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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-15, 8:38 AM #1

TimeWolfOfThePast

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How did everyone like it? Keeping in mind I haven't and have no intentions of reading the books, I personally thought it was the best of the series. I'm just happy that the no-longer child actors are capable of acting now. So overall I felt the movie was well shot, scored, and acted.

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2009-07-15, 8:54 AM #2

Cool Matty

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The books were orders of magnitude better than the movies. And I didn't like the books enough to read past the fourth.

2009-07-15, 9:09 AM #3

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my plans are to see it today in about an hour... i've read the book, the person i'm going with has not

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2009-07-15, 9:24 AM #4

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If the acting is as decent as the previous installment, the setting and feel is as dark, and we are rid of that ridiculous gib with that new idiot headmistress and the troubles with the ministry of magic, it should be good.

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2009-07-15, 9:35 AM #5

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Originally posted by Jep:

Better, darker, gone.

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2009-07-15, 9:47 AM #6

Jep

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Score.

That silly headmistress plot just completely pulled me out of a movie I was at first very excited about. I loved the setting and whatnot. She ruined it for me. It reminded me all too much that I was watching a kid movie.

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2009-07-15, 4:20 PM #7

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she was in the book... in fact it was a major part of the book

anyway HBP makes up for the extremely disappointing OoTP

the only things that annoyed me about this one are

the death eater attack on the weasley home that never happened in the book... the continued use of black smoke trail effects with the death eaters, seriously WTF?... and the continued absence of the older weasley children especially bill

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2009-07-15, 4:24 PM #8

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I haven't seen it yet.

No spoilers. loljk

2009-07-15, 11:25 PM #9

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Truthfully, I thought it was splendid.

My favorite movie of the series thus far.

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2009-07-15, 11:27 PM #10

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SAJN Review: Best potter film in the series. If you didn't like it because your a book nerd- get ****ed.

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2009-07-16, 12:30 AM #11

Martyn

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I'm going to see it tomorrow night at 8. Looking forward to it.

2009-07-16, 10:45 AM #12

UltimatePotato

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It was pretty good.

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2009-07-16, 2:27 PM #13

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Harry Potter is gayer than life :downswords:

2009-07-16, 6:22 PM #14

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I felt it was entertaining for the first half, but didn't really get exciting until the second, starting with the presentation of the potions professor's correct memory. One thing that bothered me was that they didn't at all explain why Harry should burn the book of the Half Blood Prince. Also, why didn't Harry get in trouble for tearing the **** out of Malfoy? Didn't they get in trouble just for dueling in the second book?

2009-07-16, 6:35 PM #15

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Hermione dies

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2009-07-17, 1:57 AM #16

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snape kills dumbledor. For real.

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2009-07-17, 8:20 AM #17

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snape is harry's grandmother

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2009-07-17, 8:25 AM #18

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Harry is Luke's father.

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2009-07-17, 8:36 AM #19

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Spoilers below.

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2009-07-17, 11:15 AM #20

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hermione dies

2009-07-17, 12:21 PM #21

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I actually didn't like it all too much. I did read the books, but it's been awhile and I have a bad memory. The movie just seemed rushed to me and there really wasn't any depth...in any aspect of the movie. Dumbledore's death wasn't really all that heart retching, which I was disappointing. A major character dies and there really didn't seem to be any emotion behind it. I will agree about the acting though...it's gotten better.

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2009-07-17, 12:28 PM #22

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I'm gonna go see it in a couple hours.

2009-07-17, 4:15 PM #23

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To be fair no more Michael Gambon is a huge plus point.

nope.

2009-07-17, 4:18 PM #24

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Michael Gambon is AWESOME.

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2009-07-17, 4:43 PM #25

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Originally posted by SAJN:

Michael Gambon is AWESOME.

this is accurate.

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2009-07-17, 4:59 PM #26

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He's crap at Dumbledore.

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2009-07-17, 5:43 PM #27

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Yeah, Gambon really let me down in this one. In fact, the only two scenes are was really looking forward to (the death scene and when harry runs after Snape) were really lame and could have been a lot more intense.

Also, I wanted the "You are with me"/"I am with you" lines.

And Snape's "Don't call me coward!"

2009-07-17, 5:52 PM #28

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2009-07-17, 6:08 PM #29

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Originally posted by Cool Matty:

The books were orders of magnitude better than the movies. And I didn't like the books enough to read past the fourth.

The books got worse as they went along, the movies are getting better.

This movie, and (especially) the last, are actually better than the books. I didn't think that could happen but there it is

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2009-07-17, 8:05 PM #30

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i'm so feckin sick of Harry Potter. I hope the ginger kid kills him in some wanking related accident

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