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
I agree wholeheartedly with you Kristen, the only upside to this move is that they could only do better with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. My fervent hope is that because they’ve gone to the effort of breaking the 7th book up into 2 movies(released too far apart to suit me, but I’ll deal) is that they won’t cut anything and they won’t add in anymore stupid scenes that have nothing to do with the material in the book. I will admit that while I’ve watched the first 5 movies, only one paid for in theaters, that I refuse to watch the 6th until just before the 7th comes out on the grounds that every single review from a semi-intelligent person I have heard has reported movie 6 as complete and utter crap.
Here’s to the hope that Hollywood will stop butchering good stories in the name of special effects and their vision of how a story should be. Let’s face it, if the story wasn’t good to begin with, the books would never have reached the level of acclaim they currently enjoy, so what the hell are you doing editing the movie to suit your idea of how it should be?
I think J.K. Rowling should head into the studio and start Avada Kedavra’ing the director, the write, the producer, the editors, and the guy who gets them coffee and donuts just for the hell of it.
heh heh people after seeing this film say its crap but can readers of the book really have hope for the last one? i mean come on readers of the last book should already know how the author decided to end it, too much of a cliche almost as bad as ..and then i woke up.. ending a book
RAMPANT
What about back at the Burrow, where ____ is marrying ____ ? And ____ gets attacked by _____ at the end and becomes half _____ ? >.>
I mean it’s pretty important, since there’s that wedding scene next book.
I kinda liked it though, I guess.
well… you can’t honestly expect a movie to contain every single detail of the book…
none of the Harry Potter movies were that accurate to begin with.
If you want to know the story the way it should be… read the book(s)… if you want to have some amusement by watching a magical world etc. … go see the movie(s) and don’t think about all the things that were left out.
Heck, I thought LOTR movies were lacking some stuff too, because I read the books… but they still turned out just fine despite that.
Anyways, if they seriously wanted to cover all the details the movie would be so long, people would start complaining about that… Quite frankly there’s always something to be complained about. Particularly about books that are cinemated.
Anyways… Haven’t watched this movie yet, so perhaps I’m a poor judge to say all this now, but ok…
Not bashing HP or anything but HBP really did lack the charm the series started out with.
As for most of the details that they left out here im guessing they will be added into the last film.
Cause honestly if you read the last book you will notice that there really wasnt much stuff going on.
The good stuff was really only the ending. Since in the last book most of the pages was taken up by the groups emo trip looking for you know whatxes. As soppy as HBP was, it still didnt compare to how the whatxes arc in the last book. Well as far as series goes, as long as they dont die off in the end like loltrix thats fine with me.
I thought 5th movie was a piece of shit so I didn’t watch this one either. I’ll check out 7th just to see how bad it will suck
i love the hyperbole in these comments…and in your assessment no less. “worst movie you’ve ever seen”? what, have you only watched like 2 movies in your life?
but you’ve completely forgot about how _____ totally Duroed and Engorgioed his _____, Incarceroused ______, then had his way with her……………
wait sorry, I think that’s “Hairy Peter and the Heinous Blood-Stalk”
Re: i2h,
I hope you’re making a personal observation as a somewhat-impartial-and-disinterested third-party, rather than actually defending this (or any) Potter movie…
As for your statement, “worst movie you’ve ever seen” is like any memory and subject to change. Every movie you go see from now until you die is potentially the “worst movie you’ve ever seen”. The title goes to the first movie that pops into your mind when someone or something reminds you how you wasted your time/money on it and it just boils your blood with regret and disgust.
Though you are somewhat right; labeling a recent movie as “worst” is a bit unbelievable. When the fresh regret wears off, you might think it wasn’t THAT bad (ie Star Wars prequels). Which is why I always practice walking out a movie theater and exclaiming, “That was the SECOND worst movie I’ve ever seen.” What was the worst? I can’t remember off-hand. Probably “Plan 9 From Outer Space”. ; P
on a serious note, as the book series has (or will be, I’m not totally sure on that right now) come to an end, it’s possible certain chunks are being redistributed so as to stretch out the movie series. they are extremely popular movies, and I wouldn’t put it past the studio to milk it for as much money as inhumanly possible
Re: i2h,
If you understand that they are using a hyperbole you should not take their comments word for word.
@Vlaeghe: [quote][well… you can’t honestly expect a movie to contain every single detail of the book…
none of the Harry Potter movies were that accurate to begin with.[/quote]
Nop, but there is a difference between “missing out a few details”, or “containing only a few details”. In this case, the movie only contains a few details of the book and skipped 95% of the book.
But heck, the only reason why I watched this movie is to see Emma Watson, so …. 😉
The movie was good. Emma watson was in it =]
By the time I reached the final scene I was hoping the writers and director had chosen to say the hell with the book completely and just have Snape kill everyone in the theatre to put them out of their suffering.
District 9.
Oh and stop ranting and start subbing -_-, Gendai Maho 5 & 6.
Are you guys doing hatsukoi still or what
fffuuu-
hmm… “they’re on to their personal thing” as usual…. go m.3.3.w. sub if u can wait.. its much better
Did you release K-ON2 BD on TT?
HP Movies started sucking the moment Chris Columbus left.
First and second was fine but after that… Well, the third wasn’t as bad though.
But yeah, I agree the movie SUCKED WHERE’S THE CUP AND OWL?!
Bummed I actually paid for it on the first day of release.
Wasn’t expecting much but D:
Oh for cryin’ out loud be quiet while we extract your hard earned currency, now go pre-order the DVD and/or Blu-ray disc like the good fangirls and fanboys you are.
lol @ “MPAA”
Personally if i was the producers for HP, i would milk the last arc as much as i can.
Make it like a 2-3 part series, considering how much details would have been dropped for a single movie.
“Today, I saw “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. I have never, ever, seen a movie this bad.”
You obviously haven’t watched Bruno.
I read all 7 books and then watched the movies right after about 3 months ago. The first 3 movies lived up to the story in the books with small exclusions. After that the movies start to move in a different direction from the books. I wish they would make the Wheel of Time series into a movie but if they did it right it would have to be at least 12 movies and I don’t see that happening without it being ruined in the process somewhere.
The movie wasn’t bad, I liked it alot. But then again, I’m pretty good at not obsessing over meaningless things and let it ruin the movie in my head. Ooh burn.
Your missing a few parts as well. like how the two became prefects, the whole winning the cup again, AND THE FUCKING FUNERAL, WHERE THE HELL DID THAT GO?!?!
Thanks for the warning. Will never see this movie unless I’m forced with a stick… (with poo on it)
LOL it is so funny how you guys wasted your time to watch that!! I read the first and second book between grade 2 and 3 and got the second book read to me in grade 3 also and that was it!! (My sister on the other hand read all of them and that stupid twilight series (very awful by the way never understood why there is such a big fuss over it because the underworld series was a much better vampire/werewolve story)) I had moved on and found a beter series, Artemis Fowl (read every book to date and currently waiting for the movie that has been delayed because of a stupid dispute between some companies) I watched the first three movies in pain because they missed out alot of parts and then when i watched the fourth movie I was appaulled that they were too cheap to wear uniforms in the movie which made Hogwarts look like a school that would let in any riff raff that had half a brain which knew magic excisted. After that i just watched the movies out of my habit of finishing a series I start (a painful habit that I have to indure anytime i start watching horrible anime (though i stopped watching Naruto because its fillers just were that bad (both series alike)) which forces me to watch Half blood prince when it comes out in theaters
on dvd i mean
ugh… once Richard Harris died the magic died.
Ian McKellan should’ve gotten the role, despite his and Harris’ arguments in the past.
It was a waste of money and time. First because I cut an expensive ticket for Imax 3d,which I missed because of entering late,second because the entire movie did not have a point.. it was boring,full of crap love-affairs and unjoined scenes/plots,bad acting with exceptions. effects as usual -Great! but did not help the movie. neither did the music support the movie in any way. Wher was the stress on THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE???? it was ‘Harry Potter & The Boring Love Affairs’ movie. Dumbledore’s death so dissapointing!. Funeral should have been there. Bad Bad ending! total waste of everything!. The writter Steve Kloves should be SACKED, with the DIRECTOR as well ! Michael Gambon gave a good performance!
ya i ttly agree with you the only good thing about the movie was the special effects
Good thing I haven’t watched. The real good movie were the first two, after that it went down the hill. And British English is annoying to understand and I kinda hate having to read subtitles for a language I actually understand.
The books are way better. We surely forgive you for going mad and sharing with us. <3
Emma Watson is extremely hot! I truly like her.
Please tell me True Blood is starting soon