Harry Potter dies.
Or He doesn’t.
C’mon, you could read the book.
As for my opinion of the movie: it made the great end of a series. However, it was just an average movie, especially if you haven’t memorized the context of the previous 6½ books… or have forgotten them. Harry Potter would make a great series to watch in a marathon sitting, but as the series when on, each episode became more and more dependent on remembering the vaguarities of the backstory, and this hurts the movies as standalone.
I do applaud the producers, however, for actually making the entire series into films, and even more amazingly, keeping the cast together for all eight, modulo deaths. That’s pretty remarkable in this day and age.
Otherwise, I thought the movie was very dark (again, this fit the end of the series well, but made for a very tense movie), and I found myself wondering about the time about half-way through (again, some relief was needed from the darkness).
Lastly, watching the credits, I began to see why movies are so much more expensive than live theatre. Look at all the people that have to be paid salaries.
As for the previews: Sherlock Holmes #2, ehhh. Dark Knight rises. ehh. Planet of the Apes, prequel. Ehhh. Some Steven Spielberg movie. Ehhh. Apollo 18. Potentially interesting.
