I just saw it tonight, so I'm still digesting all the "they cut it out!" and "that's what I wanted to see" bits. I feel like it's still too early to tell how I feel on the whole, but I feel like I enjoyed and admired the movie separate from how I love PoA.
I loved the way they all seemed like *real kids*
Yes! Everything seemed a bit too stifled and perfect in the earlier two, here it's as if a bit of fun fanfiction was able to bring some dorm life to life. That was truly wonderful.
Snape and Crookshanks did get shafted and that made a lot of things not work, I thought. I sort of had these "argghh!" moments such as where the Firebolt is delivered with a Buckbeak feather. I realize he had to try to connect the two without the material, but...
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I didn't feel the Remus/Lily like so many others did. To me, it felt like Remus was talking about Lily as someone who understood and listened, maybe someone who was a bit more serious than his prankster friends. Perhaps it's just personal as well, that one can talk quite lovingly about a member of the opposite/same sex and not be a couple/item/crush. If that makes sense.
I was hoping for more of the Peter/Ron connection as well, there wasn't that look of utter horror in Ron's face that I was hoping and expecting to see. I did like that sly/evil little wave Peter gives as he disappears.
...it did allow for a Time Turner sequence that actually worked and wasn't exhausting, which is an improvement over the book. The emotional climax shifts to the moment when Harry realizes he saw himself.
I was also impressed how it did work, particularly up to that climax. It was painful to watch Harry's eagerness, how he expects to see his father and Hermione's faint "you're dying" seems so very telling.
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I loved the way they all seemed like *real kids*
Yes! Everything seemed a bit too stifled and perfect in the earlier two, here it's as if a bit of fun fanfiction was able to bring some dorm life to life. That was truly wonderful.
Snape and Crookshanks did get shafted and that made a lot of things not work, I thought. I sort of had these "argghh!" moments such as where the Firebolt is delivered with a Buckbeak feather. I realize he had to try to connect the two without the material, but...
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I didn't feel the Remus/Lily like so many others did. To me, it felt like Remus was talking about Lily as someone who understood and listened, maybe someone who was a bit more serious than his prankster friends. Perhaps it's just personal as well, that one can talk quite lovingly about a member of the opposite/same sex and not be a couple/item/crush. If that makes sense.
I was hoping for more of the Peter/Ron connection as well, there wasn't that look of utter horror in Ron's face that I was hoping and expecting to see. I did like that sly/evil little wave Peter gives as he disappears.
...it did allow for a Time Turner sequence that actually worked and wasn't exhausting, which is an improvement over the book. The emotional climax shifts to the moment when Harry realizes he saw himself.
I was also impressed how it did work, particularly up to that climax. It was painful to watch Harry's eagerness, how he expects to see his father and Hermione's faint "you're dying" seems so very telling.