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Test Screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! Major Spoiler Alert!, Chicago Screening of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!!& |
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 Sep 6 2008, 07:45 PM
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The Leaky Limerick Lollapalooza
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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. 
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Sep 6 2008, 08:22 PM
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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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Junior Dishwasher at The Leaky Cauldron
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"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
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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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