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This week is clearly Harry Potter week in the movie world as the final installment of the beloved franchise took in a record breaking $168 million on its opening weekend alone. This week on the show regular panelists Steve “Frosty” Weintraub, Dennis Tzeng and John Campea are joined by Movieline’s west coast editor Jen Yamato. Together they discuss the final chapter of Harry Potter, the new Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer (and was it really needed) and the upcoming massive pop culture event COMIC CON! Hit the jump to watch.
The break down looks something like this:
Greetings and introductions
1:15 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 discussion
21:47 – The Dark Knight Rises teaser
30:45 – Comic Con
42:32 – A brief chat on a movie we all saw prior to shooting this episode that might be about a certain Captain from a certain United States of America… but I can’t say officially.
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- Dennis
Totally agree on the Potter movie. My review here – http://tinyurl.com/3qwrg89
Can't wait to see the Cap!
Gonna try something different for my comments on this one.
2:56 – I'm not with you there John. My immediate feelings are that the final film is awesome. Flawed but still incredibly good where I can look past them as a whole. But I'm not going that far to say it tied up and trimmed everything.
9.25 – I have read the books. I like Dobby in the books Not much in the film. To me that was not Dobby, it was an irritating mass of pixels from second film who returned for the last one without being developed in between like he was in the books. I was very sad when he died in the books and I'm not taking my emotional ties from the books to enhance the films when it's clearly messed up.
And while I'm on the subject of character's dying. Generally I'm not fond of off screen death for established characters. There are exceptions but one way or another I'd rather have scene where the audience knows that this is when they died. In the books three characters die and we don't see it. Annoying but the books are from Harry's PoV. If he didn't see it he didn't see it. Now film is a visual medium… here I was thinking that they would make up for this misstep in the book. Let's see these three go out in a blaze of glory. But once again they take three characters (and to my knowledge popular ones too) and kill them off screen and expect the audience to be broken up about it. And they took one that wasn't and made it off screen. I'm too pissed at this to be devastated.
11.00 – That's a good theory. Not why I don't like earlier films as much but still a good theory. The thoughts on the nature of villainy. I agree with a lot of those points but I'm inclined to think that a villain can extremely effective in whatever state they are in. Whether they are personified, abstract, mysterious or detailed adn a good balance of all four can be attained in some cases. Voldemort, not the best villain ever but I thought he worked better being personified and being understood.
16:00 – I think she is done with Harry and Co. She's not done with the world she has created and it will probably get the George Lucas Treatment. Hopefully she doesn't but I won't be surprised.
20:00 – 7/10 for me, second favourite of the films for me and second most enjoyabe film this year so far..