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7/07/2016

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) - Harry's abysmally dour and long penultimate chapter

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One of the very dark posters for David Yates' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

The Hogwarts school days are over, Dumbledore is dead, and the forces of evil still wish Harry Potter dead. SPOILER His friends also become fewer, and Dobby now also dies.

Deathly Hallows - Part 1 is very long. Harry's loyal friend Ron (Rupert Grint (Wild Target (2010))) seems jealous and angry for most of the film, and despite the cast having reached adulthood by now, there are still only the weakest of approaches towards romance and sex that otherwise might have enlivened things. - Plus their absence seems absurd for anyone who has ever met youths in this age in real life. The film is insufferably dark, kept in uncompromising tones of greys and browns, which makes it outright depressing to look at. The light moments are few and very far between, - it is nearly completely devoid of any color and fun, - and the CGI effects are no longer impressive. The highlight of the film for me was a story inside the story, a fairytale of death, possibly done with stop-motion.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a really long, ugly and boring whopper of a sequel. It is written by Steve Kloves (The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)), based on J. K. Rowling's (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)) concluding 2007 novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and directed by David Yates (The Legend of Tarzan (2016)).

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Cost: 125 mil. $ (Part 1 and Part 2 had a joint budget of 250 mil. $)
Box office: 960.2 mil. $
= Huge hit
[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 premiered November 11 (London's Odeon Leicester Square) and runs 146 minutes. An attempt to convert the film to 3D was scrapped, and it was instead rolled out in 2D and IMAX formats. The film opened #1 to a 125 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it stayed atop for another week and grossed 295.9 mil. $ (30.8 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 86 mil. $ (9 %) and Japan with 82 mil. $ (8.5 %). It was the highest grossing film of the year in many countries separately, and the third highest globally, behind Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland. In excess of 7.2 mil. DVD and Blu-ray units have also been sold, accruing an additional 86.9 mil. $. The film was nominated for two Oscars, for art direction (lost to Alice in Wonderland) and visual effects (lost to Inception.) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is certified fresh at 78 % with a 7.1 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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