Those who have not seen the movie, may please avoid reading this :)
I was very eagerly waiting for the movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, so much so, that I booked tickets for first day last show. But boy was I in for a rude shock. Infact for people who have not read the books and depend on the movie, there is lot left to be explained.
I found the movie too loveydovey. Ron’s character was very good, but then there was no need to go overboard with Von Von.
The book centers around Dumbledore showing Harry the life of Voldermort, to prepare him for the battle ahead. There are numerous memories of Dumbledore in the book. There is Voldy’s mom, father, uncle. None have been shown in the movie. The Horcruxes have hardly been discussed. Guess its the battle of Hallows over Horcruxes which has won in the movie.
I feel J R Tolkien was right in his lifetime by putting up a ban over converting his Triology – The Lord of the Rings, into a movie, because he felt that it will be injustice to the book. Had the book be made into a movie then, it would have been a disaster without its special effects. Though now with the modern day graphic wizardry the movie was upto the mark. Harry Potter series is a fresh, hardly a decade old, and has got the advantages of being made into a good movies series, but somewhere there is too much of deviation from the original books. And for me it is killing my interest.
The graphics are good, the beginning is good and so is the ending with Dumbledore in the cave. But then thats it. It was really stupid the way Harry is not immobilised. It is stupid that the very person he has been terming as an enemy….Snape…..asks him to keep quite, while Snape goes up the Astronomy Tower. What is the director thinking of? And what is J K Rowling thinking of?
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