The Harry Potter Syndrome.
posted October 18, 2009 - 5:51pmMany people would never believe, being the insane and ignorant psychopath as I am (as my dear friends so gently describes me as), that I would even know what Harry Potter is.
No, I am a die hard fan of Harry Potter, and I 
don't even get it myself. I'm a fan of gore, grindhouse, viking and psychotic gregorian techno-metal and Disney, but not fucking Harry Potter? Oh yes, apparently I am.
Harry Potter is my fetish and my dildo is shaped like Lucius Malfoys pimp snake cane.
Now, the movies on the other hand, let me tell you in one word: "FUCK!".
The movies are horrible, some worse than others. And I guess, if you haven't read the books, some of them aren't too bad. But the newest, "The Half-Blood Prince" is the absolute worst. Not only do David Yates exclude moments from the book, he creates new scenes and changes others completely. He changed the 6th book into a silly love story. He made Harry Potter go to Hollywood. That is a fatale mistake, and let me tell you why.
Voldemort is a mass murderer, and Harry - the only survivor of his attacks is destined to kill him. No matter how clichée it is; in their world, he's a bad guy. This book is a runner up to the final battle between Harry and Voldemort, and David Yates completely ignores Voldemort only to promote Harry and Ginnys complicated love relationship, which is also totally overtuned in this movie as love only being romance and starring at each other. HUMP HER ALREADY! Geez.
The 10+ memories told in the book are cut down to 2. Little bittle Tom Riddle at the orphanage and the memory whom Slughorn "destroyed" because he was ashamed of what he'd told soon-to-come biggest criminal of magicland.
Also, J.K Rowling leads huge links to the 7th book with e.g. the ring Dumbledore is wearing and his hand corroding, Harry putting the Potions book on top of a tiara (which guess what; is changed to Harry and Ginny starring intensely at each other. If only Harry was a vampire, we'd have ourselves a fucking Twilight tale.)
The absolute biggest letdown of everything in this movie was the ending, or more likely the last 160 mintues of the movie, which is impressive since the movie only lasts 150 minutes.
No, seriously, the ending was terrible. The only fighting scene in this movie is shortened down to Bellatrix dancing on tables. I'm sorry if I'm too fangirly here, but that is WEAK!
The only battle bigger than the one in the end of HBP is the one Voldemort is participing in, which actually, btw, caused England to create a suicidal Harry Potter hotline too people who were depressed over someone's death in the last book (That is extreme and I'm not even kidding).
And Dumbledore died people, are you just gonna leave him on the lawn or are you gonna do the funeral without letting the audience grieve along? That funeral could win Oscars for visualisation, but no. It is cut down to a few students humbly raising their wands when seing his body. That sounds so incredibly wrong, and I wish it was, but it isn't.
All in all, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - The Movie is terrible. For people who haven't read the book(s), you will be greatly confused or you'll think it's awesome for the special effects, for people who doesn't give a shit about Harry Potter, you'll probably think Hermione has grown fucking hot, and for fanatic readers, you will hate it, but you'll still wait anxiously for the 7th one to be released.
So long.
KFoot
PS. I do these blogs to improve my English, so be more than welcome to critique/correct my grammar as well as my "writing skills".

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