Here’s the trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Two Parts in 3D.
I’m a little disappointed that I never got around to reading this series, and that I’m discovering the stories from the films. But you know, I’ve had so much work this year I’ve had hardly have even twenty minutes a day to read. I tried taking a book in the car and reading at stop lights, but that just made a lot of other drivers mad. When I do find time, there are books much, much higher on my priority list than the Harry Potter volumes.
Oh well… I give up. I’ll watch these last two films the same way I watched the others… hoping that they capture most of what people love about Rowling’s writing.
Maybe someday I’ll have a life that affords me a lot of time to read. I hope so.
Tags: Harry Potter
June 29th, 2010 at 6:47 am
As enjoyable as the books are, I think the films surpassed them at Prisoner of Azkaban and have only been getting better and better. This trailer is phenomenal.
June 29th, 2010 at 10:45 am
One word. A four letter word. Epic.
June 29th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Ugh. No. Prisoner of Azkaban was amazing, but Goblet of Fire was so awful that I almost stopped caring about the movie series at that point (although I’ve seen each of the others once, when they came out). The latest installment, though visually-arresting, was utterly baffling to me. Who was its audience? It seemed to fail to be coherent as a movie, rushing major characters on and off-screen without telling us their names, while leaving out too much material to satisfy book fans. Movies 4, 5, and 6 have been, at best, “Good Parts” versions of the books . . . And now, after rushing us madly through all of the character and world development of the three longest books in the series, to suddenly grind to a halt and split book 7 in half? It just doesn’t make sense.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m hoping for a good time at the theater when they come out . . . but only because I’ve stopped expecting great things. /rant =P
June 29th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Hated the films. I started off by watching them, then after the second movie I started reading the books. When Prisoner of Azkaban came out I wanted to walk out of the theatre — I was so disgusted by how a narrative with an excellent plot and compelling characters was turned into something that wasn’t much more than a visual feast a little too in love with CGI.
June 30th, 2010 at 12:12 am
This’ll be a a four-hour movie in which the protagonist experiences no inner conflict, has already won the affections of the modest, sorta-cute female version of his best friend, spouts cliches at the villain (who has absolutely no sense of humor), and finally defeats him… pretty much entirely because that villain chose to hold the wrong stick. No one’s has a good time at all; the screen time of the likes of Gambon, Rickman, Thewlis and Gleeson will be at a series low, with Branagh and Oldman out of the picture entirely. And if you manage to stay conscious until the epilogue, well… you might wish you hadn’t. Meanwhile, there are no new locations, creatures or characters to speak of, just the ones you’ve already spent twelve hours watching, most of which have barely evolved themselves. There should be lots of rain, though; cinematic-rainiacs will surely be satisfied.
I very much enjoy the third and fourth movies, but I’ll be passing on this adaptation for the first time in the series.
On a related note, here’s a very interesting article on quasi-Calvinist themes in the series, and how Rowling pretty much writes everyone as all good or all bad, no matter what they actually *do*, with the sole exception of Snape, who does a 180-degree turn long before the series starts and is offstage for nearly all of the seventh volume. The result is both dramatic banality and a curious rejection of individual redemption:
http://www.ferretbrain.com/articles/article-161.html
July 1st, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Wow…nevermind, I guess.
July 4th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Too bad it’s in 3D…