Oh no, I have seen Pan's Labyrinth, and it is glorious. My film-buff father, who is not the fantasy fan I am, considers it one of the ten best films he has ever seen, which warms the cockles of my heart. The end, I think, is the perfect example of Tolkien's concept of eucatastrophe. I got the two-disc DVD for Christmas, and thought we were going to watch it on holiday, so I waited... and then we didn't see it. :/ I'm almost... not afraid, exactly, or reluctant, to watch it again, but it was just so powerful, you know? I can't watch it lightly.
One of my favourite things in HBP was the visuals of the Pensive memories -- memories and flashbacks are so often done in films, and so often done hideously, but I loved the slightly-not-realness of these, the way firelight was sort of weird, and the inky way the background would drift into being. Aside from the first two, the Harry Potter films have been really excellently photographed; not just because they're pretty, but because they keep thinking of fascinating ways to show things.
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Date: 2009-08-10 08:21 pm (UTC)One of my favourite things in HBP was the visuals of the Pensive memories -- memories and flashbacks are so often done in films, and so often done hideously, but I loved the slightly-not-realness of these, the way firelight was sort of weird, and the inky way the background would drift into being. Aside from the first two, the Harry Potter films have been really excellently photographed; not just because they're pretty, but because they keep thinking of fascinating ways to show things.