Most people vomit their first time.
I just got back from seeing The Half-Blood Prince!!!
I always change my mind a bit after seeing the movies more than once, but here are my first impressions:
The Good
1. Teenage Voldemort. Perfection.
2. Slughorn. Awesome. He made me laugh in every scene he was in.
3. The Romilda Vane love potion scene. Ron talking about the moon was adorable &hearts
4. The Felix Felicis and Aragog's funeral. I wish Dan Racliffe got to act like himself more often.
5. All the Ron and Hermione!!!!!! ER-MY-NEE!!!!!! So glad they left that in.
6. Draco. Perfect. I thought Tom Felton did a wonderful job, and I loved how pathetic and crazy he was by the end.
7. Greyback. Holy shit. Every time he showed up onscreen I actually got scared.
8. The Quidditch was AMAZING in this one. It looked SO FREAKING COOL. And Ron's Quidditch tryout and the game when he thought he was on Felix was awesome.
9. Cormac McLaggen. HAHAHAHAHA adorable and saucy and when he licked his finger during the Slug Club dinner I almost died.
10. Harry standing up and "enjoying dessert" at the Slug Club dinner.
11. Lavender was great, especially in the hospital scene, and the whole writing on the window on the train.
12. Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!!!!! Perfect!!! I wish we could have seen more!
13. Katie Bell being cursed was freaking scary as hell!!!!!
14. Luna's Christmas dress and her lion hat :D
15. Emma Watson finally stopped acting with her eyebrows!!!!! Huzzah!!!!!
16. I thought they did a good job of showing Harry's Draco obsession. I always hate that in the book, but they did that well. And I loved the Sectumsempra scene, although Snape just letting Harry run away was weird.
17. Ron sitting between Harry and Ginny at Christmas. "...pie?" LOL
18. The Inferi were quite horrifying. Although it's weird that they dragged him under. But I LOVED the giant ring of fire, holy shit.
19. PYGMY PUFF = CUTEST THING OF ALL TIME.
20. The little montagey thing that happened when Harry touched the Gaunt ring - is that foreshadowing that he is a horcrux himself?
The Weird
1. The Weasley's house being blown up. Why? WHYYYY??? Greyback looked freaking awesome, but why did that even happen? And why did they never mention it again??? Wouldn't the Weasleys have been SAD or something??
2. Would it have been so hard to use the Harry/Ginny kissing scene from the book and not the weird eyes-closed thing in the Room of Requirement?
3. Was it just me or did Harry and Hermione hold hands throughout the entire movie?
4. As much as I love Ron/Hermione, I felt like they kind of gave Hermione the shit end of the stick in this movie. She wasn't all ballsy and herself, she was just weepy. Very unlike her. "Is this how it feels when you see Ginny with Dean?" LOL our Hermione would never ask such a thing. I don't think they captured the idea that Ron was going out with Lavender because he felt inferior to everyone else for having more experience, and that Hermione went out with Cormac to make Ron jealous. Hmmph.
5. I like that they included Draco breaking Harry's nose in the beginning, but was it just me or did he seem like he wasn't in any pain at all?? LOL
6. Arthur telling Harry about the vanishing cabinet. Wha?
7. I'm sorry, but that statuesque muggle from the coffee shop in the beginning would have never EVER asked a kid like that. Ever.
8. Lupin and Tonks as a couple without any emo!Tonks. I didn't even think she'd make it into the movie.
9. Bonnie Wright seems like a nice girl, but she is totally not the Ginny I have in my mind at all, and so all of her scenes kind of fell flat for me. She's got a kind of vacant stare when she's not talking haha.
10. Ginny tying the shoe felt so weird and wrong LOL.
The Disappointing
1. No "I'm with you" lines?????? SERIOUSLY??????
2. I'm sorry, isn't this movie called "The Half-Blood Prince?" Did anyone else feel like that entire storyline never really...went anywhere? I feel like someone who had never read the book would have been like "Um...wtf" when Snape was like "It is I, the Half-Blood Prince!" We didn't get his demented "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD" face.
3. And WHY DID SNAPE SHOW UP UNDER THE FLOOR BEFORE HE KILLED DUMBLEDORE??? Way to not be vague at all, Hollywood.
4. I knew there was no funeral, and I liked the whole wands in the air thing, but...boo.
5. WOULD IT HAVE BEEN SO HARD TO MAKE THE POTION IN THE CAVE GREEN??????? I don't want to sound like one of the crazy "Hermione's Yule Ball dress should be PERIWINKLE BLUE" people, but the freaking cover of HBP was green because that potion was green LOL. The image in your head was of that black cave with a green glowing thing...so they make it BLACK? WHY??
6. Also, couldn't they have added a line where Dumbledore told Harry to not touch that water? In the movie it seemed perfectly logical to just get the water from the lake...right?
7. I hate that they didn't use the "We're with you whatever happens" line at the end because that was always one of my favorites, and Hermione said something sort of close but it didn't have the same emotional punch.
8. We also didn't get "No need to call me SIR, Professor." Or any Snape classes.
9. I know they totally left Scrimgeour out, but I would have loved to hear something about being Dumbledore's man through and through.
10. NO BATTLE AT HOGWARTS AFTER DUMBLEDORE IS KILLED????????????????????????? BOO HISS.
11. I'm sad they left the Dursleys out of the beginning, that was always one of my favorite scenes.
12. Narcissa Malfoy was way too old and why the hell was her hair half black? Why do they cast all these people that look 10-15 years older than the characters?? Lily and James were 21 when they died, meaning now they'd be 37. Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis - all these guys are at LEAST a decade older than they should be haha. Oh well.
13. No Luna Quidditch commentary!
I think the problem for me was that I loooove book Dumbledore and I can't really stand movie Dumbledore, and so for him to die (and for Harry to lose him) didn't really affect me at all. I can't read the last section of the book without bawling my eyes out, and in the movie I felt nothing at all because I don't think the audience OR Harry really has any kind of connection to Dumbledore. Although I'm glad they showed Fawkes flying around for a second. I also hated that Harry wasn't stupefied and covered with the Invisibility Cloak for the death scene because that is what really gets me - his "silent scream" and all that.
I feel like they also missed the mark with Harry feeling like he really IS the Chosen One, and that he's now willing to give up his life for the greater good. In the movie it's more like "Well okay then, I guess I'll go do this now." They got it right in Order of the Phoenix, but here it was kind of lost among all the snogging and Draco-stalking.
Sidenote: The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are got me all farklempt, not gonna lie.
I always change my mind a bit after seeing the movies more than once, but here are my first impressions:
The Good
1. Teenage Voldemort. Perfection.
2. Slughorn. Awesome. He made me laugh in every scene he was in.
3. The Romilda Vane love potion scene. Ron talking about the moon was adorable &hearts
4. The Felix Felicis and Aragog's funeral. I wish Dan Racliffe got to act like himself more often.
5. All the Ron and Hermione!!!!!! ER-MY-NEE!!!!!! So glad they left that in.
6. Draco. Perfect. I thought Tom Felton did a wonderful job, and I loved how pathetic and crazy he was by the end.
7. Greyback. Holy shit. Every time he showed up onscreen I actually got scared.
8. The Quidditch was AMAZING in this one. It looked SO FREAKING COOL. And Ron's Quidditch tryout and the game when he thought he was on Felix was awesome.
9. Cormac McLaggen. HAHAHAHAHA adorable and saucy and when he licked his finger during the Slug Club dinner I almost died.
10. Harry standing up and "enjoying dessert" at the Slug Club dinner.
11. Lavender was great, especially in the hospital scene, and the whole writing on the window on the train.
12. Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!!!!! Perfect!!! I wish we could have seen more!
13. Katie Bell being cursed was freaking scary as hell!!!!!
14. Luna's Christmas dress and her lion hat :D
15. Emma Watson finally stopped acting with her eyebrows!!!!! Huzzah!!!!!
16. I thought they did a good job of showing Harry's Draco obsession. I always hate that in the book, but they did that well. And I loved the Sectumsempra scene, although Snape just letting Harry run away was weird.
17. Ron sitting between Harry and Ginny at Christmas. "...pie?" LOL
18. The Inferi were quite horrifying. Although it's weird that they dragged him under. But I LOVED the giant ring of fire, holy shit.
19. PYGMY PUFF = CUTEST THING OF ALL TIME.
20. The little montagey thing that happened when Harry touched the Gaunt ring - is that foreshadowing that he is a horcrux himself?
The Weird
1. The Weasley's house being blown up. Why? WHYYYY??? Greyback looked freaking awesome, but why did that even happen? And why did they never mention it again??? Wouldn't the Weasleys have been SAD or something??
2. Would it have been so hard to use the Harry/Ginny kissing scene from the book and not the weird eyes-closed thing in the Room of Requirement?
3. Was it just me or did Harry and Hermione hold hands throughout the entire movie?
4. As much as I love Ron/Hermione, I felt like they kind of gave Hermione the shit end of the stick in this movie. She wasn't all ballsy and herself, she was just weepy. Very unlike her. "Is this how it feels when you see Ginny with Dean?" LOL our Hermione would never ask such a thing. I don't think they captured the idea that Ron was going out with Lavender because he felt inferior to everyone else for having more experience, and that Hermione went out with Cormac to make Ron jealous. Hmmph.
5. I like that they included Draco breaking Harry's nose in the beginning, but was it just me or did he seem like he wasn't in any pain at all?? LOL
6. Arthur telling Harry about the vanishing cabinet. Wha?
7. I'm sorry, but that statuesque muggle from the coffee shop in the beginning would have never EVER asked a kid like that. Ever.
8. Lupin and Tonks as a couple without any emo!Tonks. I didn't even think she'd make it into the movie.
9. Bonnie Wright seems like a nice girl, but she is totally not the Ginny I have in my mind at all, and so all of her scenes kind of fell flat for me. She's got a kind of vacant stare when she's not talking haha.
10. Ginny tying the shoe felt so weird and wrong LOL.
The Disappointing
1. No "I'm with you" lines?????? SERIOUSLY??????
2. I'm sorry, isn't this movie called "The Half-Blood Prince?" Did anyone else feel like that entire storyline never really...went anywhere? I feel like someone who had never read the book would have been like "Um...wtf" when Snape was like "It is I, the Half-Blood Prince!" We didn't get his demented "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD" face.
3. And WHY DID SNAPE SHOW UP UNDER THE FLOOR BEFORE HE KILLED DUMBLEDORE??? Way to not be vague at all, Hollywood.
4. I knew there was no funeral, and I liked the whole wands in the air thing, but...boo.
5. WOULD IT HAVE BEEN SO HARD TO MAKE THE POTION IN THE CAVE GREEN??????? I don't want to sound like one of the crazy "Hermione's Yule Ball dress should be PERIWINKLE BLUE" people, but the freaking cover of HBP was green because that potion was green LOL. The image in your head was of that black cave with a green glowing thing...so they make it BLACK? WHY??
6. Also, couldn't they have added a line where Dumbledore told Harry to not touch that water? In the movie it seemed perfectly logical to just get the water from the lake...right?
7. I hate that they didn't use the "We're with you whatever happens" line at the end because that was always one of my favorites, and Hermione said something sort of close but it didn't have the same emotional punch.
8. We also didn't get "No need to call me SIR, Professor." Or any Snape classes.
9. I know they totally left Scrimgeour out, but I would have loved to hear something about being Dumbledore's man through and through.
10. NO BATTLE AT HOGWARTS AFTER DUMBLEDORE IS KILLED????????????????????????? BOO HISS.
11. I'm sad they left the Dursleys out of the beginning, that was always one of my favorite scenes.
12. Narcissa Malfoy was way too old and why the hell was her hair half black? Why do they cast all these people that look 10-15 years older than the characters?? Lily and James were 21 when they died, meaning now they'd be 37. Alan Rickman, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis - all these guys are at LEAST a decade older than they should be haha. Oh well.
13. No Luna Quidditch commentary!
I think the problem for me was that I loooove book Dumbledore and I can't really stand movie Dumbledore, and so for him to die (and for Harry to lose him) didn't really affect me at all. I can't read the last section of the book without bawling my eyes out, and in the movie I felt nothing at all because I don't think the audience OR Harry really has any kind of connection to Dumbledore. Although I'm glad they showed Fawkes flying around for a second. I also hated that Harry wasn't stupefied and covered with the Invisibility Cloak for the death scene because that is what really gets me - his "silent scream" and all that.
I feel like they also missed the mark with Harry feeling like he really IS the Chosen One, and that he's now willing to give up his life for the greater good. In the movie it's more like "Well okay then, I guess I'll go do this now." They got it right in Order of the Phoenix, but here it was kind of lost among all the snogging and Draco-stalking.
Sidenote: The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are got me all farklempt, not gonna lie.