mothwing | Oh, look, it's Gandalf and various Gollums in the Mines of Moria!

In a part of the mines without dwarven (architectural) remains, that is. I also love how they seem to have used the exact filter set the guys who did the Twilight movie used just to ram home the fact that the story of this movie is really Serious Business, and serious business requires an excess of blues and grey rather than pinks and yellows, apparently. I liked movies which are able to create this effect without filters, but tastes differ.

So, we watched the newish Harry Potter trailer this morning and while there are many things in there that I really like, there are also things that I did not enjoy, unsurprisingly. One was the gollum-inferi and the interior of the cave. Maybe there is not much creative leeway with caves.

Also, while I am quite weary of the changes they made, I am looking forward to this movie because in spite of the gratuitous filter use (look at those colours!) it is so stunningly pretty. Adaptation-wise I doubt that these people's assessment of the movie is wrong, though - concentration of romance and changes to the ending sound exactly like what I would have expected. The spoilers of the movie found here and here also don't really make me that exited about this.

Can't believe they put that in the trailer, and hopefully this isn't going to be as anticlimatic as it looks.

Also:

Weird hairdo there, Narcissa. I love that she was allowed to keep her wrinkles, though - I would not have expected that they allow any of their female characters who are not teachers to look as though they are doing something as obscene as aging.

Great billboard.

I love how Draco loses his contact lenses there.

Holy crap, this scene is going to be so, soo scary. It's already scary in the trailer, I don't want to see it in a cinema, with a score, and sound effects.

Again, I can't believe they put this in the trailer (Snape AKing Dumbledore, that is, if this is indeed the scene, but then, what else should it be?). I am also not a big fan of Rickman's facial expressions.