*The Voldemort - The villain. I mean THE villain. The movie does depict him as cowardly and he doesn't seem as menacing in person as he ought to. But when his voice echoes all around, it is just wow.
*Urvashi - Theatre near Lal Bagh main gate, Bangalore. Previously, also, Urvashi - alternative when movies didn't get released in multiplexes. Previous to that, also, Urvashi - hangout for college kids.
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