It sucks that yates is directing dh, and splitting sucks too.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG THIS MOVIE IS GOIING TO ROX!!! AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!
Thank You for Milking Fans for Every Last Penny
Do not doubt my loyalty to the Harry Potter series. I have loved, admired, and been obsessed with them for more than a decade. I have equally savored the movies with the same enthusiasm and excitement. My passion for Harry Potter continues to be profound, however, for the first time in my life, I have been extremely disappointed with a news related to Harry Potter.
"I swear to you it was born out of purely creative reasons," says David Heyman when talking about his decision to split movie 7 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in two parts. While I ardently support, encourage, and believe that strong creative roots are reasons for a successful outcome, I wonder why the creativity factor mattered only for the very last movie in the series! Where was the creative reasoning team when Movie 4 "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" came out? And if they did exist, may I ask why they took a royal catnap during the making of the movie instead of doing the job they were paid to do?Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was, until then, my most favorite one in the series (and it still is a favorite, except that it shares the trophy with book 6 and 7 now). I remember vividly, the tons of excitement that was in the air. There was a frenzy when new faces were recruited! Fans flocked to see Cho Chang, Victor Krum, Cedric Diggory, and Fleur Delacour on screen! While the effect was magnetic, the movie overall looked like a bunch of commercials attached to one string. Storyline twisted, scenes disconnected (some ending as quickly as they began), many suspended, jokes unlaughable, chemistry pathetic! Creativity didn’t matter to David Heyman then! Who cared about it! Afterall, GOF made $896 million at the box office thanks to loyal and enthusiastic muggle following that the young wizard had, including me.
A good friend told me “When weighing fan opinion vs. money, money always wins, especially when the franchise is nearing its end and is vigorously trying to squeeze a few (million) more dollars out.” Heyman’s bull about splitting the movie is an excuse for the same reason.
All Harry Potter fans would have been happy had Warner Brothers closed the franchise with the most cogent, complete, and longest movie of the series. Instead, we’re left with a lie and a broken story, all because of a selfish bottom line – they won’t get to charge us twice!
Good! I was hoping they’d make it into two films. Six months isn’t too long to wait between parts one and two. It’s actually the perfect amount of time. This way, they can let the first one fade at the box office, put out the DVD, and then show part two shortly after that. One thing I’m wondering about is the Bill/Fleur wedding. Even though they’re making two films, I doubt that they’ll have the wedding. One thing that has bothered me all along is the lack of the two oldest Weasley kids. Would they suddenly decide to include Bill and Charlie and have the wedding? I’m guessing no. At any rate, I’m glad it will be done in two parts because they’ll be able to fit a lot more in. Keeping it at one 2 or 2 1/2 hour movie would leave the non-book readers confused at the end because there would be no way to explain everything in that short amount of time.
I’m both mad excited and in away upset ‘Cause I would rather sit down and watch like four hours of Harry Potter then have to wait half a year for the second half But then again most people are opposite :X But I’m glad about it actually because at least they won’t leave much out :D
OMG i don’t understand people at all, especially narrow minded harry potter fans, just can’t please them. First they get mad if things are cut with from the previous movies , which were only 1 part . Now that it’s gonna be 2 part so at least it’s loyal to the book, they get mad too. Just stop complaining, obviously we’re entertained.We wont talk about Harry Potter if we were not entertained at all. It’s hard for a screenwriter to condense everything from the book to the big screen and please the fans at the same time. I confess, I am a Potter fan myself, not just the book, movies and any other crazy things around….but mostly learning the life lessons and virtue it brings…Love, Friendship and Family…and That’s what Harry Potter is All about…that’s what Rowling is teaching us. so Don’t hate please. :> One less hater in the world is what we need.
Prise the Lord!!! does cartwheel, back flips, and everything else she can do
Oh, the wonderful detail that will be in the movie(s), it’ll almost be like the book! This is fantastic!!! Part 2 will be amazing, think of all that will be in it!
Sorry, all. That’s “Praise the Lord”. I’m too excited to type.
I’ve just been re-reading DH, by the way, half way through or so. I can see it clearly in my mind, both the movies. This is great!
I’m not fond of “part I” and “part II”. If they’re going to split the book into two films, give it two titles. The first one could be “The Deathly Hallows” and the second could be “The Elder Wand”. It just seems less clunky.
Fantabulous!!! Its going to be a treat for all of us and a fitting tribute to Jo and the Harry Potter series!!!
I had really wanted that Alfonso Cuaron direct the film; he’s been the BEST director in the series so far, and the kind of darkness, and the element terror and fear portrayed in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” is needed in the grim reality of Book 7.
That’s fantastic news! I was really hoping they’d do a 2 part movie, as that is the real way of doing this book justice! IMHO, Part I should end with Voldemort stealing the Elder wand from Dumbledore’s tomb, and the “shower of sparks” bursting out of the end of the wand, “ready to serve a new master at last”. That will be a great, suspenseful and threatening end and the following scenes (plotting the Gringotts infiltration) can be a great intro into part II.
And I really hope John Williams is back to do the score!!
I really like your idea Ravi Krishna, about ending the movie with Voldemort picking up the wand. Because then it would end with Harry making a choice also. And then we’d wonder where that choice would lead him. I wanted it to end after the break out of Gringotts, because it seems like a lot happens after that: they go to Hogwarts, meet Aberforth… enter the room of Requirement; go look for the missing Horcrux; Ron and Hermione destroy the cup (I have a feeling they will show us this in the movie, even if it is only talked about in the book); start the first war; have Harry find Snape being killed by Voldemort; Harry watches Snape’s memories; Harry goes and dies; Harry sees Dumbledore beyond; He comes back for the second war; Neville kills Nagini; Harry battles Voldemort; (and I wonder if there will be the epilogue, too).
In case many of you hadnt noticed, there is a SECOND UPDATE on the article above quoting the Warner Brothers chairman. Whether we happy about 2 parts or not, there is no denying that Harry Potter is one of the most Important franchise to WB as well as us. I feel that yes they want the bucks, but thats business as usual but more importantly there is a mutual benefit in the fact that they will go all out to deliver the best product for us and in turn more of us will buy the DVDs because we love the movies.