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13th-Mar-2008 11:54 am
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I don't tend to make lunchtime updates - but I can't resist spreading the word that the last Harry Potter movie will be _two movies_, released in November 2010 and May 2011.

From here.

I think this is a good thing.  There's just not enough stuff that can be cut out of the book to shorten it.
Comments 
13th-Mar-2008 12:19 pm (UTC)
According to Daniel Radcliffe, "the seventh book doesn't really have any subplots. It's one driving, pounding story from the word go".

Driving and pounding? Not since bloat set in with the fourth in the series has a Harry Potter novel been other than a tedious slog. But others' mileage must presumably differ....
13th-Mar-2008 12:22 pm (UTC)
If you found books five and six to be tedious slogs, then why on earth did you read number seven? I gave up after number four, and consequently have no idea whether or not number seven is a tedious slog.
13th-Mar-2008 01:01 pm (UTC)
I'm with you. Not on disliking the series (I enjoyed them all), but definitely on giving up on series I'm not enjoying. Life's too short.

Do you retain enough interest to be watching the films?
13th-Mar-2008 02:32 pm (UTC)
I guess it is for the same reason I've never walked out of a film: even if it is rubbish I still want to see how it ends. Luckily the HP films are much better than the books.
13th-Mar-2008 01:00 pm (UTC)
Yup. I enjoyed them all. Didn't find them a log, or bloated.
13th-Mar-2008 02:29 pm (UTC)
Didn't find them a log

But logs are also good for burning.
13th-Mar-2008 02:42 pm (UTC)
Hmm. I'm in two minds about this, because it's true that it's got less easily-removed subplots than book 5 or 6 and that would make it trickier to film, but I don't think it would be impossible to make one good, long film out of it, especially if you cut chunks out of the whole farting around in the woods with tents sequences.
13th-Mar-2008 03:10 pm (UTC)
Am I the only person who liked them being stuck for ages outside was actually good? Who thought that having them leap straight from A to B instantly would have been less satisfying?
13th-Mar-2008 04:14 pm (UTC)
Yes. :)

I can see why it was necessary for some plotting reasons, but it dragged and I was bored.
13th-Mar-2008 02:53 pm (UTC)
I'm totally baffled as to how this will make 2 movies, as to me they spent a lot of time pissing about because Joanne felt the plot had to fit into a school year, instead of just having the big showdown already....
13th-Mar-2008 03:10 pm (UTC)
See my response above :->
13th-Mar-2008 03:13 pm (UTC)
What, this one?

Am I the only person who liked them being stuck for ages outside was actually good? Who thought that having them leap straight from A to B instantly would have been less satisfying?

I have only read it the once, and quickly, but yes, TBH for me it felt like padding time to fit the school year, and all the more irritating for it.
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