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Am I the only one slightly worried about BOH?

BraveheartBraveheart Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭✭
edited July 2011 in Root
Don't get me wrong, the way it looks in the trailers is amazing and epic, and the build up clips like McGonagall with the knights and the shield going up look amazing, it looks like it will be an epic build up...but from the clips we've seen, I feel a little thrown and almost a little disappointed. It's not that it doesn't have music (though the bit with Flitwick panting does sound unintentionally hilarious and I hope that's not like that in the movie). It's just that it all seems so disjointed. It could always just be the way it's edited in the clips, but it really seems rushed.

Also, the way it's shot isn't particularly good. The framing of the fighting is odd and not particularly exciting. Again, I can only go on what I've seen, but I expected it to be all intense with hundreds of people fighting and all these spells exploding, but that's not how it is. For one, they use the same effect for EVERY SPELL. I mean, ok they did that a bit in the other movies, but this is a proper battle, they should look different and have lots of different effects, and the spells should do different things. In this it looks like everyone's using exactly the same spell, and it's just a faint blue wisp. The duelling doesn't look violent for the most part in the crowd battling clips. They just added lots of flashing lights that don't do anything. It just looks like a hundred people flashing little flashlights and torches at each other. In OOTP for example, and in the Cafe attack, the spells were explosive and caused damage, it felt like there was a bombardment going on all around them in the OOTP battle. Contrast that with the duelling at Malfoy Manor, where they are just flashing light back and forward, using the same curses and same shields. It's not exciting, and that's what it seems like in much of the battle. Also, there is no real choreography in it, it's all just a blur, an unstructured mass of light. The battle should have an ebb and flow, it should look like they are actually attacking each other, not just waving wands in any old way and letting the effects team shove a bit of light in where they can.

I don't know, I really hope I'm wrong, but it just looks like that to me.

On a related note, please tell me the McGonagall vs Snape duel is not just a couple of seconds of them bouncing back a little ball of fire to each other, because it so...I'm EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED, that's worse than the book.
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