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Yes, I'll also grant that, at 3am, I was getting sleepy for the grand finale. But it was so much less grand than the book. Usually I don't quibble about the book comparisons, but this was such a big let down.
I also can't say it was a wrong decision to cut all but two of the pensieve sessions ... but that seemed to change the whole focus of the story. In reading the book, it seemed the story was ABOUT the pensieve flashbacks. In the movie, they were an afterthought.
To me, that left the movie about ... well, nothing. It was all filler. Some of it really enjoyable, funny, delightful, entertaining, and beautifully photographed filler. But all filler nonetheless. Until the end stuff. Which was shabby.
I was also disappointed that Snapes' increased importance to the tale did not give him any screen time in the middle of the story. All those years waiting to become Defense of the Dark Arts professor, and not one scene in that class! Were there any in the book? I can't remember. But that was disappointing as well.
One last disappointment for this morning. Re-using the musical themes from the last movie so pervasively. Gave the whole movie a sort of un-original feeling. Bleh.
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