My Rate: Two Out of Five Stars

Yup, that's my rate for the sixth movie. I've seen it tonight, last full show at City Centre in Doha, Qatar and to my dismay, I personally rated it with just two out of five stars.

I rushed on my way out of the studio to get tickets at the mall so I can finally watch the film that I waited to see for a long time. When I got at City Centre with my honey and a good friend of ours, Pia, I made sure that we're going to get the best spot so we can enjoy the movie. The movie house was empty when we took our reserved seats at the middle, and I was hoping that the lights would close immediately. We laughed at the thought that we might be able to finish our bucket of popcorn before the movie starts. Well, after fifteen long minutes, the movie finally began.

The beginning was breath taking. I'm sure you will agree with me. But some HP fans will be disappointed when Harry sort of liked this girl at a little underground restaurant, and even considered going out with her. From then on, more parts from the book were cut, including the best ones, until the very end of the movie, even when Dumbledore died. The funeral scene which made me cry was not shown, when Hagrid rescued his dog from his burning hut, Ginny and Harry and Ron and Hermione's snoggings and all that...

What disappointed me more was that the kissing scenes were almost cut. Maybe because it is really not allowed here in Qatar that's why snogging scenes were not shown. When Ginny kissed Harry at the room of requirement, it was just one second! Lavender and Ron's snogging took a second to last. Imagine that? So, I don't really know what else were cut from the movie. I wish I could get the DVD copy soon, the uncut version.

This movie is not worth watching. I advise you lot to read the book instead. But I appreciate the efforts of everyone behind the film, the cast and the crew. For those who did not read the book, I'm sure this movie is great for them. My honey cried when Dumbledore died at the end (while my eyebrow was raised because of disappointment). She did not read any of the books, she liked the movie somehow. She said that the movie was obviously squeezed to fit in more or less 3 hours. So, for a non-reader of the HP books, she has a lot of questions about each scenes. I had to answer them one by one so she can understand. A good film must have no hole at all. Well, for people like my honey, a non-HP fan, she gives the movie two stars.

I hope in the last movie, the Deathly Hallows, every scene from the book must be shown in the film because all are very important. I hope to see Dobby, the whole Weasley family with Fleur Delacour, the Dursley's, the Dumbledore's army including Cho Chang, and the trio's kids at Hogwarts Express. I hope that the way it was said in the book, that's how the movie is going to be. No shortcuts, no tampered scenes, no holes, no whatsoever. The seventh book created a very nice story in my mind. I totally loved it! I hope the last part will finally give justice to the whole HP books.

I might not watch the 6th movie again. But, I want to see the whole movie from the DVD because as far as I'm concerned, there were cuts from what I saw tonight. Oh well, time to sleep. I want to forget this feeling. I just like to think that Harry is totally cute, and that will inspire me to wait for the last sequel til next year.

WELL... WELL... WELL...

The 6th sequel made another record! Isn't that great?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had broken the record for midnight box office sales. Variety reported that midnight ticket sales for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince reached $22.2 million, setting a new midnight gross record in the film industry. Now Reuters is reporting that the film has also set a worldwide box office record making $104 million in its first day in theaters. Can you believe that?

Well, I haven't seen the movie yet because I don't know if the movie is here in Qatar to set another record. I wish that Warner Brother's will include showing the film in the middle east so I can watch it today!

For the lucky ones, watch the movie while it lasts coz unlike me, you can never hear anything about the movie I waited for a long time here.

OMG!

I can't believe it! We waited a long time for the showing of this 6th sequel. Is it really worth it? Well, we're all just a day away, and we will find out the answer very soon.

I was one of those millions of HP fans who got disappointed when the showing of HP6 at the cinemas was changed. It made me very upset because I waited long enough and I can't accept the fact that I have to wait more. I've seen trailers and other spoilers from various sites and I think that the movie is something we really have to watch this month.

I like to apologize for the late update of my Harry Potter blog page. I am very busy at work and I have not much time to log in here for a while. I promise to come back at least once a month to update every HP fan out there. BTW, thanks for reading my blog page. 'Til next time! luv ya all!

Have You Heard the Latest? Well, it's a big "WHAT?"

See, Warner Brothers decision to push back the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to July 17, 2009 has upset millions of fans for sure... including me! And I still can't accept that they considered the summer season saying it is an "ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of the last Harry Potter film."


OMG! It's like a year from now! It's waiting for another year to pass just to see the 6th film and I can't just agree with their decision... It really made me so upset. It was yesterday when I decided to stop reading the 6th book again since November is coming and I don't want to spoil the film's surprise. Now, delaying the release is even more surprising! It's a nightmare for HP fans.

I hope that Warner Brothers will do their best to make us happy about it. Delaying it for a month is forgivable, but for 11 months, it is cruel. Well, the thing they could do for a start is to release more pictures.

Anyway, let's see if waiting for 11 more months is worth it... Yup, that is 11 months from now. See, i told yah, it's big "WHAT?" (Grrrrr....)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: What is ur Favorite Part?

Harry Potter fans have read the 7 books by now and I'm sure we are all waiting for the 6th film which is coming out very soon. Well, I'm just wondering what is your favorite part from the 6th book? Are you looking forward to see it in the film? Because if you're going to ask me, yes, I am hoping to see in the movie all of my favorite parts from the book. Want to know which scene is the one I'm so excited to see? Here it is:

Harry looked around; there was Ginny running towards him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several moments - or it might have been half an hour - or possibly several sunlit days - they broke apart. The room had gone very quiet. Then several people wolf-whistled and there was an outbreak of nervous giggling. Harry looked over the top of Ginny's head to see Dean Thomas holding a shattered glass in his hand and Romilda Vane looking as though she might throw something. Hermione was beaming, but Harry's eyes sought Ron. At last he found him, still clutching the Cup and wearing an expression appropriate to having been clubbed over the head. For a fraction of a second they looked at each other, then Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, "Well - if you must."

Isn't it so nice? Awww..... I can't wait to see that part... OH PLEASE!!! Hurry up November! I want to watch the film ASAP.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Funny Excerpts 2

Here's another funny part that I love....

Dangling from the chain in large gold letters were the words: MY SWEETHEART.
"Nice," he said. "Classy. You should definitely wear it in front of Fred and George."

"If you tell them," said Ron, shoving the necklace out of sight and under his pillow, "I -- I -- I'll --"

"Stutter at me?" said Harry, grinning.

Wow, seeing Harry grinning like that, it makes me fall for him all over again.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Funny Excerpts 1

Here's one of the funny scenes in the 6th book that I always remember...

"You'd think people had better things to gossip about," said Ginny as she sat on the common room floor, leaning against Harry's legs and reading the Daily Prophet. "Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest."

Ron and Hermione both roared with laughter. Harry ignored them.
"What did you tell her?"

"I told her it's a Hungarian Horntail," said Ginny, turning a page of the newspaper idly. "Much more macho."

"Thanks," said Harry, grinning. "And what did you tell her Ron's got?"

"A Pygmy Puff, but I didn't say where."

Now, where could it really be, Ginny? LOL...

My Favorite Scenes in the Harry Potter Books/Films

I've read the books a lot of times. I think I've read four times each except with the last 2 books. I've read HP6 twice and HP7 once coz i've got not much time to read them again. I've watched the films too and I think I've seen 'em 3 times each. Well, all of us has a favorite scene from the each of the books/films. Here are my favorites:

HP1: when Ron and Harry were on the train and Harry bought all the candies for both of them, then Hermione comes in and fixes Harry's eyeglasses, and leaves telling Ron he's got a dirt on his nose.

HP2: when Ron drove his dad's car and they were thrown out by the car after it got wrecked by the whomping willow.

HP3: when Harry and Hermione rode Buckbeak to rescue Sirius, Hermione was scared of heights!

HP4: when Harry asks Cho to be his partner at the yule ball and she says she can't... I also love the part when Harry was on the prefect's bath! I wish i was myrtle! haha...

HP5: when they were going from one room to another in the Dept. of Mysteries while being chased by the death eaters (I loved the action).

HP6: I like the scene with Harry and Albus going to the cave and Harry seeing the inferi... And when Albus drunk the water from the basin (not sure if it's a basin) just to get the locket... Harry being helpless and all... (so sad....)

HP7: I like the scene when Dudley wanted Harry to go with them to hide from Voldemort (I cried here)... when members of the order/harry's friends were all emerging from the painting, ready to fight the death eaters... and when percy came back to the weasleys... when Dobby saved them (but I don't like the dying part) and Ron rescuing Harry at the lake and then the trio got reunited again...

How bout you? What scenes did you like most?