Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#31 Post by a_person » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:26 pm

Calicocat wrote:pa*d to go and see this at Odeon Braehead on Saturday. Probably unwisely we chose the 4.30pm showing which was full of kids who kept having to go to the loo.

Haven't read any of the books, but have seen the previous films. Thought this one was okay, but wayyyyy too long. Think I'll wait until the last two come out on DVD as I don't think that I could waste however many hours it is of my life sitting through them. Definitely a franchise for the fans!

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There's only one more left right??? Deathly Hollow?
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#32 Post by Beate » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:45 pm

Yes but they are making it into two films as there is so much in it.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#33 Post by a_person » Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:53 pm

oh I thought that was just a rumour. Thank goodness for that... Hope it's not still the same director of the 6th one....
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#34 Post by a_person » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:16 am

So I finally got myself round to watching it yesterday at Odeon Greenwich, IMAX with a friend with free tickets. The first thirteen minutes were in 3D only!!!!!!! :( If I knew that before, wouldn't have bothered with IMAX but at least the tickets were free so not complaining...too much :p

The seats were really uncomfortable but after a few trailers it finally started! There were trailers for Avatar (looked good in IMAX 3D!) and Toy Story - I sure hope they are screenings we get!!! The film finally started and as with all the others who have commented, this is by far the worst HP film. They cut out so much relevant information from the book and the film just focussed mainly on the relationships with the characters - especially characters who weren't that important in the film. My friend who hadn't read the book, found the film abit confusing because he couldn't fully understand the plot. But then how could he when most of the important parts of the book were missing on film!

I didn't like alot of the relationships he showed. It was so funny to see Malfoy trying to kill Dumbledore though! And not being able to go through with it.

Such a disappointment of a film. I'll give it a generous 7/10 because despite the missing plot, I felt the actors were still good in their roles.
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#35 Post by a_person » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:17 am

I hope number 7 is split into two parts and that they actually concentrate on the plot this time (as is in the book!). Number 7 does alot of summing up that we can't have parts of the plot missing!
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Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

#36 Post by t-mouse » Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:01 pm

Finally got round to seeing this film this week, and although it was an enjoyable film, I left feeling a bit disappointed.
In particular I thought the teenage angst/love scenes were overplayed and focused on far too much. But although it is a few years now since I read the book, I thought the plot itself was well conveyed, with an adequate sense of anticipation of what is to come created for those who have not read the books themselves.

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