If you haven’t read part 1 of this blog, click here. A lot of the issues I have with the final two movies stem from issues ignored in the previous films, which I highlighted in the first blog. In this blog, I pick apart the final two Harry Potter movies (parts 1 and 2 of the Deathly Hallows) and discuss the things they should have kept true, or at least more true, to the books. Continue reading “Harry Potter and the Poorly Executed Film Series part 2”
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Harry Potter and the Poorly Executed Film Series part 1
This is the first of two blogs dedicated to my qualms with the Harry Potter films, where I’ll be discussing, in depth, the portions of the books that should have been included. I understand that translating books to movies is complicated, and not everything can be included. But that’s not an excuse for the movies to completely disregard the reasons the books are so incredible. Because of what they left out, these movies fell flat of the excellence of the books, and that’s not acceptable. This post will be dedicated to the movies previous to the final 2 Deathly Hallows installments, and the next will be, obviously, entirely about the last two movies. Continue reading “Harry Potter and the Poorly Executed Film Series part 1”
Harry Potter and the Massive Oversight
These Folk: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Harry Potter and the Flagrantly Disappointing Conclusion
I know I already posted a blog for today, but in honor of my waiting in line for 4 hours in FULL Harry Potter costume for the final movie to come out, I felt I should at least touch on it. I’ll be posting a video about my night on Sunday on my TheseFolk channel (although I think I’ll be the only one posting this week…) and I’ll also be doing a new 2 part blog series about the Harry Potter movie series, but for now, my initial thoughts.
My Tweet last night at 3am after the movie:
As a fan, the only word to describe how I feel right now is betrayal. #harrypotter
I stand by that assessment. Completely. I was so disappointed by this movie. The first part, that came out in November, was fantastic. It was one of the best done films in this joke of a film series, and I was legitimately impressed. But last night just took a massive crap on everything that was good about the first half of the movie. I’m not exaggerating.
I’ll go into more detail once my Doctor Who blog series is over, sometime in August, because I need to wrap my head around a few things before I do.
Granted, Rachel and I should probably not be able to see movies for the first time together. We’re horribly judgmental and spend the entire time mocking every little inconsistency. And it’s even worse when we’re watching, again for the first time, a movie based on a book that was the summation of our entire childhoods. I will admit that we’re not the best movie-going pair.
But I doubt that even after a second viewing I’ll be impressed. This movie was poorly timed, bizarrely executed, and a downright disgrace to all that makes Harry Potter good. Thanks for the memories, Deathly Hallows, but I doubt I’ll be looking back on the experience with fondness.
Why I loved the Harry Potter Epilogue
And when I say “epilogue”, I mean the last couple pages of the Deathly Hallows in which we find out that Ron and Hermione are married and so are Harry and Ginny, and they all have kids at Hogwarts. Harry’s named his kids after important people in his life, and there’s this nice little moment where you understand that from now on, everything is going to be ok. Continue reading “Why I loved the Harry Potter Epilogue”
Let’s get cliche up in this club
Club? What? I don’t know. I really don’t. Here are twenty things I’m thankful for this year.
1. iTunes playlists
2. Rain boots
3. My growing relationship with my little brother
4. New friends
5. Old friends
6. Pacific speech and debate
7. Painting
8. NaNoWriMo
9. Moleskine notebooks
10. Precise V5 pens
11. Bart answering the phone even though he’s training to be a Marine and I’m just calling because I’m lonely
12. Harry Potter
13. Pumpkin spice lattes
14. Crochet hooks
15. Friends you only know through the internet
16. Doctor Who
17. Knee high argyle socks
18. Darren Criss
19. The Pacific northwest
20. My family for putting up with my crazy
[Day 325] Books that changed my life week 1: Harry Potter
I’m sorry. It’s been kind of a Harry Potter leaning couple of weeks. I dunno what it is; maybe I’m super psyched for the new movie, or maybe I’d just forgotten how much I love the books. But either way, it wouldn’t seem right to have a whole week about books that changed my life and not include J.K Rowlings’ masterpieces. Continue reading “[Day 325] Books that changed my life week 1: Harry Potter”
[Bri 2.0 BONUS!] Harry Potter vs. Twilight
A few days ago, after my Marooned Week blog about Harry Potter, an anonymous commenter requested that I spend some time discussing the Harry Potter/Twilight controversy. “Could you please do a blog on the whole Twilight vs. Harry Potter debacle? For example the popularity of the movies vs the books etc.” Continue reading “[Bri 2.0 BONUS!] Harry Potter vs. Twilight”
[Day 311] Marooned Week 3: Literature
You had to know this was coming. I mean, there’s really no way to get around it. As with most writers, I was first a reader. I couldn’t just give that up after being marooned. And the first book I really fell in love with was Harry Potter. Continue reading “[Day 311] Marooned Week 3: Literature”