Saturday, August 14, 2010

Deathly Hallows posters. Whut.

I'm browsing Cracked.com and happen across this article about 'grossly misleading movie posters' and what do I see on the list?

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.

This is one of the posters that someone somewhere has cooked up for it:


. . . WHUT.

And I quote Cracked:
If you're having trouble remembering the part in the final Harry Potter book when Voldemort turns London into a giant rave, that's because it didn't happen. What did happen is that the kids who grew up reading about Harry have moved on to Twilight, so the studio apparently decided they could cash in by portraying a confused or possibly constipated teenage girl wandering helplessly without the guidance of her big, strong, man with supernatural powers.
Yeah that kind of sums up my thoughts. I just didn't make the Twilight connection until reading that article.

You know what this movie looks like? Some dodgy glitzy pseudo-apocalyptic thing. Which doesn't sound all tthat bad I guess, but this is HARRY POTTER. Magic! Hallows! Voldemort! Not Hermione looking like a rip-off character of Scarlett Johanssen's woman-in-red-dress role in the Matrix.

Deathy Hallows. I read those words on the poster and trying to connect them with the image that the poster depicts is kind of ridiculous.
And now the more I think about it, the funnier it gets. Voldemort turning London into a giant rave LOL.

Then I Googled some DH posters in case this was some horrible mistake, and found out that it apparently isn't. Good news is that most of the posters are pretty awesome, or at least, they aren't some kind of travesty.

. . . Though I must say, this one is a bit dodgy:


It's better than the one with Hermione looking like Bella Swan, but this one looks like . . . a trio of rich kids teens went to some upscale launch party that goes terribly wrong and then they're left on the streets to fend for themselves as some weird evil spirit slithers through London.

Which I don't dig hahaha.

Yeah, these are the scenes in the books where Bill and Fleur's wedding get's interrupted by Kingsley's Patronus warning them that major shit has hit the fan (IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY cough might not . . .) and then the trio Apparates to London before getting to Grimmauld Place. So it's not like they imagined a scene out of nowhere, which is what apparently happened to some movies on the list. But still.

Haha, yes, I really am only perturbed by these posters because they concern Harry Potter. I do find the others on that list quite amusing. Soooo not biased of me, mmhmm.

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