Test Screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Major Spoiler Alert!, Chicago Screening of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!& |
 Sep 6 2008, 07:06 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie  Posts: 301 Joined: 5:50am February 16, 2007 Location: ♦ unplottable ♦    |
Hi everyone!
Yesterday I was invited to see a test screening of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince! I was sworn to secrecy until I saw it, and although I did not make an unbreakable vow I kept silent. But I saw it today and I my silence is broken. I will write a review later tonight, but I am open to answering any questions you may have to the best of my abilities. Wahooo!!! I still can't believe it. It is important to note that I have read each book so many times I practically have them all memorized so i am well aware of what is missing or changed. It was definitely better than OOTP. This post has been edited by Rachezee: Sep 6 2008, 07:23 PM -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 07:44 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 49 Joined: 10:28pm November 17, 2007 Location: Insanityville, USA |
I have a few,heheh! Did Harry and Ginny get to kiss each other?
How much of Dumbeldore's funeral was shown if any? If you can, what is this attack on the Burrow like? -------------------- Mel
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own! Hit Somethin' Hard I Don't Wanna Limp Away From This Wreck! I Solemly Swear That I AM Up To No Good |
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Sep 6 2008, 07:45 PM
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The Leaky Limerick Lollapalooza Posts: 3,836 Joined: 2:58pm November 12, 2007 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow. |
Woohoo! I got so excited for you I burst into limerick!
Rachezee I'm just so excited To think that you've actually sighted The Half Blood Prince In film not in prints I'm amazed and completely delighted! I can't wait to hear more. If I were you I wouldn't be able to sleep for a week.  --------------------  W.L.Y.J. We love you Jo |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:03 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 301 Joined: 5:50am February 16, 2007 Location: ♦ unplottable ♦ |
LOL thanks for the Limerick Alysaw. And your right I am very wired, I feel like I downed a few pots of coffee! Perhaps a glass of fire whiskey might help....
Anyway SPOILER ALERT!!! Yes Harry and Ginny kiss. But not as a result of winning the quidditch house cup. That game is never played, only the one of Ron thinking he is on Felix Felisus is seen. And the kiss is very short and brief Ginny dissapears before Harry opens his eyes and it takes place in the room of requirement when he is hiding the potions book. Actually she hides it and makes him close his eyes so he won't know where it is then she kisses him and vanishes. We never see the tiara. And despite what we thought we saw, the Burrow is not burned down or on fire. Bellatrix set a fire around it but the burrow is fine. Actually the attack at the Burrow interrupts Harry and Ginny as they are leaning in about to kiss... This post has been edited by Rachezee: Sep 6 2008, 08:05 PM -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:06 PM
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Stocking Snitches at Quality Quidditch Supplies  Posts: 688 Joined: 3:11pm March 1, 2008 Location: at florean fortescue's for some black raspberry with peanut butter cups. |
shoot, i can't believe what they did to the h/g kiss!
i would like to know... does young tom do 'scary drawings' like we've seen in the calendar scans? how was the editing? choppy like ootp? how was gambon? how was the r/hr tension? was the dialogue at least recognizable? -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:09 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 301 Joined: 5:50am February 16, 2007 Location: ♦ unplottable ♦ |
No funeral for Dumbledore, although as much as I hate cuts it was not very necessary.
There is no Tonks and Lupin. They are both in it but barely. Tonks has maybe 2 lines. Lupin never talks about Greyback. No explanation is given to Tonks having brown hair. No Dursleys at all. No Privet Drive. No inheriting Grimmauld place or Kreacher as there is no Kreacher or Dobby. -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:11 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 49 Joined: 10:28pm November 17, 2007 Location: Insanityville, USA |
Interesting! I wonder how they'll explain the tiara in the last movie?
I had a feeling that was 'The Kiss' by the preview we see in those HBP preview things that came out with OOTP. So Ginny helps him hide it? That's kind of a bummer about the match not happening but that is a neat twist to it though. Which Memories are in the movie besides the one where DD goes to get Tom? How does the scene where Harry gets the memory from Slughorn play out? -------------------- Mel
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own! Hit Somethin' Hard I Don't Wanna Limp Away From This Wreck! I Solemly Swear That I AM Up To No Good |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:22 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 301 Joined: 5:50am February 16, 2007 Location: ♦ unplottable ♦ |
QUOTE(abandonedboyjon @ Sep 6 2008, 07:06 PM)  shoot, i can't believe what they did to the h/g kiss! i would like to know... does young tom do 'scary drawings' like we've seen in the calendar scans? how was the editing? choppy like ootp? how was gambon? how was the r/hr tension? was the dialogue at least recognizable? Oh I should tell everyone for the record that I absolutely detest Michael Gambon as Dumbledore. So I am very biased against him, just so as you all know... That being said Gambon did better than usual. I usually cringe when he is on the screen, but not so much this time. I shed no tears at Dumblerdores death. When I read the book for the first time I cried so much you would have thought I lost my grandfather. But no tears for the end of Gambon, but the scene itself was pretty good. Although it was not just like the book, Harry is not frozen he is watching through breaks in the wooden floor from below. It is hard to describe that scene but it there was a moment that made my heart tear slightly. The editing was so much better than ootp. It was not, as my sister so brilliantly says, very "Staccato." I don't remember any drawings, but I may have missed it. I forgot the actors name who played Young Riddle but he was truley brilliant. As a relation of Feines (sp?) he does look like him and his voice especially as a teenager raised the hair on the back of my neck. -------------------- |
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Sep 6 2008, 08:28 PM
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Stocking Snitches at Quality Quidditch Supplies Posts: 688 Joined: 3:11pm March 1, 2008 Location: at florean fortescue's for some black raspberry with peanut butter cups. |
"staccato." that made me laugh outloud, thanks for the chuckle and info.
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Sep 6 2008, 08:36 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 301 Joined: 5:50am February 16, 2007 Location: ♦ unplottable ♦ |
I was very dissapointed with how Slughorn was portrayed. I think Kloves did not read the book carefully enough before he wrote the screenplay, because his character just did not make sense. He is portrayed as a nervous old man with constantly messy hair, and ugly plaid clothes. You get the immediate impression that either he does not care or is too old to care about how he looks. No velvet smoking jackets, or any other extravagant possessions. they are apparently of no importance to him. Throughout the movie he comes off as weak, unintelligent, dim-witted and slow. He openly speaks of collecting Harry, but that desire completely clashes with his personality and demeanor. His desire to know and collect very important people makes no sense as he portrays no desire for that behind the scenes power he so loves in the books. A blithering, nervous old man falling apart at the seams is not likely to make many connections with people of any stature or importance.
Oh and I don't think they ever mentioned he used to be head of Slitheryn but I may have missed it. (there were very annoying girls two seats away who obviously could care less about the movie and would not shut up, very distracting at times.) This post has been edited by Rachezee: Sep 6 2008, 08:41 PM -------------------- |
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