[Despanan]

Saw it last night. I think this is by far the worst of the Harry Potter films to date. Deathly Hallows part 1 didn't even feel like a movie, more like one scene after another strung together with poor pacing, awkward transitions, and genuinely STRANGE dialogue, even weirder scenes, and TONS of Narm (seriously, the audience was laughing their asses off at all the wrong times due to clumsy and weird choices on the part of the production team).

If you're going to take 2 movies to really give this series a fitting cinematic end, stop wasting time on pointless and strange scenes like Harry and Hermione dancing, and bits of dialogue where the characters just stand around being awkward just to get a few laughs. Just tell the goddamn story. If you want to write an awkward movie about awkward people standing around being awkward WRITE YOUR OWN GODDAMN MOVIE.

All in all, you could probably use this film as the basis for writing a book on how NOT to do a movie adaptation. The direction was bad, scenes which SHOULD have been exciting and epic were massively underwhelming, all the character were retards apparently. Despite the runtime being over 2 hours, very little interesting bits of the book were explored and TONS of time was wasted on pointless sequences, while important scenes were rushed.

The director and screenwriter should be strangled with their own dailies.

Honestly this film was so bad, I'm going to have to re-read the book, because it seriously called into question if Rowling's 7th book was really any good, or if I just ignored serious problems with the plot and pacing because I wanted it to be good

Also:
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WTF? They don't give moody an on-screen death, but they waste the end of the film on DOBBY? A scrappy we haven't seen since movie #2 or 3? Hey, and why the hell wasn't he wearing clothes? That was a major character point in the books if I recall.

Also, as awesome as the horcrux throwing spiders at Ron and telling him how much he sucked was, did we really need to see naked Harry making out with naked Hermione? I mean I know Emma Watson is in college now, but Hermione's supposed to be seventeen and since I've kinda watched the character grow up, that dumbassed director is making me feel like a pedo now.[/spoiler]