You probably did, or at least your Facebook is blowing up with things like “omg hp wuz sooooo good,” because worldwide, Harry Potter and the Death Hallows raked in about $330 million, and that’s a pretty big deal. I mean, it’s not Twilight big deal, at least in the U.S. box office, but it’s still pretty all right.
I went to the midnight premiere, natch, because it’s not in my nature to miss out on surrounding myself with hundreds of like-minded nerds, especially for such an important occasion. When the teenagers began running around the lobby in a wizarding duel, I knew I’d made the right choice. Disregarding the audience, the movie was AMAZING, and you can tell by my use of caps lock just how amazing it was. For instance, the Three Brothers sequence? Beautiful. The Seven Potters scene? Hilarious. To sum up the intensity of the emotions I and everyone around me felt, you know that one character death that happened at the very end of the movie? That particularly painful one that, when you read it in the book, you had to stop reading because you were crying too hard to see the words (that wasn’t just me, right?)? Some guy in the theatre, a grown ass man with a husky, sorrowful voice, let out this broken sob during the scene. He actually cried out “noooo!” And it broke the tension, but we were all there together.
The second part comes out next July, and I think we’re all going to have to prepare ourselves for that. What part of the next movie are you most excited/nervous about? And if your answer is “the whole thing,” I’ll accept that.
I also went the midnight premeire, and the best part was the two guys racing around on brooms and mops throwing a dodgeball around. I’m really nervous for the next movie that the epic bank and battle scenes might just be cheesy and lame.
I also went the midnight premeire, and the best part was the two guys racing around on brooms and mops throwing a dodgeball around. I’m really nervous for the next movie that the epic bank and battle scenes might just be cheesy and lame.
I’m going to see it in a couple of hours – so excited!
I went to the premiere as well, and I could not agree more with you! It was awesome, there are no words. I cried so hard when Dobby died… such an emotional scene. I think I’ll go watch it again tomorrow.
I’m just excited for the Ron/Hermione kiss. Years of sexual tension and finally a payoff!! And when Neville stabs the basilisk. Cause he is a mother f*king BAD ASS.
I’m mostly just excited for the very end of the end. In the book, I start bawling my eyes out at “I open at the close,” and I never really STOP crying until I get to the epilogue. So, in my case I’m looking forward to sobbing en masse with a bunch of like-minded (and nerdy) people, and just seeing the end of play out on screen (hopefully it will be as wonderful and satisfying as the book ends).
I watched the midnight premiere at 23.59 hours on the 17th – I’m guessing we had an earlier premiere in Europe?
Personally I always leave the premiere rather dissapointed, I usually have to digest how they butchered the book and left pieces out, switched things about and all that bs. This time I actually felt alright watching it – of course it’s still nothing compared to the book, but I enjoyed it. And I’m sure it’ll continue to grow on me. I’m curious to see how they handle part two in general, but I’m most anxious to ser how they handle “19 years later”. Personally I wish JK would’ve scratched that last chapter, so I’m sort of hoping WB has scratched it.
“The whole thing,” my dear.
It truly was an amazing movie. Can we say Oscar nominee for Cinematography? And yes, just like Brijyn, I’m so pleased that they didn’t have a crappy screenplay and that the movie pretty much followed the book. And I loved the Three Brothers scene. That was awesome.