I went to see HBP at a drive-in theater in a nearby town. The drive-in uses the parking lot of a sports complex and has three screens. The sound is broadcast on FM so you just tune your radio in to get crystal clear sound. Most of the people there were in giant SUVs with the tailgates pointing towards the screen so people could sit on lawn chairs with the tailgate up.
I am very happy to see that at least someone is continuing the tradition of drive-in movies.
As for the movie itself, it amazes me that it could be nearly 2-1/2 hours long, start to bore me halfway though, and yet fail to include so much from the books. You have to be a shitty director on the level of Boll or Bay to do that. Who do they have making this since Goblet and Azkaban that is screwing these up, and how do I destroy them?
First off, there's no real sense of terror and fear going on in this thing. In the book death eaters are out in the open slowly destroying the government and people are scared shitless, and in the movie it's like "Everything's normal!" The beginning shows the bridge collapse with no real reason, in the book it's only mentioned. Olvanders gets destroyed for no real explained reason as well.
Many of the times that Harry and Dumbledore went into the past were cut out... I know this was due to time constraints, but it really did help to explain WHY Riddle became so evil in the first place. They really could have cut out all the extra shit they added that wasn't in the books.
They never explained WHY Snape was the Half-Blood prince, he's just like "Yes, I AM the Half-blood prince!".
Dumbledore's funeral wasn't shown, hopefully to be shown in the next movie.
I had completely forgotten that Harry used the spell he found in the book against Draco, or again against Snape... I was trying to figure out why Draco was lying there bleeding. I think this is more because people in these movies don't tend to yell out their spells clearly enough.. the actors tend to muddle them half the time. "Klaatu... Verada... nikbfsd"
The "attack" on Hogwarts by the death eaters sucked ass. I think in the book it was a legitmate attack, with spells flying all over the place and statues coming to life and shit (although I could be thinking of the very last battle in the last book). Once again any sense of the death eaters causing the end of the world was totally destroyed by this movie.
Did they pronounce Horocrux right? With the x pronounced? Because I could have sworn the x was supposed to be silent.
What was up with the Weasley's house being attacked and blown up halfway through the movie? Not even a spoiler as they show it in the damn trailer. Was that even in the books? What the hell was the purpose of that? To instill that sense of fear in the death eaters that is lacking in the rest of the movie?
Speaking of not fearing the death eaters, how can I fear them when they fly about in black clouds? Seriously, what the fuck is up with that? My friend suggested it may be what an apparation looks like, but apparations are instantaneous, and this looks like a form of flying without brooms. Plus, while they're black clouds, they destroy shit (the wand shop, the weasley house), which you can't do while apparating.
