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Thursday 28 April 2011
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 Trailer Makes Me Sad
The worst thing about the Harry Potter series coming to an end is that there won't be any more of these trailers. Whoever's been putting them together over the years should be knighted for services to fanboys. They're amazing little works of art, perfectly structured, with excellent use of John Williams' theme and an uncanny insight into what causes a good shiver down the spinal column.
Pity the films never quite come up to the same standard.
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As I'm just reading the books for the nth time, this certainly gave me goose bumps! I just wish they had made the other books, at least 3-6, as two parters as well. They just feel so rushed and never achieve the atmosphere of HPATDH Part 1. Also, the studio could have made even more money!
ReplyDeleteHarry and his magic wand may be played out, but you can look forward to Avatar 2 in 2014 and Avatar 3 in 2015. James Cameron is hoping to set new standards for cinema. In this digital age there is no need to stick to 24 frames per second (Each frame being shown twice to make 48 images per second.) Cameron is thinking of shooting at 48 or even 60 frames per second according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter. It is lunacy at the moment that digital cinema has saddled itself with some of the limitations of regular film projection.
ReplyDeleteYeah, no matter what else is going on in the cinematic world, James Cameron is here to save us with more 3 hour long chunks of space-hippy eco-parable Fern Gully re-imaginterpretations. Yay.
ReplyDeleteDear TheUnwashedMass I had to look up Fern Gully (1992). Yuk - You are right, Avatar was nothing new except for the technology used to make it. I saw it as a bog standard Western with blueskins in place of redskins and unobtanium in place of gold. At least as vital as making the films is the millions of dollars spent marketing them. That combination is what gets the bums on seats.
ReplyDeleteEe that's given me right good goosebumps!
ReplyDeleteThere isn't a single shot in that trailer that isn't a $$$$$$ VFX shot. Nothing. Not even the seemingly prosaic shots of two people standing looking at each other. I know it's always been common practice for trailers to dangle a film's shiniest attributes in front of the audiences eyes and Harry Potter takes place in a fantasy realm but ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING MONEY SHOTS.
ReplyDeleteThe best film of 2011 will confidently remain Animal Kingdom and that's mostly people talking to each other with the palpable threat of violence hanging in the room. 2+hrs of grey/blue CG jizz all up the screen is really fucking played out. Thank Christ this tossy stream of films and their appalling central cast is finally over.