Yeah...I swear it normally sounds a bit better than this.sirdanrhodes said:
I can wholly agree with what moviebob said about caring or not caring...I've read the books and I really don't care about the movies.
Escape to the Movies: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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I can wholly agree with what moviebob said about caring or not caring...I've read the books and I really don't care about the movies.
I realy dont know exactly how to voice my opinion with out steping on peoples toes and makeing them want to hunt me down just so they can tar and fether me then drown me in a lake. True if you havent been following this series this movie wont do crap to make you want to start, and yea if your following it you will probly want to go see it. Being someone who in this day and age is one of a dieing breed of people who not only play videogames but also read books as a source of information and entertainment its realy difficult to try to voice an opinion about a movie based on a series of books that I have not only read but also reread for more incite or to clear up plot holes brought on by lack of paying atention on my part. Movie Bob, I want to thank you for doing your job as a film critic and I dont normaly say that about people because generaly I'm either talking to my editor or looking over numerous lines of text to see if my grasp of the english language that has been detirorateing steadly now is still painting a coherent picture for at least sevearl of my intilegent readers. Good luck with more of this summer movie drought. I dont expect it to get better but then again, I'm being overly pesimestic.
This is becoming one of my favorite Escapist series. Good job, but the one thing that keeps happening in this show is sometimes an entire page of text will appear for half a second and then another one will appear for much longer. Other than that, this was really useful.
The 8th movie comes from splitting the 7th book in two, probably because it's too long to make one movie out of.tsfkingsport said:
The problem with this movie is that I felt treated like a child during the romance bits. I get it, that one girl wants to sit and spin on Rons member. Do you HAVE to show me her giving him the googley eyes 20 times for me to get that? Is it there for comic relief? There isn't even a need for that relief at all. Not in the slightest. That entire bit was light hearted and most certainly not 'dark' like thousands of fans think it is.
See, I'm a casual movie goer and I'm not a Harry Potter fan. I watched the first two or three movies, liked them, but not enough for me to acknowledge that there should be 20,000 more. I tried reading one of the books, I think the fourth (prisoner of azkaban?) but the writing was just really, really bad. So, to say I don't understand the appeal is an understatement.
With all of that said, the beginning of the movie was paced perfectly. From the teleporting around to the train. After that, it went to piss. The second Harry stepped in the school it was dull. Edit inserted here: The last 30 minutes were done really well to boot. It was done very well. Dumbledore stole the show.
*SPOILERS*
I really can't express how much I despised the 'romance' bit. Look, for a movie, you don't have to explain the conflict between Ron and Hermoine. It's called being subtle. You show the googley eyed girl once, maybe twice. Then, after the quidditch match, you show them kissing. Hermoine gets upset and runs off. Show the bird scene too. That's fine.
After that, no more romance other than the love potion bit.
The skin scene wasn't needed. It was filler in a TWO AND A HALF HOUR MOVIE.
This felt like the directors cut, something which is almost always incredibly boring and rarely interesting. Sometimes you'll get some good stuff from it, especially if the movie was good enough to warrant it (Donnie Darko, for example).
I also really can't express how retarded it sounds when people say this movie is dark. Unless they're talking about the monochromatic filter that was put over the film, then they're wrong. A dark movie would be Donnie Darko. A dark movie would be No Country For Old Men. A dark movie would be There Will Be Blood. Hell, Sister Act 2 is a darker movie than Harry Potter 6.
But I suppose people find Twilight to be dark. Yes, a love story that has vampires is super dark. Except it's just typical. For something to be dark, it has to be untypical. This is what makes it dark. Horror movies aren't dark because it's to be expected. Interview with a Vampire is not dark because it's a movie about VAMPIRES. It's to be expected. It's no different here.
Harry Potter 6 is a movie about a bunch of teenage wizards with hormones that rage harder than anybodies actually did when they were teenagers. And then there's some other stuff about Voldemort and Snape.
I did think there wasn't enough emphasis or further explanation for the Voldemort part of it...
and is it just me, or do lots of the actors in this film show little to no emotion? is that a british thing, are they being artistically subtle, or are they just bad actors?
and is it just me, or do lots of the actors in this film show little to no emotion? is that a british thing, are they being artistically subtle, or are they just bad actors?
Bob, you seriously have to fix the timing on the subtitles and ESPECIALLY the credits.
I mean, I'm not one of those guys who sits through all the credits at the movies just for the respect to the makers of the film, but seriously, every second credit was only a split second long.. I couldn't actually pause on the second and fourth credit to read it, even if I wanted to.
I love your work, I follow your GameOverthinker gig too (which, considering your win at SGC, really needs a new video), but please, fix the timing on the subtitles, and give people at least a few seconds to read the writing you squeeze into it, especially if it goes down one or two lines. I'm tired of having to rewind and pause your movies to read your messages.
Other then that, great movie as always.
I mean, I'm not one of those guys who sits through all the credits at the movies just for the respect to the makers of the film, but seriously, every second credit was only a split second long.. I couldn't actually pause on the second and fourth credit to read it, even if I wanted to.
I love your work, I follow your GameOverthinker gig too (which, considering your win at SGC, really needs a new video), but please, fix the timing on the subtitles, and give people at least a few seconds to read the writing you squeeze into it, especially if it goes down one or two lines. I'm tired of having to rewind and pause your movies to read your messages.
Other then that, great movie as always.
Well that sucks i just tried to watch and the video pane is greyed out and there's no control bar beneath it either.
Well considering the fact that my friend ([i/]yes, I have friends[/i]) is trying to get me to see Bruno this would be a incredibly nice alternative.
Personally, I think it was alright. They butchered parts of it though, which I wasn't too impressed about - such as the ending. Good lord. Too much focus on the lovey-lovey, and even then that was remarkably iffy.
Either way, and don't think this is a personal attack on you Bob, you really need to check the video before you get it up - it breaks flow if we have to pause to read what you put on the screen, so just slow it down a bit, so we can at least read through it quickly, rather than flash for 1/2 a second.
Other than that, good review. =)
Either way, and don't think this is a personal attack on you Bob, you really need to check the video before you get it up - it breaks flow if we have to pause to read what you put on the screen, so just slow it down a bit, so we can at least read through it quickly, rather than flash for 1/2 a second.
Other than that, good review. =)
yo you guys, i watched Harry Potter 6 today.
Ok a lot of fill up crap but also some story.
There's nothing wrong with filling up but 2 hours and a freaking halve is way to much!
Yes i now you'd like us to pay more at the freaking cinema Lol sorry im drowning off.
Well the end SUCKT belive me skip the last stuff when a certain person says he's the half blood prince skip the rest.
It would be a great movie if they just let the crap behind and get to the points were something interesting happens.
I'm not saying it suckt but for 2hours and a halve u expect a lil more story.
-- Benaka (me)--
Ok a lot of fill up crap but also some story.
There's nothing wrong with filling up but 2 hours and a freaking halve is way to much!
Yes i now you'd like us to pay more at the freaking cinema Lol sorry im drowning off.
Well the end SUCKT belive me skip the last stuff when a certain person says he's the half blood prince skip the rest.
It would be a great movie if they just let the crap behind and get to the points were something interesting happens.
I'm not saying it suckt but for 2hours and a halve u expect a lil more story.
-- Benaka (me)--
Hello everyone.
I went into the movie as someone who has not read any of the books and avoided the first 5 movies because I felt that they were a bit 'kiddie' for my tastes. However, the trailer made the movie look really good so I decided to watch it. (I am aware that I am probably going to get stick for seeing the movie based on the trailer).
My thoughts? I enjoyed it. I thought it was an excellent film. It was well acted and had a nice feel to it. I thought the romance was quite good actually and it was nice to have teenagers in films who are aware that they have romantic feelings for other people and are willing to express it for a change. I thought Ron's 'buyers remorse' in regards to Lavender Brown was quite good and I felt sorry for Harry at the beginning being denied a chance for a nice evening by Dumbledore.
Overall, I would give it 8.5 out of 10.
I went into the movie as someone who has not read any of the books and avoided the first 5 movies because I felt that they were a bit 'kiddie' for my tastes. However, the trailer made the movie look really good so I decided to watch it. (I am aware that I am probably going to get stick for seeing the movie based on the trailer).
My thoughts? I enjoyed it. I thought it was an excellent film. It was well acted and had a nice feel to it. I thought the romance was quite good actually and it was nice to have teenagers in films who are aware that they have romantic feelings for other people and are willing to express it for a change. I thought Ron's 'buyers remorse' in regards to Lavender Brown was quite good and I felt sorry for Harry at the beginning being denied a chance for a nice evening by Dumbledore.
Overall, I would give it 8.5 out of 10.
~~The more I see Moviebob, the more I like him and his reviews. He's also doing better with slowing down the joke barrage, a little, anyways. I'm pretty apathetic to Potter but this review actually made me wanna go check this out. And if you still haven't seen Up, go see it. It is not what you are expecting at all. Unless you expect awesome.
Let's face it this franchise picked the wrong year to start off in. The LoTR trilogy kicked off the same year and even if fellowship isn't the best of the trilogy it's still better than the philosophers stone by a country mile.
What was with all the Ron Paul and Ayn Rand Bashing. I can understand if you dont like them but why bash them in a harry potter review?
Nice a Philip k dick reference and when dinosaurs walk the earth what a wealth of cultural references just a for a harry potter movie. Also Movie Bob is very well read.
Jane Lane is so totally Goth, but then Daria is just a perky Goth anyway. Double for Aeon Flux.
Gotta watch those subliminal texts though Bob, I had trouble catching them even with pause.
If you liked the dinosaur film, you should see A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. Classy movie
Gotta watch those subliminal texts though Bob, I had trouble catching them even with pause.
If you liked the dinosaur film, you should see A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. Classy movie
Not better than Goblet of Fire in terms of action, but definitely better than most Potter movies in terms of plot deveopment and character interaction. While everyone else's hormones are going wild, Harry is pretty much the only guy trying to stay above it all. Ron's sister spends most of her time making out with some other dude and then she has the nerve SPOILERSSSS to take away that cool as hell book he had! That part of the movie really pissed me off. I'd rather have some dumb blonde shove her DD tits in my face and be too stupid to ask me anything important than some broad making out with ten thousand guys and then takes away my meal ticket in school for some stupid kiss. Anyway, great movie and worth checking out most definitely.