This was the first movie since the 4th one that I decided not to go to the midnight show. Afterall, movies 3-6 have been very disappointing and not worth the money. Now, after seeing Deathly Hallows I wish I had gone to the midnight show. Why? Because David Yates finally got a clue and went back to what made the first 2 movies so successful: faithfulness.

I hadn’t read the book since it came out 3 years ago, so I was able to come into the movie with a fresh perspective; I basically remembered who lived and who died, that was it. After I saw the movie I came home and read the book. The whole time I kept nodding to myself saying, “Wow so far so good!”

The movie cut what was necessary, didn’t add anything stupid or unnecessary, and ended it at a decent part of the book. I was expecting a lot of the dialog scenes to be cut, but after reading it, it was okay that they did. Like I said, I didn’t remember too much from the book, so when I saw the movie I was still able to follow along. Then going back to read the book all the bits and pieces they cut were like trivia rather than huge plot-holes like the last 4 movies.

After finishing the book, all I can say is they FINALLY got another movie right! It only took them 4 movies to get back to the greatness from the first film, but they finally did it. I laughed, I cried (finally some EMOTION with the deaths), and overall enjoyed the film.

I cannot wait till Part 2. Midnight show is definitely gonna happen!

I am a HUGE fan of Sex and the City, and I have to say I was quite disappointed with this film. In fact this was the first time I was actually offended by Samantha’s behavior. The flipping off, yelling f*** you, and waving around the condoms at the Muslim men was SO uncalled for. As one reviewer put it:

“I mean, we all know that Samantha is ‘politically incorrect and inappropriate’, she behaves in ways that are so inappropriate that she manages to get herself arrested. Remember what I said about the illogical plot? Somehow, we’ve forgotten the fact that the reason why she’s even there was partially because of a business venture. As inappropriate as she might behave, I honestly doubt she’d be so unprofessional as to screw that up. Unless of course there was a really bad script writer who realized that they had run out of things to talk about in Abu Dhabi and needed some silly reason to get the characters home to New York.

For us non-American viewers, we mostly got a screening of ‘Har har look at the stupid Americans behaving inappropriately. They have no respect for anyone’s religion or culture.’ Fans try so hard to think of the four protagonists as intelligent women, yet every so often the script writers seem to go out of their way to prove us wrong. I have no idea why and it’s a shame."

If anything, kudos to Miranda for actually being respectful of the culture.

Everything else I found to be cheesy and pointless. The trailer made it seem like this movie would have so much substance to it, but it turned out to be the opposite. All that hype with Aidan for only 5 mins of screen time? Boo.

I’m just going to pretend this film didn’t happen. I love the first one so much more.

Dear Gary Marshall, PLEASE mix the cast up a bit. I am getting so tired of seeing the same people from your movies over and over again, especially your daughter who isn’t that great of an actress. Seriously it’s nothing but people from Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride, and Raising Helen. Other than that, cute story!

I have to say I DON’T GETTHIS! I really don’t understand the whole appeal of Twlight at all. That movie was waaaay too full of unnecessary teenage angst. I mean, really?! Is life THATBAD? And I’m talking about the serious emoness going on before Edward left Bella. I had to stifle laughter the whole time – it was just way too cheesy and stupid. In fact the only good thing about this movie was A – everytime Jacob showed up on screen with no shirt on and B – it made me want to come home and hug my fiancé and thank him for not being emo.

I’m sorry you guys, but Twilight is duuuumb.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet and care about spoilers, now is the time to walk away… but come back and share your thoughts after you’ve seen the movie! ^_

Usually when I see Harry Potter at midnight I try to go see it a second time at a decent hour to give it a fair shot; however given how expensive movie tickets are these days I am certainly not wasting another $10.50 on a movie I know is not worth a second try. Now, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate it like I did PoA. It was a good movie. Great? No. Best out of all the movies so far? Hardly! Better than the last movie? Yes, in some aspects.

Prior to seeing the movie I had finished re-reading the book to refresh my memory. As most of you know this is quite a sad story, which is why I haven’t re-read Deathly Hallows since it first came out. Before I glanced at the what-will-be-cut portion of WikiPedia’s page on the film, I was very optimistic about the film; however once I realized some VERY crucial scenes were cut I was already annoyed.

Ever since David Yates became the new director the only thing keeping me going with these films was his ability to do every scene involving Voldemort and his cronies 98-100% faithful to how it is in the book. This film disappoint me in that respect. If anything, this movie was supposed to be about Harry learning more about Voldemort. Instead, it was overshadowed by Ron and Lavender snogging all over the place!

I understand that for the sake of budgeting and time, some scenes have to be cut. What I don’t understand is changing around and adding stuff in the scenes you do include. By now the changing things around is really compromising the integrity of the film therefore leaving a lot of people who haven’t read the book confused. My sister was confused. Joshua was confused. Joshua’s brother was confused. I tried to keep the book out of my mind, and even I got confused!

I expected the first chapter to be cut. The second chapter was included, but it wasn’t the first scene. The Dursely’s being cut I was understanding, but why couldn’t they have Dumbledore picked him up outside of #12 Privet Drive and make some reference to the spell? WTF was with him being picked up at a train station after flirting with some black chick? Kinda reminded me of the train scene in Prince Caspian.

I did like how they touched on the bridge being messed with and showing Harry numb from the events in the previous film. I loved Horace Slughorn and basically every scene involving him was great! Him as a sofa, hah! Now was it just me or was there a lot of emphasis on the pond near the Weasley’s house? Harry apparates via Dumbledore there. The extremely UNNECESSARY and infuriating scene during the Christmas holidays was by the pond. Um, what?

Diagon Alley was great with the Weasley’s shop until they decided to go after Malfoy. There were key things that happened with Malfoy which supported Harry’s theory Malfoy might be a Death Eater. In the movie they cut these small things out so when Harry expresses his thoughts on Malfoy being a Death Eater it sounds like he pulled it out of his ass. And unless you happened to take a really good look at the wanted poster, you’d never know quite who/what Fenir Greyback is.

Luna or Tonks, I honestly don’t think whoever found Harry was that big of a deal. It made no difference. Surely it was cheaper to have Luna find him than Tonks. I was pretty much fine with everything until we started getting into some key scenes.

The whole Ron/Lavender bit was funny at first, but then it just got annoying. As one reviewer put, “It seems that the producers of Harry Potter were aware of the growing popularity of the Twilight phenomenon and wanted to make their own teenage romantic love story as part of the series.” So true! The portrayal of Harry and Ginny’s relationship was extremely disappointing. In the book Ginny didn’t kiss Harry. Harry kissed her upon realizing she won the Quidditch match replacing him as Seeker. Any scene with those two made me want to barf because it was so overdramatic, not to mention didn’t happen like that at all in the book. They didn’t even touch on their Peter Parker/MJ-like break-up.

My biggest heartburn out of the entire film? The lack of memory scenes (which are a HUGE part of the plot and next book) and the insertion of the Death Eaters burning the Weasley home. In no way shape or form did anything remotely close to that occur to the Weasley house in the book. Didn’t happen AT ALL! Why was it in the movie? What point did it serve? None. By only including 2 out of about 6 or so memories did the film makers waste 2hrs explaining one fact: Voldemort split his soul into 7 Horcruxes. And because there is no explanation the audience is only going to be further confused on how Harry goes about finding these Horcruxes.

As acting goes the only characters that did well were Ron, Slughorn, and Draco. Emma Watson makes Hermione into such an overly emotional drama queen; I can’t stand her. The character of Harry is suppose to be modest, not into himself (”But I AM the chosen one!”) as Daniel made him to be. Snape was only good for the Unbreakable Vow scene.

Here’s the thing about the Potter series. Books 3 through 6 give thorough explanation on why Voldemort went after Harry, why his parents die, how Voldemort came to power, and how he can be destroyed. If you didn’t understand what was going on throughout the book, Dumbledore was there at the end to explain everything. They have failed again and again to give the audience that same courtesy in the movies. Even if things like Dumbledore’s funeral, Bill and Fleur’s wedding and such are supposedly going to be in the next one, they’re going to be wasting a lot of time in the 7th film to try and explain what wasn’t included in this to make sense of the last two films.

Bottom line: Cutting scenes to save time/money is one thing, but cutting scenes that are crucial to the plot and explain things is what makes this movie a poor one.

Um… so it was okay. I thought there was too much singing for a musical. Anymore singing and it would have been like Evita. Also the only person who could really sing was Amanda Seyfried. Everyone else, including Pierce Brosnan (WOW HE CANNOTSING) not so good.

Take the songs away and it’s a really cute story. The plot itself is what really saved this movie. Other than that… it’s better as a play than a musical. Sorry ABBA.

SPOILERSBELOW!

I liked the movie overall, it’s just I don’t know how to feel about it. It kinda left me feeling depressed. A lot of good characters died, especially Norrington, which made me very upset because that kiss with Elizabeth was SO HOT. I didn’t like how they just kinda let go of the whole Calypso thing after they freed her; I did a happy dance at calling Tia Delma as being Davey Jones’s lover, something I figured since Dead Man’s Chest. I felt like there were a lot of holes in the plot and things unexplained, like Jack’s whole issue with Beckett and what Jack’s mark was on him. I think what really bummed me out more than anything was the Will & Elizabeth ordeal. After all the issues they went through in the past two movies and now they only get to see each other once every 10 years? That’s messed up. I would have been a lot happier if say they sailed together forever but him being with his dad forever on the Dutchman? YAWN. I think Barbossa is the only character who gets a 10/10 for being awesome. Davey Jones was mostly a wimp, which makes me sad considering he was beyond kickass in Dead Man’s Chest, making him my favorite villain of all time next to Darth Vader. The fight scenes were great, especially when Barbossa married Elizabeth & Will, and Jack’s entrance was as grand as ever. The humor was good, as well as the acting and music was awesome. I give it a 7 out of 10.

I found this review on IMDb who pretty much was on the same page as me. These are the 10 reasons why he didn’t like the movie, which I happen to agree with:

1. Will and Elizabeth have about the least satisfying end to their romance imaginable.

2. Davey Jones became such a tool so fast. He didn’t even put up a fight to Beckett. He was completely different than the first movie for the first 2 hours or so.

3. Calypso’s whole thing was utterly pointless.

4. Beckett and Jack had a past… What was it? They kept referring to it for two whole movies. What’s the deal? There was also a hint that Beckett was present at the previous pirate lord meeting. What was up with Beckett? They didn’t do anything with his character at all. I felt nothing for him one way or the other.

5. Norrington was done a total disservice as a character. It’s like the writers felt they had too much going on so they might as well kill Norrington off after 5 minutes of screen time. They set his character up so much in the first two movies as well! Why spend so much time on him if he’s gonna be a total non-factor in the third?

6. I didn’t buy the Elizabeth Swan Pirate King thing for one bit. Seemed completely forced and contrived.

7. Chow Yun Fat was a non-character. He might as well not been in the movie.

8. Didn’t care one little bit about the pirate lords and their meeting. Cut em’ all out of the movie.

9. Elizabeth’s dad was killed with very little depth or drama. I felt he was done a disservice. And why didn’t Elizabeth kill Beckett to avenge him? That angle was pretty much forgotten.

10. Jack was a virtual non-factor in this movie. It was like they set up the movie and had the plot they wanted, but then they added Jack. He makes a few twists and turns, does this and that, but really has no effect on the outcome of the story. They set him up in the last two movies to do something truly heroic, but it never happened. As such I became weary of Jack Sparrow. I never thought I would say that.

I started using this on July 7th and I have to say this just might be the end of the road for me acne-wise. I’ve spent the past week overcoming my reactions to Benzoyl Peroxide and now I can see this is the one ingredient that works.

When I first started using it I got a reaction right away: some redness, bumps, and itching. Nothing serious compared to my previous reactions. This was mainly due to using it twice on the first day. As directed I began Tuesday with just using it at night (and using Clinique’s Antioxidant Moisturizer) while resuming my Wexler routine in the morning. By Friday it got to the point where my skin would be irritated if I didn’t use the ProActiv in the morning and night. Since I started using it twice a day the reaction has gone down tremendously. And my skin? CLEAR!

So far so good! Hope it keeps going!

Still consuming it! Best make-up, hands down!

What a BAD movie. This was like, really REALLY bad. It came out a year ago, and instead of wasting a movie ticket I was redoing the flooring in my house. Good thing I did because, wow this was a totally bad end to a fairly good trilogy. The first movie was awesome, the second one was good in the sense it gave you hope and then third one was kind of like, “Um… WHAT?!”

The singing and dancing was so unnecessary and got old really fast. And did we forget that this is Spider-man or should we have changed the title to MJ? I got sick of MJ rather quickly along with Harry. I also thought they way the relationship between Peter and MJ got a rather crappy ending. Not impressed.

I don’t know. If there is a 4th one they really need to work hard to redeem themselves from this one.