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Well from what I remember when going thru Half Blood Prince the book heavily focuses on Harry & Dumbledore plus few others I rather not say. The trailer is just giving you what to expect.
Saw this movie this morning with Albert at the Ward Theater. To be honest I am kind of netural about the Harry Porter series as in I never read the books, this is the second movie I have seen and if someone gave a trivia quiz about the series I would score around the D region.
While the movie was kind of long, I didn't at anytime think to myself "I wish this movie would end already" or being bored by watching this movie. However I did feel like I came in the middle of the story but that's due to me not seeing the other previous movies.
Well, we saw it and Jason was most unimpressed. Whenever a new HP movie comes out, he rereads the book right before we go see it so it's fresh in his mind. So he had all these comparisons and was upset that so much got left out, that some major scenes were changed around, etc. Same thing every fan says.
I thought it good. The movies haven't been following all that closely since the 4th one. They can't. The books are just too long and have too much detail and too many characters and subplots. But the last 2 movies had PG13 ratings and I think this one should have as well. Not because it was scary, but the director should have allowed it to be darker and not toned down. The author herself even said by this point in the series, these books were not for kids anymore. It disappointed me that they decided to appeal to the holy $ instead of making an even better film.
It wasn't one of my favorite books nor is this one of my favorite films, but who cares ... anyone who loves Harry (and Rowling) is obviously going to see it.
As for having to leave things out because the book was too long, I hear the final one will split the book into two films.
I have to admit I did enjoy this one.
What I really wonder is what Rowling is going to write next.
I'm not a big HP fan. I read the first book when my wife and daughter were interested in them, but didn't like it enought to want to read any of the others.
I have seen most of the movies and this one was a little better than the others. I did find myself checking emails and even nodding off in a couple of places. I also had the impression that this was the final movie, so I was expecting some sort of conclusion or showdown with Voldmort. - sigh - I guess I'm going to have to sit through even more of these things.
Uhhh...you might want to avoid some of the folks in this thread...
ha!, yeah I would have been more careful if it was the first week that the movie was out and if the theater hadn't been filled with little kids that were making frequent trips to the lobby and kicking the back of my chair all through the show. It was an afternoon matinee, less than half full and most of the audience was under 10.
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