Movie Reviews That Aren’t Really Reviews
Posted on July 20, 2009 by andrew
I was fairly disappointed with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The book was perhaps my favorite of the series, but I felt the ending of the movie lacked the book’s emotional punch, and not simply because I already knew how it would end. Quite frankly, I felt as though the movie decided to quit after the scene in the cave, even though the real climax happens after Harry and Dumbledore return to Hogwarts. It seemed like a weird choice and it wasn’t helped by the fact that, for the first time in the series, the key actors (namely Daniel Radcliffe and, somewhat shocklingly, Alan Rickman) didn’t sell their scenes. Oh well. The first roughly two hours of the movie were fairly enjoyable.
The highlight for me was actually the trailer shown before the movie for Sherlock Homes:
Guy Ritchie directs Robert Downey, Jr., and Jude Law in a Sherlock Homes-as-proto-superhero action/detective flick which looks a bit like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had the concept been done well? How soon can I buy tickets? I know trailers are supposed to make me think this, but this movie appears to be extremely awesome.
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I will bet you five dollars that, by ANY subjective means (including even your biased and 5 buck interested one) that Sherlock Holmes disappoints. Has Jude Law EVER been in a good movie? Does “LEG done well” sound like a compelling film? Has Guy Richie done anything other than a 70 year old crone in the last 7 years? Even then, did he ever do anything than get rich off the same (relatively average) movie twice?
Consider me non-plussed as well that RDJr has basically decided that he need only play one role for the rest of his career. Then again, wasting considerable talent is sort of a specialty of his.
Hmm, I agree with every single thing you say, with the exception of the RDJr line (I’m not non-plussed so much as ecstatic to see that he will be playing only this one character for the rest of his career.) Nonetheless, this movie looks like it has pretty much everything I could possibly want in a movie (except for, presumably, dinosaurs), which admittedly might say more about me than the movie.