I so did not need to see that...

 

 

 

daaamn, evanna lynch is adorable!

gaawwd, i always imagined cormac as fugly, but in the movie..

PFFFWOAAAR.

I just came home from the afternoon showing, I really enjoyed the movie. Here are my thoughts:

 

One of the high points of this movie was Tom Felton. He gave an Oscar winning performance as Draco Malfoy. I honestly think that, out of all the kid actors, him and Emma Watson (and maybe Bonnie Wright) are the only ones who have any shot at a film career after HP.

 

Emma Watson...what can I say? She was amazing. That whole scene with Lavender and when she gets her heart broken was really well done acting. She was a lot more consistent than she was in the 5th movie, and I was really glad to see her play more of an active role.

 

Rupert and Daniel really came through in this film. Rupert especially. I was laughing so hard at the love potion part. Same with Daniel at the Felix part.

 

The actor who plays Professor Slughorn also did an excellent job. He was exactly as I pictured the character being.

 

Alan Rickman also did an excellent job as Snape. But I knew he would, he's always delivered.

 

The weak link here is Dumbledore. Gambon has completely defiled the character. There were some parts that were spot on, but at the part where he's begging for water, I thought he did a really weak job. He's supposed to be screaming and begging for mercy; instead, he's doing a half-assed imitation of what was in the books. The part where he died was really emotional, though.

 

Bonnie Wright I think really stepped up as Ginny Weasley. She is another potential actress after Harry Potter. I think she really played the role well, and was perfect with the romantic tension that played between the characters.

 

I also thought that the kid Riddle and the teenage Riddle were also really scary. Really well casted roles.

 

You didn't see much of the usual adult characters in this movie: Hagrid, Mr and Mrs Weasley, Lupin, Tonks. There was that brief fighting scene in the middle (not taken out of the books) where they showed Lupin and Tonks, but other than that you didn't see much of them. Also, I was confused by the relationship between Lupin and Tonks...were they dating? In the books, her hair wasn't changing color and she looked mousy because she wanted to be with Lupin, but in the movie, her hair looked that way and she called him sweetheart. I was just confused about that, since they deleted all the parts that explained their relationship from the movie.

 

Overall though, it's a fantastic movie. I'm definitely going to go see it again. This movie also played it closer to the book, which I enjoyed (after the atrocity that was OOTP.)

^ tom felton :P

 

I pretty much agree with all of that. Tonks did look a lot different than OOTP until I realized her hair wasn't supposed to be colorful.

 

They aired a really great J.K. Rowling documentary on ABC tonight btw.

^ tom felton :P

 

I pretty much agree with all of that. Tonks did look a lot different than OOTP until I realized her hair wasn't supposed to be colorful.

 

They aired a really great J.K. Rowling documentary on ABC tonight btw.

 

LOL I just noticed that. I've corrected it. :P

 

Oh cool, I wonder if it's up on YouTube. I'm missing all the interviews, too, and just now catching up.

I honestly didn't like the movie. It all is just too unreal, Harry Potter lost it's touch.

I honestly didn't like the movie. It all is just too unreal, Harry Potter lost it's touch.

 

Unreal? What do you mean by that?

 

anybody else think Gambon looked a bit too much like Gandalf right before they went to the cave?

 

Ahh, yes! He looked exactly like him from that point onwards. For a split second I wondered if they replaced Gambon with Ian McKellen.

 

God, I'm like obsessed with Tom Felton right now. He was incredibllllle!

I have to say, my favorite piece of acting in this came from Slughorn. He looks nothing like what I imagined in the books so I was ready to by dissappointed by him, but Jim Broadbent really pulled off the character.

Seeing it tomorrow! :dance:

I love how they kept in the whole aragog's funeral bit, with slughorn and hagrid singing drunkenly in the hut. That part of the book was great.

I love how they kept in the whole aragog's funeral bit, with slughorn and hagrid singing drunkenly in the hut. That part of the book was great.

aww they had that? can't wait :D:D:D

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b134614_robert_pattinson_daniel_radcliffe_duke.html

New Harry Potter movie sets world opening record

 

Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:34pm EDT

 

16 Jul 2009

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The latest "Harry Potter" movie cast a $104 million spell over worldwide box offices during its first day in theaters, setting a new record for the boy wizard, distributor Warner Bros Pictures said on Thursday.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth in the film series based on the popular books by J.K. Rowling, grossed $58.18 million in North America and $45.85 million overseas on Wednesday, the Time Warner Inc-owned studio said.

The U.S.-Canadian tally, which includes a record $22.2 million from midnight showings, marks the second-biggest Wednesday opening domestically.

Only last month's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" scored a bigger midweek first-day gross, with $62 million in domestic ticket sales on Wednesday June 24, according to Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com.

The latest "Harry Potter" also ranks as the fourth-highest single-day gross for a film release in North America, behind No. 1 "Dark Knight" ($67.1 million), No. 2 "Transformers: Revenge," and third-place "Spider-Man 3" ($59.8 million).

"Quite simply, we owe this record-breaking opening to the remarkable fans who have stood by us and who stood in line to be among the first to see 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,'" Warner Bros President and Chief Operating Officer Alan Horn said in a statement.

Said Dergarabedian: "This is a tremendous opening. It's in the box office stratosphere."

The previous "Harry Potter" movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," also opened on a Wednesday last year with first-day domestic receipts of $44.2 million. That film went on to gross $937 million worldwide.

The first five films in the franchise, one of the most lucrative in Hollywood history, have so far taken in about $4.5 billion collectively at the global box office.

Watched OOTP again last night (getting ready for HBP) and I must say, I was surprised. I saw it first right after reading the book for the first time, and I hated it. I thought they left out so much and that it was a real let-down. Now after re-reading it and re-seeing it, I enjoyed it much more. Maybe because I went into it knowing what not to expect, and because of that, I was able to watch it for what it was: a pretty good film.

 

It has most of the important plot points, several good directorial techniques for showing several chapters' worth of events in a few minutes, pretty good acting especially by Radcliffe when angry at Dumbledore and when struggling to rid himself of Voldemort, and an amazing end battle.

 

Watch it again if you haven't recently, it may be better than you remember. It now is probably my second favorite film in the series (after POA). Yes there are some stupid, awkward moments that will piss you off, but overall, it is quite enjoyable.

:lol:

and this btw cracked me up

Your skin sparkles in the sunlight. I mean, it looks like something Elton John would wear for an encore!"

 

Bahahaha. That is genius!

 

Btw, huge Harry Potter nerd right here. ^^

 

I went to HBP on the very first showing on the day it came out here in Australia (which was on Wednesday at 7 am... had to wake up at 5:30... Ohyes. I am dedicated. 8D)

 

@Twizted Logik: OotP was actually a huge let down for me :S. However, HBP is fantastic! 8D

 

Jessie Cave (Lavender) is brilliant. I'd go see it just to see her work her magic, even if she is a minor character. It's hilarious!

Okay, just got back from the new movie! I am still buzzing about it, it was incredible!

 

By far the best of the films, and really the only one that I believe can stand on its own as a film, not just a book-turned-film. Everything people have said was true, the acting was so great and natural, Ginny and Harry's relationship was so believable, as was the tension between Ron and Hermione. Tom Felton should get an Oscar for his role as Malfoy, absolutely amazing and stunning performance.

 

The movie followed basically all the major plot points, and it was so well put together that even the Burrow attack scene flowed with the movie and seemed like it easily could have been in the book. There were several incredible directorial techniques used, my favorite was the playoff between light and dark by having a scene of utter fun and maybe some silly relationship stuff, and then the camera would pan over the Malfoy sitting in some corner looking absolutely grave. It was such a great mix and it built up to let you know something big was just around the corner (though of course we all already knew :rolleyes:).

 

The final tower scene was as good as could be, and Dumbledore's death was both sad and unexpected (for those who didn't know what was to happen). And Gambon did a splendid job throughout the film.

 

There were very few weak points. Mostly the only reasons I didn't love the previous films were minor annoyances. The stories and acting and special effects were all so great, but there were always little things here and there that prevented them from being as good as the books. This one had little to no awkward or poorly written moments. The whole film was very well done.

 

9/10 easy. If you see it expecting it to be just like the book, you will be disappointed. But if you see it just hoping for a good film and some excitement, you will be utterly surprised at how enjoyable it is.

 

 

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Oh, and Emma was as gorgeous as ever the whole movie :dozey:

 

Not for the faint of nerds...

 

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/we_are_wizards/

that woman in the beginning is a nut job

 

"Harry Potter will ruin society"

 

 

someone needs to get laid and chill out

the narrator guy is creepy yet hysterical

I gotta ask, how did everyone else feel about the ending?

 

A lot of reviews have said the lack of a big battle at the end was an anti-climax. I, on the other hand, thought it was perfect for the film. Like Yates said, there will be a Battle of Hogwartz in the last film, so why be redundant? And without a huge battle, viewers were more able to be sad about Dumbledore for a few minutes instead of being shot right back into a battle scene. I thought it was a great ending, and it fit the movie far better than a multi-person battle.

 

thoughs?

while I would've preferred some inclusion of the battle, there is a certain excitement to the hollow way they just ran away with only Harry chasing them. As you said, it allowed for more emphasis on dumbledore. Without anything big afterwards to distract from him, there was more impact. I think they could've tweaked a few things to make it better, but I'm not entirely disappointed wit the way they did it.

 

 

BTW if you saw the documentary, here's the guys parody script.

 

http://www.erikkennedy.com/wizardpeopledearreaders.html

while I would've preferred some inclusion of the battle, there is a certain excitement to the hollow way they just ran away with only Harry chasing them. As you said, it allowed for more emphasis on dumbledore. Without anything big afterwards to distract from him, there was more impact. I think they could've tweaked a few things to make it better, but I'm not entirely disappointed wit the way they did it.

 

 

I really don't know if they could have dine anything different that would have made it better imo. The battle fits well in the book, but it just would have been too much sudden action in the movie. I thought they balanced it really well.