It is amazing how name-brand can affect how much people like something. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, for example. It carries the weighty name of the HP and people have collectively given it 7.3/10 on the ever-popular Internet Movie Database. There are several lengthy reviews on the value and brilliance of this composition, but I find it more than dull and not at all worthy of the source work.
7.3 might not really sound all that bad, but if I were into giving numbers it wouldn't be half so high. It is like the makers of these movies realized that they left out so much in the previous movies that they would have to split #7 into two and to correct this they made sure everything was in there somehow. Let alone how choppily it fit in.
This movie is just "Bland". It didn't induce very much emotion in me, even in the horrifying final scene which caused everyone who read the book to simultaneously break out into sobs. I laughed a few times, but I feel I was laughing at the movie, not with it. I just didn't care about anything that was happening. Nothing was developed, nothing was explained. My cousin watching with me, who hadn't read the book in a few years, found herself lost. Even though she had read it once, it wasn't enough to help her along through the movie. That is when you know you didn't plot out your story very well.
But pretty much every plot is there: two romances, Aragog, death and destruction, Malfoy being a prick, searching for horcruxes, Slughorn and his collection of students, getting forgotten on the train. There's even a few new ones: HP being an idiot and running out into a hayfield (why? cuz he's dumb). It's all packed in there like forcing jigsaw puzzle pieces together whither that is where they go or not. I think there's some boarder pieces in the middle.
What makes Harry Potter such an enrapturing series? It has captured children's imaginations and even wrangled a few adult ones. I believe that one of the things that has done this is her character development. But the characters in the movies are largely boring.
7.3 might not really sound all that bad, but if I were into giving numbers it wouldn't be half so high. It is like the makers of these movies realized that they left out so much in the previous movies that they would have to split #7 into two and to correct this they made sure everything was in there somehow. Let alone how choppily it fit in.
This movie is just "Bland". It didn't induce very much emotion in me, even in the horrifying final scene which caused everyone who read the book to simultaneously break out into sobs. I laughed a few times, but I feel I was laughing at the movie, not with it. I just didn't care about anything that was happening. Nothing was developed, nothing was explained. My cousin watching with me, who hadn't read the book in a few years, found herself lost. Even though she had read it once, it wasn't enough to help her along through the movie. That is when you know you didn't plot out your story very well.
But pretty much every plot is there: two romances, Aragog, death and destruction, Malfoy being a prick, searching for horcruxes, Slughorn and his collection of students, getting forgotten on the train. There's even a few new ones: HP being an idiot and running out into a hayfield (why? cuz he's dumb). It's all packed in there like forcing jigsaw puzzle pieces together whither that is where they go or not. I think there's some boarder pieces in the middle.
What makes Harry Potter such an enrapturing series? It has captured children's imaginations and even wrangled a few adult ones. I believe that one of the things that has done this is her character development. But the characters in the movies are largely boring.
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