Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince--SPOILERS!!!

[Darth Caedus]

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What do you guys think about them going back to the 'PG' rating? I love Harry Potter and all, but I imagined the last two books as being more 'PG-13' in tone. Oh well, I still will watch it nevertheless. Maybe it'll be a hard 'PG'?
https://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/1/7/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-rated-pg
https://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_SrchReslts.asp

Kinda bummed about this. There are plenty of PG-13 worthy scenes from the book, but they want to sell more tickets, so drop it down to PG.

The tone from the trailers don't make it seem like a PG film too.

 

[Havok]

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Yeah I would prefer PG-13 also, but I'll still see it. It should still be good regardless. Maybe the last one will be PG-13.

 

[Darklord Dave]

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Well, if they're cutting out the big battle I don't know that there's any real violence in this episode. The scene with

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Dumbledore being tortured by drinking the potion could be intense, but perhaps Gambon doesn't put any effort into it and it's not too disturbing.

 

[tomandshell]

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Never would have expected them to go back to a PG this late in the series.

 

[The Mike]

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I have never read any of the Harry Potter books except "The Half Blood Prince" simply because I loved the movies and thought all of them were great. I only read HBP because after Order of the Phoenix and seeing Sirius die I wanted to find out what happened next. This particular book has such a dark feel and a dark tone I would have thought they'd push the lines of a PG-13 instead of revert backwards.....

 

[DinoLast]

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I think this is a stupid move by WB. The first film is seven years old, so most of the fans are now adults or teenagers.

 

[Entropy]

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Ugh. I've given up hope of this being what it could. Damn you David Yates!

 

[Memnoch]

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Ugh. I've given up hope of this being what it could. Damn you David Yates!

I gave up hope for this series after seeing GoF. After that horrid adaptation I just view them as fun popcorn flicks but not serious adaptions of the books.

 

[Agent0028]

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I think any kid who has seen the graveyard scene in GoF can probably handle anything in the next few movies that would make it PG-13.

 

[wookster]

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I think this is a stupid move by WB. The first film is seven years old, so most of the fans are now adults or teenagers.

Yeah but kids still love these books, they're as popular as ever with tweenies so with kid pester power comes bums on seats!

 

[ProgMatinee]

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I HATED the tone of the last film so if going back to PG at leasts brings them away from visually overwhelming the film with gloom and doom then I'm for it. Yes, I've read the books several times. I personally felt they overdid the darkness of the last film and the mysticism of the Potter universe was severly lacking.

They need to bring some "magic" back and part of that is done by being a bit more lighthearted even within the events of the last novels.

 

[wookster]

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I have to admit I haven't read the books, more of a fan of 'His Dark Materials' by Pullman (and look what happened there!) but the last couple of HP movies were realy messy IMHO.

 

[Wolf873]

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I have never been fan of HP movies, I think they are ok at best. I only found 1s, 2nd and 4th to be watchable so far. I only watch them for sake of having a visual aspect to the stories, though I can just imagine it while reading . The reason is, they cut out most of the parts, I mean just look at 2nd movie. It was longer than the latest one, even though the 5th book was fatter than last 4 :s. Also, the kid actors are worst kid actors ever, only Ron manages to come up as convincing. It's been 5 movies and they haven't improved.

 

[T.E.D]

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I have never been fan of HP movies, I think they are ok at best. I only found 1s, 2nd and 4th to be watchable so far. I only watch them for sake of having a visual aspect to the stories, though I can just imagine it while reading . The reason is, they cut out most of the parts, I mean just look at 2nd movie. It was longer than the latest one, even though the 5th book was fatter than last 4 :s. Also, the kid actors are worst kid actors ever, only Ron manages to come up as convincing. It's been 5 movies and they haven't improved.

That is only because Rupert Grint is as useless as an actor as Ron is as a character so they match well. Having said that i am looking forward to the new one.

 

[Wolf873]

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That is only because Rupert Grint is as useless as an actor as Ron is as a character so they match well. Having said that i am looking forward to the new one.

Not really, Ron is not useless. He's been helpful quiet a few times and has proven to be a trustworthy friend to Harry, even if they quarreled a bit. I see Hermoine as more of stranger in the midst, since she is the brains and thinks differently than the two. In any case, the new movie would be sad, since Dumbledore would be making his last appearance.

 

[T.E.D]

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Not really, Ron is not useless. He's been helpful quiet a few times and has proven to be a trustworthy friend to Harry, even if they quarreled a bit. I see Hermoine as more of stranger in the midst, since she is the brains and thinks differently than the two. In any case, the new movie would be sad, since Dumbledore would be making his last appearance.[/QUOTE]

Unless they film the heaven/train station section for the seventh film which i really hope they do, it always reminded me of the scene between luke and ben on dagobah in ROTJ

 

[Havok]

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Well if they stick to the plan of making the last movie a 2 parter, then there really shouldn't be anything cut out of it. It should be nice to have the last movie with pretty much everything from the book in it.

 

[Wolf873]

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Not really, Ron is not useless. He's been helpful quiet a few times and has proven to be a trustworthy friend to Harry, even if they quarreled a bit. I see Hermoine as more of stranger in the midst, since she is the brains and thinks differently than the two. In any case, the new movie would be sad, since Dumbledore would be making his last appearance.[/QUOTE]

Unless they film the heaven/train station section for the seventh film which i really hope they do, it always reminded me of the scene between luke and ben on dagobah in ROTJ

They should include that scene, it is unavoidable. As Havok said, since the movie is two parter, we have little to worry about the last film. That is the one I'm most looking forward to . I actually forgot about that scene and that Dumbledore was in it, so not really his last appearance in the upcoming film.

 

[Entropy]

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I gave up hope for this series after seeing GoF. After that horrid adaptation I just view them as fun popcorn flicks but not serious adaptions of the books.

I actually quite like GoF and think, for the most part, it's a solid adaptation. The grave yard scene especially is a great scene. I certainly like that the film does a better job of hinting and reminding about the goblet, Mad Eye, polyjuice mystery than the book does. They do drop the ball with the maze finale.

The Potter film that really stunk it up was the last one, OotP. David Yates' ham fisted direction and poor pacing ruining that one.

 

[wofford29]

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So I just saw "Order of the Phoenix" again ,(it's still the only one I've seen) and I really don't understand why I keep hearing people on here say that the guy that plays Dumbledore is a bad actor. What gives?