HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE Review
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- By Lola
Venkman wrote a review for the movie already, but I figured more than one review is even better.
SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT!!!
(but if you’re a die hard, you would’ve already seen the movie and know what I’m talking about)
The movie was good. It was equal in goodness to the Order of the Phoenix, the last movie released. It was grand, beautiful. The music helped in guiding your emotions through the film. The cinematography and the locations were just breathtaking!
Now, let me get down and dirty:
I left a little upset. Maybe it was because I was dressed up in a hot uncomfortable Gryffindor uniform, maybe it was because it was really late and in the back of my mind I knew I had to go into work at 8AM or maybe it was because the audience kept applauding and yelling at EVERY little thing (now before anyone says anything, I’m being a little sarcastic and I know that if I go to a midnight showing I’m gonna be amongst the die hards, so what do I expect, right?)… but no… that wasn’t why I was upset. It was because I had built this film up to be 10x better than the last and it came up a little short. Now to be a little fair, all the characters were portrayed superbly. I mean, I fell in love with Luna Lovegood and even the annoying Lavender Brown, the villains were freaking far out: Snape was deliciously sinister and evil, the young Tom Riddle was bad to the point where you felt dark just watching him, even Fenrir Greyback was awesome. Don’t even get me started with Bellatrix! She was pretty awesome! My favorite!
Something lacked and I soon realized that a lot of really cool things that were in the book were left out of the movie!! I honestly had to think to myself, well, maybe it’s in book 7… then I went back and scanned the books and no. They had cut out really awesome occurrences in the book and focused alot of the time in the movie developing the cutesy love stories among the main characters and their classmates! Blasphemy when there is so much awesome evil meatiness that needs to be explained. Then I thought to myself, well, maybe Yates was trying to keep the movie light because let’s face it, Potterheads, the books have increasingly been getting darker and darker…. I mean even the lighting of the film has consistently been getting darker! But come on! Don’t deny us the opportunity to delve into more of the dark world of the wizards because the director wants us to know what happens between “Won Won” and Lavender!
I know I know! There’s gonna be an angry mob chasing me with pitchforks and bats, but hear me out! I’m not dogging the movie AT ALL! Like I said in the beginning, it was really good! The unbreakable curse part in the beginning: excellent. The inferi in the cave: pure awesome! I just wish they would’ve gone more into Snape’s past like in the book and maybe have ended “differently”… something more epic…. (the people that have read the book know what I mean).
So I give the movie an A-. Still really good, but had awesome potential.
Enjoy guys and don’t hate me!
AMEN!! as the lights came up and the credits rolled me and my boyfriend (we both have read the books) just looked at each other and said…"i didn't like it" (compared to the other potters of course)
it had so much potential to be EPIC….it was cute and all..even funny. But as a die hard potter fan, the ending i happened to notice…well….was a little different then the book.
3 things should have happened.
1. Fight at hogwarts.
2. Dumboldors death scene should have been better.
3. Dumboldor’s funeral should have been really pretty.
I liked it a lot, but I thought Order Of The Phoenix was a better movie.
The main problem I had with this movie was lack of explanation of the horcruxes. Dumbledore seemed surprised when he realized Voldemort was using them and he made them seem like they could be ordinary objects! The next book basically revolves around Harry's quest to track down and destory the existing horcruxes…yet he has NO IDEA what they could be! WTF?
Why add the Attack on the Burrow scene, why spend SO much time on the teenage relationships and not fully cover Voldemort's past and the significance of the objects he chose as horcruxes? I can't wait to see how they try to make up for this in the next two movies.
Let me first say that if I were to make a movie based on a book that is loved by millions of people around the world, I WOULD STICK TO THE BOOK! As everyone has already stated, there was too much time devoted to the love portions in the story. Don't get me wrong…when I first read the book in high school I was madly in love with Ginny. So I know those parts of the book are important to people. Although they did screw up that scene as well. They should have been in the common room after the match in front of everyone, not in the Room of Requirement, where Harry should have placed the book by himself in a specific spot, because that is very important in book seven.
Sure there were minor things, but when you take out major things like the battle…I mean seriously, they just walked right out of there without any resistance. And holding all your wands up in the air doesn't justify taking out the funeral either. I would have much rather enjoyed those scenes that actually happened than to watch the attack on the Burrow, a scene that didn't happen at all in the books. I walked out of the theater pretty disappointed. The majority of the movie was good, but they lost me at the end. The part of the book that I couldn't put down…the climax…just did not translate well in the movie. Here's hoping that they make up for it in the next two.
RIGHT! i didn't want to mention the lack of the huge battle in hogwarts because i didn't want to spoil it, but I think that and the funeral were the two things i was looking forward to the most.
YES! i totally agree! the burow scene? come one, yates! let focus more on the horcruxes and snape and less on the the goopy love stuff!