Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Back to the Wizarding World

Oh!! I much I miss'd the Wizarding world. It felt really good to be back there, seeing them. Let me tell you upfront that this post might contain some spoiler alerts. So watch out :)

In spite of my severe sinus problems, less than required sleep hours, tight work schedule and travelling weekends (I know I haven't updated it yet in the blog, but trust me, I didn't stop travelling :) ) I managed to go to this movie with some of  my other team mates (I should rather call them kids..they are recent pass outs). It was heavily raining but did that deter us.. oh boy, No.. It added more effect to the grey shade.. It was as if the Dementors were trying their part hard on us, in the Muggle world.. But it doesn't affect the witches and wizards like us ..do they ;) We know our spells well enough to protect ourselves.

So eventually we made it to the theater to see the Huge queue out there for the 7.25 pm show. I didnt go there with much expectations. I always didnt appreciate the movies (except the first three) as they somehow didnt capture the essence of the book..But this movie was good..better than the fourth and even fifth one, I would say. There were places where the screenplay was a little draggy. But you have your moments of laughter and humor and screaming too..

All kids have grown so much !!! Some how Luna Lovegood seems to be the same.. Hermione and Ron were awesome I would say. The scenes in the Godric's Hollow were too good... One girl near to us screamed so loud that we were more shocked by her than the Snake :) To watch Dear Dobby die was very sad...Harry was good as usual. But I missed Malfoy.... I always felt he was one actor who had enough potential. Because to play a person with a grey shade and more confused intentions at his age was more tougher and Malfoy did an amazing job.... He has good future in movies...

Visually also, the movie is good...and much better than its predecessor. The story of Deathly Hallows were done very neatly... through Animation rather than wasting more screen time with Actors. I am not sure how much the non-Harry Potter readers will understand what is happening. But they have managed to capture all the details and you have to be very attentive to understand it.

All said and done, Go Watch it... worth the watch.. You wouldn't even need this statement from me if you are a Harry Potter fan...

HP & HBP - Could have been better !!! (Contains Spoilers)

Hola! It was a crazy weekend with some bug fixes before the release of the product which really stopped me from updating the review of HBP. So here it is now, squeezing some time in between my work :)

This movie is certainly for the teens, with all those romances, pains of adolescence and very funny moments (courtesy: Ronald Weasley). But I definitely missed Ogden, Voldermort's craziness to collect memoirs, his visit to his maternal home... all of that.. But for those you havent read the book and who are going by the movie sequels, I guess it gives a pretty good idea of what an Horcrux is. And somehow the death of Dumbledore (which on reading I cried the whole night) didnt have much impact or atleast the same impact of what Sirius' death did to me. I guess Dumbledore should have petrified Harry (as in the book). That way Harry had atleast an excuse to not do anything for Dumbledore. And I seriously wish that they would have filmed the climax a little better with more fights and Snape's confession of being the HBP was very blunt.

Well as I said, nothing would match the imagination of ours when we read the book, but again to satisfy everyone even commercially, this was a better attempt than Order of the Phoenix, atleast it had some really funny moments.

Only one film of all the HP Series really impressed me and the only film which I felt was filmed better than the book was HP and PoA.

I wish the next two parts of the Deathly Hallows are better and atleast bring the essence of the book well.

Having said all of this, I still would like to see the movie again :) because, being in their world was such a nice experience. I was so engrossed (even when my mind was asking me when the serious portions would come during the watching of the movie) that I was taken aback when the title cards were put up. The rest of the evening, didnt go well because I was little upset missing my fav characters. It was as if I was there with them witnessing everything and suddenly I was pushed back to the muggle world. :)

One more thing I noticed was that , the kids have grown and they have grown well :D
I still remember Harry and Hermione from the first movie and how far have they come.

If you are HP fan, you wouldnt miss it. Go for it. Its good, except that it could have been better.