Jul
29
I’ve read the first three Harry Potter books and the last one. J.K. Rowling got a bit too wordy for me with “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” I managed to power through the first 100 or so pages of that leviathan before I said, “The hell with it!” and waited for the movie-film. I did read the whole of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” though, which comes in at around 7 million pages. It’s a little flabby in the middle, and at the climax, I was almost convinced that Harry and Lord Voldemort were just going to B.S. each other to death for all the dialogue that goes on between them.
At any rate, I’m somewhat unfamiliar with the goings on in book 6, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” apart from the fact that the half-blood prince is (*Spoiler Ahead*) Hans Gruber (*End Spoiler*). I’ve heard that the book’s talkier and less action-oriented than the others. Rowling loves her some exposition. The trailer for the upcoming film adaptation, now all over the Internets like ugly on an ape, is also a little light on action. The bulk of the 90-second spot is about a young Tom Riddle before his nose fell off and changed his name to something so sinister most people refuse to say it.
I really dug the last three Harry Potter movies. After Chris Columbus — director of movies one and two — realized he has about as much vision as your average second unit director and handed his bullhorn over to filmmakers like Alfonso Cuaron, the series really started to become more fantastical and less stage-bound. What I see in the new trailer looks interesting. Check out the embedded YouTube clip below.
-Brad Lohan
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