Film Discussion: Half Blood Prince

[tjs_whatnot]

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[tjs_whatnot]

First impressions after walking out of the theater?

[shocolate]

Well, I saw it in a WB screening room, I'm afraid, sorry - at 9am and I had got home from Sweden at 1am the night before, if you want to feel sorry for me - so my first impression was exhaustion!

Then I drowned for several hours on the red carpet as there was a hail storm in London in July! Never been so wet.

But I did get to say Harry/Ron, love and chocolate to Rupert...

...and I made Dan bounce.

[tjs_whatnot]

So, all in all a rather pleasant impression? :))

I love your red carpet stories!

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[shocolate]

I think I'm still a bit damp from that hail storm....

[philstar22]

I enjoyed it. In some ways more than the book. At least, some of the stuff I hated and had felt vaguely out of character for me personally was cut out.

I still wasn't a fan of the sappy romance, though I though the shy Harry/Ginny stuff was cuter than the "chest monster."

I loved the cave scene. I thought it was perfectly done. And I loved the ending. And I loved the pensieve scenes. Really, the same stuff I loved in the book.

[madderbrad]

A mix of frustration and pity over how they'd tried to push the party line at us with the H/G scenes and some bemused puzzlement on why they'd set up that last scene, the Trio on the tower, with Ron relegated to the role of background scenery while all of the dialogue and focus was on Harry & Hermione.

[drinkingcocoa]

Very typically, of course my guy got very little screen time for my tastes even though his name was in the title of the movie! ;-) I enjoyed imagining his sarcasm about that.

[bonsaibetz]

I was disappointed they didn't include the Portable Swamp. That was my FAVORITE part of the book and wished they included it in the movie.

[kate34books]

I liked it but not by much.

Only liked a handful of scenes. but the movie in general was really focused on the wrong things.

[moreteadk]

After OotP which I had enjoyed because I hadn't expected awesomeness, I'm afraid I had once again developed expectations. They were not really met, so I was complaining a bit when we came out. Husband told me that large parts of the film had not really made a lot of sense to him because he wasn't yet familiar with all the canon.