I don't know if it's only me, but I feel like this film is going to be a bit different than what I had orginally expected. I know that the books and the movies are usually different. But looking at all of the teasers, trailers, interviews, etc. it seems completely different than what myself and a few of my friends have orginally thought it was going to be made as. I don't know if any of you have known what the film rating is for this film in the states. It's been given a PG rating. Quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - ComingSoon.net Movie Database


" MPAA Rating: PG (for scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality)"

Um, I don't know if it's just me, but I think the whole of book six was a bit darker and scarier theme than the previous. It seems as though they have deluded the book down to put onto screen. And I do understand that for time and production reasons they have to do things a bit differently than what the book calls for.

So in reality, think what you want to think. We are all subject to our own opinions. But I want to know what everyone thinks about this. Looking back on this, it almost seems as if this is just a rant, and chances are....it is.

Have anything to say, post it please! Like I said, we're all subject to our own opinions.




Jess

Hmm, them putting it as a PG13 makes me thing that they're making it "Family Friendly" ya know? But I'm in agreement with you, I portrayed the book to be darker and have more depth.

I hope they didn't take it down a few notches and make it too family friend like =X

i understand that they're trying to keep the younger readers and film watchers but this is making me a little antsy to see what the film brings to the screen.

I am not to worried about it, I saw Cronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian and that was rated PG and if it is anything like that then HBP will be as dark as it needs to be believe me.

I can totally understand where you're coming from-this film seems a great deal more different from the book which sucks. I really regret reading the screening reports now because so much good stuff has been cut and stupid unecessary things have been put in.
Grrrr...
And I really don't see how GOF could have been rated 12A with Voldie coming back and HBP will only be a PG with the inferi and everything.
*sigh* makes no sense!
And even OOTP was a 12A and that wasn't particularly scary...maybe more pyschologically scary than monsters and stuff.

I'm still hoping that the trailers are a bit different from the actual film, meaning that I hope that the film is a bit more dark than the trailers. But, I'm sure that either way the balance beam falls when the film is out, I'm gonna be talking nonstop about it anyway!

i my be attending an advance screening of 1\2 blood prince on july 9th at a small univercitie {sp?] in pennselvanya {sp?} if all goes well, i will log on as soon as i can & post a spoiler that is clearly labled as a spoiler for guys like me who enjoy little sneek peeks at what is coming. i am SO excited about this!

I does not seem like it's gonna feel that much different than the book, I just read the Half Blood Prince a few months ago.

I think the whole movie is wrongly rated, from what thats all been released, It's easy to say It's the darkest one yet, I mean we've seen quite abit now, there is a screenshot of the Snape hovering over Draco that came out abit ago with the stickers and hes pretty cut up , Dumbledore still gets murdered and everything that happens afterwards, the whole cave scene, ron's poisoning is in there, Katie Bell scene is there, the bridge too, and the burrow attack... kinda why I feel this movie is abit darker than Goblet of Fire, and OotP, I just think this movie was wrongly rated, but then again I havent seen it yet sooooooo =/ but it just totally seems that way from everything I've seen so far, unless like half of the things we seen in the trailers wont be in the movie.

Ok, I don't think PG sounds quite right... Because Harry like, gets attacked by Inferi... infact I think in the movie one is supposed to pull him underwater... PG? Not so much...

I, personally, don't think that PG is the proper rating for HBP. After having OotP be PG-13, you'd that that the rest of the Potter films would be the same and go no lower. I know we haven't seen the film yet, but I'm still shocked that it only got a PG rating. With Inferi, Dumbledore dying, all the snogging, and a bit of a darker theme, I could easily see a PG-13 rating over a PG one. Guess we'll have to wait a few more days and see.

I have to say that I agree that the film may be much different...As it nears the premiere, I'm getting antsy-but then I'm hoping that I won't be disappointed. I hope that the depth is kept in the movie, but I don't like when they add stuff that's not in the book. For example, in the trailer it looks like there was an attack/fight at the Burrow. I hope I'm looking at it wrongly because that would be extremely disappointing, the Burrow has always been a safe place for Harry (until Bill/Fleur's wedding). just my two cents...

I'm just wondering how they earned a PG rating, with the final scene... Bill does get his throat ripped out. And from all accounts that I've heard the final climax is relatively disappointing.

Yes, I know what you mean. I think that they added the Burrow scene simply because they didn't have a Rufus to play part in the "new Minister for Magic" role. He's in the last two films, but not in HBP. I take it that when they were writing the script that they thought a Burrow attack was for more entertaining than having a new Minister trying to convince Harry Potter to tell the wizarding world what a great job the Ministry was doing with the situation at hand.

Bill doesn't make an appearance in HBP, if I remember correctly. I believe they casted an official Bill for the final two DH films.

Very valid points contributed to disscussion.

So, this Wednesday for the US the movie hits theatres. Any comments about going to see it opening night?

I probably have to work Wednesday morning (still don't know the schedule...), so I'll probably be seeing it Wednesday afternoon. I can't wait!
I'll be watching out for people being dressed up, I know my friend is dressing up as Tonks, wig and all, even though she's not going to the midnight showing.

I too would attend, but I can't get any of my friends to tough it up and sit through the night with this excited Potter fan. Plus I still have got to go to Drivers' Ed in the morning.

I'll most likely go nextweekend, a lot longer than what I want to wait considering that I've been waiting even longer when they postponed the opening night. But, I'll tough it up, I can't wait either.

My friends and I will be attending the midnight showing tonight. We were planning on attending it last November...so basically we've been looking forward to this for a year. We are all so excited! I'll post tomorrow on how the film is. I'm hoping it stays close to the books and isn't too "watered-down."

I attended the Midnight Premiere, the movie I thought was great. I really enjoyed it but I feel that I lured away from the book a lot. Throughout the movie, I was sitting there flipping through pages in my mind, trying to figure out where everything was. So I personally think there were a lot of important information missing from the movie. But all in the end, I've enjoyed the movie and thought it was great. I am looking forward to the last and final movie, but still uncertain about it. I hope they relate everything to the book.

I have heard that there were many of the important things cut from the movie, due to the timing of the movie. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the movie myself.

Ehhh yeah kinda, nothing over the top tho, they can fix and add them in DH I suppose tho, It was a good movie tho


About this Rating, Hahahahaha this was definately not a PG film...Sectumsempra was way bloodier than I expected, to the point where I thought it was satisfying, I was really impressed that this got away with a PG

That was one thing that I was worried about. That they weren't going to get it gruesome enough when I found out it had a PG rating. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing it if Sectumsempra was somewhat decent with the bloodiness.


Anyone else with reviews of the movie?

I enjoyed the movie, though I don't think it was my favorite. It felt sort of disjointed, as if there as was no recurring theme throughout it. They did cut out a lot, as well as make several different scenes into one.

The two shining stars of the film were definitely Alan Rickman and Tom Felton. Rickman played every scene, every line, and every facial expression perfectly. One scene in particular (at the end) was just heartbreaking. I don't want to spoil the scene for anyone, so I'll put it in highlights.

[After Snape kills Dumbledore, and runs towards Hagrid's cabin, Harry follows and screams at him "He trusted you!" The way he said it made it clear that he was actually saying "I trusted you." Snape stops and turns around. The look on his face is just...he actually looked sad. I loved that scene.]

Tom Felton did so well with his the sectumsempra scene. The crying was not only believable but it really made you understand what he was going through.

The one thing that worried me was that I think they might have given away a little too much at the end for the non-book readers.

I'm going to have to see it again to make a final judgement. I'm still not sure exactly how well I liked it.

WARNING IVE SPOKEN LOADS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FILMS SO IF YOU HAVNT SEEN IT AND YOU DONT WANT ANY SPOILERS I WOULDNT READ

i watched the movie tonight with my boy friend..
im really happy with how it turned out.. although they missed out alot of sceens i think they played the whole ron/hermione/lavender thing up well.. hermione was evan more heart broken than i imagined her in the book tbh with you but it was brilliant all the same..

i thought rupert grint was brilliant .. this film really gave him a chace to show how funny he can be..
dan i think gave a very good performance also.. i liked how he acted with the lucky potion i found it really funny..
emma i think played hermione perfectly.. i dont know what it was in this film but she seemed different the way she acted i thort she was brilliant thoo..
tom felton amazin along with alan rickman and mike gambon.. those three where outstanding i really felt sorry for draco and evan snape in the end..
Ooo and jecci played lavender the best i dont think anyone else could have done it the way she did, it really was anoying but that wat you want from lavender right !! ha

The only thing that threw me a lil was the sence of time.. i dont know but it just seemed really quick that everything was happening like they got to howarts and then it was quiditch and about 2 more things then they were back on the train and at that point i kind of sed to myself where are they going now then i realised it was christmas time.. baack to the burrow lol..

i dont know i enjoyed it but i just wish they could have done this in two movies to.. just so it can be a bit more detailed and so it dont all seem to be gammed into one..

i noticed they missed out the part of the book where harry goes and hides a the potions book and he looks at the statue or w/e it is with the tiara on its.. which turn out in deathly hallows to be ravenclaws and it is also a horcuxs.. this worried me a lil because im scared that in DH they are going to change a lot just to fit in the horcuxs.. if you know what i mean.. i think they have made it a liil harder for them selfs to write how they find it..
ahh i dont know.. they must know what they are doing.. ha..
and jk rowling is obviously happy with how they have done it..
aww and ive sceens on behind the sceens and other things.. and some sceens i have watched on there wernt in it which spun me out completely.. like this sceen (YouTube - Harry Potter & Half-blood prince Feature Video go to about 1 minute 8 seconds..) its when ron and hermione are walking through the court yard behind harry and ron says good luck m8 and harry replies i dont need luck ill be with dumbledor.. that wernt in the movie so i dunoo where that went.. it would have come in surley after harry had shown dumbleodr the memory of slug horn then gone back to get his invisability clock.. but he didnt go back to get the cloack after showing the memory he just went strait to the cave with dumbledor.. so they cut that lil clip out of it..

and the clips where ron and hermione are standing next to each othe in diagon ally or nockturn which ever one.. and harry is on the roof.. it dont show them helping him up it just showns them looking around the allys then they are all on the roof hiding.. soo i dunnoo i think they have changed their mind about what they want in it untill the last minute lol..

and i felt a lil hard done by with the astronomy tower battle.. i dont know why the didnt show dumbledor jinxing harry .. harry just stood and watched really.. and i felt they should have showed a bit of a battle when the death eaters where escaping because it would have made more of a dramatic effect.. it just felt a little feble how it was only harry chasing the death eaters and how there was ment to be aura every where but non of them turned up to help him..
and there was no realy evadence of harry and ginny getting to gether and then breaking up.. it was one little kiss and i dont think he did finish her in the end.. hang on ive confused myself now ha.. i felt the kiss could have been a bit longer it was just a peck on the lips really i mean ive kissed friends like that when im drunk for gods sake ha..

i think they may be putting the break up in the next film or something? i dont know can someone clear that up for me ? ? lol

and i missed dumbledors funeral i think if they put that in i would have got emotional and it would have put more of a sence of fear into the wizarding world..

i agree with beater0 above mee^ that sceen was brilliant .. alan rickman apsolutily (sp?) amazing !!..
and i to wil have to see it again to clear up any insecurities i have haha..

but over all the funnyest one soo far i think.. all the actors were brilliant and over all im happy with the film.. very much enjoyed it .. and if you got this far reading my essay well done i award you an A* for effort..

I'd give the movie 2.5 out of 5 rating.

I was thoroughly disappointed in Half-Blood Prince. It seemed rushed to me. They combined certain elements of an event and mixed them so that they'd be shorter.

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I was extremely displeased that the whole fight at the end of the book was left out. Now how are they supposed to explain Bill Weasley's scars from when Fenrir Greyback attacked him? That's kinda important.

They left out WAY too many memories. They were in the book for a reason. Half-Blood Prince was supposed to be the Tom Riddle Harry Potter book. This is the part where Harry learns the history of his one true enemy. And yet, they barely showed Tom and they conveyed the importance poorly. They didn't show the Hebzibah Smith and her Hokey the house-elf scene where it shows how Riddle favored valuable objects that once belonged to the Hogwarts Founders. This would be the Slytherin's Locket and Hufflepuff's Cup. Now how the heck is Harry supposed to grasp what the remaining Horcruxes are? They can't let us sit and infer that they were shown to Harry, but not in the movie itself.

The beginning of the movie was disgusting. Honestly? Why is Harry sitting in a cafe checking out the waitress? And he looks out the window and Dumbledore appears? I wanted to see the Dursleys. They haven't had much justice. (They left them out in GoF too).

They shouldn't have added a whole scene that wasn't in the book if they were going to cut out other important scenes. Why they did that is beyond me. I'm not asking for everything to be put in the movie, but the KEY details would be nice.

Dumbledore's death was as impactful as it should have been. The slow motion fall was just disturbing. And the students looked sad, but not crying. This is ALBUS DUMBLEDORE. I mean, come on! And the whole wand lighting combination to put out the Dark Mark was unnecessary.

Bill and Phlegm Fleur were not in the movie at all. And the Burrow attack scene was just randomly left alone. They showed the house on fire and then Harry was back at school the next second. It showed no resolve.

Sybil Trelawney is gone. She foreshadows the end of Half-Blood Prince. She isn't that necessary, but I liked her "lightning struck tower" foreshadow.

The identity of the Half-Blood Prince was barely explained. My friends, who hadn't read the book, were confused. That's not good. Snape breaths that he is the Half-Blood Prince then runs off with the other Death Eaters.

Which reminds me. Hermione wasn't as hateful to the Half-Blood Prince as she was in the book. And Harry wasn't as obsessed with the Half-Blood Prince. One major mistake the movies made was adding the spell Levicorpus in the OotP movie when it was really in this one. (The only time it is used in OotP is when Harry sees his dad use it on Snape in a memory). Muffliato and Langlock were gone too.

Harry was never sent to the Hospital Wing for getting his head hit with a bludger. Ginny and Dean broke up way too fast and they implied Harry liking Ginny way too soon.

Ginny was not supposed to take Harry into the Room of Requirement and ditch the book. Harry wanted to get it back. NOW how is Harry supposed to know where Ravenclaw's Diadem is located? He never saw it in the Room of Requirement while he was dashing to hide the Half-Blood Prince's potions book.

Draco's Sectumpsempra scene was not as powerful as it should have. He was only cut in his chest and he didn't have grave enough injuries. And Snape never gave him detention. [/h]

They totally messed up Lupin and Tonk's relationship. She calls him "sweetheart" and yet she still has the depressed, mousy hair. Uhm....
You never saw her new patronus, she's barely in the movie at all.

Dumbledore's funeral was never done.
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There's more to the reasons I don't like this movie. But I'll stop now.

I mean, I loved some of the humorous scenes such as Ron taking love potion and Harry taking Felix Felicis. Dan did a really good job with that. He was quite funny. AND LUNA! She, as usual, is portrayed amazingly by Evanna Lynch.

I completely agree with James, they left out waaay too many plot points and lost the theme of the book, the lack of the Durleys was horrifying to me and they weren't even mentioned! It's like they don't even exist.

And what's with Aragog?!!??!?! He's SOOOO SMALL! HE WAS INCREDIBLY HUGE BEFORE AND NOW HE'S SUDDENLY THE SIZE OF A CART? What is with that?

A decent movie, but not good unless your a Potter-fan, otherwise you'll be loss the whole way.