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Jul. 30th, 2009 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khanai 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-07-31 05:25 pm (UTC)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.