Saturday, 24 December 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt.2 - D. Yates (2011)

So yeah, one day is Angelopoulos the other Harry Potter... you never now with me.

I was curious to see the end of it. I thought part 1 was rubbish and boring. Of course it's got information you'll need for the second part, but two films were unnecessary. Rules of the market.

Though it's the same rules of the market that allows for it to have a great sound. I've always thought they tend to have good sound.. but this was quite impressive. It had all the conditions for it: fantasy film, lots of action, non-real creatures... I'm glad it wasn't wasted. As I was watching it I kept thinking what a great experience it would be to work in such a film. When I found this video I confirmed it... big budget sound making seems like a lot of fun!



The perfomances. The ones that stand out are Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman. They play the bad ones and it's easy to over do the bad ones. But they are so measured. Especially Fiennes who at times seems to just be using his eyes to be evil. 

The one thing I hated: the age effect. "19 years later".. is basically the same teenage kids with grown up clothes (a bit too big for them) pretending to be grown ups. No. It doesn't work. You can still tell they are young. Awful way to ruin... well the end, really. Finding adult actors would have been better (not that they haven't grown it's just that they still look young). 


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