hm. (potter.)

[khana]

i think i might not have eaten enough today. otherwise, an (admittedly 'jumbo') cocktail would not make me this tipsy. but, well, it is kind of fun, so that's okay. :) [so viel spaß für wenig (wenig. naja...) geld! :D]


anyway! i finally, after about three planning failures, managed to see the half blood prince. unfurtunately, i went with two non-fans - girls who haven't even read the books past volume two. i don't know how i ended up with so many 'normal' people in my cirle of friends (and friends of friends). so i guess you'll have to bear with me.

i don't actually know if i liked it. it was still pretty, and I really liked how there were different parts of the school that they showed. i also really liked how the draco storyline was done, and harry's obsession became very apparent.

the ron/hermione, ron/lavender thing was a little overdone, maybe, and the ginny/dean thing underdone (they were being cute onscreen, and then we were told that 'they are fighting again'...), and the harry/ginny, well, it was there, and they could not exactly have harry talk about the monster in his tummy, but they managed that quite well.

i have heard people complain that ginny looks to plain, and i can't really agree, i think she looks really okay, and that's actually good for the role, not too pretty, like a normal girl really. i just don't like the way harry looks, now. he has grown up way too... boxy. angular. thingy. it's just... too manly for him, i guess. still like ron, and I believed in hermione's hair this time, so that might have gotten better.

why am I talking about their hair?

bellatrix was way way way over the top crazy. it was worse this time than the last, because the had so much screen time... and what was up with narcissa's stripey black-and-white hair?

plot-wise... well. HBP wasn't the stronges book of the bunch to begin with, a lot of setting-the-scene, and things, and they shortened it at weird points. the dramatic attack on hogwarts just... wasn't. and the book felt more scenetered on the memory-scenes, wheras we only had... 2? in the film.

i also missed the trio as a trio. there was lots of hermione/ron ust, lots of harry/hermione friendship, and a littöe harry/ron humor going on (loved the scene at the christmas dinner, where ron plopped down between ginny and harry. it felt a little shippy, and normally i don't look foir that stuff.) but the trio-ness, the three-against-the-world thing, came a little short. :(

so yeah, i dunno.

it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, either, and once the credits rolled, i, and the girls i was there with, were left with a feeling of 'that was it?', cause it had no real climax, and it could have had. some things were done nicely, but i guess it suffered from what the book did, too, being too much of a 'setting the stage' thing to really stand out on its own.

also, i'm still confused how the hell they want to make two movies out of volume seven. have them camping for a whole 120 minutes, with a bit of bickering thrown in, and end in the gringotts break-in? i just don't know. i think it was lenija who mentioned that it would be really cool if they made one movie with the trio's perspective right up to the final batte, and then one from ther perspective of those left in hogwarts, the rest of the DA and stuff. but they are never gonna do that. so yeah. who knows.


also also, because there were lots and lots of trailers - why is bully's wicki movie narrated in an italian accent? what the--?


I think I might try to write something, now. being a little tipsy helps with that, sometimes.

Comments

[lanoyee.livejournal.com]

A Wickie movie.

Upon reading this in your post, I youtube'd the trailers, and... this has the potential to be the Best Thing Ever. Well, maybe not quite, but, y'know. Close.

[khana.livejournal.com]

*g*
I only knew about that one because, upon my vera rare stumbles through german tv programs, I once encountered 'Bully sucht die starken Männer', a casting show for the crew of Wockie's dad's ship among unknown actors and non-actors and folks. It was suprisingly fun, so I stuck withit for the six or whatever episodes it had, and that's how I knew about the movie. I hope it turns out well. :)

[lanoyee.livejournal.com]

I may just go to the cinema for it when it comes out.

[khana.livejournal.com]

oh wow. don't drink and type, jo. don't drink and type.
*stares at her comment in amazement*

[lanoyee.livejournal.com]

... *kicher*

*wuschel*

[feuerschein.livejournal.com]

It was also fun as hell to watch the casting. And that's somethign coming from me. I hate castings. But all of the cast is just so lovely

/rant, end. ^^

[khana.livejournal.com]

they were very cute in the show, weren't they? It felt a little more real than these casting things normally do. more... down to earth. and I liked how they did the usual casting show reavealing who's advancing a round bullshit thing sometimes, but with a wink, and sometimes they just didn't do it.

[feuerschein.livejournal.com]

*loves ginny's looks*

[metalnurse.livejournal.com]

everybody told me how great the movie is. So naturally, I was disappointed.
I did like the lighting a lot and the camera moves were quite nice. But I sometimes had the feeling that the producers have read a different book, lol.
Lavender was way overdone. I mean, they just had a normal relationship with a hint of silly. But not like they had in the movie.
The missing of the memory storyline, that was so important in the book was like non existent in the movie. Which sucked, since that explained a lot about the horcruxes.
Although, the fight was missing. I don't need violence but I think it was somewhat important. Well, we got to see the Burrow go down in flames. why? I have no idea, lol.
The fact that managed to kinda mention Regulus randomly and out of the blue amused me for some reason.

What I do really like about the HP movies are the actors. Not the kids necessarily but the "old" ones. They have such a great cast, it always gives me goosebumps. And the casting spoiler I've read for HP7 is great, I think.
ABout the kids, I thin they really worked on their acting skills and sell their roles quite good. I really like the Luna actress. And I do like Bonny (Ginny), I think she kinda comes close to how I imagined the book Ginny to be.

I think there is more. But I have to go back to work now, lol. Oh, I agree with you on the trio dynamic in this movie. I missed it too.

[khana.livejournal.com]

I think I liked Lavender, actually. She was way way way over the top, but somehow, I still liked her, in all her annoying girly bubbly glory. *g*

I was so sad about the Burrow burning... I was wondering if it had happened and I had managed to forget it, but it was just the Arthur-bit-by-Nagini thing in the books right? (was that HBP or DH?)

I kind of liked the fact that they mentioned Rergulus. The books had him come up in a more subtle way, but they had to get him in there somehow, so he wouldn't be completely out of left field, once he gets important...

And you're right, the actors are quite good. I loved McGonagall in this one - and the previous ones, but she stood out to me this time. I'm still not convinced by Luna. She's too pretty and perky, somehow. And her hair is too white-blond.
I think 'my' Ginny had a bit more wavy hair, not completely straight, but yeah, she's really good for the part. I don't actually like Fred and George for the roles, though. I'm particular about the Weasleys (and so sad that they kicked Bill and Charley out completely, and wrote Percy out of GoF, and stupid stuff like that. :(), and Fred and George are supposed to be of the smaller, stockier Weasley variety. But well, I suppose finding red headed twin actors was hard enough.