Comments on: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Review

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:47:39 +0000

this book is a piece of, well i am not going to say it. the best part about this movie, was seeing the credits roll so i could GET OUT OF THERE. they might as well have called this Harry Potter and the romance prince for crying out loud. i read and loved all the harry potter books. and now they give me THIS. if chris columbus were still directing he would have made this movie GREAT. like the name of your website this was FILM JUNK. if you wanna go and see a movie like this then go punch yourself in the face multiple times.

By: Corey

Corey — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:20:32 +0000

I have read these books time and time again, and i have to say, this movie was aboslute crap. It was rushed and many important things were left out. I gess thats a problem when you are dealing with a story a large as this.

Personally, i reckon that they should have made this movie into two parts, or atleast. But no, they gotta do it for the last book, which is dull right up to the end.

Theve done a great job on the first and fourth movies, rushed through the others, with nice endings though, and now they are going to drown on the seventh one.

If i ever find the director of that movie, im going to punch him in the face.

By: johnatan

johnatan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:27:28 +0000

Holly molly! I have no words.
What was the movie about? The movie makers could have skipped this movie and jump to the next. The next movie will definitely be better because it is impossible to make worse – or maybe the movie makers will overcome themselves.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:28:34 +0000

I just have 2 say I really enjoyed this movie! I think it’s the best one yet, I mean let’s face it the acting and special affects are a big improvement. Yes I think they did missed a bit from the movie but NO movie ever follows the WHOLE book not even the lord of the rings and it won oscars. I loved the acting of alan rickman (he is never been a
Disapoinment)! I rate this movie 4/5 stars and
I have the read each of the books plenty of times! I can’t wait for the half
Blood prince to come
Out on DVD !

By: modesilver

modesilver — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:07:36 +0000

there were so many things that just felt wrong with this movie. for example the sexual tension they tried to showcase between the main characters was totally wrongly done. the dialogs at many points weren’t really that good which was highly off putting and it added to the already lacking coherence of the film. the acting of the trio, which i thought would improve, really didn’t. that was probably a big disappointment for me. overall i still enjoyed it despite the flaws it had. but i give it props for pulling off a fairly entertaining movie out of a book where not a lot of things happened (compared to the other Harry Potter books).

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:48:05 +0000

I have just been to see the film and I thought it was quite bizarre. I havent read the books but the film was totally nonsensical, there was no story at all from start to finish. I was left with 2 1/2 hours worth of questions about what was going on. I kept thinking that eventually all this will be explainedâ€¦and then the film just ended.
Itâ€™s a bunch of scenes stuck together without a main plot.
2 1/2 hours of filler between HP5 & HP7, no wonder the cimema was half empty.

By: Azure

Azure — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:26:50 +0000

Ive never gave ratings of any less than 3/5, well other than a few others… This movie, i have the super strong urge to give it 1/5 but the excellent acting of alan rickman barely allowed to give it a rating of 2/5.

There were parts in the movie which was totally redundant and expendable for eg the scene of ginny typing the shoelaces and how ginny got tgt with the other guy(whose name ive forgotten) and suddenly ends up kissing harry. Furthermore, all i can feel is that the scene is just jumping through the entire book and sadly it didnt even make it through. Thought the movie lasted over 2hrs it seriously didnt felt like it. At the end of it i was anticipating the BIG battle which obviously didnt came which was a big shock to any reader of hp out there. Lastly, why isnt there any harry potter music? (the orchestra music that we’ve heard over the past 5 music) It utterly turned me off. And most of all.
There was no climax in the movie. None. And i wont accept a 20s scene of swirling fire in the middle of a cave to one.

By: Roj

Roj — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:06:05 +0000

Absolute garbage. Stilted dialogue, inexplicable romantic hijinks, random emotional distresses, Lord of the Rings thefts aplenty, not a sympathetic character among them and an ending like the flush of a weak toilet. Malfoy is always pissed off and apparently blind – he cant see Potter following him ten feet away all through the movie. Malfoy teleports a white bird in the `vanishing cabinet` and it comes back dead. He vanishes the black bird and it comes back alive but he forgets to let it out. Harry and forgettable new Harry love interest discover black bird and it flies out. No explanation. Awful drivel. Franchise exhausted. Stop making these movies. Now.

By: AK

AK — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:35:38 +0000

Personally, I did not hate the movie. However, I was thoroughly disappointed with the fact that important plot points were changed and also that certain scenes were added (for example, the attack on the Burrow). I also did feel that there was too much focus on the romantic aspects of the book, though I do concede that it was done to highlight the characters’ journey through normal teenage experiences. I think they may have trouble tying up some loose plot ends in the last 2 movies, especially relating to the Horcruxes. However, that does not mean that I did not find the movie enjoyable. It was VERY well-made…

By: Bubbly

Bubbly — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:32:44 +0000

I whent into the movie with a buddy who’s only seen the first movie and never read the books so she was missing a lot. Having said that, I was trying to see that movie as if I hadn’t read the book and I found the scenes were choppy and too quick paced and left me confused. I liked the ambiance and didn’t mind the romance. It had to be done, they’re teens!! I think they should have made two movies out of this book seeing as it was a brick-of-a-book and full of vital information where as the other books were much smaller. They really should have focused more on the potions book …. and the new spells found in it and figuring out who the HBP was. Also, they should have focused more on the memories seeing as it’s so vital for Potter to figure out how you know who ticks, it should also be a focal point in the movie. The destruction of the bridge and the three death eaters running a mock in the muggle world was a good opening scene also.

I know you can’t cram everything in but I know I would have done a better job at it than they did!! Haha.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:35:42 +0000

They are too old for the movie. The half blood prince is below my expectations.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:53:41 +0000

Bob

At least I can present an argument without hyperbole and direct confrontation. That you choose to complain about the cinemtography of the film is one of a few reasons making it hard to take you seriously.

Rock

Wasn’t meant to be insulting; I just don’t like statements that deal in absolutes. The wedding is confirmed because there are pictures floating around the net showing that scene. The movie was spotted filming in Piccadilly Circus with the three main actors in their “wedding” clothes. I think in either that same or another interview on CS Heyman talked about how splitting the seventh book into 2 movies made they reapproach how they were going to make movie 6.