Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

[The Darkness]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

I don't know about better.

They're different. It's a different medium.

I've been reading behind watching the movies and I've never regretted doing so. I can think of at least one movie that might have been wrecked if I'd read the book first (Azkaban... I strongly disagree with a couple of adaptation decisions in that one), and judging by discussion about HBP it might fall into that bin as well.

I absolutely hated the Azkaban movie, it made no sense. The book sent so much into the past of Harry's parents, and I really felt like it set up the rest of the books, the movie was just hectic and all over the place.

I actually enjoyed The Sorcer's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets, The Goblet of Fire was alright, but the prisoner of Azkaban was a huge disappointment.

No, they didn't totally give it away, neither what the vanishing cabinet was (it took until well into the movie that they said what it did), nor what Draco's ultimate mission was (though you might well have inferred it from the poisoned mead).

Maybe4 I just felt that way because I knew from the book but they definitely gave up more then the book did. You never knew what Malfoy was up to, really you just knew that Harry thought he was up to something, and that he was acting weird and acting progressively more narrow.

In the movie we are given the cabinet in the beginning and you see him trying to fix it and transport stuff through it by the middle of the movie.

 

[bronconick]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

The final book will be broken up into two parts (2010 and 2011) because the director said there's so much detail in the final book he wants to capture it all. Of course, considering the liberties taken in the first six movies, I wouldn't hold my breath.

If they wanted to get the final book into three hours, all they'd have to do is cut out the wannabe Fellowship of the Ring 6 month camping section. With two movies, I guess the camping will last longer then the actual Blair Witch Project movie, and be about as interesting.

 

[gojackets]

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Even with dumbledore dying I found the ending very anticlimatic.

What was with all the suttle drunkeness? and not so suttle with the professor

 

[St. Clown]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

Even with dumbledore dying I found the ending very anticlimatic.

What was with all the suttle drunkeness? and not so suttle with the professor

How do you mean "with all the suttle (sic) drunkeness?" If the incidences to which you are referring are what I think they are, Ron accidentally ingested a whole batch of love potion intended for Harry, which made him (Ron) overcome by desire for a girl; Harry took lucky potion which makes the user supremely confident. When Harry was watching Hagrid and Slughorn get drunk while celebrating the dead spider Aragog, he was just happy to know that things were going as he had hoped (or known, given the potion).

As for Professor Slughorn, his character is one that likes to indulge in life. I can't recall off hand in the movies, but Hagrid's been displayed in the books to have been drunk a few different times. The first I recall directly was in the third book after he realized that his hippogriff had escaped. I think that was cut from the movie. A couple other times in the books he can be found drinking away his sorrows.

 

[gojackets]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

How do you mean "with all the suttle (sic) drunkeness?" If the incidences to which you are referring are what I think they are, Ron accidentally ingested a whole batch of love potion intended for Harry, which made him (Ron) overcome by desire for a girl; Harry took lucky potion which makes the user supremely confident. When Harry was watching Hagrid and Slughorn get drunk while celebrating the dead spider Aragog, he was just happy to know that things were going as he had hoped (or known, given the potion).

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Yes but the love potion and the Lucky juice came across as making them tipsy...and hermione after they left the bar was a little sloshed.

 

[St. Clown]

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Yes but the love potion and the Lucky juice came across as making them tipsy...and hermione after they left the bar was a little sloshed.

The love potion bit was just played that way, probably at the director's order. The lucky potion was written as a very euphoric, confident feeling. Also, I don't think Daniel Radcliffe can walk in any other fashion than as an old man; I noticed it in movie #5, and he walked that way again in this last movie. As for Hermione, well, she's 16 and in Britain. That's what they do there. (Hermione's bit was added for the movie, too. I think the director just wanted to add some more comedy to the show. IIRC, she, Ron and Harry were described as not in a good mood because of the cold and windy weather beating against their faces.)

 

[bostonewe]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

Even with dumbledore dying I found the ending very anticlimatic.

What was with all the suttle drunkeness? and not so suttle with the professor

In the British versions of the books (read: the originals, not changed by American editors), the characters are portrayed as drinking beers. The legal drinking age in England is 16.

 

[Craig P.]

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A quick request, I don't think anybody is going to transgress this (nor has done so so far), but...

For the sake of my participation in the thread, can you be sure to spoiler-protect any significant HP-7 spoiler info? I haven't read it yet, and I'm not planning to read it until after the 8th movie. I'd like to be able to remain and discuss the books and movies through 6.

 

[DrewskiT]

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Having not only read the books, but also listened to the audio-books, I'd like to bring up a startling point.

As much as they cut out, I was quite impressed with how true some of the writing was to what characters actually said. This was the first movie I noticed it in (probably because I re-listened to the audiobook through last week), but I found myself on at least five occassions during the movie noticing that the actor was reciting a line from the book verbatim. This, I appreciated.

After the movie was over, I turned to my dad and told him "I think I might be one of the only people in the world who would prefer a five-hour movie to avoid cuts." That's the part we need to remember, these movies are already quite long by time standards. To include what the books offer, they would need to be significantly longer.

 

[leswp1]

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They split the last book. I wish they had split this one.

 

[Priceless]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

A quick request, I don't think anybody is going to transgress this (nor has done so so far), but...

For the sake of my participation in the thread, can you be sure to spoiler-protect any significant HP-7 spoiler info? I haven't read it yet, and I'm not planning to read it until after the 8th movie. I'd like to be able to remain and discuss the books and movies through 6.

It's a cookbook!

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

A quick request, I don't think anybody is going to transgress this (nor has done so so far), but...

For the sake of my participation in the thread, can you be sure to spoiler-protect any significant HP-7 spoiler info? I haven't read it yet, and I'm not planning to read it until after the 8th movie. I'd like to be able to remain and discuss the books and movies through 6.

So, in other words, you don't want us to talk about the part where Hedwig gets busted for heading an Owl Drug Smuggling Syndicate?

 

[DrewskiT]

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So, in other words, you don't want us to talk about the part where Hedwig gets busted for heading an Owl Drug Smuggling Syndicate?

...by Crookshanks

 

[The Darkness]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

Or the part where it turns out that Snape is really Harry's father, and the only reason he's been so hard on him was to "teach him to be a man"

 

[St. Clown]

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In the British versions of the books (read: the originals, not changed by American editors), the characters are portrayed as drinking beers. The legal drinking age in England is 16.

Oh look at Little Miss Fancy Chick who reads all the foreign books!

Are there a lot of those little (big?) changes between the UK and US versions? I assumed there would be little things like saying "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas."

 

[bostonewe]

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Oh look at Little Miss Fancy Chick who reads all the foreign books!

Are there a lot of those little (big?) changes between the UK and US versions? I assumed there would be little things like saying "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas."

There's some changes (like the drinking, "Philosophers Stone" (instead of Sorcerer's Stone), etc), but nothing substantial. Info here if you have tons of free time

 

[leswp1]

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Oh look at Little Miss Fancy Chick who reads all the foreign books!

Are there a lot of those little (big?) changes between the UK and US versions? I assumed there would be little things like saying "Happy Christmas" rather than "Merry Christmas."

We were in Edinburgh when the last Harry came out and bought a version there and then the one here when we got home. Biggest difference I noticed is the British version is smaller and portable.

 

[theprofromdover]

Re: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Movie (spoiler alert)

A quick request, I don't think anybody is going to transgress this (nor has done so so far), but...

For the sake of my participation in the thread, can you be sure to spoiler-protect any significant HP-7 spoiler info? I haven't read it yet, and I'm not planning to read it until after the 8th movie. I'd like to be able to remain and discuss the books and movies through 6.

Nerd alert! Nerd alert!

 

[Cat lover]

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You would think after the success of Lord of the Rings ROTK that studios would not be afraid of a 3 or more hour movie. If the story is interesting and exciting the time doesnt matter. I can watch Braveheart and never notice how long it is, but watch a crappy 90 minute movie and you find yourself keep checking your watch.

I would say the comedy in this movie was pulled off very well while the other main story lines were neglected. Only 2 pensive scenes(I knew the Gaunts would be cut) no Dursleys and only one scene with Tonks and Lupin for those that didnt read the books wouldnt know were together(as a couple) if not for one line Tonks says right before Belatrixs arrives which I cant remember the word(maybe Honey or Darling something like that).

 

[leswp1]

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I have to admit this one had me looking at my watch and wondering when the good stuff was going to happen less than half way in. The thing that sort of sustained me was knowing the big fight was going to occur at the end. Anti-climactic end=Wouldn't watch it again by choice. I agree length of time is not important if the movie is really good.