This movie is not a terrible adaptation, but it is lifeless. In short, this movie is a sepia toned mess, and even the Felix Felicis scene and Tom Felton’s acting can’t save it from being my least favorite.īest Moment: Harry tripping balls on Felix Felicis Then there’s the unnecessary Burrow burn down all while the filmmakers cut out most of the Riddle flashbacks due to “lack of time,” the fact that the plot is mostly about high school drama about hookups, Snape’s role as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is cut, and did I mention the horcruxes, which is the entire overarching plot of the books, is not even explained coherently unless you’ve read the books? If you haven’t suffered enough, endure the most excruciating romance in this series, Harry/Ginny and their non chemistry of doom. And no Snape being like ‘I’m the Half-Blood Prince” with zero follow up doesn’t count! Not to mention Movie!Harry just stands there looking constipated while Snape kills Dumbledore. The most egregious flaw was the part where the movie is called Half-Blood Prince…and yet no one ever explains what this means. But there was also something “off” or “missing” in this adaptation for me.

When I first saw this movie at a midnight showing, I distinctly remember being about three scenes in, when Harry goes to the Burrow at night after visiting Slughorn, and thinking “this is odd, it doesn’t feel like a Harry Potter movie to me.” For one, I think the weird, overzealous Vaseline sepia filter that was aggressively used in this movie for no reason made the film seem like a fever dream. (Yeah I’ve got a lot of unpopular opinions…) Hit up my amazon storefront for all of my ideas on books, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Christmas, and more! But I swear it’s a sign of love for literature! With that out of the way, it’s time for me to enrage basically every Harry Potter fan with my not at all scientific and extremely personally biased rankings of all the Harry Potter movies, from worst to first that pretty much no one else will agree with. Everyone’s got different opinions…if we didn’t, the world would be extremely boring! I’m one of those annoying former English majors who graduated college with the propensity to bleat “the book was WAY better than the movie” and also the “fun” habit of analyzing even the things I love to death.

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