"HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1"
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I did preview "Harry Potter 7 (1/2)" recently, and I do have a good dose of media honey to sweeten onto it, I just haven't cemented all my thoughts into my critic platform, and I think a second pass will help with that.
What I can tell you now is I liked "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," again directed by brit art helmer David Yates, who did the last two, written again by oft Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves (all but "Potter # 5"), continuously produced by David Barron (most of them) and David Heyman (all of them), and acted by the never before, and possibly never again ultimate british thespian ensemble cast, with often good kid leads Daniel Radcliffe as Potter, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as his wizard/witch greatest friends, know-it-all-common-sense Hermonie, and steamy, but loyal Ron. For a 8-film fantasy series of this success, with this cast, with this creative team, with the big money, and the constant array of good visual effects, pyrotechnics and locations - (which is even more grand as the three young heros traverse the England landscape and pass over hills, valleys, wood, and craggy rock, in an effort to reward our trek journey as with the glory-New Zealand "The Lord of the Rings") - we as the audience have never been more spoiled by any other movies at all the last decade. Unlike "The Lord of the Rings," however, we haven't gotten the best of the material, author Jo Rowling's kid series of mostly good vs. evil and wondrous fantasy myth of magic schools, spell-casting wands, game-flying brooms, and constant magical surprises around every corner. In a word, and everyone uses it more often than ever: epic. And there's my main point of concern, and is more so with the Yates directed films -
Why doesn't he go all out? Why doesn't he make his "Harry Potter's" as involving as with some of the better movies, and end on the note of the grand, exciting fantasy saga that this series could have been, and may not be (or will) with the last of the "Deathly Hallows" half, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," out next July? Why be so...calculated? So laid back? So cautious? So artsy? Where is the steam, the juice, the punch? Where is the EPIC?
I'll go more into this later. But watch the series, or just watch one, and if you can the Yates directed films. See what I mean. And watch Peter Jackson's lovingly adapted, and not lacking in involvement or excitement, "The Lord of the Rings" fantasy epic, and compare what "LOTR" has and what "HP" should have. If your a fantasy lover, or movie lover, and watch those movies and read those books, you'll notice the difference immediately.
I'll update.
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