Harry Potter 7

[Moss.]

Like all the other movies, it was okay.

[Holkeye]

I've seen all of the movies except the last two, and the only thing in any of them that I really remember is the time-traveling pocketwatch. That was pretty cool.

[pacdiggity]

The Prisoner of Azkaban was pretty cool, but they did cut out a lot from the book.
It's a bit much to think that the movie will be the exact same as the book, but it was a little disappointing.

[tSwitch]

The last one I watched was Goblet of Fire, and I'm content with that, cause I'm an indie bitch. I also heard that Half-Blood Prince was terrible, and I never got around to watching OotP or Part 1. Yeah.

They turned book 6 from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince into Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Plot.
It's worth watching the 7.1, and I am going to see 7.2 next week.

[Moss.]

Maybe someone can clear this up for me. SPOILERS AHEAD. Okay, so it's revealed that, in order to kill Voldemort, Harry must die. They make, like, a huge deal out of it in the movie, like it's the grand revelation of the entire series of books. Because I guess it is. But then, oh, nvm he can just live, that's cool. What was up with that? Now, I never read the books, but I lost so much respect for the series when that happened. "Harry must die!" Wow, predictable, but still ballsy, and a very fitting conclusion to this epic series. Maybe I'll read these books after all. "Nevermind, he can live. Forever! " What the hell is this? Did a 4 year old write this? Or was it written for 4 year olds?

I am disappoint.

[Acolyte]

There was no way for dumbledore to predict what would happen. I'm guessing the Avada Kedavra curse only works for one person (or weird soul fetus) at a time.

[firerain]

read the last book and it will make sense.

[thanatos2k1]

SPOILER ALERT!!!
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Ok, the deal with the harry must die thing:

When Draco Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore the Elder Wand became Malfoys, but since Snape killed Dumbledore, Voldemort thinks that by killing Snape, the Elder Wand will work on Harry.. however..  Harry Disarmed Malfoy and the Elder Wand became his.  A wand attuned to a wizard cannot kill its owner by anothers hand... SOOOOO  when Voldemort casts the Killing Curse on Harry; he kills the part of himself/not harry  (Voldemort accidently made Harry a Horcrux when he tried to kill him the first time) .. thus the Elder Wand backfires on Voldemort and winds up killing himself.

[Acolyte]

Oh, yeah that sounds right. It's been a while since I read the book.

[Moss.]

A wand attuned to a wizard cannot kill its owner by anothers hand.

Got it. Thanks.

[Zylos]

I thought the movie was pretty good. Epic in some moments, but kinda lacking in some others. Definitely worth the watching if you've seen the others.

[spoiler]The things I was disappointed about was the number of things not properly explained. What happened to Wormtail? He died in the book as a result of his own hand strangling him when he refused to kill Harry, but in the first HP7 movie he's nearly stunned and his fate left unknown. Why exactly did Harry  need to die, and how did he live after Voldemort used a killing curse on him in the forest? It's very briefly explained that he somehow became an unintended horcrux when Voldemort tried to kill him the first time, but not at all how he survived or anything else. And there was absolutely nothing about the whole thing behind Dumbledore's questionable past with his sister and the dark wizard Grindlewald. I think we could come up with a whole list of things that weren't tied up properly in the movies.

Plus, the endings kinda suck. The first ending is where they're on the bridge after breaking the elder wand, and then it just fades out in lackluster fashion to the "19 years later..." ending. That whole scene was... rather poor quality, with a lot still missing in itself. I didn't like it in the book either, and they didn't do a good job in aging the characters to look the right age. They then end everything just on a closeup of the three friends and fade out to the credits. Boo. If they had just done up the first ending to be more dramatic and left out the epilogue thing, I think it would have come off a lot better.[/spoiler]

[firerain]

Because the horcrux was broken in the forest when Voldemort attempted to kill him, not in the castle in the final battle.

[Sophist]

Harry lived in the forest because he had touched the Resurrection Stone earlier, it wasn't really explained as such in the book or the movie, it was just kind of something you had to garner together. He whispered tot he Snitch that he was ready to die, so he could use the stone. Also;

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Zylos]

That's not the case though. The resurrection stone only temporarily brought back the "ghosts" of his departed loved ones, nothing more. Not to mention he had abandoned the stone before heading into the forest, after getting the moral support he needed from his family. I think in the book it was explained that because he was willing to give up his own life, the killing curse only murdered Voldemort's soul fragment instead of Harry's willing soul. But this is not even the least bit hinted at in the movie.

[Dwarra?]

[spoiler] It's already been explained in this thread and quoted. A wand attuned to a wizard cannot kill its owner, since the Elder Wand was Harry's, Voldemort couldn't kill him with it and instead killed the part of himself that was within Harry. [/spoiler]

[Pokey]

I thought it was cool. But that may be because I'm such a fan. Saw it in the 16th.