Tag: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Page 2 of 2)

Don’t tell me what’s in this trailer

Yes, I’m a bit late, and a lot of you saw this on Sunday night when it premiered as part of the MTV Movie Awards, but even though I’m posting it, I’m not actually watching the trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” Not yet.

You see, although I’m quite fond of the Potter series as well as a terrible procrastinator, I haven’t read the book yet. (I’ll get to it before November. Really.) Since trailers for film adaptations often give away in the first minute things that happen 100 or so pages into the book, there’s no freaking way I’m watching this teaser trailer. But here it is, anyway. Actually, right now I’m pretty sure that all the characters will die horribly by the end of the book anyway, except Voldemort, of course.

Take that Kyle Smith! A very special movie moment

I could go on and on and on about how stupid I think Kyle Smith’s attempted take-down of the entire Harry Potter series is. But, rather than go on at length with thoughts about how anyone who writes for the mendacious New York Post should think several times before discussing morality in culture, I’ll simply go with a Harry Potter-inspired fantasy movie moment I forgot to include over the weekend.

This one is from perhaps my favorite Roger Corman film, the relatively lavish 1963 B-picture, “The Raven.” Much more a comedy/dark fantasy than a horror film, and only tangentially related to the Edgar Allen Poe poem, it is written by the great horror/fantasy writer Richard Matheson (the novel I Am Legend, both the book and the film “Somewhere in Time,” and innumerable “Twilight Zone” episodes) and featured three of the true greats of old school horror typecasting: Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and (sadly not featured in this video) Peter Lorre. An extremely young Jack Nicholson is also on hand in the kind of bland, male ingenue roles that helped him to consider writing as a career.

I guess this might be the closest the movies have come to Harry vs. Voldemort until the second “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow’s: Part II.” Of course, since I haven’t read the final Potter novel yet, for all I know they settle the whole thing on page 1 with card tricks and an applause meter.

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