"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" thread
 

Release Date: November 21 2008


Some casting news:

Yay! Can't wait.

I'm hoping this one will turn out as well as Philosophers Stone did. Since Half-Blood Prince is really so focused with it's story, it shouldn't be as hard to put it on the screen without making any major changes. Hopefully we won't lose all the special character moments that make the books so good, and the last 3 movies so average.

I'm excited for this movie already. I hope it will be just as dark as OOTP was, maybe even darker with the whole Horcrux thing.

I wish I liked Harry Potter.:|

What a waste of a post.

I dunno what that is, but I assume it's from the books. Let's try to keep in mind that people that watch the movies don't necessarily read the books. Thanks, everyone. :)

What an Ironic post:lol:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood to play death-eaters Dumbledore fends off!

TheCure, I'm sorry for posting that. I sometimes forget that there are certain people who only watch the movies and don't read the books. My bad. I'll try to be more careful in the future.

New trailer:

http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/40...r1_073008.html

Creepy. I like the dialogue at the very end. Pretty sweet.

What, you too poor for books?

People who only watch the movies are really missing a lot of the story. But I guess the same can be said for all books turned into movies. But if you're into the movies that much and you keep going to see each movie that comes out, maybe you should give the books a crack. They're masterpieces, in my opinion.

I wouldn't go as far as calling them masterpieces but the books are definitely great and infinitely better than the movies, most of which are rather poor in my opinion. Any fan of the movies owes it to themselves to pick up the books.

Didn't you say your mom bought your books for you?

That doesn't mean that I'm too poor for books. That just means I take advantage of my mom's generosity.

You totally are too poor for books, though. Or anything else for that matter. At least Kev owns a 360.

Also, you're a new kid on the block. You can't start talking sh*t about Harry Potter movie fans yet. Get out!

I would. I don't understand what a book requires to be called a masterpiece. Does it need to contain a ton of fancy language, deep social commentary, or an overabundance of hidden philosophical meanings to be a masterpiece?

The Harry Potter series is one of very few to actually illicit some kind of emotional response from me. They're engrossing and highly entertaining books. That's all I need.

My mommy bought my books for me!

I need to catch up on my reading.

No, just violence, swearing and full frontal nudity.

Like always I absolutely can not wait for this next film

I was a little disappointed in a few of the details they have had to leave out in the past movies(Particularly in the Goblet of Fire), I am slightly worried about this film because there are a lot of things happening both past and present they have to handle. However...The little bit of Dumbledore and young Tom I saw in the trailer is really exciting!
I can't wait to see how they do the Horcruxes and see Slughorn introduced.
I usually try to read the books over again right before the respective movies comes out

In a bit of a "WTF?!" news it seems that Half Blood Prince's release date has been pushed to a later date...how much later?? Try July 2009...

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b238...rss_topstories

I wouldn't say it's a "wtf" moment, it actually makes total sense.

No, it doesn't make sense. This was the movie I was waiting for 2008, and now it's not coming because WB wants to make this into a money game. This news gives me less faith in them handling the affairs of the TMNT on the big screen.

How dare the studio want to make money!

So it doesn't make sense because you wanted to see the movie sooner, and the studio's business sense makes you lose faith in them. Alright then.

Because making movies based on popular books is a public service.

Well for one the movie industry is getting it's ass handed to it right now by video games and illegal downloading so the fact your getting any movies at all period at this point should be a blessing. Also studios have zero idea of what will make money anymore and WB is one of the studios that took too many leaps of faith and while they recently had some big successes they also have screwed themselves and they need to dig themselves out of a hole. While Dark Knight was dominating the box office WB's stock was still going down.

Wanna know why movie tickets are so expensive? There's your answer. No ones making any profit. They spend over one hundred million on a movie like says Hellboy 2 and it only pulls in 74 million. Which is sad because it's a great movie but not what the general public wanted I guess. So because Dark Knight made so much expect tons of studios to try and cash in on it with dark comic books movies. Once people are tired of that then something else will come along.

This choice to push it back I think comes along more as them wanting it to have a good opening weekend, which I'm sure it will, but draw in more people then fans of the series. They want to hook people who aren't fans yet as well and they won't do that when there's something else interesting coming out already or if that's not what's hot on the market at the time.

Shut up until you know what you're talking about. Summer is the biggest time for movies, that's when they make the most money. November is already a hot month with "Quantum of Solace" opening up only 2 weeks before HP was suppose to, and Disney's "Bolt" opening the same day. The movie would have done horrible had it stayed in that spot.

No need to be nasty.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

If you're a fan of the book, save your time and money and skip this. I'm calling it right now, disappointment of the year.

Boring, anti-climactic, overly cheesy.



The movie pretty much just focuses on everyone's romantic relationships and seems to just gloss everything else over.

Eep, I was afraid of that.

How could this be 'disappointment of the year'? None of these movies have been any good. What made you think this would be any different?

While none of them have been all that great, I feel like they've been getting progressively better, while this one may be the worst yet. It had a lot of potential, too, which is a shame. The direction was fine, cinematography was good, music and sound design was great, special effects looked awesome, but the script sucked and it was the worst adaptation yet.

I see. I'm shocked reading the reviews on rotten tomatoes right now. 98%.

Yea, I'm shocked too. I'm surprised the reviews of the previous films were as good as they were, honestly.

Crap, and I thought I hated Order of the Phoenix.

I wish they'd switch Directors and get someone more dynamic...hell, the reason they dont is because it's more expensive at this rate

I don't like Harry Potter, but the last two books roped even me in, and it's a shame the movie has to focus on it's bare-bones accomplishments and typical MTV-teen bopper simplistics

Wow...and here I was thinking this was my favorite of the Potter movies to date.

This is the best straight up story-telling movie since "Prisoner."
Oh yeah, they cut a metric crap load of plot from the book, but all in all I think it was a better movie for it.

Really, I think by pushing back the release date for this movie was the best thing they could have done. It's been years since I've read "Half-Blood Prince" and I think that made all the difference in the world. I went in with only a vague remembrance of what <i>had</i> to happen in this movie and really enjoyed myself.

Yeah, if you're looking for a soul-less scene by scene retelling of book six a la Chris Columbus, don't waste your money.

If you're up for seeing this world fleshed out by an actual director, and seeing the characters you've grown to love through the books then I think it's more than worth the price of admission.

And I say this as someone who saw it for free and is paying to see it a second time on opening night.