Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I give Harry 6 a 4/5, I loved it, this is now my second favorite of the movies, second to the third film.

I'm a huge fan of the books, and one of the things I am REALLY glad I did was not reread the book before seeing the movie. I'm done with that, every single time I do that I end up liking the book but hating the movie, when you don't read the book before hand you stand a better chance of being able to like both the book and movie seperately from one another.

I thought order of the pheonix was the worst in the series, it was so dead and lifeless, wheras this movie is far more alive. It was surprisingly funny too, I laughed from begining to end, all the little teen love plots were excellent and are some of the best stuff in this entire series of movies. My only complaint was that the movie's ending had nowhere near the epic emotional impact of the book, oh well.

Just saw this, I love how 99% of the Half-Blood Prince stuff is completely missing from the movie, thus missing a large part of the point of the book and making Snape's last minute "I'M THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE" comment seem completely out of nowhere and loltastic.

It was pretty obvious as the movie went along that it was going to be snape or one of the other teachers.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

Oh the magic stuff is still there - in fact theres more subtle background magic than Yates' last one. Im talking boom boom hollywood summer flick action at every turn. And even when it was there it kicked ass (Burrow scene).

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Oh, you mean the tacked on scene that wasnt in the book at all with Harry and Genny running through the reeds blocking random attacks from the dark? The end duel in Order with Dumbledore/Voldemort and the Deatheaters vs. the D.A. was way more impressive imo.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

But these stories are about far more than the magic.

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? No, its about magic and plot and focusing on characters other than JUST Ron,Harry,and Genny, and giving us shots of Draco crying in the corner every 2 seconds.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

And the movie was funny man, you need to lighten up. With such an all around sad story they had to brighten it up in bits.

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I dont know. Not to insult anyones sense of humor around here but maybe the humor was just geared toward a younger crowd.Most of my audience seemed to be laughing at Lavender jumping all over Ron and the Love potion stuff.That just didnt do it for me and I could have done without it.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

The ending wasnt screwed only a bit rushed. The silent scene with the empty dinner hall I thought it was pretty powerful in comparison to every other finale of these movies.

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Basically we only saw 3 people reacting to Dumbledores death.The rest were almost emotionless or too stunned which equates to the same thing.Not nearly as powerful as a funeral could have been, but maybe they are saving that for the start of Deathly Hollows for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

I disagree with your last paragraph.

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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, I thought all of those except the Slughorn stuff was completely lacking.I mean they threw all of those elements like you said in the movie, they just werent interesting except for Slughorn and the Joke shop.
Instead of seeing Hagrid mumble drunkenly and cry over the spider, hows about they show him shrugging off Deatheaters' spells in Hogwarts because of his half-giant heritage and talk about his family?
I didnt think the Quidditch was the best, it was like try-outs with Ron blocking a bunch of shots with his head, then later Ron blocking a bunch of shots at the end of the season. <shrugs> Not nearly the best Quidditch.And it didnt seem like there were TONS of locations as compared to any of the other movies.They all had about the same.

I dont know, dude. Maybe you're drinking the hype Kool-Aid and are watching it with blinders or maybe Im just being a jaded idiot like TNL has taught me over the years :p . The 'righter' answer is probably somewhere inbetween our two opinions.

no, jaded TNL is the right answer

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Originally Posted by Jetman

The 'righter' answer is probably somewhere inbetween our two opinions.

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No, you're quite right.

The elimination of the Order/Deatheater's fight and the more interesting of Voldemort's memories, really made this not work for me. I could deal with all the other bullshit faggy teenage romance amplifications if those two things hadn't been changed.

As I said above, it is a competent movie that completely fails to convey it's main plot points.

Yeah I wonder why they didn't do the battle at the end. All the Death Eaters just kind of walked out. Maybe that's Yates trying to give us time to let Dumbledore dying "sink in"?

And yeah, they skipped a lot of the memories.

Pretty lame movie overall, but it was a pretty lame book too.

I'm surprised they didn't show the battle even more because Harry saved Felix Felicis and in the end of the book they all split it so they can stay alive.

Yeah, the lack of battle at the end completely shot the movie down. I think the turning point was Harry slicing up Draco, with zero consequence, and after that the movie completely lost interest in itself. Too bad, I was having a great time up until then.

I like most of the other movies, but this one just wasn't very good.

Incredibly anticlimactic ending, too much teen romance, etc.

I forgot a lot of what happened in the book. Yeah, Yawa's right, they cut out a bunch of stuff that would have made it way better.