I have to start with the following: I think that "Half-Blood Prince" is thus far the best of the Harry Potter films. I completely loved it. Moving on. Fair warning, if you haven't seen "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" you might want to quit reading. Even if you've read the book you might want to look away as I'll be listing some things from this admittedly fantastic movie that bugged the crap out of me. You've been warned...
- When Ginny bends down to tie Harry's shoelace while they're at the Burrow everyone in the theater (which consisted mostly of people in their 20's) snickered at the proximity of her face to his... face, we'll say. Yes we're disturbed individuals but you know that if we saw it others will too and it totally took me out of the story for awhile.
- Another Harry/Ginny moment in the Room of Requirement. When they go to hide the book the line reading of "Close you eyes" freakin' killed me it was so cheesy. Their whole relationship was bungled. Harry and Ginny get to have a relationship for a brief moment in time and this movie didn't seem to show any of that, just a stolen kiss and some awkward hugging. No thanks.
- The fact that Harry was never freakin' Petrified by Dumbledore when Draco shows up at the end on the Astronomy tower. We're supposed to believe that a completely movable Harry would stand there and let Snape kill Dumbledore even realizing he's outnumbered six to one? Come now, Harry's a reckless s.o.b. and you know he'd have tried to hex the lot of them if he could've. Was it really so hard to have him Petrified?
- The wands being raised by the onlookers as Harry tends to the broken body of Dumbledore. All I could think was, is this the wizard equivalent of holding up a lighter at a rock concert? Cause that's totally what it looks like. Sure it dispelled the Dark Mark and I can appreciate that it had a practical purpose but I still giggled and thought it was kind of dumb.
Very minor gripes:
- The underground cave looked like a rejected version of Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
- No tension between Tonk and Lupin, just a quick "Sweetheart?" line for all of us shippers.
- Where were Bill and Fleur and wasn't his maiming supposed to be a big issue? Also they figure prominently into Book 7 and it seems like a real leap to go from nothing in 6 to major characters in 7.
- If I had to see Draco pull that cloth of the Vanishing cabinet with dramatic flourish one more time I was going to lose it.
"Is this dramatic enough David?"
