Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

no such a fan of the series but ive seen all the others so ill probably wind up watching this one too
 
The movies are all balls in comparison to the books. Except the 3rd. That was good.
 
Wut?

The movies are better than the books.
The books don't have Alan "I love ham" Rickman.

Of course, the films are still balls overall, but at least they have that (awesome) redeeming feature.
 
Samon said:
The movies are all bals...
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I thought the 3rd movie was pretty bad, and the rest as well. The 1st movie was good well, because it's the first Harry Potter film, and the second was definitely the best. All the rest felt sped up or out of pace, and the new Dumbledore (3rd movie and >) is shit...
 
they try to get dark and serious towards the end. come on. its harry potter.
 
3rd movie was great. I blame the director.

That little bit at the end was fsking hilarious.

I feel kind of bad that I really can't remember what happened in Half-Blood Prince, besides the whole ending sequence bit.
 
I love the books a lot more than I love the films so I'm not going to watch this. I'm definitely not going to see Deathly Hallows. I'm terrified of how they'll ruin it. They killed pretty much all the books and Hallows is my favourite so I don't want to see that get asassinated.
 
1st film was bollocks.
2nd film was bollocks.
3rd film was the bollocks.
4th film was bollocks x2.
5th film was the bollocks.

I hate Harry Potter, the character. Love the series.
 
Meh. I'll probably watch the seventh one, though, because that book was so awesome.
 
Eejit said:
Isn't that JK's fault?
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It's because you can only follow the school-year format for so long before it ossifies and becomes useless. By Book 5, if not way before, it had gotten ridiculously stale - you knew the plot was going to map largely to the passage of the academic year. That's why the final book was so pleasant, having departed rather from the safety net.
 
I think book six also did quite well by focusing less on his actual classes.

However, temporarily ignoring the plot development that JK needed, some of the scenes in Harry's classes were the most interesting - mundane classroom scenes magic-ified.
 
Hmmm...I had no idea there was such backlash on the movies. I for one have enjoyed all of them.

I really think Daniel Radcliffe, especially in Movie 5, portrayed the character of Harry Potter very well.
 
I personally don't mind the films, but I think it's better to view them as separate to the books. As re-creations of the books, they're poor, as family-orientated fantasy films, they're quite alright.
 
Eejit said:
Isn't that JK's fault?
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Not really it's been at least two or three years since I read it last.

What Kinetic said. They're not the books, but they are pretty nice movies. Besides, it's kinda funny to see the actors mature as the series moves along.
 
Also, it is just me, or is that the Burrow going up in flames?
 
This is going to be AWESOME. At the end of the trailer, when Harry screams, "FIGHT ME YOU COWARD!" and then Snape's going to turn around with smoldering rage and hate in his eyes and scream back, "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!"

Oh wait, Alan Rickman can't act beyond "bored and disinterested in the events around him." Nevermind.
 
Darkside55 said:
This is going to be AWESOME. At the end of the trailer, when Harry screams, "FIGHT ME YOU COWARD!" and then Snape's going to turn around with smoldering rage and hate in his eyes and scream back, "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!"

Oh wait, Alan Rickman can't act beyond "bored and disinterested in the events around him." Nevermind.
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goddammit, I read that first part and imagined it and it was awesome. Then I read the last bit and realized it was true, and I almost cried.
 
Sulkdodds said:
It's because you can only follow the school-year format for so long before it ossifies and becomes useless. By Book 5, if not way before, it had gotten ridiculously stale - you knew the plot was going to map largely to the passage of the academic year. That's why the final book was so pleasant, having departed rather from the safety net.
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Also the fact that the three "best friends" typically spend six months a year with two of them not talking to each other.
/facepalm
Darkside55 said:
This is going to be AWESOME. At the end of the trailer, when Harry screams, "FIGHT ME YOU COWARD!" and then Snape's going to turn around with smoldering rage and hate in his eyes and scream back, "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!"

Oh wait, Alan Rickman can't act beyond "bored and disinterested in the events around him." Nevermind.
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Meh, Rickman can act. He just chooses to ham it up for this role.
Also, corny scene to pick. God Harry's such an ass.
 
I've always thought that Harry Potter is the worst thing about Harry Potter.
 
Probably, but it's hard to say with so many things to choose from.
 
KineticAesthetic said:
I've always thought that Harry Potter is the worst thing about Harry Potter.
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The epilogue is the worst thing about Harry Potter.

Eejit said:
Meh, Rickman can act. He just chooses to ham it up for this role.
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No, man, he had the perfect chance to really act in the last movie. And considering that he actually READS the books he should've known how to portray Snape after Harry saw his memories. No, there's a reason they picked this guy to play a depressed robot, a humorless angel, and pseudo-Spock. Even when Hans Gruber falls the best he manages is a look of slight surprise, like he was thinking, "Well...that was rather unexpected."

Last time I saw the guy actually show any emotion at all was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
 
Darkside55 said:
The epilogue is the worst thing about Harry Potter.
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You're one of those? The epilogue was probably the worst bit in the books, apart from the middle 300 pages of Harry Potter and the Year of Irritating Angst, but the worst part of the series as a whole was Harry Potter.
 
Darkside55 said:
No, man, he had the perfect chance to really act in the last movie. And considering that he actually READS the books he should've known how to portray Snape after Harry saw his memories. No, there's a reason they picked this guy to play a depressed robot, a humorless angel, and pseudo-Spock. Even when Hans Gruber falls the best he manages is a look of slight surprise, like he was thinking, "Well...that was rather unexpected."

Last time I saw the guy actually show any emotion at all was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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I suspect he doesn't care much for the role/movie/scene. Like Natalie Portman as Amidala - she CAN act, she just chose not to.


A.R. is also great in Michael Collins. Showed some emotion there alright.
 
Harry Potter is one of those films that people love to hate, yet secretly everyone loves it.

Yeah its a kids film or whatever, but you KNOW youve still watched atleast one.

Will undoubtedly watch this one, trailer looked good.
 
LOL at eejit.

And yeah, I haven't fully stayed awake for a single harry potter film. Shame since I loved the book series.
 
Darkside55 said:
The epilogue is the worst thing about Harry Potter.
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There are people out there who have neatly sliced the epilogue from the book and they pretty much pretend it never happened.

Haven't read it myself but I do know the names of the kids are excruciatingly horrible. :/
 
FishBulb said:
There are people out there who have neatly sliced the epilogue from the book and they pretty much pretend it never happened.

Haven't read it myself but I do know the names of the kids are excruciatingly horrible. :/
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Yeah lol

Severus Gryffindor Hemoine-Voldemort Potter Jr. spin-off in the works!
 
Why are the books so great the and the films are shit?

I read the first book and it was utterly appalling. The 1st film was great! The book doesn't even come close to the vividness, the colours, the music, the texture of that 1st film.

The descriptions of the scenes in the 1st book are so blunt and short. There is really nothing beautiful about it. Ron in the book is a shadow of the Ron portrayed in the film and Hermione in the film is far more full of life that Hermione in the book.

Why are the books praised so much?

Can't understand ?
 
I liked the first movie. Second one was okay. The rest have been complete bollocks compared to the books.
 
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