 Okay, this is the closest to the Crimes of Grindelwald we're ever gonna get in this series. I don't like this one. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys! Hey guys, this is my review for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1. This was the big game changer, not only in terms of coming to the conclusion of the series. This film is also the one that introduced the plethora of Part 1s and Part 2s that would come. Was it a necessary choice? Possibly? Did it open the floodgates for a crap ton of unnecessary Part 1s and Parts 2s? You fucking bet, yeah. This film follows Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they go off on their own quest now to try and take down Voldemort by going off their horcruxes. It starts off with a pretty big banger with the seven different different Harrys and them trying to get to the Weasley House. And it all kind of turns out for nothing because after they get there and there's the wedding they're just like, yeah, we're just gonna go off on our own. I feel that what they were trying to do in this film is they were trying to squeeze in as much of the novel, at least the main plot points that were in the Deathly Hollows novel. And they try to shove it, all of it, into this film because in the second one there's not as much. There's much more action, there's much more drama rather than exposition because holy shit, there's so much in it. I read the books you could blink and miss that Grindelwald was in this movie. I did when I watched this movie and I had read the book. It's so stressing to try and keep up with all of the information that's happening in this film. I was constantly asking my wife, hey, what is going on here? Because she had recently listened to the audiobook so she knew more about what was actually going on because there's so many tidbits in this film that if you haven't read the book at all, if you aren't familiar with anything at all, you are out to lunch for a majority of this film. Sure there are some kind of interesting tidbits here and there. Dobby has a great moment in this film but that's not until the goddamn end. The Deathly Hollows animation is very good but again that also isn't until nearly the goddamn end. There's a lot that happens in this film that is just kind of circumstantial and it's all building up to what the Horcrux is. But there's also a lot that doesn't even kind of explain itself. Also the kids are just, I don't know, I just found the whole idea of them sharing the Horcrux. Like, oh god, keep an eye on it. I was like, guys, you could just put it on like a stick or something. You have that tent, just put it on something in the tent. It's not like it's going to go anywhere, it only seems to act out for dramatic purposes in this film. It's a really hard watch because there's so much being shoved on you. There's so much information being not even spoon fed to you. It's being dumped into you from a fricking dump truck. So they can clearly focus on what's important is that having a dramatic conclusion which is going to be part two. I don't think Deathly Hollows is badly shot. It's not badly acted either. Everyone's really decent in this film. The chemistry between the three leads is good as always even if Ron is a little punk ass little bitch towards the middle part of the film. And obviously it's because of the Horcrux but I thought the part was stupid in the book too, admittedly. But it is setting up a lot of stuff. It is paving the way for what would be number two and I think that's why part one gets so much shit is because of what it had to sacrifice itself to do in order for the series to end on a good note. Which it's a little bit surprising to me that Warner Brothers didn't screw this series up at all in the slightest. Maybe this film like a little bit. Again that's more so just how the film was put together. It was their choice obviously to do the one part one and part two and maybe maybe it's not an unfounded choice. Maybe they could have made like a three and a half hour long film. They did it with Lord of the Rings. I don't understand why they couldn't have done it with Harry. It would have cut out also a lot of stuff that is just kind of unessential. Like the whole Grindelwald thing is just so circumstantial. Again it is just right in there. Just like how Snape was really just at the very very end of the last movie. Yeah I'm the Half-Blood Prince. That's it. That's it. That's all you're gonna get. I feel like that's what's happened with this film. It's my least favorite out of all of the movies in the entire series. I could watch every single one over this one. It's setting up rather than actually being its own thing. And that is probably the biggest crime of the most unfortunate loss that this film suffers. So in the end I'm gonna give Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part one a three out of seven. One movie below the bar. That's not too bad. But now we're going in to Deathly Hollows part two. So far the highest rating I have given is Prisoner of Azkaban. Which I was kind of reluctant to give it that score. Because I've always been hesitant to appreciate this film as much as everyone else does. Because everyone loves this movie. Everyone loves the book. But it's hard to deny at least from the filmmaking perspective that it is as good as it is because it is honest. So part two is now the last one to try and contend with the highest rated film in this entire series. At least in my own opinion. So make sure to check that review out. That will be coming out next. I hope you guys have been enjoying this series. It's been really fun to do. About to watch part two right now. So make sure to subscribe if you like this video. Leave a like as well if you did. 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