that would be awesome . . .
I wonder where the split will occur? Right after Malfoy Manor? Harry's attitude kind of changed at that point. That would start the second movie with the bank heist (and planning of the heist with the goblin).
Damn. Now I'm going to want to read it AGAIN!
Climactic Final Battle...Barf
The main driving force behind the two movie thrust is that the final battle scene is important, and that "it should be done right."
This fills me with dread.
Most fans' main complaint with the first movies is that details were left out. Frequently, this has lead to Ron getting the shaft, with his parts of the books left out. Regardless, plot details have been glossed over so that Hollywood can throw usless special effects at the screen, taking what JK used three pages to describe and turning it into a ten minute SFX scene.
Unfortunately, I think this is what will happen to the last movie. The last scene is good, and important, but I have this horrible premonition that we will be treated to a huge, drawn out fight scene. It will probably be filmed using the same technique as "300" so as to wow us. I think that Hollywood's thinking is that we can have a last chapter that is essentially two sfx shots bridged with a little talking. IE the Gringotts heist and Hoqwarts battle.
We will still get the shaft on the front end. I bet they gloss over the wedding, if it even happens in the movie. I bet that the slick heist at the MoM (which could totally be done tonque in cheek a la Ocean's 11) is shorted, mostly because God apparantly hates me.
At first I was happy about the announcement, hence my post. But as I read more, I am convinced that this split is motivated by money (which wouldn't upset me if it lead to a better movie), and by a desire to short the plot yet again to showcase usless SFX.
Not that any of this matters. These movies were simply a knee jerk, cash in now move by hollywood. In 10 years, the BBC will do a miniseries for each book that will blow these movies away. That miniseries will be so good that a law will be enacted mandating the destruction of all existing copies of the current film series, so that they can rightfully be wiped from existance.
Patrick Yates