Still awesome though. The steady improvement of the movies has been terrific.
I don't know why they felt the need to have Harry and Voldemort falling into a bottomless pit but exclude Grawp fighting the other giants, and Hagrid almost completely until right at the end.
In the book, there were three amazing CMOAs in the final battle; Molly killing Bellatrix, Neville pulling the sword out of the hat WHILE ON FIRE, and Harry maiming Voldemort with words before they both cast their spells. The tension that final conversation between Harry and Voldemort have is amazing, but it was kind of shunned in the movie in favour of...flying around the grounds and crawling dramatically >_>
The whole movie, the writing, the SFX, the way they handled a lot of the stuff, was really top-tier, top-notch, no complaints. But the way they handled Harry/Voldemort wasn't up to that level.
I try not to compare it to the books so much, but I always felt that Harry/Voldemort circling each other in the great hall with Harry giving Voldemort a Reasons You Suck Speech, as the sun rises and they fire at each other, was incredibly cinematic and full of tension. I don't think what they did was as good as that would have been - and unlike most gripes I have with the movies it wasn't a time issue or anything. They COULD have done that, but they didn't.
That said, the pensieve was handled AMAZINGLY well. It arguably did a better job of making Snape sympathetic than the book did. The epilogue was fine as well imo, but then I didn't hate it in the book.
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