Harry Potter (Paradeza)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Date Watched: August 05, 2009
MTRCB Rating: GP or General patronage. All ages admitted.
Characters:
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter
Emma Watson - Hermione Granger
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley
Michael Gambon – Dumbledore
Tom Riddle - Voldemort
Tom Felton - Draco Malfoy
Jim Broadbent - Professor Horace Slughorn

Outlook
“The point missed here is that this movie is a disappointments but not a complete piece of trash. It was entertaining, but it did not treat the story well, placing far too much importance on the sub-plots and not paying nearly enough attention to the main plot lines. The lack of dealing with how the attacks on the Muggle population were handled, the political tension related to Vodemorts return, etc was just shameful. In addition, even the major plot themes that WERE visited were treated almost dismissively, such as the identity of the Half Blood Prince and of course Dumbledore's death and funeral, which in the book were completely different and the most moving part of the story. In this film, they are treated as parallels, as snippets of information worthy only of a "by the way". This film chose to leave in the less important scenes and take out the more important. That is why it is the biggest failure thus far of this series. Here's hoping they do better with the final two parts.”
“People keep saying that you need to have read the book to properly understand the film. That's bad filmmaking. So this is not a film in itself, but rather, a visual aid to the book?
The books were done exceedingly well and the mistake is made to visualize as much as possible from the book into the screen, rather than analyzing key plot points and cutting out 80% of the chaff as necessary in a movie of books of this epic proportions. Those that have not read the books are left in the dark as to what the rules are in this magical world and without a frame of reference, there's no way to know who's winning or who's losing.

“The film spent too much time on the tangled love lives of the young characters where it could have instead have explained some more about the 'Half-blood Prince' and it's relevance to Harry and the plot or at least about Horcruxes.

If I hadn't read the books I would have been spewing questions such as 'what does the Half-blood prince have to do with anything? Why make it the title with so little relevance to the story? Why should I care that Snape is the half blood prince?'