The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (2011) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: April 6, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This week's videos are sponsored by Price Picks, the easy-to-use fantasy sports betting app. More on them in just a bit. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Let's watch Harry Potter and the Death of Allows, Part 2. Ladies and gentlemen, we watch Harry Potter 7, Deathly Allos, Part 2. That's a very misleading cover of the dragon. makes it look like they're going to ride the dragon in a battle
Starting point is 00:00:31 they ride him for a few minutes and then they jump off it looks like oh they're going to have the castle burning in the background oh damn like the dragon did that yeah the dragon's a part of the action you're right that's a miss you guys I don't know if you guys know what we're talking it's a mislead it's a mislead for sure so we just watched
Starting point is 00:00:54 Harry Potter in the Deathly Hollows part two and hallows. And thank you, Prepper, for editing out these highlights. You guys have killed it in the department of editing now in these highlights. And Eric, Nerd Chronic, on the re-editing, punching it up, making us look good. Appreciate you. Appreciate you guys big time. Tara, what did you think?
Starting point is 00:01:15 Hmm. I loved it. From beginning to end, the pacing, I mean, we got into it. like almost immediately. We wrote a dragon in like the first five minutes, it feels like. But I also, I really liked that Snape. Like, wow. There was always a little thing about him.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Like, why was he always around in the hallway, like with Harry? And he always had this like attitude that he was always like, in the back obviously we see that he's looking out for him but like what an act and like at the end the fact that he names his kid like Severus you know
Starting point is 00:02:04 like all of that I just wow that has like a lot of a lot of heart in it and the fact that when I initially saw the fawn or the elk or the whatever the animal that came to Harry
Starting point is 00:02:20 across the lake like three movies ago, I thought that it was his dad, like his parents. And then we find out it's Snape all along who was in love with his mom and him and Snape and his mom have the same animal. Like, I love how in this part two, it like all, there's so many things that it just all comes together. And it's a really beautiful story. And I think at the end, when they're like, he's like, will you be with me? And they're like always because that that is that is what it is to that you lose people and you don't really i mean like they're always there you just i thought it was just really sweet how they reminded him that we're always here and the picture of the all three of them there at nine
Starting point is 00:03:15 and three quarters at the end was just like yep yep here we are there old with kids now and like i'm glad to see that obviously hogwards isn't burnt to the ground because there's kids still going to it um that it's like you know that it's recovered it took some time i'm sure but it's just nice to see them all there together 20 years later i think the the irony that they all have kids at the same time is amazing yeah they all were like wow we really survived like we all almost died and then they probably get together and they're let's wait until our mid 30s yeah they're all gonna have kids and all gonna be the exact same age totally i agree no i mean it's it's what happens in real life with people too
Starting point is 00:04:11 that's what i'm saying you would you would time it up with your best friends if you could because then you guys can all relate about like this kid's being a doucheerama tell me about yours yeah man that was a kind of a cold experience for a lot of it till like the last 20 minutes yeah it was dark yeah it was very bleak because the last one I think is more atmospherically dark and I think this one like plot wise was insanely dark it's strange because of how how big this one is this is the first one where they actually go into battle sequences and I even love the handling of that because It feels as if it's going to be going down a traditional path of,
Starting point is 00:04:57 okay, here's where we get our big action finale and we're going to get a bunch of people doing, you know, questionable spells. That we don't know what they're doing most of the time. Right. Do it stuff. Like spell magic happening. Cool. Let it happen. And it's rarely like the actual central focus.
Starting point is 00:05:17 It's mainly something that's going on while the main direct missions at hand with the horror cruxes are still continuing through. because both one and two are pretty much like the the mission to stop the to eliminate the horrockses that's what one and two consist of primarily and even in the midst of the battle it's still about finding the horror cruxes and I appreciate that they don't deviate from their main plot at hand and turn into some generic epic finale
Starting point is 00:05:43 that I thought we'd be getting I really thought that's maybe what's going to be is some gigantic finale of people doing this the whole time and then sparks happening and then people dying. So what they provided us instead was I feel like something that was a little bit more rich and with payoffs throughout like the snake payoff. I feel like they alluded to that, that he had feelings for her. Did they?
Starting point is 00:06:08 I don't, you know, I'm not going to be the one to remember. There was the part about the bullying. And then he said you have your mother's eyes. It was like, oh, you must have really loved her. Yeah. I mean, he said that. When he said that, that was, yeah. Otherwise, why else would you say something like that?
Starting point is 00:06:26 Why would he remember that it was so intense, you know, like you have her eyes? That's a very intimate thing. Yeah, yeah, which makes sense more of the resentment that he would feel towards James. And I like how they actually did go back through all the older movies and reveal that it was part of the plan the entire time. Which is interesting to me because I would mean author J.K. Rowling must have known that from the get-go. Yeah. Because she, like one, two, and three were out when this series became really popular. And then there was four, five, they were following much of up, much later.
Starting point is 00:07:01 And I think like when the movies were getting made, only one through four, the books were out already. Oh. So there were still the other ones that hadn't been out. Okay. And to me, it's one of those fun facts of, oh, was this something that was always there in her mind when it came to crafting the narrative here? because from all accounts it looks like it was the case the entire time and yeah i think the ability to have you pull back that entire layer from the character that seemed villainous and antagonistic and dark from the get-go and then to be perhaps one of the ultimate villains in the very end of it all
Starting point is 00:07:40 to become the headmaster the one who killed dumbledore but there were clues that were pretty evident in the last one too that he didn't want drako to kill him and he wanted it to be staying but anyway the i i do like the peel back of that of how committed they were to it and even the clues they left about him they weren't super obvious if anything you were kind of back and forth on where his allegiance really lied yeah and i think that's a the ability to commit like that and not overly telegraph and still have the plot twist to the point where we were like damn that is it was there the one about the patroness and the the deer was the wow was my boring part about the past to be like holy shit and not think that would be snake yeah powerful stuff I agree and then the delivery
Starting point is 00:08:31 of Voldemort like Voldemort is usually just teased little bits little scenes here little scenes there and you get so much Voldemort here yeah ray finds you can see why it's hailed as iconic beyond the appearance and there's so much buildup to this character and to finally get him in the epic finale he gives some great scene work here I love he's he's a phenomenal actor I love when he's relishing in the in this final speech when he thinks he's won all yeah it's so good I also just really like that, you know, from the top, when we, when Snape is like, come forward if you know where Harry is, and then Harry steps out and then all of his friends, all of the rest of everyone there basically steps out with him. And then Maggie Smith is the one to like, right? And they like defeat him in that moment to where he like, I just really like that because it's, it's, it's, Harry in this movie in the very beginning is almost, it's like it's stepping into his role of what we always thought he would be of someone he has to take him down. He has to take Voldemort down.
Starting point is 00:09:50 But now he has like the backing of everyone there. And it felt like even though in the midst of such darkness that Harry would have that they would have his back, even though it's wildly dangerous. Yeah. so dangerous and I found that really moving I really I really like that that they continually did it as well
Starting point is 00:10:15 I like what they did with Draco because they were alluding again that he didn't that conflict and then to tie it's put it in together with Snape too where you do wonder where Snape's allegiance lies and with Draco again another character who you believe is going to amount of like he
Starting point is 00:10:33 really starts off as potter's main antagonist Yeah. And outside of Voldemort, like the bully at school. Yeah. And to put him in this position where even his kids, Harry's kids get to go to school with Draco's kids now. Right. It was, it was, I thought it was delivered in a way that actually felt satisfactory and even for Harry to see the good in him still to see that Draco is actually not a bad person. He's being misled and manipulated. It speaks to Harry's leadership strength. I think this movie shows his leadership strengths a lot. And a lot of this is him, the journey of Harry is him having to deal with the identity, right?
Starting point is 00:11:16 Of being the boy who lived, having to deal with that, being thrust it into this other world is Mr. Famous. And a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. It comes with a lot of package, a lot of baggage, a lot of judgment. And this is him stepping into the ultimate rule. of responsibility. This is him stepping into the role of even the great sacrifice. He literally sacrifices himself. Yeah. And I love that reveal coming around. I totally forgot what the hell you were talking about, honestly, when you said that. That was insane that I said that and then
Starting point is 00:11:49 it came right up. Yeah, the opening close. I'm like, what are you talking to? Y'all think I make a lot of dumb guesses and that one. Yeah. I didn't know what you were talking about. And then you went they opened i was like oh shit the resurrection stones and i had no clue when you said what is she talking to yeah that was that was that was really cool and they give you good payoffs like he gets to have the reunion with with dumbledore um in purgatory or where that is the train station to heaven yeah he gets to have that and harmony and ron get together they have the kids the kiss also the kids was such a payoff and it was right after they killed a horrocks together yeah and like oh my god that was good yes this is the this is the one that it is definitely a movie that is divided into two
Starting point is 00:12:44 parts and it's a really long film yeah it's like a five near a near five hour movie totally because i don't feel i feel like this really works best when you do watch part one relatively close to part two yeah i couldn't imagine how long they had to wait right to get oh yeah what was the real was it was it a year six months a year yeah i mean hmm right yeah you'd have to wait some time but i i do really think this is a five hour film because the first half part one is so character driven it is so character it is just harry ron and herminey prime merrily dealing with life on the run trying to figure this shit out and figure out their friendships and the yeah the ups and downs in that too yeah i really love that part one a lot i love
Starting point is 00:13:41 part two as well i think as an isolation experience i would give the edge of my personal sensibilities to part one i cannot imagine that is the popular opinion i would personally gravitate towards part one for all that effect and but part two is pretty amazing part two that's not to diminish part two and i think you really need part one for obviously it's part two so you need part one but with the journey they give us it does i like how they did commit to they kept the darkness going i really thought this would be a two towers meets return of the like i really thought yeah you did think that yeah and then part two would be would be an uplifting yeah yeah that's why he said i was excited because you said that i was like he's probably right but
Starting point is 00:14:33 no this this stayed relatively insanely bleak until the last like 15 minutes of this movie where even then they didn't just go into ura moment it still stayed dark even after harry showed he was still alive and you did start to get a bit of that hope and triumph and you get this These payoffs are like Neville Longbottom, the dweeb, being able to, you know, use the sword and be a badass in that moment. You know, I think they give you some really cool payoffs here with some great tie-arounds to what they've done before. To even go back to Green Gods after going there in the very first movie. And I think part one was doing some of that book-ending chapter stuff as well.
Starting point is 00:15:17 And yeah, the flashbacks and all were all spectacular. stuff this is a little more straightforward surprisingly right yeah yeah except for you know the twist and turns with snape of like wow you know that that's like i was just in shock and like oh that just like hit hit my heart because he had to live with that right for a very long time but the payoff that they give him is like harry names his son after him yeah and like When we talk about full circle, you know, his kids worried about being in Slytherin, so was Harry. It's like, it's such a bookend because Harry did not want to be in Slytherin either, right? He was so happy when he got Gryffindor, but his talk of like I, the two best people that I have known, like, it will be okay.
Starting point is 00:16:11 And also the sorting hat takes, like, what you want into account. and we remember that took me back to like one where it where they they brought that up I just thought it was a really good a really nice bookend but as you said yes straightforward it's like from here we are we're ending Harry is you know he's a part of which I always kind of thought Voldemort because of his scar and his power right I was like I think I made it get I was like is Voldemort like his dad like his i i don't i i didn't think that but maybe in the beginning i did because i was like well why does he have his he has has his power inside of him why is he as strong and now we finally find out that yeah it's because there's a piece of him inside of there um which i feel
Starting point is 00:17:04 like we felt like for a while i didn't really guess horrocks till 20 minutes before they revealed I never thought Horcrocks I just thought that's why Harry is as strong as he is because he has a piece of him inside
Starting point is 00:17:19 Oh yeah I felt I just kept feeling like I'm missing something here of there has to be some great tie in here that there's something
Starting point is 00:17:26 here all along and I know I have some people might accuse me of it because I here's the thing you know I actually haven't been
Starting point is 00:17:36 as diving into comments I didn't want spoilers and I don't want to convince people of what I remember and what I don't remember because to me it's like life you know sometimes I'm with family members and they're telling me about something I did 10 years ago or 15 years ago like I have I don't remember like you clearly remember this I have no idea I'm like this sounds like a brand new thing to me you know something I did I don't know what you're talking about and that's how I felt with watching these was right I felt like I didn't know so much it was happening here and
Starting point is 00:18:10 part of my brain does start to go but did I guess horror crux because in the back of my mind I knew that from from like whatever what was it 2011 from 14 years ago um it's a pretty good guess and i think it's a reasonable good guess watching a lot of movies knowing that oh he has a piece of him inside there we have to kill that piece well it started the clue started coming together more whenever he destroyed the horror cruxes and he was in pain uh harry yeah and then i that's why i started questioning if if harry was a horrocks from the from the uh from the symbol on his head and to give the symbol an actual physical meaning beyond just a symbolic one right was uh was a pretty cool maneuver i like though like the flushing out
Starting point is 00:19:00 i love how thought out all that is you mean of of just like the the horrocks is and then him yeah yeah yeah yeah how it's there the whole time that it's like if you're going to do a complete of your movie you can't just be something that you're making up for your final thing. No, it was there from the beginning. Yeah, it was there from the get-go of Harry Potter's identity. I think that's really smart. I think is the exact same with Snape like I was saying from day, from the first movie you think there's something weird going on. Why is he always
Starting point is 00:19:27 looking around every corner being like, Paula? What are you doing in this hallway? I'm like, how do you even know? And now we know. Yeah, no, it's smart. Yeah, to consistently make it look like he's on the prowl to get him. To get Harry to catch Harry not but he's really protecting him so smart yeah that is yeah that is pretty clever damn that is really clever it's awesome I love it like I saw the play in uh in New York which takes place after this so it's like Harry is an adult and it focuses on their kids okay and because I didn't remember there's a lot of information that I and and I was also on some oh boy
Starting point is 00:20:08 It's, you know, New York Gummies. Okay. Which made the magic way better. It's dazzling to the whole, I'll tell you. Oh, my God. And I was, I definitely had, there were times where I couldn't pay attention to two things at once,
Starting point is 00:20:23 meaning I might be looking at magic and like lost. And then I'd be thinking about what I just saw and not paying attention to what the actors were saying at the time. And I do that a lot if I do something on my own at home. It's a lot of rewinding because I know how my brain will get overly fixated on something. And I'm like, wait, I totally miss this. I mean, it's like when I read a book, I'm constantly going back like a page or two. And, and, yeah, I mean, there's like some stuff that I knew Draco would live because Draco's a character and that.
Starting point is 00:20:55 So I was like, all right, no, Draco's going to live. Not that his life ever seems like it's on the line. I knew Harry had to live. And Ron and Hermione had to live because they're in it. Yeah. It didn't tell me, I didn't know, though, how. they won and that was like such a fun part to unpack here and to still get lost in the immediate moment of that's how that's how i know the movie so effective because i'm like i know
Starting point is 00:21:21 he's got to live somehow right because i just i saw the play he's got to live somewhere and and even when he's saying by to the ghosts that you know that that moment with the ghost suddenly gave the context of the ghost so much more meaning because the ghost abender since the first story yeah and that really that was the first time it started really affect me emotionally in terms of like moving me and yeah the like neville's speech and for championing to be on harry's back really moved me the kids at the end really move me and i think it's really cool like the kids are the main character or harry's kid is the main character in the play so i'm like yeah i was gonna have a kid and stuff and then i forgot his name was albus um i think i thought they were seeing
Starting point is 00:22:06 alvis oh alvis those new york gummies yeah and we said albis and we have subtitles so we can read it yeah i was like whoa that's so powerful yeah right i should i saw this play like four months ago i should have that one i'm like i should have remembered yeah but it has still hit me pretty hard and it it shows the effect of how how effective these movies all right i've been told we're in the Thick of basketball season, MLB is heating up, and there's no shortage of games to track. So, if you've ever wanted a smarter, more fun way to stay locked in, you've got to check out prize picks. It's America's number one daily fantasy sports app.
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Starting point is 00:24:00 Yeah. I agree. I also think like, um, What a moment it was, very cool effects when everything is on fire and Harry goes back to save Malfoy. And you're like, what? Okay. And it was such a cool, cool shot. He just swoops him up, you know, after all these years of him just being such a doucheerama. But them setting it up that we see such a turmoil going on. side of Malfoy that he's just still so unsure and he's dealing with so much peer pressure that he has to one way or the other. I mean, even at the very end, when his mom is like, come
Starting point is 00:24:51 and he's like, it was kind of slowly goes and then they go off. You can still tell that, you know, there is, which is why when we see at the end, when we see him there, it's not like, oh man, there he is, that freaking bully. It's like, oh, they did a good job of painting it at the end. As a kid who was struggling through this whole thing, especially towards the end, very specifically in like getting back Harry Potter and when killing was in order, he struggled with that, right? Which is like, eh, it's the same to say and it's good writing that a lot of bullies.
Starting point is 00:25:31 It's just because they have, they got the issues, right? And they're projecting it onto someone else. And most of the time, they can grow out of it, right? We hope. And that's kind of what we see is that he goes through something. And I'm glad to see it at the end that he was there old with his kids. And they're going to Hogwarts as well, which I liked. Yeah, the broom action too in that.
Starting point is 00:25:57 It was cool to actually get some broom action again. Some broom action. To find a way to get the broom action going. We were waiting for it. I mean, it's a single, it's a staple of being a witch wizard. You gotta get the broom stuff. You gotta get the broom, actually, let us have that. That was cool.
Starting point is 00:26:11 I agree. It was cool. So there are a couple of things, though, that definitely feel trimmed for adaptation purposes. Yeah. They mentioned the caros, the brother and sister. Oh, yeah. That went out to window. They were like in the background for a second.
Starting point is 00:26:27 They were dead within 20 seconds. Yeah. I'm like, okay, I guess we got some new, new things that you, oh, I guess. that's not going to be much of anything in this movie characters who die off screen maybe they die off screen in the books i don't know it's different and who cares if they die off screen in the books it's different in the in the movie medium especially when you take your opportunities to cut around excuse me take your opportunities to cut around and break perspective to me i i think if if you don't want to if you're going to cut away from harry's perspective you're going to go away from other characters perspectives then you could allow us to
Starting point is 00:27:04 scene like that to see when these characters die when they die and then even some after effects of how these characters are grieving like we lost a weasley and you know you lose a loop in as well it's like that was the bummer of the mad eye moody moment be of them dying off screen i remember how convinced i was he wasn't dead yeah yeah so things like that you definitely feel like a little truncated yeah outside of those things where you go that's weird that's in this movie movie, but I don't really feel like we had time to live with it. I kind of wish we had more time with Ginny and Harry's relationship evolving, especially since they end up together. They end up married. I wish we had a little bit more evolution there. I don't remember which one it was.
Starting point is 00:27:49 It gave us a good amount of Jenny. I think that was part six that gave us a good amount of Harry and Jenny and that's when Ginny started to step out of her. Out of her shell. Yeah, it was like really freaking coming on to Harry. Totally. Totally. He's the most famous. She was going after it. I'm get this guy yeah yeah and yeah so i think i think there's there's definitely it's not flawless this adaptation but is pretty damn near of flawless like it's pretty it's pretty close like there's a lot of great things and it's it's pretty cool to watch this franchise evolve i don't know where we'd rank it what would you rank i mean i'd have to think about that huh i'm pretty sure prisoner of askeman's still my favorite one of them all yeah that one's a pretty hard one at top yeah that one's
Starting point is 00:28:32 really, really good. I would have to like spend some time. Yeah, me get like a whiteboard. I think so because like there's just because we get like cards. Especially for me because we've watched these like back to back. But even if it was only seven weeks ago, like there are going to be details that all smushed together. And I'm like, I don't know where that was. I really don't. There's just so much information here. Obviously we didn't read the books or I didn't. You didn't read the books yeah yeah so um i don't i don't know where this would would sit it's probably up there but i really do agree with you that i really was loving six but it's really just because we got to see our three leads that's seven together for that's seven part one oh seven part one
Starting point is 00:29:25 that's what i meant seven part one the last movie because we got to see our three leads be together and just go through this up and down relationship and like, you know, Ron leaves. And when he comes back, you know, Hermione's like so angry. And it's just like we feel all these emotions with them, which was a really great way in part one to lead us here to part two, knowing where they stand now where things are kind of fully out in the open, even though we would have liked to see more with like him and Jenny. and then obviously Ron and Hermione in the buildup there. But I thought that part one sets us up with a really good foundation so that when we get here and we see that it's going to be a lot of Voldemort, it's okay because we already really spent the time we needed with Hermione, Ron, and Harry.
Starting point is 00:30:21 I like, too, that they let Dumbledore be increasingly flawed, you know. he's not some perfect wisdom-filled wizard that he makes a lot of mistakes that even his family has stuff against him like to include the family and again I feel like in the book you probably get a lot more of that oh I'm sure to include that in the movie
Starting point is 00:30:42 which I think the casting on whoever played him was great and leaves an impression and there's a lot of clues as to what's to come or what might have happened but yeah I do I do think some of that was a little bit glossed over as well like there's like setups for stuff where you go man it would be cool to explore that but you're not going to have time yeah well just like when snake was the the dark the dark wizard and we didn't get to see him teach a class dark arts dark arts teacher harry's lightning bolt scar was applied by makeup teams approximately 5800 times by the end of the film franchise he had the scar applied 2,000 times while the rest were applied to stunt doubles and standings wow
Starting point is 00:31:25 Wow. He reportedly broke 80 wands because he used them as drumsticks. That's great. Oh, wow. Rupert Grint was the only one who never seriously considered leaving the franchise. Daniel Radcliffe thought about leaving after the third and Emma Watson after the fifth. What? Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:45 How would you think that? Wow. It's like this is paycheck central. Who cares? Interesting. Suck up the fame everywhere you go. You don't get a personal life. you're you're you're sworn by fans and paparazzi for the remainder of your days
Starting point is 00:31:58 uh that's cool okay uh no no okay uh no that's that's not cool whatever trying to see try to see the thing Alan Rickman admitted to feeling awkward during the scene in which Professor Snaven McGonnell duel, thank God for computer graphics because holding a wand is not throwing the most threatening thing you can do. And that's what I mean. It's like, that's what I thought the world would be with.
Starting point is 00:32:31 I was just like, because we're not saying a bunch of smells most of the time outside of like the few we hear all the time. So like I don't know what they're doing. Right. Like when, um, when Helena Bonham Carter and Mommy Weasley. where you go and I'm like I don't know what she's doing but they're doing something they're doing something not long after Alan Rickman played severus name jaco rally told him some character secrets this is what I was asking about yeah that would not otherwise be revealed till the la oh he knew okay oh wow wow that's
Starting point is 00:33:04 cool was one of the very few people to know other than rolling so that means like probably these directors other characters nobody right he had that wow you need to understand i think it does completely understand and did completely understand where this bitterness towards this boy who's living proof of lelie's preference for another man a man who had tormented and ridiculed him came from yeah that's tough man also we it says according to rigman the directors prior to the publication of the last book were not privy to the information the stape's true character either and he had to ask them to defer to him on the portrayal of Snape whether or not they understood why that's insane because you are there as an actor and the directors they are going like well I can we try
Starting point is 00:33:51 this a different way what if you did this and he's going to have to go can't do it and he has to play it a certain way without letting them know the information that's wild wow before the final book was published. Daniel asked J.K. Rowling whether his character Harry would die at the end after a silence rally gave him the very cryptic answer. You get a death scene. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:21 All right. There's so many facts that I'm trying to be selective here. Oh, fun. Curtin-Felton, Baltimore. Awkwardly hugging Draco is not scripted, but an improvisation by Ray finds. Oh, my God. His reaction is stopping dead in his tracks, not knowing what to do is genuine it's so good and so awkward oh man
Starting point is 00:34:40 uh yeah she did have to make out with both them at some point she put no chance it's not written in my contract what are we looking at uh i don't know i'm just reading random shit to try to see if there's anything he's just scrolling around i can't even it's making me dizzy i'm sorry there's so many facts there's like 200 facts here. I know it. All right. Here we go. At the train station with the train of the next generation
Starting point is 00:35:12 of children on board leave Kings Cross Station head towards Hogwarts at the end of the movie. The song playing over the scene is the same one as the last scene in the first Harry Potter movie where Harry Waves could buy to Haggard. Oh, I didn't know that. And leaves on the trade to head home from Hogwarts. The song is titled Leaving Hogwarts.
Starting point is 00:35:29 Officially ending the franchise besides Headwig's theme. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, we got a lot of facts. Whatever. We're both a little drain
Starting point is 00:35:42 from the mind right now. Mm-hmm. And that was a, that was like a dementor experience. Wait a minute. Maldi Weasley's line, not my daughter, you bitch is Dame Julie Waters. Favorite lie throughout her role is Mrs. Weas.
Starting point is 00:35:52 I agree. That was literally the best. It reminded me of Alien when Sigourney Weaver is like, get away from her. You, I think she says you, bitch. Yeah. Which is so perfect.
Starting point is 00:36:04 So. good all right yeah well we'll read these on our own time this is you're scrolling is so fast i don't even know what you're looking at it's so many every time it's like blown 50 more yeah imdb like we don't got time for this it's insane all right what are you going to dip all right well fantastic beast takes place like 80 years before the first one focus on a completely different guy a different guy but that we've seen in Harry or no? No, no. I mean, eventually.
Starting point is 00:36:40 It's a different character entirely. Yeah, okay, don't tell me because I don't know. I know nothing. It's a buildup to a guy who was mentioned in the last movie. And it was to the point where when they, I had never heard. I remember this guy I remember this guy really mentioned when I watch Fantastic Beast. and then this guy is
Starting point is 00:37:04 has a little scene that's like 10 seconds long and apparently he's like oh there's a whole thing here I don't know how to explain he has a little scene in this in part one of Deathly Halas he's got a part one not part two
Starting point is 00:37:16 yeah I don't want to ruin I'm not going to remember yeah I don't I honestly don't even really remember what the scene was I just remember being like oh he's in this and I didn't know that so but apparently is a very important character oh okay yeah anyway guys where would you rank this one thanks for being on the journey
Starting point is 00:37:37 you want to do a podcast yeah i mean listen y'all can't come at me for not remembering things and not reading the books i am not in encyclopedia like Andrew Gordon so in a podcast i would love to do it um i think it would be fun but i also am like they're probably like why why? Because, I mean, I don't have all the facts, but I think it would be fun. Well, it would be a Q&A. I'd want to hear. Oh, Q&A. Would you like to hear my thoughts? Yeah, I think we would put out of the community post and be like, ask us questions, and we're only going to answer your guys' questions.
Starting point is 00:38:17 All right. And I would like that. And especially, do I sound like Kaminy? Like, is it proper? He's over it. He's quite tired. I came in more tired than you. Listen, just deal with it for a moment. If it was questions and I got to prepare, that would be excellent. Prepare. Prepare, like, look at a question. They're like, from number two, what did you think about the suitcase being open with this code? And I'd be like, I don't remember.
Starting point is 00:38:53 So I could do a little, maybe research and be like, what are they talking about? good now thanks guys you know are we good we're good bye thanks for being oh i know you should tell them thanks thank you for being here we're going to be back for fantastic also rejagnation shop dot com also listen you get out of here i got to get out of here we love you guys for joining us he didn't tell you that also go to my channel why i watch reality come hang out with me we we spread hugs love and laughter over there tarot troopers love you get out of here Bye. Thanks guys. And we I think I feel better after the movie. Oh, I I do too. Exceptionally less frustrating. I was thinking about that. He was so mad before. I was. I was
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