This movie deserves the most money

^Agreed, it really was the most faithful to the book. I do find it quite strange though that the shortest film of the series is Order of the Phoenix which coincidentally is the longest book. So much was left out of that film, we hardly saw Kreacher and I was gutted we didn't get to see the spinning room in the Deparment of Mysteries. I was really looking forward to seeing the Thought chamber, the Space chamer and the Time chamber. :(

Anyone watch the "Behind the Magic" Deathly Hallows special on ITV1 yesterday? I'm going to watch it in a bit, I loved the one for HBP. :D

One thing that sort of niggled me a little was the fact they didn't mention when you say Voldermorts name they appear. Like Lovegood even did it in the house. I guess they had to change the radio bit though as it seemed quite an important thing in the film.

Me and my friend were talking today about the movie and I said I cried at Dobby dying and my friend's friend was like 'Oh no don't tell me that!' and I started ranting full on at her how it was her own fault if she hadn't read the book.

Exactly, they call themselves HP fans? :nono:

Exactly! And she was like 'I grew up with the movies' and I went 'I grew up with the books'. Drives me mad.

Yeah I wish they would have mentioned the taboo, because both times when Xenophilius said his name and in Shaftesbury Avenue, Death Eaters turned up and to the casual film goer this would have seemed odd, because no explanation as given as to why they randomly appeared. Another thing that annoyed me in regards to Dobby was how his death wasn't as sad as it could have been as he was only previously in Chamber of Secrets. He's also in the Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince books but he wasn't shown in the films, if he would have been then I think his death would have been even more tragic.

Also I didn't think enough emphasis was put on Dumbledore. In the books, the theme of his family and Harry being angry with him is a fairly big theme yet it was only mentioned once in the film by Muriel at the wedding and even then it was brief. I'll be curious to see how they show this in the second film because of course we meet Aberforth and he tells them about how Ariana died etc.

Oh and the mirror wasn't even explained! Book fans know it's an enchanted mirror and the eye belongs to Aberforth but film fans probably didn't have a clue what was going on because it wasn't explained. Also the portrait of Phineas Nigellus wasn't included neither! How then could Snape know that the trio were hiding in the Forest of Dean to be able to cast the patronus? In the book Phineas overhears Hermione saying it and reports back to Snape but he wasn't in the film. Would like to see how they wriggle out of that one. :nono:

I'm going to be a total wreck when Snape dies :(

Anyone else think it looked kinda sexual when bellatrix had Hermionie pinned down on the floor?
I actually didnt cry when dobby died. My sister did though, but she hasnt read the book. I nearly cried about Hedwig though :( my sister cried about that too hehe bless

Probably gonna get some stick for this but as true as it was to the book, I wasn't amazingly impressed.
I think it was probably cause I was so excited (I had my tickets booked for 2 months) and it didn't quite live up. It's still my favourite film of the year but I think that they dragged out boring bits and the exciting scenes were left too short. For example the Hermione torture scene and the majority of the last bit at Malfoy Manor.

Yeah it did in a way and at one point it looked like she was biting her arm. :conf:

I thought it was disappointing :( had to try and keep my eyes open, but that was probably cos I was knackered not cos it was crap.

Dobby dying was so sad though, I swear my boyfriend was trying not to cry LMFAO.

I thought that too!

I have to agree with this.
I wasn't wowed by it.
I think it was because I built up my expectations well into outer space. I think it will be my favourite Potter film (excluding Part 2) because it sticks with the book so faithfully. But it was never going to stand alone as a film, being half of a story, but it did what it was suppose to. And after watching the first part, I'm glad there is going to be two films. Can you imagine what a disaster it would of been if it was one film?

Things I loved about the film

Loved that but I would have really liked to have seen the sign on the gate and the statue of James, Lily and Harry too.

Didn't really think of how much they left out cos I was ranting a bit during the start of the film but realised I'd just bug myself if I kept on.

Going to see this again on Friday. Taking my Grandad with me PMSL.

I'm gonna take my brother on Saturday. Hope it lives up to my expectations but then again it is only one half of the film really so should reserve judgement until Part 2 comes out. Quite annoyed about them forcing a Harry/Hermione kissing scene because doesn't that kind of undermine the Hermione/Ron stuff. I'm not really a fan of the pairing and found it jarring in the books but doesn't it distract from the story?

On another note, watched the Behind the Magic and how annoying is Ben Shepherd?
Funny seeing Stella from Eastenders, always thought she put that low little voice on as part of the character but she actually talks like that. lol

It's not actually them,it's imitations off them that come out of the Horcrux.

It did in a way (the kiss) and it was dragged out for longer than I expected. It didn't spoil the film for me but it did come across a bit Twilight-esque and I didn't see why they couldn't be wearing clothes.

The whole kiss thing and the scene it's self seemed pretty true to the book.

I know it's not really them, I just meant is the whole thing not unusually distracting from the plot. Like someone else just said very Twilight-esque.

I wonder how long Part 2 will be, I expect over 2 hours again but there's not that much left to cover seeing as Part 1 included 3 quarters of the book. I expect the Battle will be at least an hour and I cannot wait to see the Gringotts scenes. :love:

well they have to cover:

- the deaths of fred, snape, colin, lupin, tonks, padfoot, bellatrix, voldemort [that's a lot of deathtime]
- the battle of hogwarts - this NEEDS to be done justice. I demand that Trelawney is seen hurling crystal balls, the NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH line, Grawp tearing at the castle walls, Sprout using grubblyplanks and other plants to attack death eaters, McGonagall destroying the two death eater-teachers, Voldemort's ceasefire and Harry going to sacrifice himself...
- the room of requirement burning to **** with fiendfyre (and crabbe's death)
- Nagini's slaughter
- introduction of Aberforth
- the break-in at Gringotts
- the Potter support radio station (and news of the Hogwarts underground Dumbledore's Army)
- Harry's supposed death scene, and Hagrid being forced to carry him [and the whole explanation of the deathly hallows again, i expect]
- the ending (some years later)

edit: omg, I just remembered where Neville is forced to wear the sorting hat and it's set alight - that bit sounded awful in the books