I thought the final fight was so over the top and Hollywood. Wish they had stuck to something more normal I mean the flying around and choking with the robes thing, not to mention the slapping and kicking was just weird and kinda cheesy IMO.
shareSo much of it was done for the 3D audience. The issue with me was that Harry was not really that much of a match for Voldy. I understand the need for a battle at the end rather than the dialogue ending in the book, but I feel they went way overboard like you.
There is a medium where Harry does get to tell off VOldy and how the plot worked while keeping with some of the fighting. I also wish they had Voldy fighting with others like he did in the book rather than just dealing with Harry.
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Yeah cause the point is NOT that Harry like Neo or something. He was the chosen by circumstance and defeats Voldemort by exploiting circumstance, rather than his actual fighting abilities
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Yes, it was absolutely terrible. I actually laughed out loud when he said, "Let's finish this like we started...TOGETHER!" Total turd of ending.
shareYes. I really didn't like much about the movie at all, really. Traded too much character development and plot for silly action scenes. You get near 20 minutes of Harry and Voldemort flying around and fighting, but the important aspect of the fight - Harry's explanation of events to Voldemort, his urging to try to find some humanity, etc. - are skipped over. Worse, the fight happens in total private, so no one sees it happen and witnesses Harry's big triumph. That change truly baffles me, because the aftermath of it was such a great moment in the books.
Could definitely have been much, much better.
Whores will have their trinkets.
Since David Yates took over as director, all duels/fights just plain suck. And this is bleeding over into Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
Save a horse, ride a cowboy!
I sometimes wonder if Yates actually read the books or somebody gave him a Cliff notes version. He didn't seem to have any knowledge of the lesser plots of the books.
shareFully agreed! The fight scene was horrible. I so wish they had used the scene from the books!
shareI agree, it was lame. They also seemed to use one shot of Voldemort during the final duel twice. Weird.
shareAnybody who read the books should hate the way that fight was portrayed. They went more for the all out barely coherent action flick than the story.
sharethe fight in the movie was ok. but how did the fight go in the book?
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The fight was very talky in the book - I honestly didn't much like it
The movie did take one element from the book, however, and exploit it - the elder wand's allegiance
I agree it stretches credulity to turn Harry into Neo. Harry's only "chosen" because Voldemort chose him as a target, not because Harry has godlike powers.
So I agree it seems like Harry holds his own against Voldemort for an awfully long time, but Voldemort was, for all his power, completely hamstrung when fighting Harry.
This does follow the book; it just stretches it out a bit.
Neither he nor Harry said anything at the end, but their respective spells' "colors" made it clear enough by that point. As always, Voldemort was trying to kill Harry while Harry was just trying to disarm Voldemort. Harry's spell "pushed" Voldemort's killing spell back onto himself.
In both the movie and the book, having misunderstood the elder wand's power, Voldemort ends up killing himself.
thank you. I didn't read the HP books.
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