Fangasmic

In between Sandra Bullock being the classiest class act that was ever classy (yay) Twilight: New Moon winning seriously every award ever (inevitable), perhaps the best part of the MTV Movie Awards last night was the premiere of a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I:

It's been a while since we here at FG read the last book, but the trailer seems to hit all the major plots I remember:

1. Voldemort was kinda creepy.
2. The trio went on the longest, angriest camping trip since my family went to Florida for Spring Break in 1998.

But seriously, the trailer is pretty banging. It's interesting to see how far these movies have come visually since Chris Columbus' inaugural Potter film back in 2001. You can tell at a glance how much the story has evolved from the cheerfully glossy magical world we were first introduced to nearly a decade ago.

While I'm still not convinced this film needed to be two parts, I will of course be there with magical bells on when it comes out. And for the record, there are only 165 Days left until the movie is released. Who's excited?

According to MuggleNet the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will now be broken up into three parts, the last of which will be released in 2013.

What even happened in Deathly Hallows to warrant not one, not two, but THREE full-length movies??? I read it in my usual haze of midnight release party sleep deprivation and crazy so I don't really remember, but from what I recall, the book goes something like this:

1. Harry and Ron and Hermione take a gap year to go camping.
2. Everyone is killed off screen.
3. JKR is suddenly possessed by the spirit of Norman Rockwell; writes last chapter.

Was there REALLY enough story in that book to support a trilogy? Maybe they'll just fill in the time with lots of shots of Daniel Radcliffe yelling.



Harry: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?


The entire business just smells of franchise-milking greed and bloated attempts at storytelling. But really, I'm not so much mad at them for trying to accio another $12 from my fangirl wallet as I am mad at myself for already knowing I'm going to fork it over.

CORRECTION: Seems we were duped by one of those fake news Aprils Fool's Day things that drives stopitsomemore utterly batshit every April 1st. Deathly Hallows will be only two films. (I think my point still stands, though.) Thanks to language_escapes for calling us on our sad, sad gullibility. Here, have a picture of the Fail Whale as a token of our fuck up:


FAIL.