But I am the Chosen One.
Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceGenre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: David Yates
Based on: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
IMDb rating: 7,5/10
Rotten tomatoes rating: 83%
My rating: Do you mind if I take this? I do love good movies.
You know, when I started this movie, I realized the following. The first half of this movie is the last part of this series in which my favorite characters aren't dropping dead every ten minutes or so. I'm also nearing the end of the franchise in general. Conclusion: I needed to enjoy this movie as much as possible. Despite my growing fatigue, I succeeded.
Is this movie perfect? Absolutely not. Was I disappointed because they left some important things out that I loved in the book. Absolutely. I'll go into details down below about all that, but that doesn't mean I didn't love watching the happy, sad, and action-packed moments in the near last chapter of this story.
Spoilers. Obviously.
Mind me, during the past few days I haven't been able to review this movie, because of a lack of sleep or an overdose of visitors mostly, and painful headaches (or were they more than headaches?). Anyway, this has kind of stripped me of most of my memory of this movie (oops). Short: this review will be.
Intro: Loved it. Harry being a teenager and having a chat with this pretty girl. Dumbledore being like f&ck you, Chosen One, I need your help.
Hermione/Ron/Lavender: A little more angst than I like in a Harry Potter movie, but still it's pretty cute.
Mistakes: So many plot holes in this movie. J.K. Rowling has a way of making everything seem logical in the end, but with this amount of story and restricted time, directors and screenwriters don't have this luxury.
Changes from the book: Very many. I missed some scenes from the Pensieve that were important to the plot and to the reader.
Ending: Oh, Draco, you're such an idiot. I really liked the part with him and Dumbledore on the tower. It matches very well with the book AND made me realize two very interesting things.
1. Tom Felton is very handsome. (I'm not very superficial normally, but I am human, folks.)
2. (This one's less silly, don't worry.) They drag Bellatrix into it even though I don't think she was there in the book. *checks if she isn't talking random sh!t* No, it's okay, it's true. I have noticed that people do this more often in book-to-movie adaptations. In a book, things just aren't always so extremely convenient. Authors are less reluctant to leave 'perfect opportunities' to have a known and loved/hated character return unused. Directors grab every one of those chances with both hands. And not just that. *spoilers for Deathly Hallows book and Deathly Hallows part 2 movie warning* In Deathly Hallows, Snape's last words to Harry are "Look... At... Me...". Most readers have long realized that Snape asks this because Harry has his mother's eyes. In the movie, Snape says, "You have your mother's eyes." Let's first point out that ARE YOU SERIOUS EVERY HUMAN BEING IN HOGWARTS THAT HAS EVER SEEN LILY EVANS IN LIVING MEMORY HAS TOLD HARRY THIS FOR THE PAST OH I DON'T KNOW LIKE SEVEN YEARS EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE! DO YOU REALLY THINK SNAPE OUT OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD FEEL THE NEED TO ATTENT HARRY TO THIS VERY VERY WELL-KNOWN FACT BECAUSE HARRY STILL HAS NOT A FREAKING IDEA HOW HIS EYES LOOK? WELL NOT ONE PERSON HAS EVER TOLD HIM THAT, RIGHT?!! Movies have a way of leaving nothing a mystery. Almost everyhting has to be spelled out because apparently we don't have a single working brain cell in our grey humps of clay. *end of spoilers Deathly Hallows movies and books* Same goes for humanizing characters. Effie (no offence I love both movie-Effie and book-Effie) is way more human and sympathetic in the movie than the book. It just stands out to me again and again. Okay, let's return to this movie. Not like I mind that Bellatrix is now even more horrible and antagonistic than before. She's the only person who could actually take on Umbridge when it comes to hateableness. (Yes, Voldemort, you lost. Deal with it, "Dark Lord".)
Cave scene *thinks briefly of the Hunger Games*: That was seriously hard to watch. I hated watching Dumbledore being in so much pain, the Inferni scared me to death, and this part was just so awesome it almost scorched me eyes.
Well, that was the review. Feed your cats, clean your spoilers, and check the signs. Why are you looking at me like that? Did I do anything wrong? What is it? Why are you staring, it's freaking me out? Did I -- Oh, I get it. I forgot something, isn't it? But what could it be? Such a mystery...
And... I'm crying again. Happy now? Well, have a good day.
Intro: Loved it. Harry being a teenager and having a chat with this pretty girl. Dumbledore being like f&ck you, Chosen One, I need your help.
Hermione/Ron/Lavender: A little more angst than I like in a Harry Potter movie, but still it's pretty cute.
Mistakes: So many plot holes in this movie. J.K. Rowling has a way of making everything seem logical in the end, but with this amount of story and restricted time, directors and screenwriters don't have this luxury.
Changes from the book: Very many. I missed some scenes from the Pensieve that were important to the plot and to the reader.
Ending: Oh, Draco, you're such an idiot. I really liked the part with him and Dumbledore on the tower. It matches very well with the book AND made me realize two very interesting things.
1. Tom Felton is very handsome. (I'm not very superficial normally, but I am human, folks.)
2. (This one's less silly, don't worry.) They drag Bellatrix into it even though I don't think she was there in the book. *checks if she isn't talking random sh!t* No, it's okay, it's true. I have noticed that people do this more often in book-to-movie adaptations. In a book, things just aren't always so extremely convenient. Authors are less reluctant to leave 'perfect opportunities' to have a known and loved/hated character return unused. Directors grab every one of those chances with both hands. And not just that. *spoilers for Deathly Hallows book and Deathly Hallows part 2 movie warning* In Deathly Hallows, Snape's last words to Harry are "Look... At... Me...". Most readers have long realized that Snape asks this because Harry has his mother's eyes. In the movie, Snape says, "You have your mother's eyes." Let's first point out that ARE YOU SERIOUS EVERY HUMAN BEING IN HOGWARTS THAT HAS EVER SEEN LILY EVANS IN LIVING MEMORY HAS TOLD HARRY THIS FOR THE PAST OH I DON'T KNOW LIKE SEVEN YEARS EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE! DO YOU REALLY THINK SNAPE OUT OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD FEEL THE NEED TO ATTENT HARRY TO THIS VERY VERY WELL-KNOWN FACT BECAUSE HARRY STILL HAS NOT A FREAKING IDEA HOW HIS EYES LOOK? WELL NOT ONE PERSON HAS EVER TOLD HIM THAT, RIGHT?!! Movies have a way of leaving nothing a mystery. Almost everyhting has to be spelled out because apparently we don't have a single working brain cell in our grey humps of clay. *end of spoilers Deathly Hallows movies and books* Same goes for humanizing characters. Effie (no offence I love both movie-Effie and book-Effie) is way more human and sympathetic in the movie than the book. It just stands out to me again and again. Okay, let's return to this movie. Not like I mind that Bellatrix is now even more horrible and antagonistic than before. She's the only person who could actually take on Umbridge when it comes to hateableness. (Yes, Voldemort, you lost. Deal with it, "Dark Lord".)
Cave scene *thinks briefly of the Hunger Games*: That was seriously hard to watch. I hated watching Dumbledore being in so much pain, the Inferni scared me to death, and this part was just so awesome it almost scorched me eyes.
Well, that was the review. Feed your cats, clean your spoilers, and check the signs. Why are you looking at me like that? Did I do anything wrong? What is it? Why are you staring, it's freaking me out? Did I -- Oh, I get it. I forgot something, isn't it? But what could it be? Such a mystery...
Oh, right. That.
Well, let's talk that over quickly.
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