Half Blood Spoiler

Half of me is the fan, smiling the whole time.

Half of me is the spoiler, wishing all of this would just go and die.

I'll post more later about the specifics, but I felt the need to post my initial reaction.

Let's start with some marks, shall we?

Let's say that this is based on acting and other aspects of portraying a character's presence in a movie:

The Good Guys:

Dumbledore and Fawkes: Acceptable

Harry Potter: Exceeds Expectations

Hermione Granger: Exceeds Expectations

Ronald Weasley: Outstanding

Ginny: Acceptable

Fred and George: Outstanding

Molly and Arthur Weasley: Exceeds Expectations

Cormac McLaggen, Lavender Brown: Outstanding

Hagrid: Acceptable

Leann and Katie: Acceptable

Horace Slughorn and Professor McGonagall: Outstanding

Luna Lovegood- Outstanding


The Bad Guys:

Draco Malfoy: Outstanding

Narcissa Malfoy: Acceptable

Bellatrix Lestrange: Outstanding

Severus Snape: Exceeds Expectations

Fenrir Grayback: Acceptable

Tom Riddle: Outstanding

Blaise Zambini and Pansy Parkinson: Acceptable

Inferi: Dreadful

Twilight trailer shown before movie: TROLL



Other basic things:

Technical Aspects:

Dialogue- Poor

Score- Acceptable

Important scenes- Acceptable

Side plots/Less-important scenes- Outstanding

Death scenes- Acceptable

Transitions- Poor

Depth- Exceeds Expectations

Camera Angles- Exceeds Expectations

Graphics- Outstanding

Willy Wonka (1971)

I didn't feel like I was watching a movie at all! It felt like a literary masterpiece that the camera swallowed, then threw up along with some of the guts of the producers and the screen-writers! Of course, unlike the more recent adaptations of some of my favorite books (hem hem...HARRY POTTER...HEM HEM...) no one bothered to clean the mess. No one tried to make it "family friendly". It was still PG-rated, but that didn't mean that was pretty! Instead, like good old Professor Flitwick after the Weasley twins escaped, they preserved a corner of the putrid magic for all to see. Indeed, it was rough around the edges! Yet, it was PERFECT!

I'm so glad that my English teacher alluded to it. Some of the other movies of the same period did a bad job with the style, but it all seemed to fit this particular movie quite well. I was properly horrified, properly amused, and positively giggling at the wit of the script. If I should write a script, this should be my model. If not, then I'll keep my graphic novel anyway.