New character posters for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS get seriously dark and ominous
Oct 09
Oh my, how these characters (actors) have grown. Check it out: Harry Potter has facial stubble!
Warner Brothers have released a series of dark and ominous character posters ahead of their epic part 1-of-2 Harry Potter conclusion, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. You can’t make these titles up, people. (I guess J.K. Rowling can, though).
Must give credit to this series, though, for (seemingly) maturing with its audience. They seem to get darker with each new instalment, something obviously derived from the books (although I’ll never know). An 11-year-old who saw the first Harry Potter would be seeing this latest film as a 22-year-old. Interesting thought, no?
Take a preview look at the posters now, before they stare you down in the cinema isles any day from now. You’ll see Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Rupert Grint as Ron, Emma Watson as Hermione, Dave Legeno as Fenrir Grayback, Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, Helena Bonhan Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange and Alan Rickman as Snape.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 hits cinemas worldwide from 18 November.
New trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART I pours on the ‘epic’
Sep 23
Wow, those kids are getting old. Part one of the big finale for the Harry Potter series (before they reboot it years later?) is right around the corner, and Warner Brothers have dangled a new trailer in front of audiences to ensure they are suitably enticed.
They know what they’ve got here and they’re selling it with gusto. Sweeping shots, big drums and symbols and lots of, well, just, ‘epic’. Everything about this trailer for Deathy Hallows Part I screams “do not fucking miss it!”
It’s even got a non-Potter fan like me wondering if I should give it a shot… the only thing discouraging me is the guaranteed fact that, after two and a half hours of over-the top cgi and wizardry drama, the only conclusion will be a title card reading ‘To Be Continued…’
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I is one of the longest Harry Potter titles yet, and opens worldwide from 18 November, 2010.
Winter review round-up
Sep 01
Spring has apparently sprung, despite the rain forecast for the weekend and the still pretty-cold nights. That can only mean one thing: it’s time to look back over the past 3 months and take stock of what movies we saw, and whether or not we liked them very much.
As usual, this season was a bit of a mixed bag. Being the American summer, a lot of big cash cow flicks were released — Sex And The City 2, The A-Team, Twilight, Predators, Inception, etc. — and only some of them were good. I like our summer better. We get stuff like Tron Legacy and Harry Potter, and we used to get The Lord Of The Rings.
Anyway, let’s get down to it!
“Quite apart from being one of the most offensive products ever manufactured, Sex And The City 2 is also outrageously surreal to watch. It is so surreal, in fact, that if asked “what was it about?” a mere ten minutes after watching it, you may find yourself hitting a mental blank (probably caused by the violent brain haemorrhage induced by how stupid the movie was). Did I already mention how forgettable it is?”
“How did so many ‘A-list’ comedians assemble in one place and not realise their jokes were falling completely flat on a deadweight script?”
“There’s no rhyme or reason to any single thing Aldous Snow does — and he does some bafflingly strange things towards the end of the film — and the sheer otherness of the central character damages Greek almost beyond repair.”
“A vast improvement over the last installment in the series, but that isn’t saying much.”
Pandorum (While the film didn’t actually see a cinematic release here, I finally got around to watching the Blu-Ray in July, so it counts. Barely)
“Right from the start of Pandorum, I felt a creeping sense of déjà vu. As the film progressed, the sense grew stronger, and stronger, until it became an overriding axiom of truth in my brain: Pandorum is exactly like a video game, but with all the gameplay removed.”
“What made the remake harder to endure was the fact that, for whatever reason, they’ve taken those same beats and stretched them out to a challenging 140 minutes. Almost 2-and-a-half hours is a damn long time to wait for something you know is coming.”
“It’s all here. Big guns, big fights, big arms, square jaws, car chases, explosions, sexy ladies in distress and, of course, witty one-liners. There’s even a bad guy ‘monologing’ at the end to complete the package. It’s all been done before and there’s nothing revolutionary for The Expendables to hang its hat on.”
“A dark streak permeates the plot, an aspect that probably would have helped the film if it had stronger characters, but in reality serves to alienate the audience from what little good Splice has to offer.”
“When there’s parachuting tanks, stereotypically jaded-but-still-in-love ex-girlfriends, and some jerkish CIA types involved, you know the bulk of the audience’s focus is going to be on the action rather than the characters. Here The A-Team is something of a mixed bag.”
“I can’t believe it’s the same kid from Kick-Ass. I’m glad I saw Kick-Ass before I saw Nowhere Boy, because I think that comparison helped underline how spectacularly perfect his performance is.”
“The performances are all — miraculously for this type of film – passable at least, and great at best. Adrien Brody stands out, of course, but Laurence Fishburne’s Apocalypse Now-informed performance as a bloke who’s been on the wrong planet for too long is refreshingly fun to watch.”
“I must admit that I was hoping to laugh out loud more. Heck, I think the audience I saw it with– a mix of mothers, fathers teenagers and early-twenties couples, wanted to laugh more, too– but we never did.”
“It’s clear that director James Mangold is fluent in the language of cinema. He conducts the ballet between screen and speakers, actors and audience with startling precision.”
“Every shot, every cut, every sound effect and musical cue is distinctly Nolan-ish: the sound design is sharp and punchy, the visuals are moody and gorgeous, the music is as subtle as a brick and twice as threatening, and the performances are exemplary across the board. In fact, the only real problem here is the script.”
“Pilgrim’s strongest selling card is its humour, which, thankfully, isn’t content with the kind of geek jokes that make people like me roll their eyes.”
Today marks ReelThinker’s nine month anniversary. Incidentally, this is approximately the period of time required to cook a functioning human being the old-fashioned way. Probably not relevant, but worth mentioning anyway. Thanks for reading, and here’s to another 9 months!
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New HARRY POTTER 7 character images don’t look anything like they did in my head
Aug 28
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 will open in November and make a gajillion dollars. In the meantime, Warner Bros. is doing everything it can to make sure you contribute your fair share to its bid for global domination when the time comes.
To that end, here’s a series of new character images from Harry Potter 7. There’s Bill Nighy in there (as the popular but ineffective new Minister of Magic) and Rhys Ifans (as loveable nutcase Luna Lovegood’s old man), and some other guy I don’t recognise playing a character I’ve probably forgotten. I think I imagined someone more along the lines of Eric Idle for the role of Lovegood, but Nighy’s a good choice for the Minister character. I think.
Part 1 of The Deathly Hallows hits on 18 November 2010 (19th in US and UK); Part 2 comes out in July 2011.
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High-resolution images from HARRY POTTER 7 caught red-handed
Aug 17
With Part 1 of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows just around the corner, Warner Bros. is ramping up their marketing campaign. “Go for epic” seems to be the marketing mantra this time around (if you hadn’t already caught the gist from the trailer and poster), and these pictures, culled from Collider, fit that descriptor quite nicely.
Harry Potter 7 Part 1 is released on 18 November 2010 here; US and UK get it on 19 November; Part 2 is due in July 2011.
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