Saw Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince - it was brilliant. I liked pretty much everything in it; the comedy scenes were pulled off better than most comedies of this year (year one?), actually making the WHOLE cinema laugh; the teenage love side of it was not over cheesy or dramatic - pretty realistic actually... Action scenes were the best I've seen this year; the scene in the reeds near the Weasleys' house was very tense and unusually shot, the opening scene with the flythrough of London is astonishing, and the handheld camera work in the bathroom fight was really well done. I am also pleased to say that Warner Brothers bought at least one tripod for this film, using it for all necessary scenes. Some minor changes to the plot were made as usual, but most of the ones I noticed were fine with me; the only one I was a little bit miffed at was when Harry kissed *spoiler*. The wasy that happened in the book was better I feel. However, they still made it 150 minutes which is pretty damn long for a family film, so any fanboy omissions were necessary. The scene in the cave with Dumbledore was genuinely terrifying; when a particular jump-scare happens I left my seat and may have uttered an expletive as my friends later enlightened me to. The actors are now perfectly suited to their parts, and it's only with this film that I've started to see them as actors in their own rights, with most of them being in completely different projects. I don't see them being typecast later on. The main "crew" are brilliant, and Snape is fantastic; Alan Rickman plays his part better in each film.
They got everything right in my opinion, so 10/10.
Also Luna Lovegood is awesome. I just found out that the actress that plays her is a vegetarian... I'm a vegetarian too! It's a match made in heaven.
One the bus home, I was befriended by a drunkard, greeting me thus; "Hey there ya hairy bastard!", in a friendly manner. He went on to invite me to his house for a party. I declined.
Then walking home (at Midnight) I met a couple of tourists walking along the road past Borlum, who in a thick accent started cooing "ghooost! GHOOOOST!"
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Sunday, 26 July 2009
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