15 Responses for "Harry Potter VI, 2nd international trailer"

1. bambi April 12th, 2009 at 11:51 am 1

   OMG,OMG, Draco in the mirror, crazy Bella dancing in the ring of fire…this is going to be awesome!

2. Matt April 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am 2

   Wow, is this like trailer #6? I guess they gotta keep the Potter heads happy after the much maligned release delay.

   I’m really liking the visual feel for this film. I felt like Yates’ first outting came off as somewhat flat, somewhat Masterpiece Theatre-ish. But the visual effects look good, especially those memory whisps. And the art direction and production design seem more urghh rugged(?) this time.

   Looks good.

3. Rahulio April 12th, 2009 at 1:07 pm 3

   Given the fact that Order of the Phoenix was in my humble opinion, the worst of the movies, this does make me genuinely excited for the final two films of the series.

   I just want to slap some Warner Bros. executives. One film of Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix but you’re going to make Deathly Hallows a two-parter? What is that fuckery?

4. Watermelons April 12th, 2009 at 2:43 pm 4

   I’m done with the trailers for this movie. I’ve stopped clicking on them. Just waiting for the damn thing to come out.

5. bambi April 12th, 2009 at 2:58 pm 5

   Delay is still unforgivable and I`m very happy that when WB exec showed the trailer at Showest and asked the fans if that waranted forgiveness for delay they yelled “NO!”

   Not happy about split DH but if they manage to do justice to all emotional moments and Snape&Lilly, than it`s gonna be worth it.

   OT but New Moon casting is getting better and better. I guess they took a cue from Potter and instead of F-listers like Peter Fachinelli they are getting acclaimed actors like Fanning and Sheen (who was the sex in UW:RotL).

6. wait April 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm 6

   Spoiler warning.

   Why do these writers and directors feel the need to change significant things from the books? Prime example, in the trailer, it shows Snape making a shushing motion to Harry right before he goes to kill Dumbledore (heard about this scene from early reviews and you can actually see it in this trailer). I don’t understand this. WHY would you add this? Either you’re trying to blow the twist that Snape isn’t evil, or you’re just throwing random crap in there for no reason. Do these idiots think they can write HP better than the actual author? God this pisses me off.

   And Rahulio, did you SEE the first movie (or the second one for that matter)? I can understand thinking OOTP was the worst of the last three (though I think it’s Goblet), but I don’t know how you can compare it to the trite kiddie films Columbus made.

7. Rahulio April 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pm 7

   I think I’ve blocked out the first two films…but the books weren’t THAT great to begin with. The series doesn’t pick up until the third book, in my opinion.

   I’m just so frustrated at this style over substance crap that Yates is throwing out there. I felt Cuaron cut out a lot of stuff from the book but it genuinely had the “Harry Potter” feel, you know? I always thought the best parts about the 6th book are the flashback scenes, and that’s all been cut out. It’s infuriating.

   I just can’t stand David Yates. At all.

8. wait April 12th, 2009 at 4:06 pm 8

   I don’t mind Yates, but it is clear Cuaron is by far the best director in the series so far. It’s really irritating they decided to stick with Yates for the final two books/three films. I would have loved to see Gilliam or Cuaron take a shot at the final two books, especially the seventh book. Cuaron would have made it incredible.

9. Nick K. April 12th, 2009 at 6:33 pm 9

   Fucking-a wait. I would have loved to see Gilliam do the fifth one. I’m sure he would have made the ministry the bearucratic equivalent of the Ministry of Information from “Brazil”.

10. Noah April 12th, 2009 at 6:42 pm 10

    ‘Most people vomit the first time.’ That’s what she said. Sorry. Inner eight-year-old shutting up.

    I love the more mature tone Yates used for OOTP and I’m really looking forward to HBP. I think Cuaron is obviously the best director to work on the series, but Yates has proved more than competent.

11. Dan April 12th, 2009 at 10:29 pm 11

    Put me in with the “anyone-but-Columbus” group. I love the books, and have consistently been disappointed with many aspects of the film adaptations – chiefly, the unnecessary changes. If the books weren’t so good, it would hardly matter, but they are well-written, and full of associations and references that the films are to timid to tackle. For example, one of the most compelling, heart-breaking chapters in the novel is a memory of a Ministry official visiting Tom Riddle’s family home – we get to meet his mother, his father, and his grandfather, who is severely abusive to Tom’s mom. This has been cut from the film, as has any visual of Tom’s mother making sure the boy has a place to stay, staggering into the orphanage, before she dies from childbirth. They didn’t think it was important enough to be in the film, I guess. Which is, without a doubt, a moronic, cowardly decision.

    I’ll watch the film, because I like the world Rowling imagined. But I don’t actually like them very much, with the possible exception of Cuaron’s Prisoner of Azkaban – and that mostly for the design and the cinematography.

12. RRA presents Harry Potter and the Pissed Off Internet April 13th, 2009 at 12:03 am 12

    Potter fans, I hate to tell you all this, but I never read the books. And I really dont give a shit enough to read them, so my knowledge is only the movies. Sorry.

    But my impressions follow….

    First Two by Columbus = Great art direction, FX, etc., but fucking boring. Columbus once was a fun scriptwriter (GREMLINS, goddamn GOONIES) but man his narrative as a director is about as exciting and thrilling as Polaroid snaps taped together like a flipbook.

    Cuaron’s PRISONER = Here we go, the best of the film series. Magical and not taking that universe’s magic for granted, the good and the bad. Dark but not too dark, lightful but not too lightful, and hey Thewlis was great (but so was Oldman, but shit we take that for granted these days). Plus, the message is simple: Life aint fair. Yeah a simple point, but how rarely do kids movies like these pull that off without coming off as preachy or goddamn condescending?

    In short, I remember being pissed that Terry Gilliam wasn’t hired for the first HP picture in retrospect. If anything, I had the idea that Cuaron gave us a Gilliam-esque picture in tone and sorts. Or maybe I’m just being pretentious, I don’t know.

    Newell’s GOBLET = One or two storypoints still make no sense* to me, but otherwise a good teen melodrama without coming off as a fucking teen melodrama like HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL or whatever the hell, and hey Ralph Fiennes knocked it out of the park with his glorified cameo. Also, is it me or funny that the director of a gangster drama like DONNIE BRASCO made GOBLET? I really wish Scorsese would try a kids flick sometime, just to see where that direction would go.

    Yates’ ORDER OF THE WHATEVER = Inbetween the boring 1 & 2, and the great 3 &4. A decent film with some moments I liked, but here I finally understood perhaps why the HP nerds were mad about the adaptation process. Again, never read the book but I had the vibe of alot of stuff happening for….some reason, and like that hero, left in the dark about much of it for no real damn good reason. Liked too how his “wonderful” father turned out to be a real complete asshole. You don’t get that much in fantasy.

    HP fan-friends of mine have told me how like the films, the books I guess you could say “grow up” with the audience. Those kids who got the first book from the Lunch Box days got the last one entering high school or just about. Instead of yet another fantasy where people are dark and evil because….well, they are dark and evil, there is that whole blood purity insane Nazi angle, which is kinda clever and logical.

    So there, the bad guys have an ideological argument (in their berzerk minds) why innocent people must die horribly (like all strong causes with clarity demand), so at the very least I dug that element.

    Though my pals did warn me that the last two books went all Jane Austen on us, and….I can’t decide if that is a good or bad thing. I’ll have to wait and find out.

    Oh, and I think its neat how I grew up knowing Alan Rickman for the classic that is DIE HARD (known to heal lepresy) and the kids today for POTTER.

    *=What was up with those people volunteering to “drown” in that lake? Who the fuck would agree to be dunked into the lake like that to be saved? I dont care if there is a spell or potion that is a safety net, I would freak out too much on the idea of possibly or even acting like I’m drowning. Can you fans clarify that for me? Thanks.

13. Noah April 13th, 2009 at 6:49 am 13

    In the book, it’s made extremely clear that the people in the lake were only down there temporarily and Ron laughs at Harry for thinking they were in any real danger.

    Of course the fourth film just kind of did whatever it felt like, so not surprised they left that tidbit out.

14. chrisw April 13th, 2009 at 4:14 pm 14

    rahulio is a toolbag

15. Charles April 13th, 2009 at 11:28 pm 15

    the people who made this trailer do not understand humor.

    nor do the people who make these movies