On the latest Harry Potter flick
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gwallaOverall, pretty entertaining. Random thoughts, spoilers ahoy:
Dumbledore is a cockblocker. Couldn't recruiting Slughorn have waited?
Sure was nice of the Death Eaters to make sure all the muggles got off of that bridge before it collapsed.
I love Luna Lovegood. She's so completely out of it. She's probably my favorite character at this point. Also, those x-ray specs are stylin'.
Ron really was thick as a whale in this installment. Harry, too, seemed to have caught a severe case of the retarded when he ran after Bellatrix LeStrange when the Order of the Phoenix is right fucking there.
Speaking of Bellatrix, Helena Bonham Carter seemed to be channeling Johnny Depp channeling Keith Richards. She had the Captain Jack wobble down.
This was the druggiest installment yet, with two extended drug scenes: Ron drunk on love potion, and Harry after taking thecocaine luck potion. Harry's behavior on the potion was particularly funny. Harry with an excess of confidence is kind of a dick.
Definitely a feeling of middle-movie-itis this time around. Lots of setting stuff up, but not much in the way of a story arc for this specific film. Snape revealing that he's the "half-blood prince" feels like it was supposed to be climactic, except that mystery was pretty minor—the only reason it seemed like it should be at all relevant was the title—and had already been overshadowed by the showdown in the tower. "Yes, I am the half-blood prince!" "Um...okay. Good for you?"
Dumbledore is a cockblocker. Couldn't recruiting Slughorn have waited?
Sure was nice of the Death Eaters to make sure all the muggles got off of that bridge before it collapsed.
I love Luna Lovegood. She's so completely out of it. She's probably my favorite character at this point. Also, those x-ray specs are stylin'.
Ron really was thick as a whale in this installment. Harry, too, seemed to have caught a severe case of the retarded when he ran after Bellatrix LeStrange when the Order of the Phoenix is right fucking there.
Speaking of Bellatrix, Helena Bonham Carter seemed to be channeling Johnny Depp channeling Keith Richards. She had the Captain Jack wobble down.
This was the druggiest installment yet, with two extended drug scenes: Ron drunk on love potion, and Harry after taking the
Definitely a feeling of middle-movie-itis this time around. Lots of setting stuff up, but not much in the way of a story arc for this specific film. Snape revealing that he's the "half-blood prince" feels like it was supposed to be climactic, except that mystery was pretty minor—the only reason it seemed like it should be at all relevant was the title—and had already been overshadowed by the showdown in the tower. "Yes, I am the half-blood prince!" "Um...okay. Good for you?"
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:24 am (UTC)- I think the movie handled the teenage hormones part better than the book did. I remember being really pissed at all 3 of them for being thick.
- After Harry drank the potion, he reminded me more of Willis than ever before! ( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/siempredescalzo/GIFS/opyzqa.gif ) I'm at work, so I can't copy this and upload it for inlining myself. Hot-linking is bad, Mmm-kay?
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Date: 2009-07-27 04:58 am (UTC)I agree with you on the half blood prince
reveal. So what? Does that mean anything?
And Harry should have done something at the
end.
Other wise I loved it.
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Date: 2009-07-27 05:03 am (UTC)But yes, he was hilarious.
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Date: 2009-07-27 10:26 am (UTC)Just the way I read this in my head was hilarious.
Also, dude, this movie was purely 2 1/2 hours of Filler, fillerfillerfillerfiller.
I stopped reading the books after Goblet of Fire so I have no idea wtf the whole Half Blood Prince thing was about. Honestly if the book is named after it you would've thought that it would've been a big enough plot point to warrant more than like 10 minutes of screen time. BUT EVIDENTLY NOT.
Most of what I remember from the movie is Draco being a pansyass bitch, really. That's all that stood out for me.
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Date: 2009-07-27 03:32 pm (UTC)Excerpt:
The Big Day
[Goalkeeper Ron is about to vomit on his geometrical eggtoast and Harry may or may not have spiked his juice, but the important thing is that Luna is wearing a lion on her head.]
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Date: 2009-07-28 04:35 am (UTC)with an excess of confidenceis kind of a dick.Fixed that for ya.
He went downhill. In the first couple of books he was a cute and--dare I say it--spunky kid floundering through some pretty bizarre circumstances. Then he became a lazy entitled whiner. Then somewhere between books 4 and 5 he OD'd on whatever it was Dr. Jekyll invented and turned into a full-blown bitchy asshole. I don't know what he's like in the seventh, because I just can't bring myself to care enough to read it.
The emerging winners for my favorite characters turned out to be Neville and Luna. Even Hermione cheesed me off in the end.
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