Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: A very well crafted movie and the best one of the series to date. They fully use the movie medium to make it stand on it’s own, making the Half-Blood Prince the first in the series that does not require the audience to have read the books to get the full stoy. I strongly recommend this move. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince an owner for me.
Special Features: Additional Scenes, J.K. Rowling: A Year In The Life, Close Up With The Cast Of Harry Potter, Get A Sneak Peek At The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, What’s On Your Mind?: Q&A, Cast Members Sum Up Their Characters In One-Minute Drills.
The closest they came is maybe Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but that is like comparing Spy Kids to a James Bond movie.
Fantasy and Horror are genres that change something about the nature of the world to affect their Fantasy or Horror. That is the nature of these genres. Asking them to be scientifically accurate is to ask them to stop existing.
(sigh) I hope Sci Fi Wire would at the very least go to Wikipedia, and learn a little something about genre before they lose all their credibility on the issue…
How embarrassing!
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be out on Blue-ray and DVD December 8th! The Blue-ray combo pack will feature commentary hosted by Daniel Radcliffe, emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Copies will be available to order from Amazon any day now.
Warner Brothers will also release Harry Potter Ultimate Editions for year one and two. Years 3-7 will be released latter.
Harry Potter Ultimate Editions will contain
One hour feature from Creating the World of Harry Potter (8 hours in total spread out throughout the 7 years)
Theatrical and extended versions of the Films.
Over 2 hours of special features.
Magical Collectibles.
I love the Magical Collectibles feature. It’s a mystery, hopefully not like eating Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. I’m not too keen on getting a boogie flavored magical collectible.
The latest Harry Potter move the Half-Blood Prince is very well done and the best of the films yet. Here is the Top 10 reasons why you would want to read the book in addition to watching the movie.
****contains some spoilers for the Movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*****
Discover the true importance of the half-blood prince.
Answers to how the Wizarding world handles the Muggle officials and maintains their secrecy mandate.
An amazing battle in the Hogwarts Castle.
Learn far more about Voldemort, his past, his motivations and get to see him as a more realistic villain.
The Romantic story line:
Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour: The book has a wonderful, entertaining, and inspiring story line here that was not in the movie at all.
Harry and Ginny’s relationship: In the book we get to see them together for a while and we get more detail and more depth.
Ron and Hermione’s relationship: get more detail and more depth.
The shop scene was much better in the book and it includes the defense charms which help to show the changing times.
Ron the Quidditch star: A lot more on Ron’s struggles and triumphs. Plus the song “Weasley is our King”
The true terrifying in depth look at Fenrir Greyback
A more sympathetic, detailed view of Draco Malfoy and a better understanding of his character.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a very well crafted movie and the best one of the series to date. The task of transforming a book into a movie is a difficult task even more so with the depth, length and multitude of fascinating subplots that the potter series contains, my hats off to Steve Kloves and David Yates for an outstanding job. In the Half-Blood Prince they fully used the movie medium to make this movie stand on it’s own, it’s the first of the movies that does not require the audience to have read the books to get the full story.
This was a great tale well told with only a few changes I would have liked to see. Though they did an amazing job balancing out the emotions and tension of the movie the end was very sullen. The theater was silent it’s ending was like attending a memorial to a long dear friend who lived a long and enriching life. In it’s self not a bad thing and part of what is the desired result but the book coupled that with a stronger message of hope. I wished they would have left the battle in from the book and shown the white tomb.
I strongly recommend this move. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is great in the theater and will be an owner for me.
The Plot / Story: As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past.
Likes
well balance of tension and mood containing both highs and lows
The effects looks great: though the Sectumsempra curse was far more graphic and terrifying in my head I’m glad they did not do that for this film so as not to scar the children in the audience.
How they fully used the movie medium to incorporate a more full story including in the clues needed like the use of the wanted poster to convey the dangerous nature of Fenrir Greyback
This is the first of the Potter movies to tell it’s respective complete story without needing the audience to be familiar with the books to get the deeper messages
How they handled the clues surrounding Snape
The inferi were awesome: I’ll confess even expecting them I still jumped when they appeared.
Daniel Radcliffe & Rupert Grint did a great job acting: they really shined in their respective moments when under the influence of potions and in an altered state of mind, they made the part believable
Dislikes / Concerns
The end was extremely somber bringing up a concern with it’s rewatchability and in turn it’s box office draw. It saddens me to admit or even have to say this because sometimes great films don’t have the financial draw like a popular and fun film. I only hope that the populace remembers that box office earnings are not a measure of a great film.
I wished the ending had included the battle from the book at the end of the movie and the White Tomb to help lift the ending.
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Theater or Renter: July 2009 includes 5 SF movies Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G-Force, Orphan, Aliens in the Attic,. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
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Written by: Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Yoni Brenner
Stars: Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, Chris Wedge
The Plot / Story: After the events of Ice Age: The Meltdown, life begins to change for Mannyand his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and his new wife Ellie are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in an underground world where dinosaurs roam free, and where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.(Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
Release Date: 15 July 2009
Listed as: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Studio: Warner Bros.
Director: David Yates
Produced by: David Heyman, David Barron
Written by: Screenplay: Steve Kloves, Novel: J. K. Rowling
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Helen McCrory
The Plot / Story: As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously “This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince” and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort’s dark past. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis
The Plot / Story: A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Orphan:
Release Date: 24 July 2009
Listed as: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Produced by: Joel Silver, Susan Downey
Written by: Screenplay: David Leslie Johnson, Story: Alex Mace
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett
The Plot / Story: A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
Aliens in the Attic:
Release Date: 31 July 2009
Listed as: Adventure, Fantasy
Studio: Regency Enterprises
Director: John Schultz
Produced by: Barry Josephson
Written by: Mark Burton, Adam F. Goldberg
Stars: Robert Hoffman, Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler
The Plot / Story: In Maine, a group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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: A very well crafted movie and the best one of the series to date. They fully use the movie medium to make it stand on it’s own, making the Half-Blood Prince the first in the series that does not require the audience to have read the books to get the full stoy. I strongly recommend this move. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince an owner for me.
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