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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

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    From Tysto commentaries:

    IT ALL ENDS in a grand assault on Hogwarts that is in no way like Lord of the Rings! It’s a terrific, emotional ending to a terrific series. However, once again, I lament setup-and-payoff issues. I lament Snape’s worthless death and Harry’s nonsensical non-death. And I lament plot ellipses (they’re not holes if they are explained in the book) and propose new endings and variants of key scenes that would make them stronger (YMMV).

    I compare the film to the Indiana Jones movies and The Wizard of Oz, and I compare The Wizard of Oz to Shakespeare. I accuse Harry of being illiterate. I also decide who gets to graduate.

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    Here come some rent-a-cops. How would you like that to be your job? … You don’t get very good grades, and you end up graduating from the school of magic, and then you become a bank guard. — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @0:21:15

    [re: Slytherins sent to dungeon] Now, if I was a Slytherin, I would go, ‘Hey, wait a minute! I wasn’t agreeing to that! I wasn’t gonna send Harry out to Voldemort! … We’re not evil! … We’re just libertarian.’ — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @0:41:06

    This is a wizard battle, and … they don’t do much more than shoot magic missiles at each other. … Pew, pew, pew! — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @0:48:12

    All of those giant spiders fighting for the bad guys are the fault of Hagrid, because Hagrid kept Aragog as a pet, and those are all Aragog’s progeny. — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @1:08:05

    I was desperately, desperately hoping that Draco would simply say. ‘No. … I’m not coming over there. … I am the head of the Slytherin house and I am going to defend my school.’ — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @1:42:05

    So Harry gets to graduate. … And definitely, definitely Gryffindor wins the house cup this year. — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @1:52:48

    Notice Ginny wearing flats here, by the way. Get used to that, babe! You married a short man. — Tysto Commentaries,
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 @1:56:21