Before I start this off, I want to apologize for not being as active in my blog as I said I would be. Between computer problems and other things, I never got around to putting anything half decent up. My bad.
This isn't going to be a very in-depth review. Just a little overview of what I thought.
I'd read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince about 6 months before the movie came out and I'll have to say that the book was one of my favorites in the series. So, I had high hopes for the movie. For starters, a lot was changed from in the book. I understand that for movie purposes, this has to happen, but I'd have liked them to delve a little deeper into Tom Riddle's childhood. The only flashbacks were to a shortened orphanage scene and to when Tom asks about Horcruxes. The mystery of the Half-Blood Prince is almost entirely absent. Apparation is scrapped. However, I'm not going to judge the movie on similarities to the books, but the director/writers seem to have taken a bit of creative liberty. This really shines in a completely original scene where a group of Dark Wizards plop to the ground in an honest-to-God fireball and attack the Burrow.
I feel like there was a lot of opportunity to make this film pretty scary, but I was sourly disappointed in that aspect. One thing a friend of mine pointed out was that Michael Gambon (the man who plays Dumbledore now) has always played the character a little over-aggressively, but that really seems to work in this story where he is such a central character - he seems to pop like never before. To wrap it all up, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a solid movie that falls just short of what I expected.
Overall rating: 4/5
I'm sure I could write more, but I'm tired and going to a school orientation tomorrow morning. I'll let you know how it goes.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
I haven't even read the book yet, so I guess I will have to have my grand daughter fill me in.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't be able to get into Harry Potter. I started one of the books years ago and couldn't get passed the first couple of chapters.
ReplyDeleteI know that Harry has made JD Rowlings one rich woman!
ReplyDeleteI have seen 1 Harry Potter movie and like it.. I just have to catch up. Thanks for the insight.
ReplyDeleteI need to go back and read the older books first. I totally forget what is going on.
ReplyDeleteI am a HUGE Harry Potter fan having read the series so many times even my son has lost count (currently going through it again). It really bothers me that they do take these liberties. It worked for the Lord of the Rings, but it doesn't work for Harry Potter. So many vital clues and bits of information are NECESSARY and the write drops just about (if not all) every one of them. Yes, I will watch - and mutter throughout the movie, "That didn't happen that way. That person didn't say that. That never happened." Ah well...
ReplyDeletei was disappointed in the movie. after they crammed in pretty much *everything* in #5, i felt they hardly included anything in this one, even though it was as long as the last movie.
ReplyDeleteI would like to go see that movie
ReplyDeleteWhy do you squander cash while itunes codes are accessible completely free. itunes gift card sale
ReplyDelete