Expectations of what the film will be like using all information so far, mood of the film, how david yates has tackled the film as filming has finnished a spurt of new's has come out. So what do you guys think?
Off topic sorry- I can't actually wait for the trailor, I am sooooooooooooo excited...! Aren't you?

I actually am not very excited for this film. (Don't curse me please) It makes me mad because it doesn't sound like Harry and Ginny get a proper first kiss scene, Bill is cut from the movie, so Greyback has to attack Arthur, who got attacked by a snake the last film. I wish Imelda Staunton was in the movie. She is what made the last movie so great.

Well some points that Harrypotternut made were true, But I still am excited about the movie. I love going to see it and then people talk about how good they are and then I tell them about the books and how they left out so much! I usually get laughed at, but hey I really like the books and movies and no one can tell me not to!

Andrew

I'm not entirely expecting the greatest of the series, hearing about all of the cuts and changes and whatnot, but it's still a Harry Potter movie and it's still the main part of the story on the big screen. Even the thought of this book being put on screen is tantalizing, and i personally can't wait for the trailer.
I think the mood of the film is very different, because they are kind of using two moods. There's a lightness in the fact that there are a lot of relationships going on and there's a lot of comedy, but it's also dark because Harry is being introduced to the fact that voldemort split his soul and placed the pieces all over the place, and the only way he can defeat him is to hunt down and destroy each one. Also, this is the book that our beloved Dumbledore dies, and that's going to be the darkest part (in my opinion [and shame on them for cutting his funeral])
All in all, though, i believe it's going to a good film, and i can't wait for more information on it.

My expectations are very very low especially after just finding out that they cut Dumbledore's funeral. If they can add pointless and unnecessary scenes like Ginny tying Harry's shoelace then surely the funeral can be included. I really would like to hear their reasoning behind that because right now, I can't even fathom the idea. It's beyond comprehension.

I'm really afraid for the plot more than I am for the relationships. I hope that they can portray the whole idea right and that not many other scenes are cut out. I was at first kind of mad becuase it was Arthur who gets attacked instead, but now I see that it's not that bad of an idea eventhough he just got attacked in the last film. Poor Arthur.

I'm still excited for the trailer and movie to come out but I'm not going to have too high of expectations just in case I get horribly disappointed.

Thanks for you throughts everyone. I keep adding topics on the discussions but none answers them. Finally, people have answered mine. Keep them roling, keep themroling in..... anay, Ginny tying his shoelace, this is a weird idea from the producers, I mean, can't Harry tie his own and his girlfriend does it for them, and replacing that good be the perfect funeral for Dumbledore scene......... by the way, seeing the stupid, plain, boring trailer just makes my expectations for this film even lower. Can't wait till August the 1st, proper. Proper, Proper trailer comes out, so excited.

actually, the tying shoelace thing was Dan and Bonnie's idea. not the producers. they're doing it where ginny's tying his shoe and then she stands up, and they're inches away...
and whoever said the kiss isn't in there, it never said so! all it says is there's an ALMOST kiss scene, but it doesn't mean the kiss is not there at all...we just need to wait and see.

i have good expectations for the film because i love yates and he did great on the last film. they seem to have most of the book down, so it should be really good!

Even though I know a lot is being cut, much to my distaste, I'm still looking forward to seeing the movie. Yeah, I was really annoyed that they were cutting Bill and Fleur and other stuff, but I know that not everything could be included in the film. Personally I would like it better if people made movies super long with everything in them from the book instead of cutting and chopping stories to fit into a two hour movie, but I'm not a director. I was pleased with how Yates directed OotP. (He's not perfect, but he did a lot better than the guy who did GoF. He ruined that movie.) So yes, I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be good. I hope so. I can't wait to see the trailer!

Oh yes, I agree. Because I was so pleased with the last Harry Potter film OotP that Yates directed, I'm at least confident that HBP will be a good movie even though it is so disappointing that some scenes are being cut out. But still my expectations are a lot lower than they were for the other films yet I am still very much loooking forward to it.

I am really excited about this movie. Yes, I agree, the fact that they took out Dumbledores funeral is really stupid, but I am still so excited for it. I admit though, I am not really that disappointed that they took out Bill and Fleur. Sure, they are a crucial part in the 7th one, but they could easily be replaced with Tonks and Lupin. I just wish they would've made Books 4,5,6 and 7 all into 2 movies, because they were all so long. The Ginny/Harry shoelace scene I think will be really sweet. Its kind of odd, I admit, but its still rather adorable. 3 days till the trailer!!!!

i definitely agree with UnknownLocket and ronmione7....after seeing what Yates did with Ootp, i think it should be a good movie...ootp is my favorite movie, so maybe Hbp will be equal or even better...it is sad that the funeral is cut, but Yates mentioned that kloves wrote in a really emotional, beautiful scene. i'm really looking forward to what that scene might be! for everything about the movie, check this out:

HBP movie

it goes chapter- by- chapter of the HBP book confirms what's in the movie.

thanks merlin most baggy y fronts, or whatever name, that link is good. I would definantly recommend everyone to read it, it goes chapter by chapter. i know the whole film now.
Thanks.

Once I see the trailor today I will sort of know my expectations for this film, I 'm really excited for the film. i have now changed my opinion on the film coming up, my expectations are rather high because of the minimum of information about the film being released so that means there keeping it secret for a very good reason. Can't wait for november the 21st.

I expect a high standard for HBP. The films are all great and untill Deathly Hallows this was my favourite book so I expect it to be bigger and better. I know about the cuts and that but at the end of the day i'm reserving any dissaproval untill after i've watched the film cause you really never know your own mind untill then.
And as I have seen the trailer my expectations are just as high.

My expectations have rose quite a bit. The trailer has made me even more excited for the film to arrive. I have no doubt now that Yates is going to create another very good Harry Potter movie. It will probably be the best so far, but I won't say that with certainty until November and it couldn't come any sooner!

Well, there not high Judging on what (A) I have heard about the cuts made and (B ) Yates work on OoTP I don't think that HBP will be near what it could be. I was unimpressed with the overal quality of the 5th one. Altough the special effects were good I neither Dans nor Emma's acting was what it was in the past movies...some of it was down right bad . The scripting and order of the film wasn't wonderful either and I had to reexplain the entire story to my mother when we left the theature (she doesn't read the books). I think the 5th movie (possably the 6th and 7th ones; have to see) would have been better if David Yates actually set out to butcher them.

I think that the reason that this movie might have some high expectations is because the fifth one didn't really seem that awesome to many. And this movie is really important becuase information is needed to be mentioned if they want to transition to Deathly Hallows and bring the audience back. Becuase they're returning for this one to see how well this turned out but it has alot of expectations.

My personal expectations concerning HBP are mixed. I was not fond of OOTP: too much was missing for it to make sense to anyone that didn't read the books. Which, isn't that important to a non-HP-reader, but it was extremely juxtaposed in storyline. It didn't flow at all for me. Thus, I expect HBP to be the same, but I sure hope it is far superiour to OOTP.

There are so many vital points in HBP to make entire story make sense. As I've mentioned previously, I hope the snogging scenes do not overpower the importance of searching and understanding the meaning of Horcruxes. The potential to be a stellar movie is there, I just hope the director gets it right.

Maybe it is the wait, but for some reason my expectations for the next film are much higher than they were before. I've been so busy that I just realized (now that I can get myself a little bit of a breather) that it is past the date that the sixth film was supposed to come out. And I'm just so anxious and excited for the next movie to come out no matter how bad it is, is said be, or is said not to be. But there's still 7 months to wait! And until that day comes, I assume my expectations will continue to rise.

It's going to have to be really dark so as to set the scene for DH for those poor depraved people who will see it without reading the books...

It's a shame that they have cut out a few scenes I would have liked to see in there and also the beginning... I am still looking really forward to the pensieve scenes, what I have seen so far in the trailer is really good. Hero Fiennes-Tiffin is the perfect young Riddle.

I agree that Hero Tiffin Fiennes is the best person for young Voldemort - having now seen the latest trailer! Wow, that kid can come across as really creepy...

The latest trailer has really given me hope that David Yates has got it completely right with this film. This trailer has given such a feel of brooding menace within the story. The shots with young Voldemort, the inferi, the attack on the burrow and the final battle all relate very closely with the tone of the book (even if the scenes are not directly from the book).

I can't wait to see how Daniel Radcliffe portrays Harry in this one - he will have had his work cut out for him, as Harry's emotions were very complicated, even more complex than those he was experiencing in OotP.

I do wish July wasn't so far away still!

I'm still mad as heck that WB had the nerve to move the release date from November 2008 to July 2009. Saying that, they better have had a darn good reason for doing so. They've had an extra nine months to prepare for the release of this movie, so they better have used that time diligently to add some pretty amazing advancements to the movie. Warner Brothers has no excuse if this fails to be one of the best films that the world has ever seen. Given how much they've jerked their fans around lately, I don't think I am being unreasonable in expecting as close to perfection as humanly possible out of WB for this movie. They owe us not just a good movie, but a great one.

Needless to say, my expectations for HBP are astronomically (and maybe even unrealistically and inhumanly) high. Even if this just turns out to be a very good movie, much like GoF was IMO, I will still consider it an epic failure on WB's behalf.

I'm afraid the reason for moving the date of release is purely money-based. I doubt they have changed anything with regards to the production of HBP, as they have been busy filming DH since February.

I think you may well find yourself disappointed if you believe that WB have thrown any more money at this particular production.

I might also add that if you found GoF to be a great film, then the rest will be ten times better...

I agree with what you said and I know it to be true, but I guess somehow deep down I'd like to believe that people are capable of being driven by motives other than those that revolve around money. I know I probably sound foolish for thinking this, but I haven't lost total faith in my hopes that money isn't truly the be-all-end-all factor in the way our society operates.

I really liked GoF, and it was just in my personal opinion, my favourite movie of the series thus far. I know to some it wasn't a great movie, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. At this point, I suppose I'm just getting grumpy waiting for HBP to come out. I'll be able to let this all go and leave my bitterness towards WB in the past as soon as I've seen the movie for the first half dozen times.

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well,if david yates is going to direct the film,i don't know what to expect..cause he directed ootp also but it was very much under my expectations..I don't know what you all think:D..i think the first two movies were made really good..that dumbledore also was much better,and the other films were disappointments for me...but for those,who hadn't read harry potter,they're going to enjoy it..but i think the sixth movie is going to be better,if it's really as good as the trailers say:D but i heard they're going to leave out all the memories except for the one with the orphanage,and the one with the horcruxes..but-let's hope:)

I think it would be better than the last two films, and it seems it is finally veering closer to the book. Based on postponing of the film, I think the climax for this film is beyond what it would have had normally. Like it has like 5-6 trailers when the past two only did with two. Also I saw mentioned or heard somewhere that they are also trying to make it Oscar-worthy so, based on it might have a least a small chance to wind something for 2010. My cousin think this one could do relatively easy for making it have the Oscar-worthy effect for it there is much more depth and talk in this one than action.

I really don't think it will have any hope of an Oscar with huge special effect pictures like Star Trek, Terminator & Transformers out.

My expectations are very low, I really disliked OotP. From what I’ve been seeing from the movie clips I’m not liking HBP either.

Everyone seems so incredibly lifeless. When they showed a clip on Regis & Kelly (btw- guest Emma Watson is so sweet!) this morning I absolutely hated the soundtrack. It’s so overkill and destroys any mood. It’s like typing in ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME. Just tragic.

Maybe there will be a remake in 20 years.

Now that the due date is closing in, my expectations are very, very high. I'm so excited for the next film to come out and so far, with all the sneak peaks, behind the scenes and everything I've seen thus far, I like what I see. I feel like its going to be a really good film, probably the best. Hopefully the best. I just don't want to be disappointed but I likely am going to be with such high expectations.

They dragged the release date of the film for too long. I'm just ready for it to come out!

My expectations are insanely high at this point. I'm going to walk into the cinema and expect that it be the best freakin movie I've ever seen or I will be mad. Seriously, after all the annoyance Warner Brothers has put us through, it had better be good.

So basically, I know I'm going to leave disappointed.

I’m actually feeling more confident today about HBP since Roger Ebert liked this movie. He trashed OotP, and he’s one of few noted critics to do so. He said HBP was like a Victorian horror story. So I need to gear my mind into a mantra of this is a horror movie, this is a horror movie to be entertained.

I’ll see it tomorrow morning on regular screen, then at the Omnimax for the weekend.

I love horror movies, this is a horror movie, I love horror movies…

Hmmm I don't see how he got Victorian Horror story from this movie.

I didn't have unrealisic expectations for this movie. I knew they were going to leave me a bit cold somewhere. I knew the funeral would be left out and I thought that would be it but I felt really let down compared to other movies...even OOTP which they butchered. I didn't think it was asking to much to expect a battle of pretty epic proportion at Hogwarts. I think this scene, in addition to the Astronomy tower, was the one I wanted to see the most and I didn't even get a poorly done version of it. That was a major let down of my expectations.

As far as staying true to the books, I was again disappointed. I thought the first two in comparison to HBP, did the best job of converting from paper to screen and still really enjoy watching SS and CoS.

I was really expecting a lot from this movie but after OotP i wasnt sure is they would do good on this one or if they would continue with bad ones so i was worried. I was really hoping for it to be good and be almost exactly like the book because HBP is my favorite one and i didnt want it ruined. I also wanted to see more hard core stuff not stuff suited for a seven year old. They downplayed like the violence, with Draco and they took Bill out, so it was less violent.

I am one of the very few, I'm sure, that hasn't seen the 6th movie, since HBP wasn't my favorite book. Actually, OotP was my favorite book and seeing how the 5th movie was so badly butchered (IMHO), I decided not to bother watching the 6th movie.

I recently watched OotP again, and the only reason I did so was because I would get to see one of my favorite HP characters, Luna Lovegood. I just love her, and I think Evannah Lynch did a great job of playing the part of Luna! So, I decided that maybe it was time that I rent the 6th movie.

My question for this thread is this ...

Do we see the character Luna in the HBP movie very much? Or, was she relegated to the back burner? To be honest, if the answers are negative to these questions, I may just wait and see HBP when it's aired on TV!