Comments | anjelchan: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

anjelchan

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Jul 15, 2009 23:10

I watched the new Harry Potter movie tonight. It was not what I expected at all. (Except that Tom Felton is hot and so is Alan Rickman.) I can't decide how I feel about Narcissa. Daniel Radcliffe is really getting too old to play Harry - in some scenes he looks nearly 30! DX

( non-detailed spoiler-ish )

Comments 9

theclamsman July 16 2009, 07:49:41 UTC

That's Steve Kloves for you. Once an asshole, always an asshole.

If you don't feel like reading the book, here's a good summary:

http://www.thebookspoiler.com/Spoilers/harrypotter6.html

anjelchan July 16 2009, 14:01:20 UTC

Thanks, but I'd rather read the book over because I think there are details I need to complain about that are unlikely to be in a summary. For whatever reason, I thought Narcissa was blond. And I don't remember the book mentioning Regulus by name - I thought that was in the 7th book. And I thought one of the wizards was supposed to be Tonks and I remember her hair changing colors. (I just looked, and yes... that was supposed to be Tonks.) I suppose it should have been obvious with the way she was "mooning" over Remus.

mark356 July 16 2009, 13:50:24 UTC

The book kind of was a lot of nothing-- it was the calm before the storm, the only semi-normal year Harry has after his third year-- but they cut so much stuff out of it that it felt more incomprehensible and pointless. Like the Pensieve lessons: there were lots of them in the book, and Dumbledore actually had some idea of what was going on, but there were only two in the movie, with clueless!Dumbledore.

anjelchan July 16 2009, 14:04:32 UTC

Still I remembered the book being darker and without all the romantic comedy nonsense. (And I like romantic comedies.) I really will have to re-read it.

smidgeroo July 16 2009, 16:38:02 UTC

I didn't like Narcissa's hair. She was pretty, but her hair looked silly. Draco cuts a great figure in his impeccable suits, though. :3 I thought the movie was a load of fluff for the first hour and then OHMYGOD WE HAVE TO CRAM IN PLOT NOW, GAIS!

anjelchan July 16 2009, 20:14:26 UTC

Narcissa looked like a skunk. Her hair wasn't white-blond, it was WHITE AND BLACK!!?!! Tom Felton is gorgeous. XD

But you have to ask yourself where the fluff came from because I don't remember it in the book.... Am I crazy?

smidgeroo July 17 2009, 16:05:29 UTC

Yup. I think they were trying to balance the darker mood of the important stuff...?

silvermare July 17 2009, 06:09:45 UTC

I've heard so many "Meh... It was cute but not what I was hoping for" reviews now that I'm considering blowing off the movie theater experience for this one and just taking a peak at the DVD from Red Box in a few months. Would you recommend this extraordinarily less expensive option, or do you really think it calls for the movie theater experience?

anjelchan July 17 2009, 11:34:34 UTC

I'm glad I saw it in the theater, because Tom Felton is hot I would've been sad to not had that excitement. It wasn't a bad movie, just not what I expected. But the choice is yours.