Despite some negative buzz coming out of test screenings for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the new trailer for the movie (which is certainly being overshadowed on the internet by the Watchmen trailer release) makes me feel pretty good about it all. The footage looks fantastic, I love the effects in the pensieve and just seeing these characters again makes me happy.
Half-Blood Prince is the penultimate Harry Potter book (but the third to last movie, as the final book is being split into two films), and it’s got some of the heaviest mythology and some of the most important action beats – which early reviews claim aren’t serviced properly. Personally, what I see in this trailer indicates to me that everything I need to see in the movie is there.
Sadly we still have to wait. The film was supposed to be out next week, but Warner Bros shoved it to 2009 to fill the massive writer strike shaped hole in their summer.
Click here to see the trailer in every possible format, and even download it to your iPod.
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I'll see it..bad buzz or not.. the wife will want company
After the lackluster finale to the series, I'm not that interested in seeing these movies anymore. Tell me if it's any good, Devin.
"But, I AM the chosen one.." that made me actually laugh out loud. Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll in the Wizarding World, I'm there.
aren't you a bit long in the tooth for Potter, Devin?
this site has a hard on for "reported bad buzz" on some outstanding looking movies: austrailia, wolverine, harry potter, the road…the list goes on and on…do you guys have any reliable sources or is it just the ol' pulling-out-of-the-ass reporting?…just wondering…
"But I'm the Chosen One, Obi wan, Morpheus!"
Pensive
"Pensive."
Look closer, idiot.
Pensieve is a Harry Potter term for a device that allows you to view past memories. So, yeah, not an idiot.
"After the lackluster finale to the series…" You're nuts, dude.
unknown user, wtf is up your a$$?
Devin's love for Harry Potter puts his opinions about pretty much everything into question. It certainly invalidates his rage at various fanboys and hatred of nostalgia. At least when the nostalgics love something mediocre, it has the quaintness of history to go with it.
I don't know Harry Potter from Beatrix Potter but even I knew "Pensieve" wasn't a mistake. @#5 – You like Baz Luhrman movies huh? I bet you cry at toilet paper commercials where the little puppy runs around a field of daisies. How many times did you see "Titanic" beyond checking out the actual iceberg collision? No one's fooled by that excuse, so don't use the "Bombing of Darwin" sequence as an excuse to repeatedly go see Hugh and Nicole in a big daft love story writ in tampon commercial stylism. You know you love being treated like a 10 year old girl who is CERTAIN her first time is going to be "SO special". Please, don't ever change – You're ADORABLE!
There has been at least a week of reshoots. A certain important and emotional scene was not filmed initially and now looks to have been shot. But some accounts point to Yates not giving a toss about the magic and focusing more onthe teenage stuff.
I will be surprised with a mis-step in the franchise at this point. This will not suck. I haven't read the books yet, because I am 40 and male. Will there be more dragons? 😉
You'll watch any movie featuring young boys in sexually confusing situations, won't you Devin?
How's the NAMBLA membership working out for ya?
Dan Radcliffe is shit. So shit.
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