No Quidditch for years, and suddenly we get tryouts and snippets of a match because it's plot-relevant again. I know there's only so much that can be packed into a movie series, even one with such long installments as this, but a little backstory on how Harry got to be team captain and what happened to Wood would have been nice.
I really dug the teenage drama in this one. Hermione being jealous of Ron is great. Hermione being jealous of Harry and his book was even better. The way Harry acts when lucky. Loves potions being used on the wrong person is funny. As is everything JIm Broadbent does, he was a great addition. While this was light at times it also has some of the darkest stuff at the end. The whole set piece with Harry and Dumbledore and then right into his death. It really brings the movie down at the end. When those two are together is when the move works best. Still I loved this one and it is one of my favorites.
I lost the count of how many times I saw each Harry Potter film.
can’t believe they cut out the most iconic scene: Harry marveling at watching Dumbledore’s cut bod and 8-pack abs swimming through the ocean
"The Dim One". That is Potter to a T.
This movie is really carried by Jim Broadbent. The story is told with lots of random junk thrown in. In a way, it really just seems like filler material. Very little new plot is established. The 5 minutes to reveal the horcruxes could have been in the previous movie or the next movie. Nothing else was really all that interesting to the development of the plot. This movie has some horrid directing (Yates is the worst director of the series and they give him 4 movies... go figure...) and storytelling (the use of quidditch in the plot makes no sense given its lack of importance for several movies... leave it out), this is probably the peak of the last half of the series. The previous movie was just bad and the last two movies are a real letdown. Very disappointing all around.
I'm watching the whole Harry Potter series for the first time, and this is the only film I didn't like It. It felt boring until the ending. The ending was great, left me excited for the final two movies, but the movie is not that good.
The teacher of Defense against Dark Arts must be changed every movie :joy:
#HarryPotterFacts
The maturation of the Harry Potter franchise is finally complete in this, the sixth go-round for Harry, Ron, Hermione and friends. Gone (or greatly reduced) are the Hogwarts Academy's whimsical little accents - jovial ghosts, talking paintings, animated plants, hidden chambers - replaced by a quivering mass of moody sentiment, rampaging emotions and stormy romances. It's sensible. The colorful decor we see in kindergarten doesn't usually match what's on the walls in high school.
That's been helped along by progressively better filmmaking, as we've slowly shed the flimsy special effects and inconsistent tones first introduced by Chris Columbus back in The Sorcerer's Stone. The series has struggled with long growing pains ever since, trying to bridge that tricky gap between childish wonder and adolescent gloom, and it's a relief to see the metamorphosis finally come to fruition. The Half-Blood Prince is a genuinely slick, professional presentation, well-realized as a fitting companion to the equally dark, funereal source material. It doesn't really stand alone, though, leaning on an expectant knowledge of novel-only details and events to fill in the plot's many, sizeable gaps. Too much going on in the printed page, I expect, as many well-remembered scenes and important bits of lore hit the cutting room floor. At least quidditch games are back on the agenda this time around; a much-needed (and exceptionally well-realized) break from all the death and doom that's been gathering.
Never enjoyed so much time dedicated to "love troubles". I think this is the worst of all HP movies.
McGonagall: "Why is it, when something happens, it is always you three?"
Ron: "Believe me, Professor. I've been asking myself the same question for six years."
The angsty teen romance one. Half-Blood Prince is that point in the franchise where the magic is gone... I get it, the franchise needs to evolve but we barely get any magical creatures, no real mystery adventure like the previous movies and the characters are dumbed down to romance storylines that come as awkward and forced to me. Why are we focusing on that and cutting down on some important scenes from the book?? The most interesting parts are Voldemort's origin story told through flashbacks, I wanted more of it, hell maybe it should have been a movie of it's own. It was mostly boring until the last half hour which reignites the magic and redeems the movie as a whole but I still think a lot of it could have been handled better. Love the new look for the movie, good performances and the emotions are there.
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This is much better than I remembered it being. I might even argue that it's the best made film in the entire series. It's definitely not perfect, and I've heard a lot of complaints from book readers that it's not the best adaptation. Still, there is some fantastic plot and character development in this film, and it is topped off with what is perhaps the best and most emotionally impactful ending of the series. Slughorn is a fantastic character, and a great addition to the cast of characters, and the stuff with Snape and Draco in this one is also excellent to watch. People might complain that it's slow or boring compared to previous films, but I welcome the slight change of pace. Great film.
Disappointing in one word I would say...
I had high hopes from this movie. Why it's named half-blood prince when it had very little effect on this particular movie.
One thing I notice that Draco Malfoy has uncanny resemblance to Lucius Malfoy's face and attitude. Even the camera angles are almost same for both of them walking. I think it's great work in casting.
As a movie it's the most well crafted of the series. But as an adaptation of the book, it was by far the worst.
I started watching this series so people can't say "What?! You never seen Harry Potter?" and judge me for it. But I'm actually enjoying this one. I really like Snape. Malfoy is still a bellend though.
Voldemort's plans go ahead, do Dumbledore too? They could I have focused on the history of Voldemort, in the search for the Horcruxes, but focus on love
For years this movie was my least favorite. The film starting with Harry reading a Wizarding World newspaper. In front of muggles at a muggle diner. Felt careless and out of character.
To me that was a flawed start to the film. Then most of the rest of movie. It is like it is trying to find itself. With a great portion of it just about teen romance.
Too much romance and not enough magical moments. Watching the film again. I even realized that there’s not much of the Half Blood Prince book. Harry is preoccupied with too much for scenes of him even learning spells from the book.
He is either comforting a love sick Hermione. Trying to get memories of Tom Riddle from a professor and following Draco around. As well as realizing he has feelings for Ginny Weasley.
With that said even the worst one of the Potter movie series. Is still a good movie. Definitely better than Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
it’s the best movie in the franchise
Meesta Pottuhh... it's meee...Dobbyyyy...k-k-killllll....m-m-meeeeee
This was my favorite of the movies/books!
This review was made during a watch-through. Any thought was added and adapted as the movie went on.
Summary: Entertaining film but takes entirely too long to get to the point of it all. The main object of interest is a book of spells and potions but there's no real reason for the book. It's clearly Snape's but the book provides no progress through the story. As for the plot twist, it wasn't one. It was a recycled case from the previous movie with a stronger hit. Most of the plot could've been Harry and Dumbledore on an adventure to find the horcruxes but apparently the budgets not good enough so they spend most of their time on teen love. 6/10
Pros:
• This plot line is the most consistent of the films to this point. Balancing school, the threat of Voldemort, Malfoy's situation, It still lacks in depth of these, focused to heavily on school but it's still the best one.
• I love how Malfoy shows how much he wants to get away from the Death Eaters but can't.
Cons:
• What happened to Cho? They had some relationship that instantly disappeared.
• The romance in this movie is so bad..
• The whole half-blood prince plot is not that great. Especially with Harry having to hide the book from himself, they didn't really show us real reasons to get rid of it.
• I hate how most of these movies give us mostly just school stuff then change the scenery and vibe for the last sequence.
• It takes too long to get to the point of the film, the horcruxes.
• The whole "Is Snape good or bad" runs on too long during this franchise. It's clear he's a good guy but they keep making him look like a traitor. Still an amazing actor though.
Too little action, too much fluff, and, at the end.Definitely the weakest film yet, The movie was just plain AWFUL! "I want my money back". Consider me highly disappointed in that this is by far the weakest film of the series, and that's saying something after the extremely dull Order of the Phoenix.
From a purely cinematographic point of view, the dialogue was rushed, the almost non-existent plot focused too much on minor relationships and details, and none of the scenes elicited the response intended. It was difficult for a scene to last one minute, let alone thirty seconds. The climax was not given enough time to fully develop, and the story ended so abruptly even I was left with a sense of confusion.
This was a real struggle to get thru the whole film. Too long and boring. The first 5 films I scored between 4 and 8, but this is a 2/10.
"did i know that i just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? no. if i had..."
R.I.P. albus dumbledore
R.I.P. michael gambon
Harry has more chemistry with the giant dead spider than he does with Ginny
a great movie, the perfect balance between comedic and serious
"You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? Yes. I'm the Half Blood Prince."
So much better this time around. I really really loved the scenes with Snape (Alan Rickman), I enjoyed the teenager romance, I loved the focus on the end game, I enjoyed the darker side.
During these rewatches I didn't anticipate that the Half-Blood Prince would climb my rankings this much. Such a good film and another leveling of maturing for the franchise. And let's be honest, the final part of this film is amazing. The way Harry runs after Snape, best bit of acting from Daniel Radcliffe I've seen in this franchise yet. Great stuff. And yes, I always love quidditch scenes. So happy they were here!
Anyway, this one may end up a close second to still my favorite film in the franchise in the Prisoner of Azkaban. But seeing this one being so good on a rewatch, I can't wait for the final two parter!
It's getting darker and darker but there are still enough light moments in it.
RIP Dumbledore. His death really sucks/hurts. Harry lost his parents, his godfather, and now his mentor and friend Dumbledore... :o At least he still has his friends (especially Hermione and the Weasleys) and Hagrid left.
The Millennium Bridge scene at the beginning was nice - it's always lovely to see those shots of London.
Snape, the Half Blood Prince, is playing a major role now - for better or for worse.
Ginny also transitioned from a shy girl to a young woman and plays a significant part now.
That moment at the end, when the school was morning Dumbledore's death and put their wands at the sky, lighting it up, was epic!
(I got lots of goosebumps.)
Just another fantastic film part of a legendary series. The plot development in this was is well executed as they set the stage for the battle with Voldermort and the hunt for horcroxes. But other than that, the development of some of the main character relationships blossom. Just overall, great plot development and some story twists that are game changers for the series.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince re-imagines the series and serves as the first part of a trilogy that will bring the saga to its conclusion. The story picks up with Dumbledore and Harry working together to uncover a mystery in Voldemort’s past, meanwhile Malfoy undertakes a secret mission at Hogwarts. There’s a complete tonal and thematic shift, much like in Prisoner of Azkaban, where the film veers away from the established Harry Potter film style. Still, the story is captivating and is able to maintain a fair level of suspense and mystery. Yet, while it’s a compelling and enthralling film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a disappointing entry into the series considering the rich source material and how strong the last few film have been.
59 | We could immediately tell the difference between this sixth film of Harry Potter and the others because of how grey this film was. The black and white color grading probably added a grim, dark, and gloomy atmosphere and helped the story elevate. It was a risky decision because it was unpleasant to watch and this is probably the ugliest looking Harry Potter film franchise so far.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was a quite long film but was not successfully telling the substance of the title itself. That was unfortunate because it could be a potentially interesting story to explore the half-blood prince, but instead, this film wasted it with Ron and Lavender's relationship. Even though Ron was also an entertaining character, it was not supposed to be a comedy film. A film could be funny but it should not forget the essence of the main story. That is why the middle part of this film was very bad.
Luckily, there were also good things that this film explores, which as Draco Malfoy. We only got the one-dimensional character of Draco Malfoy in the previous films, but not in this film. We could see how much weight was around his shoulder and the only thing to lift that weight was to do a terrible thing to someone. The other great part of this film was Albus Dumbledore, he was a fascinating character from day one Harry Potter met him. But it was unfortunate he had a great moment that was shown too shortly.
When we finished watching this we just realized that the main antagonist of this franchise was not even in the film. It was probably a good writing choice to make him a mysterious and dangerous person.
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Rating: 59.00
Plot
P1: 1.2
P2: 1.7
P3: 0.3
P4: 1.6
Director: David Yates
Favorite Characters
1.5: Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
1.4: Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
0.9: Jim Broadbent as Professor Horace Slughorn
0.8: Alan Rickman as Professor Severus Snape
0.3: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
0.2: Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy
Written by Kornelius Harda Wicaksana
The Harry Potter series
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-philosopher-s-stone-2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire-2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix-2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-1-2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) https://trakt.tv/movies/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-2011
The exact same film as “The Order of the Phoenix” with improved cinematography and dreamier color grading. The contents are getting exponentially worse - teen drama seems to be an essential element in the series, but here it’s so plodding it hurts. It’s also the third consecutive time that they kill off someone important during the last few minutes hoping that it will let you forget that nothing at all was happening to that point. Fans have been complaining about the things that were cut from the books, but the real problem is that these films as just poorly directed, tonally inconsistent, and awfully acted.
The 3rd act is a 10/10. The rest of the movie, though, is a whole different story. The teen drama is quite fun but not at the cost of the Voldemort's memories story arc. They could have done a lot of interesting things with that story, instead we only get two 5 minute scenes. That is for me the biggest disappointment of the whole series and that's why I think this is the weakest HP movie.
Story: 9/10
Dialogue: 8/10
Performances: 8/10
Misc.: 7/10
Overall: 8/10
Fell asleep at the latter half, but it was practically midnight so can you blame me?
the worst, it doesn't even seem the transposition of the book but a movie totally on its own
Brilliant sixth installment in the Harry Potter series. This is the part that really got me hooked on the story. It is very dark, very mature and it‘s got everything from humor to romance to one of the saddest moments in the entire series.
The Best Harry Potter movie so far!
great great movie loved it
A lot of scenes between harry and Dempeldor which loved them all
this movie is soo dark
and I was shocked that the half blood Prince was Snape
Every time The Death of Dempeldor at the end breaks my heart and makes me very sad
it's really a great movie
Script: 3
I can't help but be disappointed if the way the script has been handled. So many deviations, cuts, and, above all, unnecessary additions to the plot. It is the hardest book.to adapt, yeah, but the film doesn't even try to capture the backstory and depth from the novel and once again puts an overt focus on sluggish love stories.
Main cast: 5
No improvement here, but by now one has frown numb to the unnatural acting from Radcliffe's part.
Supporting cast: 6
There's less of a brilliant supporting cast here, but Jim Broadbent suits the bumbling Slughorn perfectly.
Protagonist & antagonist: 6
The Harry-Dumbledore relationship is done well, and the lack of a proper villain is down to the source material.
Production: 6
The color palette is weirdly twisted and the action scenes are shaky and weirdly edited, which carries over to the last two films. Other than that, Yates does a fine job.
Post-production: 8
It works as well as before, both in terms of editing, CGI and music.
Atmosphere: 3
It's dark like it should be, but this is also the film that twists the romance to almost cheesy levels. The lack of good humor as an opposing force is also a problem.
Pacing: 2
It's a drag. It feels easily like the longest Potter film, which is mostly due to a lack of action. The emphasis in relationships also makes it a bit too sweet for older viewers.
Expectations: 2
I don't know what I expected the first time around, but it is a major letdown, particularly how they depicted some key moments.
Replay value: 2
Only if watched as part of a complete marathon.
Score: 43/120
So this is finally the movie with that thing I knew from the memes.Further than that I had a few good laughs with the potions for love and luck. Also Hermione's jealousy was nice. But what got me the most where the scenes with Harry and Dumbledore towards the end of the movie. Really grim stuff that kind of made me really appreciate them as characters.
despite what many people say, this is actually my favorite harry potter movie.
One of my fav of the series but, can’t give it a 10... as an adaptation of the book it’s missing so much
The movie that made me detest the Wesley girl. Harry/Hermione would be the best couple ever.. but out of nowhere, comes this romance? Like, what? When this happened?
My least favorite of the franchise with a large part being slow and the teenage love problems between the characters bored me. I appreciated the focus on Draco and Snape and the discoveries we have through the memories. The ending is a preview of the dark times to come.
Watching it for I think the 5th time and this movie is absolute brilliant. Still gets me emotional, every time.
Someone once said to me about this movie, "It's not the book." Were they right?:
http://reading-rebel.blogspot.com/2017/10/movie-review-harry-potter-and-half.html
Piece of shit ass Malfoy and Snape! This is the 1 where things got really real. It was not all fun and games at aall
IMO one of the worst on an series that is not particularly good. It's 2 and a half hours long with almost not plot. Yes, there's lots of teenage shenanigans and romances that came out of nowhere between characters with next to none chemistry. But as entertaining as that was (and, believe me, it's the high point of the film), they feel rather misplaced in a movie about the imminent destruction of life as we know it. No other scene represents this better than Ginny interrupting a meeting of the Order of the Phoenix to awkwardly shove cupcake into Harry's face.
One would assume that after The Dark Lord returned, events would unravel quickly and without mercy, but it seemt that "he-who-must-not-be-named" is in no hurry and need's to take his time destroying the wizardly world so that Hollywood could make more movies.
This film also continues with the tradition started with the previous one of having a plot that doesn't make sense and a macguffin with no use whatsoever. In fact, this movie actually has two: the memory that told Dumbledore that Voldemort made horcruxes (even tough he already knew it), and the potions book that is promptly hidden and had no relevance to the plot. It also features one the weakest revelas of a mystery that no one cared about. Even Harry dismisses the need to know who the Half-Blooded Prince actually was so why are we supposed to be shocked at the reveal that it's actually Snape?
emotional, suspend, joy,extreme and peak.
As with the book, THBP is very dark and not a children's book / flick at all: Drako joins the Deatheaters while Harry finds a potion book that belonged to the "The Halfblood Prince" and therefore exceeds all expectations because of the recipes and spells in the book. Meanwhile Doumbledore is on the hunt for Voldermort's seven Horcruxes, which are the seven parts of Voldermort's soul. Voldermort could only create these Horcruxes because Professor Slughorn told him how to make these Horcruxes: by killing seven people. In the end Dumbledore is killed by Snape who finally outs himself as a Deatheater (and as the Halfblood Prince, too).
rewatch | This part is by far the largest of humor! But this sad ending ... :( #loveforever
I want to see this movie
Review by Simon MasseyVIP 11BlockedParent2018-01-28T00:38:00Z
The strongest entry since Azkaban, Half-Blood Prince begins to lay the pieces of the backstory that up to now has largely been hinted at. Memories are a key theme of the film and there is a melancholy feel to the story as characters old and young begin to realise that huge changes are imminent. Amidst all the darker threads however, the film also has a lot of fun portraying teenage angst over relationships and the central trio’s refusal to express their feelings. But it’s Harry’s relationship with Dumbledore that is brought to the fore and after fumbling a little with Sirius, here the filmmakers do a wonderful job of showing the respect and affection the two characters have for each other - it helps to have five films behind this, but Gambon is much warmer and caring towards Harry and there is a much stronger bond shown here that ensures the plot developments hit home when they should. This is also the first film to give Tom Felton something more to do than sneer at Harry and it’s great to see Draco develop into something more interesting than a childish foil to the heroes - his bravado unmasked throughout the film in small vignettes that show his uncertainty and fear. The reveal of the identity of the Half Blood Prince feels like an afterthought in many ways but this sets up the prospect of a great finale.