wizard duels and stuff

so i totally loved the new harry potter movie. as an avid harry potterphile, i was somewhat disappointed in the poetic licence taken by the scriptwrights but overall it was a fine film. most of you that will read this will have already seen the film or don't really care what harry potter is, was or will be. but for those of you that didn't see it yet and do plan to, be warned.... there are spoilers ahead.

as said in prior post, i love gary oldman and once again he didn't disappoint. Dudley was kinda pushing the homo envelope and he can really hussle for a big guy. but i liked the cinematography of the dementor attack. the new dementors were pretty scary and i like the origanl dementors better but these were really good. i really liked the new patronus. the one in POA was dumb. just a bunch of shiny light. this patronus actually looked like a stag. there was quite a bit of condensing to explain how The Order gets harry out and he is informed about the hearing but i was willing to let that slide. tonks isn't what i thought she would look like but i liked her just the same. i thought it was neat how they turned her hair red when she got mad. in my oppinion, there wasn't enough of gary oldman. i wanted the painting of mrs. black to be more... in the movie. the kid playing draco still can't act. shame. you would think that after 5 movies he would have gotten the hang of it now. i missed dolby's involvement and totally disliked that cho chang gave away the DA. the kiss was... much more intense than i thought it would be. i really wanted to see st mungos but they covered themselves with nevil telling harry what was up with is folks. and i loooooooved nevil's moxie when he threatened belletrix. helena was fab as belletrix. kind of a hot mess. a hot crazy mess. always nice to see mr malfoy. i love him for his evil ways. and i can't stress enough how great umbridge was. god, i wanted to slap her from the first tittering giggle to the last panicked scream. and when she slapped harry... welll... as the lady sitting behind me loudly exclaimed, "oh, no she didn't!" oh, no she didn't, indeed. the fake dumbledor did a fine job but he is no richard harris and never will be. it was uuber cool when The Order was white smoke and the Death Eaters were black smoke. i cried over sirius. gary made the death look hot. but he has had lots of practice with dying on screen (see privious post) so overall, it was wonderful and that is all i can say. i'm gonna see it again. and then nit pick it when it is on dvd.

as i was thinking about the wizard duel, i decided to list some of my favorite wizard duels of all time:

10. Mickey vs. The Brooms in Fantaisa. despite the fact that the brooms totally swept the floor with mickey (sorry for the pun), mickey look hot controling the elements

9. Snape vs. Lockheart. watching lockheart totally getting spanked by snape in COS, made me laugh

8. Maleficent vs. Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. the 3 good fairys are more proactive in helping prince phillip than actually stopping the big scary dragon fairy but it's a well played fight.

7. Elphaba vs. Glinda in wicked. i know that they don't "fight" but they do have dueling singing in the song "lothing". you gotta admit, that is one impassioned song.

6. Miracle Max vs. Valerie in the princess bride. neither carol kane nor billy crystle can do no wrong. their argueing is the best part of that movie (except maybe fezik's rhyming)

5. Ursula vs. King Triton. really this is all about ursula being the best baddie ever.

4. Merlin vs. Mad Madam Mim. i liked it when they turned into animals and he defeted her by turning into a germ and making her sick. well played, merlin. well played.

3. The Order vs. The Death Eaters. so much action. visually beautiful. had me on the edge of my seat.

2. Gandolf vs. Sauruman. i liked it when they were beating each other about the face with magic

1. Dumbledor vs. Voldemort. this was truely the best fight ever. the fire and the water and the glass and the sand and the lightening. love it. love it. love it.