Harry Potter and the Teaser Trailer!
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008AOL has an exclusive look at the Teaser Trailer for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince! Check it out!
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Oh goshy… that looks super of the tops. :)
I just hope it’s better than Phoenix. I really didn’t care for it. Azkaban was still the best though. (It’s also my favorite of the books though….)
I’m so glad to find someone that didn’t like Phoenix. I lost nearly all my anticipation for more movies when I heard the same director would be finishing the series. Like you, Azkaban was my favorite movie. Though it wasn’t my favorite book (Mostly because I went from movie to book, and found it didn’t capture the time travel element so well as it had on screen).
Still, I must admit that this trailer looked pretty freaking good. But then again, I thought that the Phoenix trailer looked good too.
Azkaban is still the best. No question.
I really liked Phoenix, but it is definitely rushed, and they definitely cut out some good stuff.
This teaser looks very interesting. I like how they focus on one plot aspect rather than trying to show a ton of different stuff from the entire movie. I also think the kid they got to play the young Tom Riddle looks appropriately creepy.
I actually found Phoenix to be easily the best of the movies released so far, with Azkaban a close second.
I have mixed feelings about OotP. I really loved some parts but the second half of the movie and the ministry part felt choppy or rushed like someone else said. I loved PoA, my best friend hated it. I think I’d have a hard time selecting a favorite, but I know that CoS and PS would be my least favourites (same with the books). I was most disappointed with Harry and DD’s talk at the end of OotP. It was almost non-existent.
I loved the HBP teaser though. I liked how the showed the main theme of the book, with some other things thrown in. We see Ron after he got poisoned, the ring, DD fighting off the inferi, and Ginny looking freaked which I am assuming is the added scene at the Burrow. I am not sure what I think of the pensive part. Instead of it being wispy smoke like memories they looks like water.
Goblet of Fire and Azkaban tie for me as my favorite Potter movies. Azkaban is probably the best one on a technical level, but Goblet is also very good, and it has a dragon in it. :)
However, the last two books are my favorites in the series, so I hope the movies do them justice.
Pheonix was also a favorite of mine
Phoenix was a very disapointing film, for me it was the best book but the film lost all the best bits from the book. Azkaban rules, I got to see some of the sets from the new film, they really captured the spirit of the books, I’m interested.
Wow, I thought Pheonix was the worst book, but the “worst” Potter book is still awesome. To me, the “Pheonix” movie benifited from the trimmed subplots. If you look at Book 5, its 800 pages of waiting. SPEW, Ron on the Quidditch team, all of that makes for great reading, but kind of dull watching. The director cut away the fat and went straight for the heart of the story, which I admired.
Also, to be light on spoilers, if Dobby isn’t in this movie, he shouldn’t be in “Deathly Hallows.” It’d just be weird. It’d be like if Peeves suddenlly popped up in the movie.
You see, I felt the 5th book went a lot deeper into the mythology of the HP world, that really interested me.
Yeah, but as a narrative, it’s kind of slow. To me at least
This movie Im not sure about. Im gonna have to see more trailers before I make up my mind on it. I feel like this director doesnt get the haryy potter world. like he never actually read the books or something.
I differ from most people when it comes to the movies. I liked each movie less then the previous since POA. The change in style is just too much for me to enjoy them as a series.
I liked Ootp best as a book too, so the movie drove me crazy. but a lot of fans seem to love it so to each his own I guess.
My least favorite book is actually the last one. Which I’m sure since it’s still so close to it’s release that it’s still most people’s favorite. But still, it just didn’t do it for me. Some great stuff happened, but overall, I just didn’t dig it. Other than that, I’m not sure I have a favorite book.
As I said, Azkaban is hands down my favorite movie. Hands down my favorite scene is from that movie too. When Hermione punches Draco. Perfect. My second favorite is actually Goblet. The theme, I think, is that both of those movies benefit from being hollywood-ified. The time travel stuff works really well on screen. The Quidditch Cup was brilliant on screen. The Dragon battles were totally over the top and much more memorable in the theaters. I can see that being a drawback for some people. But for me, increased my enjoyment tenfold while offering something more than even the books could offer. Plus, any movie with David Tennant gets bonus points. :)
This trailer, as I said, actually looks pretty good. But this has always been the movie I’ve worried the most about. It has a lot of “explainy” parts that are pretty vital to the story. But they have to be done just right in any movie. Meanwhile, I think that the last book (And I thought OotP before it, but I was wrong) can benefit the most from a movie. Because it can cut out some of the slower book moments that I felt could have been toned down to begin with, and focus more on some of the action and character scenes.
Cuaran actually “got” HP in my opinion and it’s a damn shame he couldn’t have done the whole series. It was the little things too… like, the kids’s uniforms were messy. That just wasn’t there in the other movies. The way magic was just sorta everyday, happens to be there. Even the color and ‘look’ of the movie. And it was my favorite ending with Harry getting his Firebolt.
OotP was just too rushed and no one really felt like they were feeling it. It felt very phoned in.
For me, HBP is really all about the romances, so as long as that gets done right I’ll be happy. :)
@Sunshine: Funny you mention the color of the movie. That was one of my big problems with OotP. It just felt way too dark in a color palette way. And far, far too rushed. Not nearly as rushed as The Golden Compass, mind you. But still far too rushed.
@TotallyNotNick, SPEW was in GoF. I am glad it got cut. For OotP I wish they would have cut Grawp and left in Ron, Quidditch, and Weasley Is My King. I am hoping it gets put in to HBP. I agree about Dobby. How can non book readers understand? I was thinking they may use Kreacher. But still it wouldn’t be nearly the same.
I feel that the dark colour palette in the film of Order of the Phoenix reflects the impending doom which really begins to take hold from book/film 5 onwards. I really didn’t rate Phoneix as a book but I thought it was by far the best film: the plot was pared down, the colour palette was exciting and the direction was interesting.
Although I love the book PoA – I don’t really like the film that much. It felt too ‘ploddy’ to me and I really didn’t like the transitions of the seasons. However, I do love Gary Oldman and David Thewlis!
They are putting “Ron Plays in Quidditch” in Movie Six, which I’m excited about. Rupert Grint deserves something fun to do. (Besides making out with Lavender Brown. Zing!) I really liked Alfonso’s version, but I think David Yates did a great job as well. In fact, I think he nailed the “just kids going to school” aspect, and that the kids never seemed so natural. I loved how they had rock songs playing
on the radio, I loved the scenes where Harry, Ron and Hermione were just hanging out, I loved the introduction of Luna Lovegood and now that I think about it, it features the funniest scene in the whole series:
Hermione: Do you ever stop eating?
Ron:(Mouth full of food) What? I’m hungry.
just the way that played out, it was so John Hughes that I almost forgot they were wizards.
@silverlark: If that’s what they were intending to get across, they did it horribly, IMO. I understand the thought there, but I just don’t think that’s an excuse for making everything so completely dark. Dark, mind you. Not dreary, not depressing. Just dark. Bleh.
But that’s not my only problem with the film. I also thought a lot of the acting in the movie was it’s lowest in the series. I think it may have been because of the fast-forward button being hit in the movie, but overall, I just thought a lot of potentially cool scenes got watered down. Plus, yeah, some freaking cool scenes got left out.
The scene in the end in Dumbledors office is my favorite part of the book. Turning it into a calm conversation cheapened it, and made it feel like they didnt get the characters so they just used it for a chance for some exposition. There were more problems I had with the movies pacing and feel, but that scene alone ruined the movie for me.
This trailer was better than just that voiceover trailer. That one was lame.