Harry Potter

It is really not recommended to watch it without reading it first.

I loved how the movies gradually changed from kiddy comedy to borderline horror. I'm more into the latter style so I'm okay with it but I can understand why it may be disappointing for those who fell in love with the former.

They aesthetic choices of the movies directly reflect the events of the story. Voldemort coming back into power literally drained all the joy out of the wizarding world for those who knew and understood what was happening. The story turned from one of discovery to one of self preservation.

Voldemort let dementors loose to feed on any joy they could find, no wonder the characters became jealous and petty. Then the sense of impending doom from the threat of Voldemort or his followers and their terrorist style attacks meant that any gathering that could have been joyous turned downtrodden and melancholy.

The tone of the films reflect these events. The films didn’t touch on the prevalence of the dementors except briefly, so instead they showed the constant cloudy grey skies. The sense of impending doom is seen in the darkness of the scenes. In settings where the characters can be more free or relaxed the scene is brighter and more colorful. In settings where that relative safety is more easily broken the scene is dark and foreboding.

I’m not trying to say the movies were all perfect gems that got everything right, but the stylistic choices for scene and lighting I think were used to emphasize the greater tone of the events as seen by the characters.

I grew up with these books, then came the movies, and I felt the same about the movies. As the series progressed it was supposed to get darker, but there was also a feeling of hope caused by the actions of Harry and his friends. I didn't feel that. Especially the last 2 films, the feeling of dread is ever persistent and it doesn't go away even when they make things right. It becomes just dreadful & hard to watch, bordering on boring

There's probably some edits on fanedits dot org. I love DonKamillo's edits for the Hobbit. I remember there at least being a jpotter who did HP ones, but there's probably loads of them.

Jpotter did one for Half Blood Prince where they took the atrocious green/emerald tint out.

The series transitioned from being made for children, then to content made for adults embarrassed that they were watching children's entertainment.

LOL, you're the person who posted this: "Downvote me all you want, but I have to complain. Most bad things in the series would never happen— especially to Harry— if people just talked, explained, or defended themselves like human beings."

Congrats on coming over to lemm.ee, and escaping that shithole lemmy.world

You might also like this really cool audiobook renditon by an amazing person who got their work taken off Youtube, https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497?country=gb - it's got background sounds and all!

Yeah -- you REALLY should have watched Deathly Hallows 1 & 2. You kind of missed the entire point of the series if you skipped the end.

It's like watching "It's a Wonderful Life" and turning it off before the end.

So either you entirely missed the point or you have written an entire post to take the piss out of this forum.