I finally watched the last Harry Potter movie, The Deathly Hallow part II. I was a fan of how the movie did it's best to pull everything together in a quick, concise manner, but the ending was just weak. In this epic battle of good and evil how were there not mountains of corpses happening? I was disappointed in the overall lack of death and how quickly the nice little bow was wrapped around the whole thing. SPOILER ALERT: Voldemort dies and everyone becomes regular ass old people in 3 minutes. That's not how you end an 8 movie epic series. Voldemort needed to have a crazy, painful death that was a huge spiritual moment for Harry instead of WHOOPS, he's gone now. Also, how can you show grown up Harry, Ron, Hermoine, and Jenny as just regular ass people? It was basically like, Harry's an accountant now, SWEET. Ron is a janitor or some bullshit and they don't do anything cool. It was total bullshit in my mind. I needed at least one main character to die saving the rest, or SOMETHING. There was so much to work with there and I felt like all the shockers and amazing plot twists were just thrown out there and now it's time to end things quickly all of the sudden. Great movie, except there is a LOT of room for improvement in the last 30 minutes to make me not SOOO disappointed with how quickly the ride was over.
Bottom Line: 8.3 out of 10. It's really good, but ends so quickly and unsatisfyingly that it left a bad taste in my mouth.
I agree about the necessity of death in something like this. Sacrificing oneself for others is what makes so many stories worth hearing (aka..THE BIBLE) Sure, Harry "gives himself up"-but he was asleep for about 10 minutes and just decides to wake up and start fighting again. It just doesn't add up. And the final wizard battle was soooo lame. I was so disappointed when Harry didn't die. It may have been predictable, but having Voldemort AND Harry die would have been much more powerful.
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I need me some more dead bodies Nate-O.
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