Showing posts with label mourning the breaking of the elder wand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mourning the breaking of the elder wand. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2011

Am I The Only One??? (SPOILER ALERT)

Ok.  Now that it's been a few days and I know a lot of you have seen the movie by now... this is my last major post on the last movie installment of Harry Potter.
PLEASE: IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE YET OR READ THE BOOK PLEASE SKIP THIS POST AND COME BACK WHEN YOU HAVE!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
I do not want to be responsible for spoiling anything for you.
Ok.  When I said there were parts I didn't like about the new Harry Potter film, I should clarify.  There really was only one major part that really irked me.  Seriously, it bugged me so bad, I left the film really questioning whether I liked the movie or not.  Even though I was emotionally moved in all aspects... This one thing was threatening to undo it all for me!  I have since come to the conclusion that I loved the movie but hated this one scene...

At the end... instead of Harry using the Elder wand to fix his wand that got broken in Godric's Hollow... he just snaps it in two... when in the book, he uses the Elder wand, being that it is unbeatable, to fix his wand and then he returns the wand to Dumbledore's tomb.  When the snapping scene took place, I turned to Dave and said "I guess he doesn't NEED a wand, he's Harry effing Potter" ha ha ha.  I was just really grumpy about it.  The thing is, it really wouldn't have taken much time or effort to have kept that in step with the book.  They showed that his wand got broken in DH pt 1...
...so to have him pull his broken wand out of a pocket or bag and repair it with the Elder wand would have been easy peasey... then if the movie wanted him to snap the wand in half so bad, do it then... but for goodness sake... Repair his fracken wand.  That wouldn't have been too difficult of a scene, now would it have?  Am I the only one that this bugged???

So that's my gripe with the last installment.  I loved it... cried like a baby... there was some BRILLIANT acting done by my favorite Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gambon (who I initially HATED as Dumbledore but came to adore him after HBP), etc... It was all great.  Except for... the wand.  Grrrrrr.