Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Episode Transcript

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Are the rumours true Evas? I'm afraid so, professor.
The good and the bad and the boy.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome Muggles and Hogwarts students
alike. Welcome to another enchanting
episode of The Good, the Bad andthe Boy.
I am one of your hosts Trey withmy Co host Corey.
Hey everyone, good evening. And today we are continuing our

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deep dive into the Harry Potter film franchise and we are at the
sixth film, The Harry Potter andthe Half Blood Prince, or as I
like to call it, Harry Potter and the Hormones Going Running
Amok. Yeah, there's a lot of that in

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in this film. Not as much as I I remember
though. Oh, it's more than I remember.
Oh, really? It's like Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I was, I mean, we'll get into it, but I was kind of
surprised about my my overall opinion.
There was, I guess a lot that I I just maybe misremembered or I

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don't know if it's kind of coming into this, this review
series of the Harry Potter movies in a different light that
like I'm I'm looking at looking at it differently.
I have a feeling that for both of us, our opinions of the movie
going in drastically changed by the end of it.
I I feel that way. Yeah, so do I.
So Are you ready to to just get into it now?

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Let's go, Let's, let's go. Well, we'll kick us off.
So yeah, like Trey said, we are reaching the end.
I mean, we got technically two more movies, but I think we're
going. To do in my opinion.
Yeah, one, we'll do one final discussion.
We won't split it up I think unless it it runs overly long.

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I don't know how you feel. I mean, you can edit this out.
I think we if we do it one discussion, we should split them
into two episodes because that'dbe a long episode.
OK. Because I think in the movies,
one of the earlier episodes you've mentioned how you didn't
want to split it up so. Well I I always consider the
Deathly Hallows one movie because I think splitting up was

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stupid, but mechanics wise it probably makes sense just to do
the two movies individually. So jumping in to Harry Potter
and the Half Blood Prince, so this came out in 2009, which
just continues to make me feel older and older and older as we

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go along. This was another movie directed
by David Yates. I didn't look up Deathly
Hollows. I think he directs that too.
I think at this point he. Directed all of them after 5.
Got it. OK, so order the Phoenix Haflin
prints and definitely. Hafis Trilogy.
IMDb this is rated at a 7.6. Rotten Tomatoes has it at an 83%

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with a 78% popcorn meter. Again, much higher than I would
have assumed with my say original opinion of this of this
film, say relatively on par. Maybe a slightly wider gap
between the critic reviews and the audience reviews, but

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reading the tagline the IMDb tagline is As Harry Potter
begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old
book marked as the property of the Half Blood Prince and begins
to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Yeah, that's pretty. That's pretty succinct.

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Yeah, yeah. I will say right off the bat,
this I would say is pretty closeto being on par with Prisoner of
Azkaban with those things that were cut from this film.
I don't think quite as extreme because I think the the plot is

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kind of split. You have the the horror crux
side of of the story, finding out how to defeat Lord
Voldemort. But what kind of coincides with
that is the, the lore building, I guess the the the pensive

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scenes, which, you know, there'sa few in the movie, but compared
to the book, yeah, a lot of a lot of that was cut.
And then also the the mystery ofwho the half blood Prince is.
And I think this is where it kind of takes a page out of

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Prisoner of Azkaban. They take all of that out
there's. Kind of balls to the side.
It it's. Then at the end it's like a BT
dubs. Yeah, and it, it doesn't make
sense. I mean, they, they completely
cut all of that. I'm sure we'll get into it, into
our discussion, but from an adaptation standpoint, this

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movie is certainly not the best.I would say definitely coincides
with Prisoner of Azkaban. Yeah.
All right, so the movie opens, Ithink, right away with Death
Eaters kind of causing havoc. In the muggle.
World in the muggle world I don't think makes and was yeah

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yeah yeah because they they briefly fly into Diagon alley
and. Witch and I said and Wizards I
was making. Sorry I missed it.
Good one, good one Trey. In the books, I think this is
probably one of the more disappointing scenes that are

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are cut. So in the movie it kind of shows
you what's happening, whereas inthe books it kind of comes up in
the discussion between the Minister of Magic book, yes.
Oh yeah, so. No, no, it's it's half blood
prints is is in the book. It, it starts, you know, with

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the discussion between the minister of Magic and the Prime
Minister. I, I do wish they, they kept the
scene in the books. I think it would have been a
nice and slightly slower paced introduction.
The, the, the opening. I mean, I get like, it's

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definitely an example of showing, not telling, but I, I,
I just, and, and this is maybe nitpicking, but the scene where
they attack the bridge and like,I don't know, they don't blow it
up, but it it collapses and you clearly see like every person on
that bridge makes it out in time.

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Not saying, you know, it's a Harry Potter film.
I get it. You don't need to show a bunch
of people dying. But like, yeah, it's kind of the
whole point in the book that like, they're killing Muggles.
Like it. I don't know, I could go on and
on with that. My my complaint for them cutting
the scene is like, this was our first introduction to Rufus

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Scrimgeor, who like had so much potential to be such a great
character. Yeah.
And it would have been, you know, the first time we get to
see the great Bill Nighy playingRufus Scrimgeor.
Yeah. No, I, I it was.
Just a good scene in it. It was just a good scene in the

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book in general. Very like, very like tense.
Kind of like rolling out what the stakes are.
No, and I, I, I completely agreeI and, and that's where it's
like, you know, where do you fall?
Cause a lot of times they, from a movie standpoint like it, it
does come across as it would just be like an expedition dump.

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But I, I would have, I would have loved it.
I, I, I do wish they, they kept it in, but that's how the, the
movie kicks off. And then we kind of segue into
probably one of my, my favorite scenes visually in this, in this
film is the scene with Snape andNarcissa making the unbreakable

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vow. I mean, you get to see, you
know, Snape outside of school inhis his little townhouse.
We get to see why Snape is miserable all the time, because
he because Wormtail is his roommate.
Which I I do enjoy the scene overall.
I did think it was funny though when I was watching it because

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it's, it's very, you know, gloomy scene, it's raining, it's
outside. It's a very serious scene.
It's kind of setting up the, youknow, another subplot with Draco
and his ongoings attempting to kill Dumbledore and Snape having

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to protect them whatever. But I I happen to notice the
whole scene takes place in I guess Snapes like study room,
like his library. But then, like you see glances
in of another room and it happens to be like his kitchen.
And I just, I just couldn't likehelp focusing of like the image

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of Snape, like, you know, cooking dinner and.
Pancakes and an apron. Doing his dishes and and stuff
like that, he'll. Probably use magic to do it.
Oh, I I mean 100%. I theorize that Snape is
probably like an excellent cook,I would imagine with his, his
background and like potions and ingredients and things like

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that. But it's, it's a overall, it's
a, it's a pretty neat scene. I, I definitely enjoy it.
Then we also get the opening scene with Harry Potter and the
waitress. The diner waitress.
Again, picked up by an older woman.
She's a 16 year old boy, ma'am. I mean, she could have been.

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1716 or 17? 18 I mean, I did and I.
Don't know what the know what the working age is and in
England. Yeah, I have no idea.
I I couldn't tell you. I would say this kind of kicks
off the hormonal aspect of of this film and it.
Never kicks off. No, it doesn't.
I mean, it's not a, it's not a bad scene and I, I guess I never

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caught it before, but the setup that he, you know, 'cause he
tells Dumbledore that he likes to ride the trains and it, you
know, it, it makes him comfortable.
So I, I get the reasoning, but Dumbledore, you know, takes him
away, gives him the bad news that he will not be seeing this
girl later. And then this is where we get
our introduction to Horace Slughorn, played by Jim

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Broadenband. Jen Broadbent.
Broadbent fantastic actor. Fantastic actor.
Loved him in Oh God now I can't think of the name.
We talked about it maybe last episode, the cop movie, Damn It,
with Simon Pegg and Hot Fuzz. Hot Fuzz.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was in that.
He was also in this little moviecalled Moulin Rouge.
I don't know if you've seen it. Actually haven't.
I've never. Got It is such a good movie.
Like right here. It's a musical, yes.
And he plays this very boisterous, very loud ringmaster
type character in this top hat and like tuxedo, and he has this

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big mustache. And here's my first complaint of
this movie. I was going to say it to where
the. Fuck is Slughorn's mustache.
It's one of the two defining characteristics of the
character. It doesn't make sense I I don't
understand why they didn't give him a mustache.

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Even if you digitally edited it in a Superman, he needs to have
a mustache. And I, I could be wrong, but I
am almost positive I've seen because I have a couple of like
the The Making of Harry Potter books because they come like
with little prop pieces and stuff like that.
I just, and I'm almost positive some of his like artwork like

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character design has him in a mustache and I just don't
understand why they didn't give him a mustache.
Like his mustache is supposed tobe like Teddy Roosevelt levels
of walrus. Yeah, yeah, it it doesn't.
On. It just doesn't make sense.
Maybe it was because of Moulin Rouge that he was like, I, I

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don't want to do this. I don't want to have a mustache.
Don't take the role. I know it it's it's baffling.
I still. Love the character.
Oh, he's fantastic. A great job in this film and
definitely Hollows as as well. You know, he pops up a little
bit, but yeah, no, I'm, I'm withyou 100%.

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Like that like. It's the same thing with like
Gotham. Did you see Gotham?
No, no. It's not very good, OK, But
like, the central character is James Gordon, and the guy they
get to play him has no mustache and wears no glasses.
And it's like, did you do the homework?

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The younger James Gordon I know.That that's supposed to be the
younger James Gordon. But still give him like one or
the other. You know, yeah, I, I don't know,
I I didn't look into it. I guess maybe I could have done
a couple of Google searches as to to why this was the case.
But disappointing. But absolutely love this scene

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as well with, you know, slug horns, house getting there and
everything's disheveled. Everything looks like he was
under attack and he is transformed into a chair.
Yes. And then, you know, they, they

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clean everything up with magic. I feel like every film kind of
has this little moment where we have to be reminded that we're
in a magical world. So it's a pretty neat scene.
You know, I I like the little, like the little gym from the
chandelier, get stuck under Harry's foot and then like zips
back up. It's pretty neat.

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Double Door mentions having to step away to use the restroom.
Always wonder how that works with the robes.
Does he have a zipper? Does it pull up like a?
Pulls him up and you know the black commando over there.
Oh, a lot of questions I'm sure.I'm surprised JK Rowland did not
answer at some point it. Was also the first time in this

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series that someone actually hasto go to the bathroom.
Is it with, I mean, technically Hermione goes to the bathroom in
the first one, but that's to cry.
And yeah, there's a couple of bathroom scenes, but yeah, I
guess this is the. The first one also describes why
he's like in as a lounge chair and messed up the the house

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because apparently Dumbledore isnot the only person that's been
coming after Slughorn to join their forces.
I mean, I always had it in my mind that Voldemort would
probably just kill him because Ithink he is the only person, you
know, that we find out kind of doesn't give Voldemort the idea,

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but gives him more information about the Horcruxes.
Yeah. So I always was under the
assumption that Voldemort wantedhim to join just to, to kind of
dispose of him probably since he, he's the only one that's
alive that potentially knows about the, the Horcruxes and,

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and all of that. But at at this point, we kind of
go back to, to Hogwarts. We have the scene.
Well, first we go to the. Borough, the borough.
This is Harry and Jenny. Obviously are giving each other
fuck me eyes. Yeah, a lot of awkward scenes
with with Harry and Jenny, mostly because there's no real

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setup for the sake of time. They just start kind of
awkwardly talking to each other and it just kind of gets worse
as the the series goes along. But it's I think overall it's a
nice little scene. I like the, you know, I think
Dumbledore is kind of an assholefor dumping Harry in the middle

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of like a swamp and baking him walk to the Burrow opposed to,
you know, dropping him off a little closer but also the flu.
Network to drop him off inside the house or that.
You know, but I, I like the little scene of no one knows
that Harry Potter's there and they're all looking around for

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him and like, you know, heads are popping out at random
staircases and no. Relaxation knows to buy
Hermione's there. No, we don't need to explain any
of that. But then they do go to yeah, the
Burrow and then Diagon. Alley, diagon and then diagon.

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Alley, which is kind of our first introduction to the
subplot. Is Draco a Death Eater?
Is he not a Death Eater? And Ollivanders.
Is boarded up because we saw Ollivanders get attacked in the
beginning of the movie. Yeah, that was the the location
that kind of got exploded prettymuch, which like most.

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Like that's not something that'sgoing to come up until the next
movie slash book. Like this entire movie and book
is basically just set up for thenext one.
Yeah, for. For Deathly Hallows and yeah,
you know, this is this is Harry Potter being suspicious at Draco
and then kicks off a little bit of tension between Hermione and

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Harry with, you know, is Draco aDeath Eater?
Is he not a Death Eater? I remember when I read the book,
I was definitely on Team Harry, that Draco was the Death Eater.
Yeah, exactly. Like, why would they suspect
otherwise? Yeah.
I and I always, I mean, I found it pretty odd that Hermione was

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very much like, no, he can't be a Death Eater.
IIA lot of red flags. I guess it could be argued, you
know, he was forced to be a Death Eater.
He didn't maybe exactly make that choice for himself, you
know, He probably. Did, but at the.

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End of the day, you know he he is a death.
So they get on the Hogwarts Express.
This is continuation of Harry's suspicions.
This is also continuation of Moody, Harry Potter.
This is like Order of Phoenix cranked up to 11.

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Harry is snapping at everyone. He is not putting up with
anyone's BS. Harry Potter and he goes.
To to spy on on Draco, who apparently the slythern.
'S have a whole train car to themselves.
Yeah, it looked like. They were like, they were in
like a dining car. But I mean it, it kind of makes

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sense. You know, I, I could see them
taking over like a whole area and bullying everyone out of
Yeah, I can see that. Too.
But like, when I was watching it, it seemed like this was the
Slytherin car, like they bought it or something.
Yeah. I I I wouldn't be surprised with

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the Malfoys and buys a whole. New train car for the Hogwarts
Express just for Slytherins, Yeah.
I could see it. I could see it, but this is
Harry gets his invisibility cloak.
He goes spy and Draco very clumsy.
Draco notices you know, hem knocking into a little bit of

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luggage casts a spell on him to was it freeze him?
What is it? It's.
Almost seven months on, yeah, whatever.
It it freezes, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Which is a nice call back 'causethey do that to Neville in the
the first movie slash book it's like.
How do you like your own taste of your own medicine, Harry?

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He kind. Of deserves it like once again,
like Harry, just stay out of it,you know, stop having people.
'S business, you know, trying tofight against fascism and evil
Wizards and you. Know.
Yeah, yeah. But at least for now, from the
the story standpoint, we don't really know too much, but you

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kind of do. You kind of do.
Yeah, but Draco straight up stomps on his face, breaks his
nose, and leaves them on the Hogwarts Express covered with
his invisibility cloak. Luckily Luna Lovegood wanders by
with her, was it spectral specksor I forget what they're called

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and sees all of the nargals buzzing around Harry Potter's
head and discovers him and and rescues them and they share a
nice little scene. I I fixes his nose.
Yeah. Fixes his nose, which is a nice
little twist of him getting his his glasses fixed in the last

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few films. And then they share a funny
little scene with Professor Flitwick, which I think this is
the first time he's referred to as Professor Flitwick since the
the change in his character design.

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You might be right. I I could be wrong but I I do
remember seen him plenty. Of times, yes, we've seen.
Him, but I think this is like the first time he's actually
referred to since the first movie as Professor Flitwick
Again, funny little scene. You know who I am, Professor.
I'm Harry Potter and Professor Flitwick stands his ground,

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makes him give his name and information and sets up the I
guess seriousness of of everything with the oars carting
the. Grounds and checking all the
luggage coming in. Yeah, yeah.
So a little bit of comedy, but lay some some groundwork for the
overall environment of of everything from this the story

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and and where we're at. We get a pretty gloomy welcoming
speech from everyone at at Hogwarts.
Dumbledore introduction to an official introduction to Horace
Lochhorn as potions master, which immediate immediately
makes everyone wonder about Snape.

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And then he is introduced as Defense against the dark Arts
professor. I don't think they really set up
in the movies that Oh, they do. They mention that's in his
introduction in the first film. First movie they.
Mention it. So doc hop is.
Really. In fall, Yeah.
Yeah, so I guess they do set it up.

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So in the books, it's a little more common knowledge that Snape
wants that job opposed to being the potions professor, and he
finally gets it, which that position is cursed.
So we know, yeah, something, something is going to happen.

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Yeah. So due to Harry Potter and
Ronald Weasley having a lot of free time, I, I did enjoy.
This is a nice little return. That was a good scene.
Yeah. Of of Maggie Smith as Professor
Mcgonagall and like their relationship was pretty much,

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you know, because the teachers changed.
You have the opportunity to which this is all storyline that
are cut in the films with Harry Potter wanting to be an aura and
doing, you know, his Newts and his Owls and all of that.
So in the films he has the opportunity to take potions and

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continue that career path. Because in the wizarding world,
you go to Hogwarts for a few years and you have to decide
what you want to do for the restof your.
Life, you have to make that choice as a 17 year old, yeah.
And if you don't pass your examsor make the correct grades, you

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can't do it. You know.
So Harry Potter and Ron Weasley get to go to potions and this is
where we first hear about the Half Blood Prince, which.
I just want to say this is one of the first scenes and it
continues throughout the rest ofthe movie between Harry and Ron

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where I genuinely feel their BFFNess OK.
There where like. They open the cupboard and
there's like the the ratty torn notebook and the new one.
They both like jump for the new one and fight for it.
Yeah, I mean. It's it's like teenagers being
teenagers. Finally, like I genuinely feel

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their friendship. And I, I honestly, I think a
little bit of like Hermione too,like, because in this scene with
her, I, I think this is the first time we've also seen like
book Hermione in a while 'cause she's getting really frazzled
when she's trying to do the potions and following all the

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rules. And her hair, like every, it's
like a little montage and every scene her hair gets bushier and
bushier and bushier. I love it.
I, I think it's great. It was a great scene definitely.
But 100% it is a great moment from like their inner
friendship. Which I mean, I'll say this for

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a few more scenes going forward,but I think my favorite part of
this movie is that aspect. It really brings their like just
their interactive, their interactions as friends I think.
So too. Yeah, yeah.
And it it, yeah, it does it. This film does do a, a great job

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at expanding those little moments or interpreting.
I don't know how you would, I guess, explain it, but there's a
lot of little meaningful momentslike that, which we'll kind of
get into 'cause, you know, we also get kind of introduced to

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another, you know, this book definitely had a, a lot of
subplots. So it, it, it translating it
into to film is tough because another one is the Slug Club.
So we kind of get our our introduction to to that which

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and that's also. That was also the class where
Harry gets the Felix fella. Felicious, Felix.
Felix Felicious. Now that I'm saying it, it would
probably anyway. Yeah, so.
So whoever makes the What is theDraught of Living Death potion

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can't be safe to make. In a school it doesn't sound.
Like it? But hey, it's Hogwarts.
It's the safest place in all of the world.
The world. Harry Potter uses the book,
which happens to be from the Havlis Prince.
It's annotated. With other notes of like what to

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do instead of the instructions. Yeah, yeah.
Which, you know, like I said earlier, Hermione is following
the instructions line by line. Harry Potter's using it with the
Anatotians and does a better job.
Makes a perfect potion, wins theFelix Phallus.

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Phallicious. Phallicious potion with like
liquid. Luck.
Liquid luck. For an hour, you know, I guess a
lot of potions in the world of Harry Potter have limited time
use. Between Liquid Luck and the
Polyjuice Potion, it can't be. Opie.
Yeah, yeah. It's like a game of Dungeons and

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Dragons, which we'll come into to play a little later, you
know, and a main point that that's kind of played through,
again, more so the book, but through the film is, you know,
putting your trust into a book, which we all know after Chamber

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of Secrets, you know, should have a little caution.
There's another one of those scenes that kind of shows
everyone's relationship is Hermione is trying to get Harry
to show her the book and Jenny comes and snatches it from him.
You know, they kind of make fun of him, the half blood Prince

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and and just again, more good character moments, which this
this film does a pretty good jobof.
We also have, like I was saying,the introduction to the Slug
Club. This happens in a couple of
scenes. You know the whole reason Horace

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Slughorn is brought to Hogwarts is because he likes to collect
students. He surrounds himself with the
best of the. Best The best of the.
Best or who he thinks is going to be the best of the best and
these students are known as the the the Slug Club.

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That's the reason he comes back to Hogwarts.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The reason Dumbledore wants him is to collect Harry Potter so
Harry Potter could find out his memory.
About talking the Horcruxes. Yeah, well, don't worry about
Horcruxes. Which?

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Just further sheds light on Dumbledore's very sketchy hiring
practices. It's not very good at it or
although. I guess I mean Horse Lockhorn
has a good teacher. I mean I.
Know, I know what like in the books, like with Gilderoy

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Lockhart, like he was the in thebooks, he's the only one who
actually applies for the position 'cause I mean, the
position's been cursed at this point for for decades, so
everyone kind of knows that it has a a pretty bad reputation.
But yeah, what are you going to do?
Hogwarts. Safest place on Earth, yeah.

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So. At this point, this is where we
get into the the main point of this film.
I mean outside of the Half BloodPrince, the whole point of this
film is setting up the horcruxesand how to defeat Voldemort.

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We get Dumbledore showing some of these memories.
This is probably the biggest thing that was cut from the
books compared to the film. I mean, there's a few of them.
Memories. Yeah, I.
Mean we we get the one where Dumbledore meets him in the

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orphanage and it's our first. Look at Dumbledore during the
transition from Jude Law Dumbledore to Michael Gambo in
Dumbledore. Yeah, Which?
Is like from Fantastic Beasts toDumble or from Voldemort?
I think timeline wise is only like 10 or 15 years.

(34:39):
Sounds about right. So yes, from the movie
standpoint it's pretty. It's pretty interesting.
People post memes about it all the time because also the
transition of Dumbledore just wearing snazzy suits to flue,
you know, full blown wizarding robes.

(35:04):
Yeah, is is also a dramatic transition when you compare it
at least then in the films, but pretty funny when you when you
think about it. But this is, you know, we, we
get that introduction scene withthe orphanage when you get a

(35:24):
little bit of shit, Tom Riddle. Is.
Yeah, a little little douchebag Tom Riddle.
We get an introduction of, you know, back story that he likes
to collect things, that he knowshe's special, blah, blah, blah,
and then he steals things. Then he steals things he
collects or thinks he steals mm hmm from kids he's bullied and.

(35:49):
Then we also get, let's see, we have that one and then we have
the flashback scene with eventually with the slug horns
interaction with him, which I don't.
Remember which one it is, but one of the kids that plays young

(36:10):
Tom Riddle is Ralph Fine's nephew or something.
Yeah, I think that's. The one where he is the
orphanage, OK, The youngest version of him, it was one of.
Them. It was one of them, yeah, Which?
Is a nice little fun fact, a nice little connection.

(36:32):
Nepotism. Wins again, and this.
Is again, I mean, kind of another subplot that sets up
Harry Potter has to now get a memory from Slughorn.
Yeah, the main. Plot.
Finally, a plot point. Yeah.
The, the main plot, because thenyou also have throughout the
movie of Draco Malfoy where you don't know it's Draco, but you

(36:56):
have someone cursing it. Was it the necklace?
Necklace for the girl? Yeah.
The the, the bottle of wine or alcohol.
Some kind of some kind of? Spirits, stuff like that.
So. There, I mean, this is the
Dumbledore. It's definitely.
Like, I get it like from a book to film, there's a.

(37:19):
Lot there's a. Lot going on in in this story
but this is this is where we kind of get our introduction of
the horcruxes and find out that Voldemort indeed used this very
dark magic to split his soul andin order to do that you have to

(37:41):
to kill someone to to do it yeahthat's the.
Memory of Harry finally gets later on that like explains how
Horcruxes work. Yeah, which he gets from from
silicone and that sets up. The next really a good.
A good chunk of Deathly Hallows you know.

(38:02):
In addition, you also have. Quidditch, which Ron becomes the
new keeper you. Don't.
In the book it gets set up, but in the the movie Harry is
already the Quidditch captain. Yeah.
It's just kind of. Assumed and Ron you know tries
out for quidditch, which kind ofkicks me off to to my next

(38:25):
section of my notes is the romance and I guess drama
hormones in this film hormones just.
Running amok, yes. So you have you have Harry and
Jenny being awkward. You have Ron and Lavender Brown

(38:45):
and they're humping. Everything.
Insight. Yeah, they're just.
DTF. They're horny rabbits.
Horny. Little teenagers.
And then you have Hermione, who's upset at Ron because she
likes she. Likes.
Ron, but Ron is with Lavender and yeah, Ron's just being a

(39:06):
little. Fuck boy.
Hey, you know, yeah, at 16. We were the same.
Yeah, I. I can't.
I can't knock it. You know, we've all been there.
I got kicked out of the movie. Theater for it.
Yeah. Would you cut a hole in your
popcorn? No.

(39:28):
Oh no. It didn't go that far, but this?
Is yeah there's there's a lot ofteen teen drama throughout this
this film not as much as as I thought I mean I know it's
there, but prior to re watching this I thought it was a lot more

(39:48):
see I. Thought it was a lot less.
Like I thought Order of the Phoenix was bad when it came to
this but watching Half Blood Prince I was like Jesus Christ
this is like watching some of the worst things about the young
adult genre. Yeah, 1 film.
Yeah. I mean it especially in the
film, you know, and I think in the books it it's at least a

(40:11):
little more sprinkled in here and there, but but don't forget.
Ramelda Vane. Who?
Yeah. So.
So I was, yeah. So, you know, again with the
romance and then going into the the plot of who is trying to

(40:33):
kill Dumbledore? So you have Katie Bill or Katie
Bill, Katie Bell, who gets accidentally cursed by a
necklace. You have Ron, who is poisoned.
Yeah. And that set up is because, as
you were saying, who was it again?

(40:53):
Ramilda. Vayne made a potion or a love
potion candy for Harry, but Ron,because he's Ron, ate Harry's
candy and then Harry brought Ronto Slughorn to try to break the
love spell. Which he does, and then they
celebrate by. They're not really.

(41:16):
Celebrate, but they they toast. Toast.
And then that's where Ron gets poisoned and nearly dies.
Harry saves him by using a bizarre, which again, nice
little call back. I mean, from the books and the
films to the the first movie. It's one of the first things
that Harry Potter learns from Professor Snapes, Professor

(41:39):
Snape and actually comes in in handy I'm pretty sure.
He knew about the bees or from the Half Blood Prince book.
Oh. Well, that too, I mean, I'm
sure. I mean in in the in the book and
I'm in the book, I'm pretty sureit's like gets brought up.
Again, it's brought up that he. Knew got the bees or from the OR

(41:59):
the idea for the bees or from the book, but in the movie it's
just kind of I guess implied yeah then.
So, you know, at this point, in between all of the bad stuff, in
between all of the romance and everything else, this is where

(42:21):
we kind of go into to, you know,hurry using the liquid lock to
find out the memory from from Slughorn in the film.
It's kind of like a little mini montage of of Harry trying a
couple of times to to get this memory from Slughorn and and

(42:46):
failing the first few times. It's very.
Not subtle, yeah. No I mean he in the I can't
remember the book but in the movie like the first time he
flat out asked Slughorn about horcruxes which Slughorn
immediately starts trying to avoid him but they become a

(43:07):
little closer after the events with Ron.
But it really comes out when Harry uses the liquid luck and
it goes. Down to Hagrid's.
Which I think is probably everyone's favorite scene, I
think. Dan.
Daniel Radcliffe does an amazingjob.
I mean, it's pretty much drunk Harry Potter.

(43:29):
Like that's how he acts with theliquid luck.
He is very confident. He is very it's, it's played a
little goofy. You know, they they meet or
happen to Harry just feels like he needs to go to Hagrid's and
with everything being a little dangerous, Slughorn follows him.

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Hagrid is in the process of burying Aragog.
Aragog. Which is the giant spider from
Chamber of Secrets who is now dead and Slughorn wants to get
some of its venom because it it's it's rare, you know, I just

(44:13):
got to. Say poor Hagrid.
Poor Hagrid. I mean he handles.
It pretty well, yeah, you know, you know.
But yeah. Was his oldest.
Friend, his oldest. Friend.
Yeah, yeah. You know, good little scene,
funny scene. But then it turns into, which is
not in the books the explanationof what it was.

(44:37):
The. The goldfish.
I thought that. Was in the book.
I don't think it is. I don't.
I guess I could have looked it up.
I did not look it up but I'm I'malmost positive it was created
just for the movie. The So the story is is Lily
Evans, which is Harry Potter's mom performed a bit of magic and

(44:58):
created a goldfish, some kind of.
Pet fish. Yeah, pet.
Fish that Slughorn kept and eventually, you know, he came
down one day and the goldfish was gone.
And that happened to be when Lily died.
And out of grief or guilt, Slughorn drunkingly gives away

(45:23):
his his memory to Harry Potter. How do?
You separate your memories like that.
Like, I don't like, I know magic.
Yeah, like just magic pull. One memory.
From my head, it's going to comewith like a dozen more.
Because my memory. Is my memories and my brain is
just constantly going. How do you separate one specific

(45:45):
memory? Yeah, I don't.
I it's one of those things you just can't think too much about,
I guess. I don't think it's ever really
explained too much further either.
I mean, I guess that doesn't need to be no, but just just.
Wondering. Yeah, I don't.
Know I mean it's it's an interesting piece of magic I do

(46:07):
and I I especially from a a storytelling standpoint, it's a
creative way to to do flashbackswithout having to like dedicate
whole chapters to delve into, you know stuff, stuff like this.
So it's it's pretty interesting,but this is where we get the

(46:27):
full memory that slug horn doesn't flat out tell him about
Horcruxes, but explains. Like he how they're supposed to
work, Yeah. Again, a little more I think
fleshed out in the the books, but for the film purposes, you

(46:49):
know, a little bit to cut, you know, Tom Riddle is asking
Slughorn, you know, about the possibility of making more than
one Horcrux, which the thought of, you know, killing one person
is bad enough. So it it's I like these scenes.
I mean, unfortunately when you compare it to the book, the the

(47:09):
flashbacks that we do get are substantially cut.
Yeah, but it gets the. Point across you're taking.
Away a lot of back story from from Voldemort and Tom Riddle
that's provided in the books because at least in the movies
this is only to set up the the horcruxes like that's the main
focus, not so much also missed out.

(47:30):
On the Gaunts which how we got the ring and then.
There's also the the Helga Hufflepuff, the not Helga
Hufflepuff, but the there's a scene with the the cop, the.
Cop Yes. In in half blood prints with one

(47:52):
of Helga Hufflepuff's distant relatives.
Remember that? Yeah, that one's that one's cut
from the the film. So with with Harry down, knowing
the the Horcruxes, this is I guess kind of kicking off the
ending of the the film. This is the big moment where

(48:16):
Harry Potter and Dumbledore get together and now know what they
have to do go off on an. Adventure.
Not a very. Fun one but but yeah they they
go off on an adventure together into a cave to potentially
locate 1 of Voldemort's horcruxes which will trip.

(48:40):
Ever. Which is the.
The Locket I mean. I think this is pretty much
taken word for word. Yeah, it's it's.
Pretty close to what happened inthe book, which thank God.
I mean, you talk about like an awesome scene, awesome magic.
From Dumbledore and I think from.
Start to finish. Also some.

(49:02):
Really great acting from MichaelGambone, yeah.
It it's it's pretty awesome, theperil.
You feel the it's very, what's the word I'm thinking of?
Like atmospheric? Yeah.
Like you feel the dread, like, you know, OK, something bad is
going to happen. Or poor Harry.

(49:24):
Like that, like having to like feed him the water when he's
like, begging him to stop, Like that, that's that's traumatic.
Like that's that's more traumatic than than all the shit
he's done with Voldemort. Yeah, I mean, it, it gets, it
gets worse. I mean, the more, you know,
'cause I was thinking about it, I mean, especially like from

(49:46):
Order of the Phoenix to, to now half blood prints, you know,
like losing serious and now likehaving to go through all of
this, like this is. I mean, it's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot. But yeah, we have, you know, The
Cave scene. To get to lock it, Dumbledore
has to drink the magic potion, which we don't really know what
it does. I think it shows or potentially

(50:09):
shows like your worst memory. I think it's just.
Racked him with increasing pain.Pain.
Or guilt. Well, no, 'cause I mean he
references like, I mean, we don't know when it happens.
I, I think it's not until later,but I think it's Dumbledore
reliving the moments with like his sister.
I I I think I'd have to look at like the I think it's laid out a

(50:33):
little more, maybe more clearly in the book, but I always
assumed that it was the potion made you like relive your your
trauma, your guilt, which for Dumbledore was the the death of
his his sister. And then you get magic zombies,
I guess. Yeah, you, you would call them
that Dumbledore. I don't know, cast flamethrower

(50:58):
would call it. But again, awesome, awesome
scene. You get kind of Dumbledore and
all his glory casting a, a giantfireball to escape because that
is their their weakness. And then we we go straight into
the astronomy tower scene. I think this is another big

(51:18):
diversion from the from the book, because in the book it's
an actual like battle. Like it's almost like a not as
quite as big as the the Deathly Hollows battle, but in the book
there is like a legit Hogwarts battle with Death Eaters and

(51:39):
stuff like this. In the movie, it's a little
smaller scale, which makes sense.
You know, from a a storytelling standpoint.
I'm not going to knock it. It didn't really bother me too
much, but this is the infamous scene, the death of of
Dumbledore. Who is it?
Bellatrix. Draco.

(52:01):
You're Greyback. Yeah, then you're.
Greyback and I think that's it. And Snape.
And and. Snape eventually stormed the
Astronomy tower. Draco disarms Dumbledore, which
we know will eventually play a huge part when we get all the
wand lore dumped on to us in in Deathly Hallows and and yeah,

(52:27):
Snape kills Dumbledore. This was hugely debated after
half blood prints a lot of theories I remember a lot of
theories of is Dumbledore actually did.
Clearly you know why didn't Snape kill Dumbledore?
Was he still a good guy? Was he still a bad guy?
Oh, he's a piece of shit. Still.

(52:50):
A piece of shit. A piece of shit.
The bravest. Man, I've ever known.
Yeah, It it I, I don't think anything would be the, the
mystery of this moment. I mean, because, you know, at
least like Order the phoenix, you had kind of the same thing
with Sirius, you know, is Siriusdead?

(53:11):
What's the the veil we held on to?
Sirius not being dead for a verylong time, yes.
And now it kind of continued, atleast from my memory, with with
Haflet Prince, well, even in. The Deathly Hallows, there were
moments that tease that, like maybe Dumbledore is not actually
dead. But you.
Find out that it wasn't Dumbledore's.

(53:32):
It was Aberforce's brother, yeah.
Yeah, with the the mirror and stuff like that, I mean, I like,
I remember like people were talking about like Voldemort's
connection to Fox the Phoenix and all this stuff.
I remember there was like discussions because I think it

(53:52):
was in the first book how Dumbledore is talking to
Mcgonigal and says that he wouldtrust Hagrid with his life.
So like people were making connections of like Hagrid.
Hagrid has Dumbledore's war cruxI.
Something like it. It was just, I just remember
like the fandom was just going crazy.

(54:17):
I mean, this was the height of of everything when these books
were coming out. This was still.
Not the early days of like the Internet, but like.
For the books, yeah. Because I mean the books.
Who? Yeah.
Books it. It was, I mean, what it had to
be. When did Deathly Hallows come
out? The book, I mean. 7 the book

(54:41):
did. Yeah, I'm pretty.
Sure. Let's see Deathly Hallows
because the movie came out in 2009.
Oh, no, you're right, 2007. That's crazy that it was that
close. Yeah, because what, like the
iPhone was 2005 social media, that was still Myspace.

(55:02):
Like it, it was pretty, you know.
Yeah, like this. Came out around the time that
Myspace was kind of losing seem and Facebook was taking over a
little bit. Yeah, but it definitely wasn't
the social media that we we knownow.
It was a different time, but yeah, it was it was crazy.
So, you know, anyway, back to the film.

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We get the the death of Dumbledore.
Well, dead Dumbledore is now double dead, you know, Harry
confronts Snape and this is where we we get the, you know,
the line. I'm the half blood Prince.
Because in the movie it is not outside of it being written.

(55:47):
In the book, it's not said at. All it's not explained at all.
Nothing. Nothing is done about the Half
Blood Prince, which the whole reason Snape is or calls himself
the Half Blood Prince is becausethat is his mother's maiden name
was Prince but his. Father was a mug and I think his

(56:10):
father was abusive. Yeah, that's why I hated it so
much. Yeah.
So. You know the book provided a lot
of Snape back story just like itprovided you know Tom Riddle
Voldemort back story in the movies that is whatsoever.

(56:31):
None. Whatsoever, you know, the book
belongs to the Half Blood PrinceWhen Harry, which you didn't
really talk about, but when Harry attacks Draco and uses one
of the spells that he sees written in the book, that's
where Snape kind of makes makes the connection.
But it's really it's not played out in the films whatsoever.

(56:52):
We just we have Alan Rickman delivering I Am the Half Blood
Prince and despite it being the name of the film, it really
doesn't have any impact unfortunately.
But I think that continues the theme of these movies are now
for the fans of the books. The books aren't already.

(57:16):
Now exactly. And if you're just keeping up
with the films, you're probably pretty lost at at this point.
However I do, I do like the scene, I like the confrontation,
I like Bellatrix just randomly setting Hackrid's Hut on.
Fire, Yeah. Just shows her her craziness.

(57:38):
Psychopath. And.
And they escape, Harry returns back to Dumbledore's body,
recovers the Locket, discovers the note again.
Because a lot of this was cut from the book, it doesn't really
mean anything because we talked about it in our last episode

(58:00):
with some of the scenes being cut from the book, including the
cleaning of Grimwald Place, you really wouldn't make some of
these connections. So again, if you haven't read
the book, you might be a little confused.
And then the. Movie ends with Fox flying off
into the distance. Dumbledore's.

(58:22):
Funeral was in half Blood Prince, right?
Don't remember. Yeah, I can't remember.
I could be wrong because I I, I can't remember if it's cut from
half blood Prince or it's cut from from Deathly Hollows.
But regardless, we don't get Dumbledore's it must.

(58:42):
Have been. It must have been, because in
Deathly Hallows he's already in his tomb in the forest.
Yeah. So it had to be, I think it was
the end of Half Blood Prince, which in the book is, is I
really wish it was in the film, but I, I kind of get it because
you get a lot of returning characters you, you know, so
it's a nice little call back and, you know, Dumbledore being

(59:05):
the wizard that he is, a lot of people are, are at his funeral
and it would have been cool to see.
But I guess we'll save that for the the series.
It's another scene to look forward to.
So that kind of wraps up Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
the movie or movie review. So with that said, Trey, I'll

(59:30):
let you kick us off. What did you think of Harry
Potter and the Half Blood Princethe movie?
So I. Remember when I when I saw it
When I originally saw it, I remember liking it a lot more,
and when I watched it this time,I felt like it just kept drawing

(59:51):
on and on and on. Really.
Yeah, like it. Like I felt like the movie was
like 4 hours. OK, I'm pretty sure.
I mean it probably. Could have been I they could
have been. You know.
But. It just, it just felt like the
movie just drew on forever, so you felt.
Like it was just it was slower paced than it it.

(01:00:14):
Was definitely slower paced, which I get because there's not
a lot of like big events or action that happens in the book.
You know, like I said this, thisstory is basically just set up
for the final book. There were, there were things I

(01:00:35):
did like about it. Like I said, I liked the showing
of like Harry, Ron and Hermione's like friendship and
their interactions with each other.
That was done really, really well and really entertaining.
Like, there's one scene we didn't talk about where they're
on the train back back to Londonfor Christmas break and

(01:00:56):
Lavender's like, Lavender is doing this, like, breathy thing
on the window and like, putting a heart there and like, and
Ron's watching there. He's just kind of sitting there
playing with the seat cushion. Yeah.
It's hardly like stuff like thatis what I like about this movie.
It was very funny. But yeah, it just, it just, it

(01:01:18):
just kept going. And it was just, I feel like
this movie was 90% just teenage hormonal drama.
And. 10% actual plot. OK.
And. I it was.
It. Was one of the IT was one of the
things I don't like about the young adult genre is the

(01:01:40):
romantic drama that happens in them.
That always happens. Yeah, like the love triangles.
Yeah, but something I was. Thinking about is that this
movie is why I feel that a lot of what is retroactively picked
up in the books, like Snape and like Snape loving Lily, like the

(01:02:04):
the journal being a court crux. Things like that were not
initially planned when she wrotethem when she wrote the books,
because this book is what it would look like when she plans
things. Does that make sense?
Like, like, like I said, this book is pretty much all set up
for the next book. Oh.

(01:02:25):
Yeah, yeah, like I feel. Like there were the other books
would have been a lot more like this one got.
It OK, she planned. Them that way.
Yeah, July, I don't think. She did.
Which is just. Which is just a a personal
argument for me. Yeah, yeah.
No, we've talked about it, I mean.

(01:02:45):
But yeah, like I I really tried to enjoy it and it just is
probably my least favorite HarryPotter movie so far.
OK, from like a story standpointand from just a movie.
Standpoint so if. You had to rate it one to 10.

(01:03:06):
What would you? Probably a sex.
Oh wow, yeah, OK. I think that's your lowest
rated. This is my lowest rating.
OK. Usually.
I'm in like 8 or 9, but like, this was like a six.
Yeah. Which I hate to do because,
like, Jim Broadbent did a great job in this movie.
Michael Van Bone did a great jobin this movie.

(01:03:27):
Everyone did a great job in thismovie.
We even got a scene of Lupin, which is always one of my
favorite things. Yeah, I would.
I would give it a six, which, Speaking of Lupin, I just want
to shout out for David Thulus right now.
I found a new show that he's in.On age, on age on.

(01:03:48):
CW and HBO called Sherlock and daughter.
Oh, another Sherlock. Another Sherlock.
Show that. That's why I texted my friend
about it, who like, she's alwaysarguing that like there's so
many Sherlock shows and there's not enough Nancy Drew shows.
I was like, you know how you have that argument?
Well, there's another one, but it was pretty good.

(01:04:09):
It's pretty good. So does he play Sherlock?
He plays Sherlock Holmes. I've never heard it.
What is this one again? I streamed it on HBO, but I
think it's on CWI think it's ACWshow.
Oh, wow, Yeah, that's what I said.
I was like, this is really good.This is ACW show Shit, Yeah.

(01:04:30):
So yeah, I just. Wanted to give a shout out to
David Threwlis. Always glad to see when he gets
gets work. But what about you, I?
OK, so, and I commented this on some of the other episodes
leading up to it about my original opinions of of Half
Blood Prince. And I think I I don't know, I

(01:04:53):
can't quite explain it. I don't know if it's it's going
into re watching these films knowing we're going to talk
about it and maybe watching it in a different light.
I remember not enjoying this film so much compared to the
other ones. I felt like it was flat.

(01:05:16):
I felt like it was overly Moody the with you with the the love
triangle stuff, you know, I think this is also the height of
Twilight that came a little after with the love triangles
that also happened in Hunger Games.

(01:05:37):
And it was just like that was, as you said, that was the young
adult genre at the time was, waslove triangles.
I remember this movie being likeflat and like green and it was
dull. And however, while like some

(01:05:58):
scenes are very like dimly lit and dark, I, I came out of
rewatching this film thinking it's probably one of the most
well shot. I guess if you were to compare
it to another Harry Potter film,I would say Prisoner of Azkaban.
You know what the difference is?It's definitely not shot like

(01:06:21):
the first two. I honestly rewatching this, I
think it's a beautiful movie. I I you're not wrong.
I. There are like the scene of
Dumbledore dying. There's a scene where Harry is
comforting Hermione and Ron comes along with a Lavender
Brown and they're looking for a place to fuck.

(01:06:45):
Play with each. Other's wands or or whatever the
fuck's going on. It's a very dark scene.
Those are the scenes that I remember.
However, cinematically, I think it's a beautiful film.
There were a lot of shots in this film, like when they're
walking up the Snape's house, there's a scene where Harry and

(01:07:07):
Slughorn are talking and potions, the scene where Harry
confront Snape. There's also I noticed and I
know I'm like, I'm talking aboutlike the visual look of the
film. There's a lot of I noticed shots
where the lighting like the fire, the the contrast between

(01:07:32):
the dark colors and like orange.Particularly like the, the
confrontation scene with Snape and Harry and Hagrid's Hut on
fire is a main one, but also thescene where Harry takes Ron to
Slughorn's office to cure him ofthe the love potion.
There's a lot of moments in thisfilm that are just beautifully

(01:07:55):
shot and lit and I don't know what it is.
I, I think because of that, I think it made me pay a little
more attention to, to watching this film.
I honestly, I loved it. I from an adaptation standpoint
it is probably just as bad as asPrisoner of Azkaban.

(01:08:20):
I don't remember what I rated Prisoner of Azkaban from an
adaptation standpoint. It has to be like a four.
Too much was cut from this film.The the back story of Snape and
the half blood Prince and some of the bonus scenes with
Voldemort. You know, I, I wish the romantic
subplots were cut or not cut, but shortened to make room for

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the those additional scenes withTom Riddle learning about the
Gaunts and and stuff like that. I, I think, I think Prisoner of
Azkaban had a lot more unique, uniquely directed moments.
However, I think this is the best looking Harry Potter film
to date. I think I think it's a beautiful

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film just the just visually and the contrast that's that's used
between those dark moments and the colors and just the
landscapes as as well. There's a lot of great shots in
this film that I plan to to put together and post on on social
media when we get to this episode, this episode to to show

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those moments story wise. You know, I as a fan of the
books and, and the fact that these movies are for the fans at
this point, being able to keep up, you know, with, with
everything going on. I overall, I would say this
movie is I had to give it like A7.

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You know it's huh. Solid 7.
Yeah. Solid 7II I At this point you
have to take the movies for whatthey are because let's face it,
ever since the third movie there's so many plot points that
are getting cut. I know like another one.
I think Dobby and Creature are also in the book more.

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They're completely cut from thisfilm, which is a continuation
that we've seen being. In this book at all, Yeah.
He's I'd have to go back, but I think it he's a little more
involved like with the setup, with the Locket and and stuff
like that. I know that I just.
Don't remember him in this book.Yeah.
But but overall, you know, as a fan of the books and and knowing

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the story, it's to me, I found it a more enjoyable film than
say, goblet of fire. I like a slower pace movie a lot
of the times. Like I don't, I don't mind that.
I mean I don't feel that way to me.
Like I I'm with a slower. Paced movie, like I don't like,

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I know I like a lot of action movies and I like a lot of
action, but you like I can like I can watch a movie that's not
an action movie, yeah. It needs to.
Like keep the story going and keep keep me interested.
Yeah, and this one just didn't. Do it because I felt like so
much of it was the exact kind ofstuff I don't feel like

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watching. No, I, I.
Completely understand and I, I would, I would say up up to this
point, I would have completely agreed to you.
I, I, I don't know, I, I think it was just coming in with a
different mindset. I just, I found myself enjoying
this one a lot more than I remember and a lot more that I

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anticipated. And then really just from a
visual standpoint, it's, it's very, it's a very visually
appealing film. I, you know, it, I didn't get
the, it's weird 'cause David Yates directed Order the Phoenix
too. And I think Order the Phoenix is

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good, but I wouldn't have it. It has I don't know, he he just
has a different style. Like he I don't know if he he
felt like he was a little more like after or to the Phoenix.
He was a little more in control so he could get away with more.
But yeah, it it's definitely just a a beautiful and very well

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shot film overall. You know, despite the, the
issues with the storylines that were cut and, you know, the, the
overbearing hormonal love subplots and, and things like
that, yeah, I, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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I'm, I'm interested to see what my opinions can it be of Deathy
Hollows Part 1, which I know we've talked about a little bit
and then, you know, Part 2 is, is pretty much non-stop action.
Yeah, but yeah, I'll, I'll, you know, going in with this new
mindset. I'm I'm intrigued in the, you
know, what my own thoughts are going to be at this point

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because of of kind of, I don't know, surprised myself a little
bit, especially with with half blood Prince.
I'm surprised too. Because I know you always talk
pretty negatively about this movie.
I did I I think I've mentioned it in almost every discussion
leading up to it and and actually found myself enjoying

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