Please excuse me for a bit while I allow my inner fangirl to run rampant. (My honey bun got so mad that he just had to fix this.)
Today, I saw “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. I have never, ever, seen a movie this bad. Honestly, the entire movie was just a soap opera of one guy liking a girl, oh wait break up! Ron Weasly had a stupid look of “I am so high…” on for like the entire movie, and Harry was just… continual bad acting. Also, why did Dumbledore wear that band around his beard continually? Honestly, you go the first 3 movies without a tied beard. Adding one in on some occasions is fine. Yes, I know it’s a different actor. But, in reality, if you go 3 years without something annoying you, it won’t for the next 3 years.
Heck, they didn’t even know how to start the movie. I felt like it took an hour to actually get into the story instead of showing off their new fancy special effects. Did they really need to spend 5 minutes showing the room getting repaired at the start?
Now, the worst part is, they completely took out anything important from the book! I mean, sure, ___ killed ____, they all heard about the ____ that Voldemort made, and they went to the ____ to get the ____. But, what happened to the story about Voldemort’s parents? The story about the cup? His application to be defense against the dark arts teacher? The reason why ____ is the Half-Blood Prince? Hermione’s continually whining about that book? And, they didn’t even bother to show the O.W.L. grades, which was honestly the thing I was most excited about in the 6th book. And ____ didn’t even immobilize Harry in the end!
This was probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Please excuse me while I re-read the book to get what ACTUALLY happened.
-fangirl
District 9
^^ i agree, district 9 was amazing
Thank God I wasnt the only one
Right on Kristen….I seriously dunno y the do so well in box office…I prefer the book…Although Emma Watson is a site for sore eyes 😉
When I saw it I was asking if I would recieve a discount on the next one since this one hasn’t anything important on it. Unfortunately this was the first Harry movie I went to a theater to watch it, what a wast, now I’ll keep DLing’em and avoiding wasting my money on BS.
I agree w/ you fully, I don’t know why thousands of people flock to movies that they know they’ll be disappointed w/. I read the books and that satisfied me completely, but people need someone else to tell the story to understand it. It SUCKS.
I agree 1,000% Kristen!! This Movie was Ass and Should have NEVER Been Made … I would Rather go watch Bruno (and I DESPISE Sasha Cohen …)
someone said, there will be sequel, like Harry Potter and Half-Hearted Flop B. LOL, but sure. I watched the movie in China, i had a 2 months trip this summer. To be honest, this movies is the worst of all. I was half-sleep and talking with my girlfriend during the movie, very boring.
hur hur. Rampid – it is now a word. <3
Don’t need to excuse yourself.
Every one feels the same….
its better to let i all out then bottle it up.
You know… I was actually disappointed too… This movie out of all that have been produced has been the worst of the bunch I think. It doesn’t really explain anything, like about why the professor had to drink instead of scooping out… things like that…
I did not imagine my self saying this because I usually like the movies but honestly… I really prefer the book this time…
Everyone that had read the book so far i know feels the same….
the movie was more about Ron and his love affairs than the “Half-blood prince”
and that is a very critical point that they should had considered…
true this, but the book was pretty large too….they shoulda split it up into 2 parts like the 7th
although some huge book like LOTR was made into a great movie
It was afwul, but we knew that from the start after all; everything from the third movie: Prisoners of Azkaban showed us that we would be in for quite some disappointment. Wich is ironic considering the fact that the books actually increase in entertainment value from the third book and up
Oh come on. Every single Harry Potter movie has been crap and you all know this. Girls watch it because of the actors and only kids get really into it lol! Just mix a best seller book story line add some special effects and “pretty” actors and you’ve got yourself a movie. That is what the majority of the movies are like now. So sad 🙁
I think Harry Potter lost the interest from many people due to movies like this one and also all the dissapointed girls that now see they malo-idol turned into a gay english, even Ganondorf is gay now. WTF is wrong with the english people. Anyway keep on that track since that would left more space for all us.
The worse you’ve seen? What about the previous 5 other HP films? G.I. Joe? Transformers 2?
😛
Agreed this film was a soap. The third one is still worse in my eyes though. But not much. And you can be sure the 7th one is messed up to. Seeing as how they decided to leave giant parts missing,
blow up a house and not get some people scarred for life…
Cry me the river of tears and swim away 😛
It wasn’t amazing, and didn’t live up to the book. But they’re splitting the last book into two movies; I have a feeling they kept some of the backstory about Voldemort from 6 to put into the last two movies and flesh them out some. We can only hope 🙂
It was bad bad and I wished I had never gone to see it. I dont think I am going to the last one because this one was just so bad. They should have made it 2 movies the come out in the same year such and July and Dec. I was so looking forward to the battle at the end of the movie but these was none at all.
I HATE YOU!!! I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THAT THING THEY CALLED A MOVIE AND YOU CUT ME OPEN AND MADE ME REMEMBER IT!!!!!!!! (goes into a corner to cry for a bit…)
it was ok…but its like when your watching an Anime, and it stairs away from the manga as it goes on :<
You watched a Harry Potter movie and didn’t enjoy it. I feel no pity for you. If you like, the next time you feel inclined to do something quite so stupid again I can have you shot and killed. And when you get to Hell (as all Potter fans invariably do), tell them I sent you. You’ll get a group discount.
wen i watched it on opening day, i laughed my ass off. wen draco was running from harry and he went to the bathroom and started crying, it looked like harry was gonna raep him.
Run rampant, not rampid.
Ok people, realize one thing. It is a MOVIE BASED OFF OF A BOOK. Since this is the case, of course the movie will be a bastardization (simplification, random abridging, etc…) of the book. All books based on movies are, with the possible exception of The Lord of the Rings.
I agree, the last two Harry Potter movies totally disappointed me. They suck…. Enough said. Almost no Action.. I haven’t read to books ( i faint when i see how thick it is ) but i thought the film would at least be a little interesting….. wasted 2 hours and many cokes for a soap/drama movie?
teh excitement has died… they don’t care anymore what is the outcome here. they sure suck. brits I mean. they don’t have the samekind enthusiasm as Americans have when they do movies.
Someone might have already mentioned this but i heard they are making 2 more movies (suppose to be just for the final book just split in half) but perhaps they will add the more important plot points left out in this one in the next movie. I could be completely wrong about that but just a thought.
I can’t honestly say I’ve read the books, but i went to see this movie recently and i wasnt amazed, there were long segments that were for lack of a better word were boring. Like i know the plot of the whole series (thank you wikipedia) so there wasnt any “whats going on i dont understand” moments they just dragging certain things on for too long but i also had to pee really bad starting at like 20 minutes in so my opinion is kinda skewed 😛
Thanks again for the anime 😀
This movie was worse than G.I. Joe and a tie for Transformers 2, which is pretty fucking sad since the book was very good source material and seemed to be gutted of everything even resembling the main plot devices.
Oh and for those blaming the brits for the problems with the HP movies… The blame lies squarely on Hollywood. The books were written by a Brit, the movies and the screenplays were the device of Hollywood. Warner Brothers should have stuck to Loony Toons and never tried to be a real movie studio.
@Tornado261: I wouldn’t go so far as to say EVERY movie made from a book is a bastardization of the original. Such movies fall into 3 catagories: 1, Not as thurough as the book (granted) but likeable 2, Gutted piece of shit not worth watching, and 3, WTF, is the only thing in common with these two versions the title!?
A good movie, based on a book or otherwise, is a stand alone piece that can be enjoyed without seeing other mediums of it.
At least it was more hilarious than the book. I was laughing out loud for 2 and a half hours.
@Ren: “WTF, is the only thing in common with these two versions the title!?”
Case in point = Rosario+Vampire/Capu2
i agree didnt like the movie at all!!
Haven’t seen the movie yet but I’m assuming its failure will be similar to the movie Eragon
Right on Kristen I seriously like the movies but this one was dead from the start
The movie sucks and whats with ginny and harry kissing in the room of requirement.
The movie is a BIG SH** I hate it totally. I was like hoping it will be good but they totally destroy it. Like the order of phoenix where they remove a LOT OF PARTS but this time they really blew it.
I hate it and specially why the heck did they try to change the actress for ginny. She’s taller than harry and she isn’t really that cute… well for me that is. And where did they put the great detention of harry and also they alter the order of what’s happening. And I didn’t even see dumbledore groggy riding the broom. No tonks too. They hasten it too much that its a crap. And the last part where the flight of the prince. its totally BAD! I REALLY HATE IT. So much for my skipping of class for the first airing of it on the theater.
I agree I really disliked the movie it felt like stuff was missing, and after rereading through the 6th book to see what was gone I was even more disappointed.
Re: above comments…
Nothing could be worse than Eragon (except possibly the Dark Is Rising movie). It turned a great fantasy book into a kiddie, overdone, stereotypical bastardization. And people liked it. Why? Because it was the same mindless drivel that Twilight, Hannah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers embody…SQUEEEE OMG IT’S SOMEBODY POPULAR, (S)HE’S SOOOO KYOOT!
And on the topic of the LotR movies…they were well done but certainly abridged things…like Tom Bombadil, who I was eager to see.
5th potter movie was pretty terrible too
at least hermonie is finally legal xD
i think the movies started to let me down when they cut the quiditch world cup in the 4th movie…
i agree they never even think of putting the important part more detail and miss out some important part too
@ erdvilla
Umm, did you really mean to say GANONDORF? I don’t remember any Zelda characters in the movie. Although I’d like to warlock punch a couple of those lame characters.
I never really liked Harry Potter in general. I just seemed like Naruto, but with wizards instead of ninjas. There are so many parallels between the two its unbelievable. Also the action in the movies is totally lame. You would think that with all the spells they know they could do more then shoot spells at you that push you. At least Naruto use to have interesting action (emphasis on the use to).
Hahahaha Ganondorf LOL!
Fact is, a book is terrible material to make a movie. If you want to make a good movie, you have to betray the book and not adapt it. So i don’t care that much about differencies between a book and a film adaptation… but the movie has to be good, obviously.
(By the way, some of the greatest movies out there were adapted not from novels, but from short stories. Short stories leave more room for a scenarist and a director to do something great.)
There’s a different kind of film adaptation that wasn’t mentioned: one that steer away from the original material, so that the director can do something great with it. See Blade Runner, for instance (even the title is different from the original title of the book). Or 2001: A Space Odyssey, with its very strong aesthetic focus that overwhelms the plot.
Re: HP & The Half-Blood Prince: the original book may be one of the weakest in the series, in my opinion. So i was quite worried already. Now i don’t care that Hollywood screwed it up. What i care about is HOW GOOD THE AOI HANA ANIME IS (as i LOVE the original manga), and i can say that it is PRETTY DARN GOOD. People can wretch any other book adaptation this year, i don’t care. 😀
Oh no… Looser Potter discussion on Chihiro…
Please Kristen, don’t ruin the site with things like this.
instead of talking about obviously bad films, why dont we have a release of gendai mahou 5 and 6 instead?
ok.. harry potter is just a pothead who do pot sessions.. lol.. don’t take this seriously. xD
Kristin,
I don’t agree. I think this movie was fine. Its purpose was to finish off the love story stuff, in order to prepare for the action in the final two. I expect you’ll find that much of the missing content of this movie was pushed forward into the next film. After all, when filming the last book, there’s a lot of boring repetition in the middle part that can be got rid of.
If you’ve never seen a movie this bad (cough, Star Wars episodes 1 & 2, cough, cough) you don’t get out much.