Movie review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2 Aug
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You didn’t think I was going to not review this, did you? Well. I watched it a while ago, but I had to watch it again to really be able to give an opinion on it, and HERE IT IS.
A lot of people have said that the movie has the feel of an inbetween movie, and I agree. However: I still enjoyed it immensely! They’d stayed pretty true to the book, more so than I had expected, so that was a surprise.
The good
- Apparation
- Slughorn
- Quidditch!
- Cormack McLaggen. How hot was he!? (I looked it up, and he’s only 5 years younger than me, so it’s allowed and all is well.)
- Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
- High-on-love Ron – best part of the movie
- Lavender Brown
- Rupert Grint’s acting. Best of the three, hands down.
- The bit with the vanishing cabinets was actually pretty good.
- Hermione’s hair in potions class.
The bad
- The intro? I missed Dumbledore vs the Dursleys.
- Bellatrix was a bit over the top crazy at times. Enough with the “I killed Sirius Black” bit now. Please. You’re evil and batshit crazy. WE KNOW.
- The lack of explanation for the horcrux-ring.
- Hermione’s birds not attacking Ron.
The ugly
- Dumbledore/Snape. Too obvious – in the book you really couldn’t tell for sure whether Dumbledore was begging for Snape to kill him or to help him.
- Sectumsempra. It didn’t look half as dramatic as I had imagined it.
- Harry/Ginny. It was just…eh.
- Narcissa Malfoy. I thought she was supposed to be pretty? She rather wasn’t, in my opinion. Sorry, person who played her. You’re probably a lovely lady, but I can’t really accept you as Narcissa.
It’s still a 4 out of 5 stars movie. Because, you know, it’s HARRY POTTER (= auto awesome). So, you know, go see it. You might want to read the book first though, because knowing what isn’t shown in the movie rather helps (although Tor hasn’t read the book, and he had no trouble following the plot).
“In my life I have seen things that are truly horrific. Now I know you will see worse.” -Albus Dumbledore
Didn’t the birds attac Ron? I could’ve sworn they did… And another ting under the “good” category: Draco! He was faaab!
And I’d actually place the lack of horcrux-ring explaining under downright ugly, it’d've been a quick and easy way to give the movie a little push in the right direction.
I pretty much agree with you on this, especially the Good list – Ron was awesome, so was the Ron on love potion, and Apparition was done really really well! And Hermione’s hair actually looked bushy for once…
The whole random Burrow attack thing was not something I liked, especially since they left out the battle at the end. And the fact that Dumbledore didn’t use Petrificus Totalus on Harry at the end, meaning that Harry could theoretically have tried to do something and he didn’t…nor was Harry under the Invisibility Cloak..and why? No good reason that I can see..
I tool my little girls to see this film and they thought it was excellent. Myself I wasn’t overly impressed. In retrospect my opinion of the film might have been tainted by the constant chattering from my girls. I would like the chance to change my opinion by viewing again, but this time with no company.
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I just got to see the pic this past week. I enjoyed it a lot, but have heard a lot of grumbling that this was the worst so far. I felt this movie is setting up for the big events that lay ahead. I can’t wait!!
I have managed to watch it again, was able to follow it a bit better this time as I viewed it alone. Got to say, I think the continuity team should be sacked. Sooo many mistakes!
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