Watching Half Blood Prince
Jan. 16th, 2019 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadislefeuThis is my first time, I only ever saw the first three films as they came out. Alex and I have been slooowly watching through the series, mostly because he wants to watch me shout at the tv. (Less of that in the later films, because I don't know the later books well enough to be going THAT'S NOT WHO SAID THAT LINE AND HALF OF IT IS MISSING like I did in the first three or so.
I'm still bemused by the pillars of black smoke instead of apparition effect. It's very dramatic, but it's just kind of silly. I continue to be infuriated by how bad the bloody lighting is, I can't SEE ANYTHING. TURN ON THE LIGHTS.
We were cheerfully mocking the teenager love drama, but I felt quite bad for Lavender when she ran out of the hospital wing, actually. She didn't do anything wrong? I feel like a film makes it way more obvious that she did nothing wrong because it's not imbued with Harry's narrative voice that's so dismissive of her.
Also, wow, the bathroom scene. Doesn't Draco start to cast Crucio in that scene in the book, and then Harry cats Sectumsempra? There were just a few generic wordless blasts in this and then Harry's casting 'for enemies' and nearly killing a kid for want of a happy accident. Draco was also SOBBING and that was a lot more visceral in film. He looks so distraught basically this entire movie.
...We're in the Astronomy Tower scene now and... isn't Harry supposed to be petrified and under his invisibility cloak, not just standing in a corner???
The grey cloud dark mark is stupid and barely visible, IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE GREEN. Everything in this movie is missing the colors. (Dumbledore's clothes!)
IT MAKES NO SENSE FOR HARRY TO TAKE THIS LONG TO ATTACK SNAPE IF HE ISN'T PETRIFIED
I don't like the movie locket. In my head it's a heavily encrusted rounded/poofy gold heart and that's way funnier/more interesting. The movie prop looks cheap and also doesn't remotely look a thousand years old.
Oh, other things I don't like: BITCH WHY IS THE FELIX FELICIS CLEAR, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GOLD. POUR SOME GODDAMN CAKE DECORATING LUSTER DUST IN IT. VERITASERUM IS THE ONE THAT'S CLEAR, MOTHERFUCKER.
Obviously the way they did the pensieve is inaccurate but it's at least interesting AND THAT LEADS ME INTO ANOTHER POINT: the may they did young Tom was absolute garbage. He's supposed to be preternaturally handsome and charming, and they made him an average looking kid was a malicious flat affect, and just fucking ruins all of the nuance and also makes Slughorn seem dumb as a box of rocks for not seeing through him. His total lack of reaction to anything in the scene in the orphanage--it just rung so false and it played way too much into Dumbledore's shit about him being Born Evil and just, hate. I hated it. It was bad.
I'm still bemused by the pillars of black smoke instead of apparition effect. It's very dramatic, but it's just kind of silly. I continue to be infuriated by how bad the bloody lighting is, I can't SEE ANYTHING. TURN ON THE LIGHTS.
We were cheerfully mocking the teenager love drama, but I felt quite bad for Lavender when she ran out of the hospital wing, actually. She didn't do anything wrong? I feel like a film makes it way more obvious that she did nothing wrong because it's not imbued with Harry's narrative voice that's so dismissive of her.
Also, wow, the bathroom scene. Doesn't Draco start to cast Crucio in that scene in the book, and then Harry cats Sectumsempra? There were just a few generic wordless blasts in this and then Harry's casting 'for enemies' and nearly killing a kid for want of a happy accident. Draco was also SOBBING and that was a lot more visceral in film. He looks so distraught basically this entire movie.
...We're in the Astronomy Tower scene now and... isn't Harry supposed to be petrified and under his invisibility cloak, not just standing in a corner???
The grey cloud dark mark is stupid and barely visible, IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE GREEN. Everything in this movie is missing the colors. (Dumbledore's clothes!)
IT MAKES NO SENSE FOR HARRY TO TAKE THIS LONG TO ATTACK SNAPE IF HE ISN'T PETRIFIED
I don't like the movie locket. In my head it's a heavily encrusted rounded/poofy gold heart and that's way funnier/more interesting. The movie prop looks cheap and also doesn't remotely look a thousand years old.
Oh, other things I don't like: BITCH WHY IS THE FELIX FELICIS CLEAR, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GOLD. POUR SOME GODDAMN CAKE DECORATING LUSTER DUST IN IT. VERITASERUM IS THE ONE THAT'S CLEAR, MOTHERFUCKER.
Obviously the way they did the pensieve is inaccurate but it's at least interesting AND THAT LEADS ME INTO ANOTHER POINT: the may they did young Tom was absolute garbage. He's supposed to be preternaturally handsome and charming, and they made him an average looking kid was a malicious flat affect, and just fucking ruins all of the nuance and also makes Slughorn seem dumb as a box of rocks for not seeing through him. His total lack of reaction to anything in the scene in the orphanage--it just rung so false and it played way too much into Dumbledore's shit about him being Born Evil and just, hate. I hated it. It was bad.
