I won’t be writing about a lengthy discourse on how good or bad the final conclusion to the Deathly Hallows was. I have nothing but praises to the director, writer and the cast who shone in this movie and gave the last Harry Potter book justice. I loved it, but second or third only to my all-time favorite, LOTR. But we all know that this final installment has made the entire franchise probably a billion-dollar richer, hence they could be between $6-8 billion now. And Daniel Radcliffe could be the second richest teen in the UK, next to Prince Harry.
Every seat in every cinema near me was sold as early as 3PM. Because I couldn’t waste anymore time going to ATC and risk another hour in the ticket line, I have decided to see Harry Potter in an SM Cinema. The cinemas are located on the top floor, near the gadget lane where salesmen have been pitching about “the source has the htc new release” and mobile bargain finds. The SM Cinema here smelled like an overdue car perfume and stale popcorn, not to mention the air-conditioning was so poor.
The highlight of the entire movie experience happened when the audio went off 10 minutes before the end of the movie. For about 5 minutes, we were treated to a silent movie and almost everyone started howling like packs of not-so angry wolves ready to eat the operator alive.
“Rewind! Rewind!”
“We will not leave this place until you rewind it back to where Voldemort died!”
“Pirated!”
“Now who’s got the remote control? Accio remote!”
“I want my P40 refunded! Now!”
Now the theatre manager finally showed up and asked, “What was the last scene?” Then the reel operator played it back twice to where Harry broke the Elder Wand, and the viewers protested. Finally, he got the scene right, right where Voldemort died after a fantastic battle of the wands.
What was that? Ha ha ha!
