Harry Potter 6 is a LETDOWN!!!

your right - the sidekicks didn't have much to do/were left useless in the film which annoys me in the film - everyone is just a plot device in the film or they are used as a tool for comedy all apart from Harry even tho they seem to be neglecting his character as well.

The HP films always have nice touches but no substances.
 
I've just seen it today.....and I absolutely loved it. :)

I'd seen this thread title before I left to go to the cinemas and thought "great, that's encouraging" however I genuinely think this was the best HP film so far. The opening was a bit "meh" and really pointless, however since it was relatively short i'll not dwell too much on it. The Hermione/Ron romance was touching, IMO. I think alot of HP fans who HAVEN'T read the books were probably suspecting Harry + Hermione to get together. Slughorn was fantastic and really convincing. Young Tom Riddle was superb, as was Lavendar Brown and Luna Lovegood.

The only thing that annoys me about all the HP films are that nothing ever seems to be explained properly at the end. Speaking as someone who has read all the books it's not that big deal, however I can imagine plenty of HP fans were probably left feeling a bit confused at the Half Blood Prince thing (which added nothing to the film), the necklace (I think Dumbledore mumbled the explanation for this at the end, however it wasn't very clear at all) and the Romilda Vane/Cormac McLaggen characters (who seemed to just be "there" because they were in the book).

The Good -
Luna Lovegood, Bellatrix Lestrange, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Lavendar Brown, Slughorn and Tom Riddle were all fantastic.
Hermione and Ron were superb as usual, and their story was a relaxing side point from the darkness of the Horcruxes.
The duels looked alot more realistic.
The cave scene was well done.
The scene with Dumbledore's body and the students raising their wanRAB was a nice touch.
Although a bit pointless, the Burrow scene was exciting and really demonstrated the horror and violence that the Death Eaters were capable of.
An entertaining film overall which was a nice teaser for Deathly Hallows.

The Bad -
No Madam Rosmerta.
No Dursleys.
No Dobby (although I can't remember if he was in the book?)
Dissapointing ending with a very short battle scene.
Not enough Hagrid.
Dragged on a bit.
The HBP story was essentially pointless and added nothing to the film.
Not enough Tonks or Lupin (I mean, ONE scene??)
No mention of Sirius.
 
I don't think they handled it the best. but thats my opinion.


yes, i was confused as you were and thought along the same lines as you did when reading DH coz Ariana was bullied, forced to recreate the magic she couldn't control.


it was an ok watch but it was close to being a great watch.
 
Both me and my husband pointed him out to each other, and burst out laughing.

I am not impressed with this film at all. HBP is my favourite book out of them all and the movie just ruined it for me. I now have to re read my book and hope that I can forget I ever saw the film.
 
Is this going to be the official thread for the movie, because its a bit of a negative title. I'm sure some people will/ or have liked it.


ah wait, I see there is another thread.
 
The major problem with this film was that there was NO overall story arc. It was an amalgamation of small, side stories which were just a means to get to the (underwhelming) climax.

I suppose you could say the Slughorn story was supposed to be the arc, but it was barely covered sufficiently to fill that role (though Jim Broadbent was superb). The Half Blood Prince story was covered in two lines RAB.

To be honest, it seemed like a bit of a mess.
 
Dark nature - would that be the snogging? to me there was too much focus on the romcom side of things and too little on the dark side of things.


I agree, i thought they would show us that at least some part of the dark lord's inner circle had doubts and it would have been more dramatic if they had done that.


i agree, that what makes me disappointed about this film the most - because in fairness it was so close to being on par with Star Trek but all those little differences made it so much worse.
The cafe scene was a nice touch but the fact that it was put in over the dursley's was disappointing which in the HP films it always is.


i agree with some of what you say.
I thought it was handled reasonably well. I thought they spent too much time on comedy and the romantic side of things. There wasn't any drama or horror in the story for me which could have been put in quite simply - for example giving Narcissa her lines back and showing that not all the ppl on the dark side care about their family and have doubts about you-know-who yet in the film coz Steve Kloves gave those lines to bellatrix - the drama is no longer there or certainly not at the right intensity.
You're right - they can't go into too much detail about the horcruxes but i thought they still needed a line or 2 more from Dumbledore to highlight the importance of the 'trophies" from Tom Riddle. A line about the ring being a horcrux and line as to what the other horcruxes might be.
Like i said before - this movie was so close to being very very good but let down by little bits especially seeing as they had like an extra 6months to edit etc.



TBH, i didn't think the book went much into the HBP and the film did pretty much have it all in except for the mention of Snape's mother being a Prince. I always wondered why it was called that it never seemed very important even in the books.

I wasn't too fussed about the Gaunts all they needed was a line.
To be fair, i always thought the book was about Voldemort and learning about him so disappointed we didn't learn more about him but when i heard they were cutting the memories down then i knew it wasn't go to be that true to the books and i understand that flashback scenes are difficult visually.

I think they skipped over the draco/snape plot a bit too much and the drama of Snape and Harry and the similarities between Snape/Harry/Voldemort which for me provide the tension and the drama of the books and they focused on the romantic comedy and at some points it was absolute dire i.e. the room of requirement scene.
 
Also, I know it's not really THAT important but it's a bit annoying that the producers missed out everything about Tonks's character. When she first appeared in the 5th book I was excited to see her on the big screen. She plays a decent enough role in the books and is one of the most well known Pheonix members, yet in this film she just randomly appears sitting in The Burrow with Lupin (we're to assume they're a couple) and then gets two or three short lines and then dissapears.

It's such a let down. :(
 
Huh? Why on earth would you jump into an eight film saga at film six? Regardless of whether the films boring, you're surely not going to understand much of the back story?
 
I agree here Rincewind, they should have gone into the title more because obviously Snape is a massive part in book 7 (and will be in films 7 and 8 depending on how they split them up).
Apart from not really going into all the half blood prince stuff it was a very good film - definitely a "filler movie" setting the stage for 7 and 8. I can't wait to see them. What does my head in though is people complaining that the films aren't dark enough and why can't they be more aimed at adults...well, thats cos they're kiRAB books...the main demographic for the books and films is still children and early teens - it's just damn lucky for JK Rowling that adults like them too! :)



When Harry and Slughorn are chatting about his photos, Slughorn says he taught Regulus Black and would like to have had the full set wishing he'd taught Sirius as well - he says to harry "as you know he died a few weeks ago".
 
I just seen it again yesterday. On second viewing it was very dull and I couldn't wait for it to end. It seemed to just drag in.

One thing that kept annoying me was the pauses before scenes finished. An example of this was when Luna fixed Harry's nose and then Harry said "Brilliant! :D", then there was like a 5 second pause before it went on o the next scene. I'm sure there was another case of this.

Plus, Draco seemed a bit *too* mean in this. I just find it hard to believe he'd go nuts at Zabini (black guy on the Express) and say "we'll see who's laughing in the end" just becausehe cracked up at a small joke Draco made.
 
I've never been someone who moans about a film not being like a book - they are two totally different beasts and to visually represent things like emotions and feelings requires a lot more work on screen.

However, I cant say I wasn't disappointed with this film.

I think its because in the book the ending was huge - an epic battle in the grounRAB of Hogwarts, after which nothing would be the same again.

This was a bit of a damp squib at the end - they removed everything that made it epic.

Apparently its because its too similar to the end of Book 7. And I agree, I remember thinking the same when I read book 7.

However, that wont be on screen for 3 years, 2 films time. I just felt it was no reason to spoil this film.

The burning of the Burrow made no sense to me, but reading their explanation afterwarRAB (that they felt the film was too jolly and there was no sense of real fear) I'm starting to understand it.

Overall it just lacked the climactic ending. You cant build people up for 2 hours then give them the discovery of a fake Horcrux, which is essentially a cliffhanger and then one death. People were built up and ready for a huge battle or a war and we got one spell.

Harry Potter films are very strange in that they seem to be able to miss so much out, jump from bits of the story to other bits very quickly and simultanously feel slow.
 
I'm going to have yet another bitch about this film because it made me angry! :D

I understand the HBP book is itself somewhat of a bridging book ... but the filmmakers treated it like it wasn't worthy at all. They may as well not bothered making it and just put a prologue on the beginning of Deathly Hallows ... a description like on Star Wars films explaining what happened in year 6. It seemed as though they thought it'd be funny to just churn out garbage and see how bad it would have to be before the hardcore fans realised.

The only positives in the film were Luna (although I'm not quite sure whether Evanna Lynch is a bad actress or if she's just playing her part extremely well. Hard to say. I'm inclined to go with playing it well ...) as well as Jim Broadbent and Helena Bonham-Carter, who were both fabulous. Belatrix is quickly becoming my favourite Harry Potter screen character, despite her very brief appearances.

Gambon, while a good actor, just never convinces as Dumbledore for me.
 
Especially if you saw the ITV behind the scenes show, they put a lot of effort into that shop (especially stocking it) for a tiny little part of the film.
 
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