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Raymond Padilla: Like millions of other people, I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last weekend. I enjoyed the movie much more than the book. While the ending was great, too much of book six felt like J.K. Rowling was writing a script for a video game. The whole Horcrux thing felt like it was manufactured for an EA action-adventure title -- explore, fight things, get Horcrux, lather, and repeat as needed. The movie avoided that problem through various omissions and additions. To me, it felt more natural than the book did (as a standalone story anyway...as a prologue to book seven, it's very effective).
On a side note, my friends' opinions on book six seem to be tied to their respective ages. Most of my friends over 30 disliked it and most of my friends under 30 enjoyed it. How about you? Let me know what you thought of book six, its movie, and whether it felt like a video game to you.
Patrick Klepek: As you're reading this, I'm probably rubbing my eyes and doing last minute packing for this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. I popped the Comic-Con cherry last year when I still wrote for MTV News and, honestly, I can't wait to go back. Comic-Con is fandom distilled to its purest form and reflects a still-bizarre ritual between the entertainment industry and the people who fuel the buzz behind their products, be it TV, movie or video games. It's also crowded, sweaty and completely annoying by the last day -- which is to say it's going to be awesome. Who else is going?
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o_NIGHT_TRAIN_o
I thought it was a good movie, but I am very disapointed with the ending they cut out so much. The harry potter books have to much content to be the movies I want, I think a tv show would be so much better than he movies.
Thufir85
@ Hallowethe: Well let's remember that the first two movies were pretty much spot on with the book, but as separate entities the last 4 movies suck, watching them I was rather bored sitting in the theater. This last movie especially, when *blank* died it didn't make me feel anything, seeing Snape admit to being the half-blood prince seemed arbitray, considering they really didn't follow that plot line. My biggest complaint is why did they show Malfoy doing his secret plan, that really killed the plot in my opinion. It made no sense, the same as the Lavender scenes, there was to many.
Hallowethe
I loved the movie. You know, as a MOVIE. Not a direct translation of the book. You know, after five movies, you'd think people would expect things to be different in the movie than in the book, but no. People still whine about how "This wasn't in the movie!" and how "That wasn't in the book!"
You know, I loved the movie. It was fantastic. I loved the book too. That was also fantastic. I love them both, as separate entities. People need to realize that--that books and films are two separate entities. I'm glad a lot of people already understand that, but to the people who don't...just...ugh, lol.
mannym1980
i agree with all of you who said that the book was much better. when the order of the phoenix movie came out, i had great expectations, it had alot of great exciting moments. when i saw the movie, i was dissapointed, they left so much stuff out that if they would of put it in. it would of been the best harry potter movie.
like that happen with that movie, i was expecting the same thing from this one. and sure enough, they screw this one up as well. even worst then the other one. the book has alot more good exciting moments that they left out. there was an amazing battle in the school between the death eaters and some of the students,faculty and the order that they didnt put in. like many othe moments. but no, they focus alot on the romantic part between the main characters. if i would of wanted to see a chick flick, i would of seen something else.
the half blood prince has so much more than what they show you in the film. if you havent read the book, you should. you will see that theres a big difference and is much more entertaining than the movie. not to metion that they will explain alot more about why things occur. for the next one, lets see how bad they screw it up.
Griffith4100
Twilight with wands came to mind when I watched this movie....
Vesipham
I still haven't seen it, and with all the mixed feelings about the movie, I'm not sure if I want to.
GabeTheReaver
I have not read the books so I can only speak on the films. I have generally enjoyed them all and this new one was very good, you finally see some badass wizadry in the cave. BTW Order of the Phoenix was garbage, again as a film, and there should be some sort of apology Iron Man game or Heroes season 2 style.
Greibach
I felt that there was a fairly common trend among the books. Every odd book was really main-story (Voldemort) centric, whereas the even books did more hogwarts-centric stuff a lot of setting up for the next odd book (often the last few chapters something big happened). This mostly started with book 3, which was probably my favorite. Introduced a ton of important characters, had a great story.
4- Triwizard tourney was interesting, but overall irrelevant to the main outside-of-hogwarts story arc. Then at the end? BLAMMO! Voldemort's back (set up for 5).
Book 5- lots of stuff about harry's connection to Voldemort, starting to mature in their relationships (though too much angst)... main character dies.
book 6- lots of random hogwarts stuff/drama. Start to learn about horcruxes, some romance starts. At the end -------- kills ------- (just in case there is a single person that doesn't know, lol). Huge setup for book 7 to hunt the horcruxes.
Book 7- obviously, the finale.
Hitchy889
personally i wish they had done more with the battle in hogwarts. werewolf man guy (brain fart) should have been tearing stuff up. and last they made harry look like an ass for not trying to save dumbledore. in the book harry cant because he is under a spell cast by dumble
all in all i enjoyed it very much and cant wait till the next 2 movies they have to be epic no matter how far off he is from the books
N8R
I was the only guy in the theater rooting for Voldemort.
NoahTheDirector
I thought it was a great MOVIE.
kkey00
I disliked it because I felt it was nowhere near what the book was. And thus the continual problem of book-to-movie adaptations. When people read, they always see something different than everyone else, and it becomes impossible to placate a large scale audience.
I typically don't say that book-to-movie adaptations are bad.
This one was bad...
Warheart1188
@vinny87
I don't believe anyone here said it was better than the book.
roehn117
Emma Watson, 'Nuff said
vinny87
You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Better than the book?! You are all on something. That was the worst of the Potter films which is saying something. The sixth book was a character building piece about Dumbledore and Voldemort. It was also the second best book in the series which is again saying something. As for people defending the movie saying they had to cut stuff out how come Lord of the Rings got it so right? they cut stuff out and it was arguably better than the book itself which is saying something. Plus i cannot forgive the movies for the lack of subtlty. that what has always made the books special.
Warheart1188
Everyone has to get around the fact that movies can't have everything in it from a book. You can't translate everything from the book into a movie. It'd be a complete mess. They took what could work in a film and put it in it. Yes, there were many omissions from the book that they left them out of the movie but it was necessary. This isn't supposed to be the book on screen; it's supposed to be the story on screen. Hopefully you'll get my meaning.
SlickyFats
There are Harry Potter books? People still read stuff on paper?
JahJah1121
I disagree, respectfully of course. While the movie was entertaining, the omissions that were made, were the best parts of the 6th book, including Voldemorts back story. Also you have to remember that the horcruxes must be a focus of the 7th movie, possibly making the transition between the 6th and 7th movies kind of rocky.
Sandrock323
I vote my own comment the worst one, that way I don't have to go to Azkaban.
Shanshu311
Sorry, Raymond but I cannot get behind you on this one. I think you might be confusing book six with book seven. Only ONE Horcrux was destroyed in-plot in book six (with Harry and Dumbledore at the cave). Book seven is where they go after the rest of them, video-game style and where I think your comments might be referencing.
Personally, I enjoyed the movie but couldn't get around the fact that so much of the plot was taken out. It was also hard for me not to cringe when I saw they had added a new, random scene to the movie that wasn t in the book whatsoever (the infamous let s have a duel at Ron s house and light the field on fire for the fun of it and then destroy the house scene).
The movie was good, but only if you watch it as a stand-alone movie and not as a supplement to the book series. It s apparent that the movie series have taken on a life of their own, which isn t necessarily a bad thing but I don t think you can compare the books to the movies at this point without making a blanket statement about the fact that they are now completely different in both plot and theme.
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