HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE Spoiler Thread

[filkertom]

I don't know when I'm going to see it, although it will certainly be by Monday. Could be later today. Talk amongst yourselves.

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[joshuwain.livejournal.com]

Saw it last night ... really sharp movie! :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the best of the movies so far. Such amazing cinematography.

Loved the dark, gothic, tormented style of Draco.

As in the book, this is the first time I've liked Dumbledore. Hermione is too good for Ron, so the relationship is disappointing. And the romance between Harry and Ginny is disappointing because it lacks spark. Too much pining.

Snape remains magnicficent.

But it's the visuals I really loved.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Anyone who gets "spoiled" by the movie of a book that has been out for years deserves whatever happens to them. By the same token, the people who whinged about "spoilers" about the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" films also needed a right good kicking. Where were they for the past 50 years?

Tom Felton as Draco is looking more and more like the man who played his father. Someone in the casting office back at the beginning surely had a great eye for bone structure, seeing how the boy would grow up.

Even if they don't really look it, these 20-year-olds are doing pretty well acting like 16. I guess they remember back that far. Pining is completely typical and Rupert in particular was good at it.

I would have edited the book down differently to try to keep it to one feature film-length, I guess. Alas.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Most of my quibbles with the movie are with things I understand they had to cut down to keep the movie a reasonable length - they gutted Tom Riddle's backstory and really didn't do enough justice to either the Ron/Hermione or Harry/Ginny love story side plots (but they really didn't do Harry/Ginny any favors at all).

Someone who loves zombie movies clearly had a hand in the cave scene with the Inferi. The whole theater jumped.

(Musical geek note: the scene with Narcissa, Bellatrix, Snape, and Wormtail felt oddly like a Sweeney Todd reunion. Helena Bonham Carter was practically in costume for Mrs. Lovett anyway - she does tattered Victorian goth very well, even if I don't care for the crazy Tim Burton hair.)

[reyl.livejournal.com]

Ron is *such* an idiot. So good acting I guess. Heh.

I like where they're going with Draco, and the next film will hopefully take him even darker places.

It was nice to see Quiddich again, and I'm looking forward to more Ginny. Hermione was stronger than I've ever seen her and I love her far more than I did in the books. Luna is perfect.

Snape! Snape! Ooooh it's a Snape... I was really hoping for more Snape, but I can never get enough Alan Rickman.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping he gets some sort of beautiful dramatic payoff in the last movie (as befits the big damn Pensieve braindump in the seventh book).

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I suspect that's part of why they're making it two movies.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I think it may be the best filmmaking of the series. Prisoner of Azkaban might be a better movie, but it has the advantage of being based on the best of the books. HBP took a much weaker book, and made a movie I loved. Special praise goes to the younger members of the cast, who made me believe every moment of friendship, comedy, and romantic angst.

The Half Blood Prince is.... CROOKSHANKS!

[kirylyn.livejournal.com]

I AM glad they gutted the whole Bill/Fluer (cause I was going into sugar overload, tho she DID redeem herself at the end after Bill was mauled)

was a bit disappointed not to see Harry's muggle family but I like the idea of Harry actually growing up and not staying cooped up in his room all summer long. (LOVED the scene in the Burrows when his trunk arrived before he did!)

I also like how they changed up HOW Harry got his hands on that Potions book, less "pure random chance"

pity there wasn't more Luna but I do like her saving Harry, and NOT Snape *shudders*

(blocks curses from Snape lovers, LOVE the ACTOR, *hate* the character! can I live now?)

Yes, Malfoy IS growing up and more like his father (but didn't he turn in the next book? been a while since I've read it)

I did note that when it comes out on DVD, I NEEED to have my 5.1 surround system working!

[tommytoony.livejournal.com]

Looked good, acted well...that's all I can say about it. BOY did they screw this one up. BADLY. I don't think I have ever been this disappointed or this ANGRY at a film in my life. I mean, sure, they had to cut stuff out of the book to fit the medium, but I didn't even RECOGNIZE this story until the last 20 minutes...and that's where the screw-ups began piling onto themselves. Extremely disappointing.