Half-Blood Prince Reactions.
Hey guys!
Here's my reactions to the movie. They're kinda rambled, but it's also 4:30am, and I've been up for nearly 24 hours now. I'm putting it all under the cut, so you can read if you want to. I'd love to discuss things with people, so comment when you've seen it!
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It started off AMAZING. There were problems with canon, but what HP movie DOESN'T have those problems? Overall, it started out pretty awesome. I had the thought quite a few times that it would be the best movie yet. It was great! They included so much, as well as included a few other things that were great additions. I loved that Harry was reading a paper in the deli, and some girl was hitting on him. Uh, is that even legal? For a wizard to read a Wizard paper in the Muggle world? I thought that was a bad thing. But they did a great job of setting the tone of the movie with the Death Eaters flying through London. It was awesome. And Weasley's Wizard Wheezes was PERFECT! Exactly what I thought it would be. :D
OMG, the Unbreakable Vow bugged me so much! They didn't get it just right at ALL! And the wording of the Vow was SO IMPORTANT because it outlined all of Snape's actions from then on! Without it being done properly, all of his responsibilities and promises are changed. And they didn't show his hand flinch, which was SO BIG! I dunno, if they showed it, I missed it the first time. I'm hopefully going to go see it again sometime this weekend, if I can manage it. Maybe I'll see it again. And I know we've talked about it before, but WHAT THE HELL IS WITH NARCISSA'S HAIR!? SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BLONDE! NOT A SKUNK!
The middle. Uh...let's just say that I felt they could have concentrated on more than just the relationships. I started to get frustrated because that seemed to be all they were talking about during the entire middle of the movie. And we had Draco in the RoR a million times, during which we NEVER saw the diadem. Lame! And I'd just like to point out how fucking AMAZING Tom Felton was in this movie. We didn't see much of him, but the little we saw, he was wonderful. Oh, and what about the random relationship scenes thrown in there? Horrible! I felt like they took away from the entire plot! There was MORE going on in the plot line than everyone snogging each other. I seriously think they showed more people snogging than they did of the real plotlines going on. Annoying. Oh! But there was something AWESOME in the middle. The Quidditch scenes were wonderful. Except for after the Quidditch scenes, you remember how Harry first snogged Ginny properly after a particularly rough game? Well, instead, it was RON who snogged LAVENDER at the end of the game. Ginny just kinda came up to Harry and kissed him really chaste-like in the RoR when they were hiding Snape's potions book. Lame.
Also, the bathroom battle with Harry and Draco...sucked. Seriously, it was really boring and didn't effect anyone really all that much. I was just waiting for it to be over. Snape just kinda showed up at the bathroom (not Moaning Myrtle's!) and looked really nasty at Harry until he fled, then took care of Draco. It was really pathetically done, and it didn't explain anything at all, except that Harry's an idiot for using spells without knowing what they do. The scene was SUPPOSED to show how torn apart Draco is over the task he's been given, but it just showed him freaking out, then attacking Harry. It wasn't Tom Felton at all, but I feel it was more the direction of the scene than anything.
So, the memories. I thought they were done pretty well, but that they also took a LONG time to get through. I know that they need to be done, but I would have loved to see some different ones, and some more interesting ones. Like the proper history of the Riddle "family" and how Tom came to be. When asked about the ring, Dumbledore just said that it was "once Tom's mother's" and left it at that. SO FRUSTRATING! They took up 3/4 of the movie, I felt...at least, that that the relationships left over. Kinda dull there, but still okay.
The ending. Where to start with the horrible direction/writing? When Harry and Dumbledore went to the cave to get the locket, it started off okay. I didn't really like how the Astronomy Tower was done, but I'm flexible enough to let it go. Anyway, The Inferi were AMAZING! I don't think I've ever seen something so awesome come from one of these movies. Seriously, they are, without a doubt, the BEST part of this film. It's worth seeing them again and again for that alone. Wow.
Anyway, they get the locket, and they come back to the Astronomy Tower, and Dumbledore tells Harry to go below (it was multi-level) and stay below, in complete silence. Harry does what he's told (there's absolutely NO big battle/protection thing happening with the others) and chills out below as Draco comes up the stairs. He points his wand at Dumbledore, says how he's made his choice to be evil and SHOWS HIM HIS DARK MARK!!! WHEN THE HELL DID HE GET A DARK MARK!? I'M DAMN SURE THAT HE NEVER ACTUALLY GOT ONE...right? Am I wrong here? I could've sworn that Draco never actually took the Dark Mark because he was supposed to kill Dumbledore to prove that he was loyal to Voldemort. Am I wrong? Tell me if I am.
Anyway, while Harry's chilling below, the rest of the Death Eaters come up (a total of 6. Oh boy!) and are all sneering and supporting Draco. Harry pulls out his wand, thinking that Draco might do it now that people are there, and he turns a bit to find SNAPE POINTING HIS WAND AT HIM!!! WHEN THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN!? He tells him to be quiet, then slips above, and kills Dumbledore. Dumbledore's plea, the whole "Severus, please" bit? It was more like "Severus.....(super long pause)..........please." It was really bad. It seemed like he forgot his line or something.
The flight from Hogwarts, the scene I was looking forward to the most, was pretty much crap. The six or seven Death Eaters flew through the forest and down a hill (I was SO hoping that Harry would fall) and Bellatrix sets Hagrid's hut on fire (I swear, that's the only way the rest of Hogwarts knew the Death Eaters were there) and Harry just yells "Hey Snape!" and tried to fire a curse at him. Snape blocks it, then yells at Bella for torturing Harry (though his yelling is more like a stern talking to) and then tells him almost bored-like "You dare use my own spells against me? I am the Half-Blood Prince" and then he just kinda vanishes. It was super lame. NO speech from him at all about keeping his mind shut and his mouth closed, or why he shouldn't call him coward. I was waiting SO LONG to hear Alan Rickman yell those words in fury, and I DIDN'T GET THEM! I feel hurt. It was the ONE PART I wanted so much, and it just didn't happen. That's not what I wanted. That's not what I wanted at all.
Dumbledore's death. The whole school was suddenly awake, and were surrounding his body. Harry pushed his way through and kneeled down down next to the body, closed his eyes, then just sat there and cried. Ginny came over (she did that a lot. They never actually came out and said that they were together, so it bugged me a bit) and Harry cried more, holding her. McGonagall held up her wand and lit the tip, and then the whole school did, and they removed the Dark Mark from the sky that was over his body, which was a nice moment. Then they showed Dumbledore's portrait (which is when I started crying) and then Harry talked to McGonagall a bit before going to talk to Hermione and Ron (who was sitting in the back, kinda useless), during which time Harry told them that the locket was a fake, Dumbledore died for nothing, and that he wasn't coming back to Hogwarts, and Hermione called him daft for thinking he could do it alone, and that they were coming with him. Then Fawkes flew over the sky, and then it faded to black. No explanations, no nothing. Really a crappy ending, overall. I was super disappointed by it.
The credits were pretty awesome. I always wait and watch the credits. I liked them.
Here's my reactions to the movie. They're kinda rambled, but it's also 4:30am, and I've been up for nearly 24 hours now. I'm putting it all under the cut, so you can read if you want to. I'd love to discuss things with people, so comment when you've seen it!
WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!! WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! DO NOT READ UNTIL after YOU'VE SEEN HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!!
You've been warned.
It started off AMAZING. There were problems with canon, but what HP movie DOESN'T have those problems? Overall, it started out pretty awesome. I had the thought quite a few times that it would be the best movie yet. It was great! They included so much, as well as included a few other things that were great additions. I loved that Harry was reading a paper in the deli, and some girl was hitting on him. Uh, is that even legal? For a wizard to read a Wizard paper in the Muggle world? I thought that was a bad thing. But they did a great job of setting the tone of the movie with the Death Eaters flying through London. It was awesome. And Weasley's Wizard Wheezes was PERFECT! Exactly what I thought it would be. :D
OMG, the Unbreakable Vow bugged me so much! They didn't get it just right at ALL! And the wording of the Vow was SO IMPORTANT because it outlined all of Snape's actions from then on! Without it being done properly, all of his responsibilities and promises are changed. And they didn't show his hand flinch, which was SO BIG! I dunno, if they showed it, I missed it the first time. I'm hopefully going to go see it again sometime this weekend, if I can manage it. Maybe I'll see it again. And I know we've talked about it before, but WHAT THE HELL IS WITH NARCISSA'S HAIR!? SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE BLONDE! NOT A SKUNK!
The middle. Uh...let's just say that I felt they could have concentrated on more than just the relationships. I started to get frustrated because that seemed to be all they were talking about during the entire middle of the movie. And we had Draco in the RoR a million times, during which we NEVER saw the diadem. Lame! And I'd just like to point out how fucking AMAZING Tom Felton was in this movie. We didn't see much of him, but the little we saw, he was wonderful. Oh, and what about the random relationship scenes thrown in there? Horrible! I felt like they took away from the entire plot! There was MORE going on in the plot line than everyone snogging each other. I seriously think they showed more people snogging than they did of the real plotlines going on. Annoying. Oh! But there was something AWESOME in the middle. The Quidditch scenes were wonderful. Except for after the Quidditch scenes, you remember how Harry first snogged Ginny properly after a particularly rough game? Well, instead, it was RON who snogged LAVENDER at the end of the game. Ginny just kinda came up to Harry and kissed him really chaste-like in the RoR when they were hiding Snape's potions book. Lame.
Also, the bathroom battle with Harry and Draco...sucked. Seriously, it was really boring and didn't effect anyone really all that much. I was just waiting for it to be over. Snape just kinda showed up at the bathroom (not Moaning Myrtle's!) and looked really nasty at Harry until he fled, then took care of Draco. It was really pathetically done, and it didn't explain anything at all, except that Harry's an idiot for using spells without knowing what they do. The scene was SUPPOSED to show how torn apart Draco is over the task he's been given, but it just showed him freaking out, then attacking Harry. It wasn't Tom Felton at all, but I feel it was more the direction of the scene than anything.
So, the memories. I thought they were done pretty well, but that they also took a LONG time to get through. I know that they need to be done, but I would have loved to see some different ones, and some more interesting ones. Like the proper history of the Riddle "family" and how Tom came to be. When asked about the ring, Dumbledore just said that it was "once Tom's mother's" and left it at that. SO FRUSTRATING! They took up 3/4 of the movie, I felt...at least, that that the relationships left over. Kinda dull there, but still okay.
The ending. Where to start with the horrible direction/writing? When Harry and Dumbledore went to the cave to get the locket, it started off okay. I didn't really like how the Astronomy Tower was done, but I'm flexible enough to let it go. Anyway, The Inferi were AMAZING! I don't think I've ever seen something so awesome come from one of these movies. Seriously, they are, without a doubt, the BEST part of this film. It's worth seeing them again and again for that alone. Wow.
Anyway, they get the locket, and they come back to the Astronomy Tower, and Dumbledore tells Harry to go below (it was multi-level) and stay below, in complete silence. Harry does what he's told (there's absolutely NO big battle/protection thing happening with the others) and chills out below as Draco comes up the stairs. He points his wand at Dumbledore, says how he's made his choice to be evil and SHOWS HIM HIS DARK MARK!!! WHEN THE HELL DID HE GET A DARK MARK!? I'M DAMN SURE THAT HE NEVER ACTUALLY GOT ONE...right? Am I wrong here? I could've sworn that Draco never actually took the Dark Mark because he was supposed to kill Dumbledore to prove that he was loyal to Voldemort. Am I wrong? Tell me if I am.
Anyway, while Harry's chilling below, the rest of the Death Eaters come up (a total of 6. Oh boy!) and are all sneering and supporting Draco. Harry pulls out his wand, thinking that Draco might do it now that people are there, and he turns a bit to find SNAPE POINTING HIS WAND AT HIM!!! WHEN THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN!? He tells him to be quiet, then slips above, and kills Dumbledore. Dumbledore's plea, the whole "Severus, please" bit? It was more like "Severus.....(super long pause)..........please." It was really bad. It seemed like he forgot his line or something.
The flight from Hogwarts, the scene I was looking forward to the most, was pretty much crap. The six or seven Death Eaters flew through the forest and down a hill (I was SO hoping that Harry would fall) and Bellatrix sets Hagrid's hut on fire (I swear, that's the only way the rest of Hogwarts knew the Death Eaters were there) and Harry just yells "Hey Snape!" and tried to fire a curse at him. Snape blocks it, then yells at Bella for torturing Harry (though his yelling is more like a stern talking to) and then tells him almost bored-like "You dare use my own spells against me? I am the Half-Blood Prince" and then he just kinda vanishes. It was super lame. NO speech from him at all about keeping his mind shut and his mouth closed, or why he shouldn't call him coward. I was waiting SO LONG to hear Alan Rickman yell those words in fury, and I DIDN'T GET THEM! I feel hurt. It was the ONE PART I wanted so much, and it just didn't happen. That's not what I wanted. That's not what I wanted at all.
Dumbledore's death. The whole school was suddenly awake, and were surrounding his body. Harry pushed his way through and kneeled down down next to the body, closed his eyes, then just sat there and cried. Ginny came over (she did that a lot. They never actually came out and said that they were together, so it bugged me a bit) and Harry cried more, holding her. McGonagall held up her wand and lit the tip, and then the whole school did, and they removed the Dark Mark from the sky that was over his body, which was a nice moment. Then they showed Dumbledore's portrait (which is when I started crying) and then Harry talked to McGonagall a bit before going to talk to Hermione and Ron (who was sitting in the back, kinda useless), during which time Harry told them that the locket was a fake, Dumbledore died for nothing, and that he wasn't coming back to Hogwarts, and Hermione called him daft for thinking he could do it alone, and that they were coming with him. Then Fawkes flew over the sky, and then it faded to black. No explanations, no nothing. Really a crappy ending, overall. I was super disappointed by it.
The credits were pretty awesome. I always wait and watch the credits. I liked them.