Now, i can't decide whether going for this movie was a blessing or a curse. The blessing is of course that i've watched the final movie in the Harry Potter saga-of-sorts. The curse- that i don't have time to do anything else today apart from typing this blog post, and reading the papers, and dozing off while doing so... I'm already a laggard in terms of schoolwork, and I'm going for the Victorian Challenge (or at least, going back to Victoria School, my alma mater) tomorrow- or rather, today, since it's already past 12 midnight.
I guess this post will simply be a short movie review. Which generally consists of grouches. Well, Singaporeans seem to have a 'genetic predesposition' (probable typo here. Fletched from my GP Paper 2) to complaining, as seen from online websites like The Online Citizen, and I am no exception. So anyway, here goes nothing...
The first thing was the food.
The popcorn was sweet.
I don't like sweet popcorn much. I usually go for the salt-flavoured ones, but even then, my fingers tend to become very sticky after some time, so i'd rather eat plain popcorn. Which is generally not sold in any movie theatre worldwide. I guess. The drink was also disgusting (Coke). I tend not to drink fizzy soft drinks, especially Coke and Pepsi. Flame me if you want, but they're disgustingly sweet. Who'd ever want to pay for syrup mixed with carbonated water? I mean, this is fleecing money in full view of the public, who willingly get fleeced. I guess the same goes for me and ice lemon tea, but at least that is non-carbonated, which means that there is no carbonic acid to acidify the pH in your stomach, or dissolve a little bit of your teeth every time you sip on that straw, etc... ANYWAY. The reason why i didn't have a say in the choice of food is that the tickets were bought quite cheaply by my mum from her company. So packaged sweet popcorn and Coke were part of the food deal. Oh, well. Nachos, anoyone?
Secondly, my sister, who has read the book and forgot most of the details, kept asking me stuff during the entire duration of the movie. Me, who has also read the book, and forgotten some of the details. If you have never experienced trying to watch a movie with someone constantly unloading a deluge of questions on you every few minutes or so, then be happy. I hope i didn't also irritate the movie goers beside me. Movie appreciation is not fully there when you have to answer things like: "Oh, who's that ugly-looking man?" (Voldemort); "Who's that bearded guy?" (Albus Dumbledore's brother, whose name i have forgotten EDIT: OH RIGHT IT WAS ABERFORTH); who Draco Malfoy is; his father and mother; the fire spell the idiot cast that cannot be extinguished until it has ran its course; Horcruxes; et cetera. By the way, for Deathly Hallows Part 1, my mother did the same thing- but my sister was mild compared to her, because my mother has never read the book.
This brings me to my Third Point. Which is that they assumed that every single movie-goer was a true blue Harry Potter Fan, who has studiously read the entire book back-to-back several times before stepping foot into the hallowed (Ha. Pun not intended.) movie theatre to watch this really exciting last instalment of The Boy Who Lived. Potter mania, forevermore... THIS IS SO UNTRUE. Spare a thought for poor boys who have to patiently/ impatiently explain to their older sisters and mothers about the tiny little details of what exactly is Quidditch and why Harry P. is holding a tiny golden ball in his hand, will you?
Fourth. The movie started off without the iconic theme song present in most other openings. But i guess the movie was too morbid to use that as an opening... the theme song conveys an air of mystery and draws the curious audience further into the movie, while the last movies (Deathly Hallows, Part 1 and 2) were dark and mobid. Oh, well, at least the song was played at the end of the movie.
Fifth. The movie skipped out on some details that i felt were crucial to the plot development. And random bits of extra things were added. Such as Ron and Hermione kissing passionately after some splashy stuff that happened after Hermione stabbed a Horcrux (I think it was a goblet) with a Basilisk fang in the Chamber of Underground Secrets. No, thank you, I don't particularly wish to know what goes on between the two of them. (Ginny and Harry did the same thing a little later.)
Sixth. They showed Harry in his younger days, somewhere about the first movie. He was so cute back then... ^ ^ The three leading actors were all so cute! And now Harry became some funny pale dude who has a six pack (._.) and chest hair after stripping right in front of Hermione after they got soaked in a body of water after falling from a dragon that they latched on to to escape from Gringotts. I guess people do grow up. Sigh.
Seventh. Snape's character development has been pretty well done, with much fleshing out, and subtle hints given as to how he loved Lily Potter- all the way to his death. The child and young adult version of Snape were cute and handsome respectively. The adult Snape... Very good drawl, very sinister... very ugly.
Okay, I'm mostly done now.
*disclaimer: I am not a crazy hardcore Harry P. fan. I simply remembered quite alot of the plot. Thankfully.
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