I just got back from seeing it. I don't read the books and hadn't seen any of the movies since the second one. It wasn't bad. But,
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hahahah
i thought it was an attacking army of gollums actually
the holocaust thing never occurred to me
(but basically it was a method of voldemort's to protect the horcrux, and it's significantly more important in the seventh book but they really gave it no explanation in this)
I'm not going to see it. It only came out today and already half the faggots on my facebook have dedicated their statuses to them having seen it or them going to see it later in the evening.
I've read the books, they were mildly entertaining page-turners. I couldn't give a shit about what they do with it now.
I thought it was well paced, excellent, and quite funny.
Plus, any movie that has the 'serious fans' of the novels so butt-hurt over at IMDb that they're crying over it is a good movie to me.
Overall, I think it's the best of the harry potter movies so far.
That opinion may fade over time as the freshness wears off, though.
I'll probably download the first decent TS I see, but no way I'm paying money to go see this.
god damnit people harry potter is for fucking 12 year olds
I got my allowance but I spent it all on ice cream
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I got my allowance but I spent it all on ice cream
Oh I saw it, high as hell, and it sucked.
I had nothing really better to do this afternoon so I went and caught the matinee. Not bad. I haven't read the book in sometime so I'm not sure how true it was to the book and how much was left out but I felt it was worth my 6 dollars.
My viewing experience would have been a whole of a hell lot better if the fat woman with her whining bitch of a baby would have just left the theater instead of her pulling him aside and yelling at him.
I just couldn't believe how boring it was. Absolutely nothing of interest happened, and it was like they just went through the book beforehand, picked out a handful of pages, turned them into scenes, then tossed everything else out. I understand they can't do the whole thing, but at least they could've made the parts they did do somewhat interesting.
Oh for the love of fuck, you're whining because they didn't include everything from the book? The 700 page novel?
People that read the books know the characters. People that watch the movies need more direct scenes of character motivation. Hence 'boring scenes' that don't really do a whole lot.
The cinematography was out-fucking-standing, the score was inspired, the script was awesome, the acting was great, the story was taught. It was a good film, not just a good Harry Potter movie. The only downside is that you have to be vaguely familiar with either the books or the previous films to have any kind of a grasp on what is going on.
And yet, despite all that shit, I was thoroughly bored throughout the entire fucking movie. I just didn't like it.
Firstly, taut.
Secondly, I don't agree with any of this. There was some excellent scoring and some terrible scoring (what comes to mind is the scene with Harry and Ginny in the room of requirement). The script was troubling -- highly so. The story was unfocused, most of the characters annoying, and the acting was great in places and worthless in others. The cinematography was cheap -- beautiful, but empty. Visually stunning, but soulless.
It wasn't terrible, but I think soulless is the most apt thing I can say about it. It also got downright silly, sometimes -- and I'm not talking about things that were meant to be, I'm talking about things that I should've cared about that instead I thought were stupid, badly constructed or distracting.
No, that wasn't his criticism. His criticism was that the material chosen was seemingly arbitrary (I don't agree, but it wasn't the best material either) and poorly executed:
So why don't you just stop being more than a little bit of an asshole and respond to what people are actually saying in some kind of constructive way. What are you trying to achieve with "oh for the love of fuck" and by telling people they are whining?Originally Posted by Shinysides
Oh, and I just watched Order of the Phoenix again on HBO, and all I have to say is that now I'm even more sure of how big a disappointment Half-Blood prince was. Because I really fucking enjoyed OotP, and HBP was absolutely terrible in comparison. The battle scenes were interesting, the plot flowed smoothly, and the actors did a much better job. Not to mention they look to be almost the right age in Order of the Phoenix, whereas Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) looks like he's about 20 in the Half-Blood Prince versus the 16-17 year old he's supposed to be. There was really just none of the excitement I had come to expect from this movie franchise in the HPB.
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