- Wow. and the Half Blood Prince.
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htmlrules1
- July 16th, 14:20
This was originally being written in Ian's comment section, but shit, might as well write it on my own livejournal, Ian agrees with most of the shit I'm saying, so I dont need to tell him about it.
Anybody who didnt like HBP should ask themselves if they would sit through a 10 hour long movie. Cause otherwise, youre not gonna fucking get whats in the book. its 652 pages long. That would mean more than 4 pages per minute would need to be shown on screen if you wanted this movie to be feature presentation length, and reflect on he book accurately. Good fucking luck.
They also wouldntve been able to rate the movie PG if they didnt add a bunch of comic relief and lovey-dovey-kiss-kiss-kiss shit. Yeah, it kinda made the movie...well extremely cheesy at points, but everyone in the whole fucking theater was laughing at everything they did. Most importantly, Ron saying "did you and ginny do it?" How can anybody hate a movie where Ronald Weasley asks Harry Potter if he did it with his sister, seriously.
Remember when chamber of secrets came out? "This movie sucks, all they did was take the book exactly as it was written and acted it out." I hadnt thought about that for a long time until Ian brought it up last night, but damn thats all I fucking heard from anybody. They shouldve "changed it up a bit, they dont need to redo the book. We already read the book, we wanna see a performance that expands and makes it even better."
The cave scene was done fucking perfectly down to the nearest decimal point. Of course they cant make it slow and creepy like it was written, unless you wanted to watch that part for 45 minutes. They made it as if they were making a horror film, with the silence, and the hand that comes out of the water, and the moment the hand comes out, you know 5 million monsters are about to attack.
Also, I've heard shit about no funeral scene. What the fuck do you call 100 people crying over dumbledore's dead body, all holding their wands up, illuminating the sky and eliminating the dark mark? Thats more symbolic and metaphorical than a book ever could be. Also the music was as depressing as its gets. That part was done amazingly too, unless once again, you wanted to watch a harry potter funeral for 25 minutes.
I'm gonna keep watching it like Shauna watched the Dark Knight. I never really talk about it, but I think I'm too into harry potter sometimes. Its always been easier to keep to myself though, so nobody really knows. Its the greatest series ever written in my opinion (even better than twilight!!!!**!*!*!*!) and I'm gonna continue to keep to myself. Everyone's been talking shit on the movies since goblet of fire. Yknow, when the books became 700 pages long. Nobody made the connection I guess.
When I first got out of the movie, I was kinda disappointed that they missed 75% of the book. Actually I was really disappointed, ask Erik, Lisa, or Lorna. But then after thinking about it and reading a quarter of the book last night, they did as well as humanly possible. And as usual, the more people hate and talk shit on something, the more I like it. I enjoy being into things that people dont like, its more fun that way. Less people to fuck it up.
Whatever, I'm gonna continue to be a silent fanboy and end up liking anything they put out, and try my hardest to ignore everyone talking shit on a movie that, despite how much they hate it, will make insane amounts of money.
(for the record, I personally would sit through a 10 hour long movie just to see this book shown completely accurately, but thats coming from the same guy who played neopets religiously for 9 years.)