On Friday I saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with Uncle D and Demon (my cousin, for future reference).
Ohmigosh it was so awesome!!!!
This movie was darker (but rated PG: just wtf people), but so much better than the other movies. I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't seen it, but they left out some stuff which I griped about for a VERY long time.
SPOILER ALERT for those of you who haven't read the book (weirdos).
They left out the beginning of the book which I don't mind because after the first time I read the book I just skipped over the first 2 chapters.
They left out Ginny and Harry getting together. They kissed, but they never dated.
They left out Dumbledore's funeral. But they kind of had the memorial when all of the Hogwarts students (which seemed to have diminished in number greatly over the years) raised their wands to get rid of the Dark Mark.
Overall, I was impressed with the film though. Being 250 minutes long, they needed to cut something.
So, on a different note, I got home from Grandma J's house today. I had so much fun there!!!! I'm not sure when I started liking yelling and screaming and swearing rock music, but I just bought a bunch of songs from iTunes that fit in that particular category. I probably picked up the fedish from numerous trips in Uncle D's car with his CDs. And Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. After 5 straight hours of playing that game, the TV starting floating and I started to suck because my hand was cramping (much to the annoyance of Uncle D and Demon, and they didn't keep that a secret).
Great week!
Wait, what's that you say? I can't end this post without putting a picture in to keep you family members (my only readers) entertained?!
Well, all right.
On the Harry Potter website, there's a game you can play where you can put in the names of 2 people and it will pull a random Harry Potter couple out of its butt, and there you go. You can choose whether the relationship of the 2 original people is in the category of love, friends, or surprise. Go nuts!!!!!!!!
Mysteriously a picture of Daniel Radcliffe is in my blog pictures folder...
Hm...
Posted by: gj | July 19, 2009 at 01:46 PM
I liked HP6 a lot. Some of the things they left out were murky parts of the book's plot anyway, such as that fight scene in the halls of Hogwarts. I think you've got a good point - they couldn't include everything (or everybody).
Posted by: pam | July 19, 2009 at 05:43 PM
I thought they did a pretty good job out of the movie this time. I enjoyed the new emotional direction it takes and i def think that the acting has improved, now that Radcliff and Grint have grown into their roles more. You are right, its hard to cram everything into 2.5 hours though, so big details are missing. My advice: read the books beforehand!
Also, for fun, this is a cool quiz to do for those who think they already know everything there is to know about Harry Potter: http://uk.moviepilot.com/pages/harry-potter-6
its actually quite hard! =)
Posted by: Anaki | July 20, 2009 at 07:24 AM
It was a thoughtful concentration of essential plot points. However, I would kill to see Fudges humiliation in front of the British Prime Minister.
I really liked this movie even with what was left out.
Posted by: bb | July 20, 2009 at 09:04 PM
Correction! I am not family and I read your blog! (Or... Am... I..?) I am just quite busy lately.....
Anyways...
I personally am STILL griping over all the stuff they left out (In my head of course lol), in fact, to add to your list, Crab, and Goyle were not in this ONCE.
What about when they used polyjuice potion to distract Harry, Hermione, and Ron from the room of requirement!
lol, anyways... Anyways nothing, I think my comment ends here. (Or... Does... It..?) DUN DUN DAHHHNNN (A bit hyper today lol)
Posted by: Geiodo | July 21, 2009 at 04:34 PM
Yes, yes you are. And the reason why they didn't have Crabbe or Goyle was because I think one of them was caught with drugs. I think it was the guy who played Crabbe. I don't know why Goyle wasn't in it. But I never thought they were very good characters anyway.
Posted by: bunny | July 21, 2009 at 09:33 PM
Hee hee! I saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince again today. It turns out that Crabbe and Goyle both WERE in the movie. Goyle was sitting in the booth next to Malfoy on the Hogwarts train, while they were going to the school. And Crabbe was seen at the Slytherin table, looking stupid. I didn't see them the first time, either.
Posted by: bunny | July 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Geiodo's right that MANY of the sub-plots were missing. I sort of wanted to see a few of them acted out. Especially Weasley Is Our King and Tonks mooning over Lupin. (Heh.)
Posted by: Mom | July 23, 2009 at 06:58 AM
Great eye bunny!
*Watches again* Nothing.
*Watches again* Nothing.
*367,091 watches later* Still nothing.... >:F
Indeed "mom", indeed! THough, the mooning I could live without - and I did! Last night I thought of yet ANOTHER thing missing, but I can no longer remember it... It will probably pop back out in another... Hour or so?
Posted by: Geiodo | July 24, 2009 at 11:54 AM
You're so funny! When you think of it, tell me and I'll go back and see the movie again to find it and prove you wrong.
Posted by: bunny | July 24, 2009 at 04:46 PM
I shall never! ...Never what? Who am I? Oh yeah, I'm bunny! Oh wait...
(The real comment):
Thanks bunny!
Posted by: Geiodo | July 24, 2009 at 07:41 PM