Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Recently I saw the new Harry Potter film… twice. This was a film I was looking forward to and, along with Terminator Salvation and Star Trek, one of only three films I was truly excited about at the start of 2009. Having read(listened to) the book a few times I was especially looking forward to seeing how some of my favourite bits from the book had been translated to the big screen. Having now seen the film twice and given my first impressions time to settle and become somewhat more thoughtful opinions, I thought I’d talk about the film; both as a sequel to the Order of the Phoenix film, and as an adaption of the Half-Blood Prince book. I won’t be looking at it from the point of view as a film in its own right; as the sixth film in a series of eight, based on the sixth book in a series of seven which the films have been differing more and more from with every release, the film was never going to be a great film by itself. There will be spoilers from both the book and the film, but at the end and I will warn you before giving anything away… though I imagine anyone with the slightest interest in this will have seen the film by now.
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