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jedi_of_urth) wrote2009-07-19 10:35 pm
jedi_of_urth) wrote2009-07-19 10:35 pm
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Half Blood Prince
So, went and saw Half Blood Prince this afternoon, so you lot get some thoughts.
First off in the massive amount of previews I'm left with PERCY JACKSON FEVER (why will the library not get back a copy of Last Olympian for me? WHY?). Am surprised by the lack of Twilight preview, just because I was expecting it, but for me it's all about Percy, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which looks awesome. I don't remember a lot of the previews, but I recall they were an odd mix.
Ha, Dumbledore ships Harry/Hermione, in the books it's McGonnagall as I recall, but either way it's cool by me.
As far as shipping goes, much like the book it shows exactly why Harry/Hermione rocks and the canon ships don.t. Canon ships are just people who have decided they like each other but really don't have half the connection H/Hr do.
Bellatrix is made of awesome. Batshit crazy and evil to the core, but she's SO DAMN COOL.
As with all the movies a lot of details got glossed over, smuched around, or just cut out. I notice this even though I've read HBP exactly once.
I felt the movie made Snape's final actions a little more clearly motivated by loyalty to Dumbledore where in the book I didn't find it very clear at all. Just by having him find Harry until the floor and Harry still being up and about instead of frozen as I recall him being in the book, and then having performed inflection rather than description on Dumbledore's side makes it all a little more obvious.
I think Ginny had more lines in her first scene than she has in either of the past two movies, and easily more in this movie than all the others combined.
LUNA'S HAT ROCKS. I don't even care that we should have seen in in OotP, we got to see it here.
Cormac may have been a total meathead, but he was a hot meathead, these things matter.
Oh my poor Neville, nothing to do in this movie so they force him to be a waiter. Don't worry Neville, you get to be awesome in the next book.
There are some changes to the story that I liked and some I didn't, as usual. Some of the Tom Riddle flashbacks that were really vital to the story were cut though and that seems like it could cause a problem.
Burning down the Burrow is totally an invention of the movie-verse, I wonder if they've really thought that one through. Aside from Bellatrix continuing to rock I wasn't crazy about that sequence, but at least partly because I'm not sure how it will work with later plot. Also I was distracted by the kids casting wordless magic, it's distracting enough with the adults do it because as I recall wordless magic is fairly advanced and a whole lot less common than it seems in the movies.
Here the thing, if I ignore the prior context on the canon ships I found them kind of cutish in this movie, even if I still think H/Hr were the cutest. As *teenage* ships, not as long term ones and not with their histories, but I could kind of see, in another story where H/G and R/Hr were the precursors to H/Hr, they could still be okay ships. But that's a lot of context to ignore.
In several ways I'm tempted to say I liked the movie more than the book in this case, more compact and so the fact that not much actually happens was less glaring than it was in the books. Also the Hogwarts 90210 aspects felt more...in keeping with the movie-verse than they did in the books (plus the fact that it was played through a H/Hr lens).
Plus the movie was very pretty.
I could probably write up more thoughts, but I think that will do for now. Really in spite of the fact that I react by dissecting the movie (and I could have done a lot more) I would say I enjoyed it. Not tons, but I did.
First off in the massive amount of previews I'm left with PERCY JACKSON FEVER (why will the library not get back a copy of Last Olympian for me? WHY?). Am surprised by the lack of Twilight preview, just because I was expecting it, but for me it's all about Percy, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which looks awesome. I don't remember a lot of the previews, but I recall they were an odd mix.
Ha, Dumbledore ships Harry/Hermione, in the books it's McGonnagall as I recall, but either way it's cool by me.
As far as shipping goes, much like the book it shows exactly why Harry/Hermione rocks and the canon ships don.t. Canon ships are just people who have decided they like each other but really don't have half the connection H/Hr do.
Bellatrix is made of awesome. Batshit crazy and evil to the core, but she's SO DAMN COOL.
As with all the movies a lot of details got glossed over, smuched around, or just cut out. I notice this even though I've read HBP exactly once.
I felt the movie made Snape's final actions a little more clearly motivated by loyalty to Dumbledore where in the book I didn't find it very clear at all. Just by having him find Harry until the floor and Harry still being up and about instead of frozen as I recall him being in the book, and then having performed inflection rather than description on Dumbledore's side makes it all a little more obvious.
I think Ginny had more lines in her first scene than she has in either of the past two movies, and easily more in this movie than all the others combined.
LUNA'S HAT ROCKS. I don't even care that we should have seen in in OotP, we got to see it here.
Cormac may have been a total meathead, but he was a hot meathead, these things matter.
Oh my poor Neville, nothing to do in this movie so they force him to be a waiter. Don't worry Neville, you get to be awesome in the next book.
There are some changes to the story that I liked and some I didn't, as usual. Some of the Tom Riddle flashbacks that were really vital to the story were cut though and that seems like it could cause a problem.
Burning down the Burrow is totally an invention of the movie-verse, I wonder if they've really thought that one through. Aside from Bellatrix continuing to rock I wasn't crazy about that sequence, but at least partly because I'm not sure how it will work with later plot. Also I was distracted by the kids casting wordless magic, it's distracting enough with the adults do it because as I recall wordless magic is fairly advanced and a whole lot less common than it seems in the movies.
Here the thing, if I ignore the prior context on the canon ships I found them kind of cutish in this movie, even if I still think H/Hr were the cutest. As *teenage* ships, not as long term ones and not with their histories, but I could kind of see, in another story where H/G and R/Hr were the precursors to H/Hr, they could still be okay ships. But that's a lot of context to ignore.
In several ways I'm tempted to say I liked the movie more than the book in this case, more compact and so the fact that not much actually happens was less glaring than it was in the books. Also the Hogwarts 90210 aspects felt more...in keeping with the movie-verse than they did in the books (plus the fact that it was played through a H/Hr lens).
Plus the movie was very pretty.
I could probably write up more thoughts, but I think that will do for now. Really in spite of the fact that I react by dissecting the movie (and I could have done a lot more) I would say I enjoyed it. Not tons, but I did.
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Completely agree. For me they have the strongest connection of any two charcters in the whole Saga.
Yeah it was confusing and vague, hence my question about it.
See I thought part of it might have been to somehow save Malfoy from commiting murder.
As for the hand thing with Dumbles...well that was just plain odd in the movie cause there was no explanation for it at all.
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Also true. They really cut a lot of the Horcrux information out, the movie took too long just to let us know about Horcruxes but didn't get as far as informing us on them. That area really has me worried for the last story since they're going to have to back up a lot to have the story make sense.
Sure in the book Dumbles was dodgy about what was up with his hand but I think he did eventually explain it (if not the whole story) whereas in the movie...he really never did.
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No he didn't and it was frustrating. I mean I totally get that they can't put everything from the books into the movies cause they'd just be so insanely long but there are things that don't make sense when certain parts of the story are left out.