Elevator Music?

I gave the same number of stars to something that won an academy award and the chances of Harry Potter ever earning an Oscar for best picture would be…

Well, it would be small.

Every time a new Potter film comes out the cast will say it’s darker, (it did at one point literally meant that it got darker), but I am somewhat glad that they got David Yates to direct this film.

It has that repressed emotions that are churning within the movie every time Dan gets the impulse to break something or shout at something. You can almost hear them swear but they don’t because of the PG rating but you’ll add it in your head anyway. In fact, it would not have been surprising if Ron looked at Harry in the middle of the movie and asked if he needed some pot.

I bet David Yates did that on purpose.

They got all the pairings right. Finally. Although I still don’t see how Ginny and Harry happened but it was better then seeing Hermione going for Harry and stealing all of Ron’s lines.

The acting was less excruciating this time round .Apart from the fact that Katie Leung isn’t pretty but spends her role trying to look pretty failing to do so and then remember that she was suppose to act.
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The rest of the cast did well, Emma has forgone the shrill that she used in the fourth film which is always a plus and Rupert has widened his vocabulary, now he can speak in complete sentence as compared to GoF where his aim was primarily to exclaim BLOODY HELL every chance he got. Evanna: ethereal and perfect. Bonnie should have gotten more screen time. They cut the best one liner from the book ( “Give her hell from us peeves”) Imelda was brilliant. Most of the adult casts were. Sirius had tattoos printed all over his body. Now we know how he escaped from Azkaban. He’s going to sue Prison Break any day now.

The icing on the cake was that they muted Dan when he was crying for Sirius. It was a subtle and almost beautiful move. I couldn’t stand it when he cries or weeps or whines or moans or basically any form of acting that requires grief or anger.

With all the suppressed emotions going around, there isn’t much time for laughing. Tensions sometimes tear and when the trio does eventually crack a weak laugh you will laugh along with them.

This movie isn’t a crown jewel. More like an ice sculpture, it would melt eventually but it was pretty and worth looking at while it lasted.


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