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So, jeez, the Star Trek reboot has eaten my brain, eh? I've just been sitting here like, absorbing the fic, and not posting to my LJ like a responsible LJer. *sigh* But hey, I've seen other movies this summer, too. Like the one I saw tonight.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Or as I like to call it, Harry Potter in That Movie Where Pretty Much Everyone [Except Maybe The Weasley Twins] is Seriously CREEPY, WTF?
Okay, so let's get this out of the way right now. At some point in the movie, basically everyone, except the aforementioned matching pair of gingers, creeped me the fuck out. And I mean, some people were supposed to be creepy, like, say, the various incarnations of Tom Riddle. But Slughorn's Slug Club looked more like a Mutual Molestation Society on screen, and Dumbledore was a little too intense for my liking. But some people weren't supposed to creep me out, and they did. So that was... good times.
Now, onto the meat of the movie. Namely, the Great 'Shipper Debate. To be honest, I was dreading the Harry/Ginny in this film, mainly because there really wasn't anything leading up to it. It was just like --
YEAR ONE
Harry: Ooh, I'm off to the magical school!
Ginny: *is a Weasley*
YEAR TWO
Ginny: Help, I've been abducted by the villain of the piece, and am now unconscious!
Harry: Yeah, about that... giant snake monster trying to eat me, here.
YEARS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE
Harry: Darn it all, there's plot that needs advancing!
Ginny: *hangs out over... there somewhere, occasionally with speaking lines*
YEAR SIX
All of Hogwarts: Hey guys, Ginny Weasley is a hottie, eh? And talented, and athletic, and I'd kill to date her...
Harry: Ginny, oh, Ginny! How I yearn for thee --
Ron: Harry, you alright?
Harry: Oh yeah, I'm fine, mate. It's just your sister's grown some really nice tits, and as it turns out, I was in love with her all this time! Thought it was just a platonic friendship thing, too. Weird, right?
Ron: *shrieks in abject horror*
Not like the books built it up any better, either, though. At least Harry didn't do the douchebag thing and kiss her in front of Dean, this go-round.
Anyway. Thought the movie was good, overall. I really liked some of the artistic stuff, like the way the pensieve memories sort of dissolved in like ink in water. Narcissa Malfoy's hair was a bit horrifying. I started crying during the big climactic scene, of course, but when I read the book I was sitting there crying for like 20 minutes, so that was completely to be expected.
I liked Alan Rickman's delivery of The Line -- "I am the Half-Blood Prince!" It was very mesmerizing, but altogether not like it was in the original book -- book!Snape would've been flailing dramatically and shouting, I think. The Sectumsempra scene was really terrifying, too -- it was that moment when it finally hit that yeah, these boys aren't just trying to trip each other on the playground anymore, they're actually out for blood, intentional or not.
I probably have more to say about the movie, but it's now about two hours past my normal bedtime, so it's probably best that I stop typing before I degenerate into an incoherent mess. That is, if I haven't already.
But one last thing! My theory -- the reason they pushed back the release date of the movie was so that they could tint all the scenes to a nice, teenie-addicting, Twilight blue. Y/Y?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Or as I like to call it, Harry Potter in That Movie Where Pretty Much Everyone [Except Maybe The Weasley Twins] is Seriously CREEPY, WTF?
Okay, so let's get this out of the way right now. At some point in the movie, basically everyone, except the aforementioned matching pair of gingers, creeped me the fuck out. And I mean, some people were supposed to be creepy, like, say, the various incarnations of Tom Riddle. But Slughorn's Slug Club looked more like a Mutual Molestation Society on screen, and Dumbledore was a little too intense for my liking. But some people weren't supposed to creep me out, and they did. So that was... good times.
Now, onto the meat of the movie. Namely, the Great 'Shipper Debate. To be honest, I was dreading the Harry/Ginny in this film, mainly because there really wasn't anything leading up to it. It was just like --
YEAR ONE
Harry: Ooh, I'm off to the magical school!
Ginny: *is a Weasley*
YEAR TWO
Ginny: Help, I've been abducted by the villain of the piece, and am now unconscious!
Harry: Yeah, about that... giant snake monster trying to eat me, here.
YEARS THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE
Harry: Darn it all, there's plot that needs advancing!
Ginny: *hangs out over... there somewhere, occasionally with speaking lines*
YEAR SIX
All of Hogwarts: Hey guys, Ginny Weasley is a hottie, eh? And talented, and athletic, and I'd kill to date her...
Harry: Ginny, oh, Ginny! How I yearn for thee --
Ron: Harry, you alright?
Harry: Oh yeah, I'm fine, mate. It's just your sister's grown some really nice tits, and as it turns out, I was in love with her all this time! Thought it was just a platonic friendship thing, too. Weird, right?
Ron: *shrieks in abject horror*
Not like the books built it up any better, either, though. At least Harry didn't do the douchebag thing and kiss her in front of Dean, this go-round.
Anyway. Thought the movie was good, overall. I really liked some of the artistic stuff, like the way the pensieve memories sort of dissolved in like ink in water. Narcissa Malfoy's hair was a bit horrifying. I started crying during the big climactic scene, of course, but when I read the book I was sitting there crying for like 20 minutes, so that was completely to be expected.
I liked Alan Rickman's delivery of The Line -- "I am the Half-Blood Prince!" It was very mesmerizing, but altogether not like it was in the original book -- book!Snape would've been flailing dramatically and shouting, I think. The Sectumsempra scene was really terrifying, too -- it was that moment when it finally hit that yeah, these boys aren't just trying to trip each other on the playground anymore, they're actually out for blood, intentional or not.
I probably have more to say about the movie, but it's now about two hours past my normal bedtime, so it's probably best that I stop typing before I degenerate into an incoherent mess. That is, if I haven't already.
But one last thing! My theory -- the reason they pushed back the release date of the movie was so that they could tint all the scenes to a nice, teenie-addicting, Twilight blue. Y/Y?