Well here I am my long-drawn-out second part to the Harry Potter film series.
This is the set of films I thought we're going to be more interesting and conclude with more story and less weird pointless content. Turns out I was wrong.
The best Harry Potter is the third film involving that SiriusBlack guy.
Well here I am my long-drawn-out second part to the Harry Potter film series.
This is the set of films I thought we're going to be more interesting and conclude with more story and less weird pointless content. Turns out I was wrong.
The best Harry Potter is the third film involving that SiriusBlack guy. but one shouldn't have too much despair it's not like any of these Harry Potter films are bad.
The fifth one has a lot of odd moments including both my favourite and least favourite characters. But it's probably the last proper feeling Harry Potter film before the final three movies just feel like this big lead up to a giant battle involving Voldemort and his supposedly Master Army of thugs and politicians.
In fact that's kind of the weird thing about these movies from about the sixth movie on the Harry Potter Universe just feels like it's been destroyed. Everything's falling apart countless Wizards are dead and the entire universe is been corrupted by Voldemort.
He's inside the ministry of magic he's pretty much made the school destitute at the end of all. In the movies he's destroyed that school and yet we're supposed to believe that after all of this Harry and all of his friends are just going to get together have their own family and send them on their own School adventure with absolutely no worries.
And it just sounds ridiculous you can't come back from an adventure like this.
You can't watch your entire world fall apart learned that the world when it wasn't falling apart was overly corrupted horrible to begin with anstey disgustingly horde villain from the fifth movie called Dolores Umbridge she's a real piece of work and comes off a lot more threatening than Voldemort ever was.
In fact she should have been the only villain in that movie. Voldemort felt kind of redundant.
She definitely falls into the love to hate category. The character is an absolutely despicable person but the actress playing her is doing such a fantastic job and deserves so much credit for this ridiculous roll. she does get a little too cartoony towards the end of that film but what are you going to do?
Anyways all of these films feel a lot more coherent probably down to the fact that they have the same director. And I assume a lot of other filming staff stuck around as well besides the main actors but they're always there. And this I feel works really well for Harry Potter in that it keeps the coherence up and let everything feel like a greater story but at the same time can make things a bit playing and simplistic. Instead of feeling like we're coming back to a magical land every single time it just starts to feel like we're returning to a similar dingy place. A place that was never great to begin with.
Except for Luna* who is of course still my favourite character in the series because her General attitude and just being so fun and odd.
I thought I'd have so much more to say on these movies. Just on the general story or have the progressions coming along but when it all raps together so nonchalantly you just kind of get this interested. And now I'm sitting here trying to think of something interesting but honestly coming up with nothing.
Boy is perceived as threats by Evil wizard who wants to kill him. So the boy goes on magical MacGuffin journey to weaken Evil wizard before fighting him.
Turns out everything was a prophecy from the start and it all has a happy ending despite being an absolutely miserable experience.
And sweet God I've always had this running joke that little bits of Harry Potter kind of felt like rip offs of Lord of the Rings.
But it was more than just similarities of fantasy which is going to happen no matter what. But in this set of movies it really does start to feel like we just want to be Lord of the Rings the cinematography is taking a million Ques.
We have a flat-out giant battle towards the end.
Ron gets this magical light device that can capture Essences of light around it and release it at will and it's literally communicated to him as a light in the darkness. I started to wonder if he was going to fight a giant spider in a cave. You shouldn't make me want to watch Lord of the Rings when I'm watching Harry Potter. But that's what's happening here, oh well.
There are lots of little tiny character interactions that make for a fun experience. Everybody just kind of mingling with each other in the midst of all this horrible Baltimore business and of course the set pieces are just Whimsical and magical as ever. At least in the fifth film and a little bit in the last film. The First The Deadly Hollow movie is just Harry and his friends wandering around in a forest trying to not get captured by a bunch of idiots.
I seriously wondered why they couldn't just put those both in the one movie everything that happens in that first deadly Hollow film could have been shrunken down to a couple of minutes in the other movie. I guess they got to stretch it out for the big bucks.
Conclusion:
Overall I feel kind of tired now watching all the Harry Potter films. Not unhappy though.
This isn't like the Alien series or Police Academy where we start off strong and then gradually deteriorate into trash.
All the Harry Potter movies have their ups and downs and there's a lot to enjoy in just about every film.
The first movie is just whimsically cute and genuinely fun.
The third films that legitimately good experience and a legitimately intriguing mystery and every other movies got some interesting plot element or weird character that'll keep you intrigued. Overall it's a well-rounded series that's just fun to watch. My recommendation is just not to watch them all in a row. Maybe do one a week. You'll get a much better experience out of it.
* I would love a Luna Lovegood film. I realise it would just be the antics of a kind of socially awkward kooky girl going through the days of a magical High School but I think there's a lot of fun potential to be had there.
It have to be a character dialogue-heavy film or maybe even a light comedy.
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