It seems a pity to let the new Harry film arrive without a mention.  I suppose it's because the boys are looking very mature now in the mid-teens, Rupert is 17 y o and Tom Felton is 18.  But it's a superb piece of film-making, very exciting and the set-pieces possibly improving on the book.  The middle task in which Harry has to swim the deeps of Hogwarts lake always seemed rather odd and possibly was an editorial invention because of J K Rowling's writer's block (it works much better in the film); and the Yule Ball is blissful cinema, don't think I've had a more enjoyable time since Hitchcock's Rear Window.
Curiously, Daniel Radcliffe looks a lot younger in his promotional interviews than he does in the film where - despite the efforts of the very dark lighting - he sometimes has an odd, roundfaced, turkey-neck appearance.  But Dan is cinema's last action hero, I love the fact that he has made the Harry Potter role his own:  nobody is going to take it away from him. He looks picture-perfect in the Yule Ball sequence, particularly when he sees Hermione descend the staircase and enter the room: what an entry !

This is one of three movies I will see before the year is out, I've just been slacking lately....

Actually, right after posting my previous post, I decided to go see it. I asked my sister if she wanted to accompany me and she said yes. I just got back home a few minutes ago.

It was OK. I was never a huge fan of the series and haven't read any of the books. In terms of good filmmaking, I think the third episode was probably the most successful. I find at this point it's starting to get a little repetitive.

But it was fun.

There aren't really any significant boy actors in it anymore, so I don't imagine it will get a profile. I've given it a 6/10 on IMDb.

I liked it but I liked the 3rd film more. I disliked that Malfoy wasn't in it much and I always thought Uncle Vernon was funny. I liked Hermione the best out of the three. She's grown the most I think as far as her acting goes. Looking back on them in SS they look so small and cute.

Sadly MJ that is the case.

The upcoming holiday should allow me time to see a few last films before I make my list of favorites for the year.

Is the AFTI poll going to take place again this year?

Funny how children see a different film to adults. I asked my 8 year old niece if she liked the new Harry Potter.  "Yes, especially the bit after the Ball where the boy is still dancing in his pyjamas around the bedroom, and thinks everyone else is asleep. That was so funny !"  The boy is Neville Longbottom and it was good to be reminded of how excellently filmed the whole Yule Ball sequence was: it could easily have been disastrous and yet I've a hunch it will be one of the most fondly remembered scenes in Potter cinema.