The Great Harry Potter Liveblog Experiment (Finally!) Concludes: The Half-Blood Prince
Somehow, I had never seen a Harry Potter movie before yesterday. Continuing through today I will watch all six films leading up to tonight's preview screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. And I will liveblog the entire experience because, well, why not? I'll be checking the comments if you have any words of explanation or encouragement. Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix are down -- this f*cking thing is finally almost over! Let's start Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Seriously, thanks to everyone who read and/or commented to help get me through. I can't believe it; I've seen every Harry Potter movie! Onward to Deathly Hallows tonight!
5:44 p.m. End credits!! It's over!! (Well, except for tonight.)
5:41 p.m. OK, so tonight's movie will be about finding this R.A.B. fellow, I suppose.
5:38 p.m. I feel that Avada Kedavra sounds too much like Abra Cadabra -- which is also a bad Steve Miller Band song.
5:35 p.m. So Snape is a bad guy after all? I guess I should have seen that coming since, well, he's played by Alan Rickman.
5:32 p.m. Who would win in a fight, Draco or Drago from Rocky?
5:26 p.m. Will drinking an immense amount of liquid potion cause frequent restroom breaks? Is it like really hot chicken wings? Where it's painful on the other end, too?
5:20 p.m. Just a note to anyone who happens to run into me in person tonight: I may be a little on edge.
5:15 p.m. Hey, Dumbledore just mentioned the events from The Chamber of Secrets. And I knew what he was talking about.
5:10 p.m. Who would win a battle of The Chosen Ones? Harry Potter or Anakin Skywalker?
5:02 p.m. I feel this is a completely different movie than the ones I started watching yesterday.
4:59 p.m. I actually think it would have been really great if Harry would have just killed Malfoy right there. Ah, stupid healing spell. That was a pretty fantastic scene.
4:55 p.m. What are the odds that WB will let me take my laptop into the screening tonight? A seventh live blog? Why not?
4:49 p.m. Now I feel bad suggesting that considering it appears that Ron is dying.
4:45 p.m. Did Harry just catch Ron masturbating? That smile he had on his face looked like a masturbation smile. Do wizards do that? Or is there a spell for that?
4:42 p.m. By the way, I am REALLY struggling.
4:39 p.m. Really? there's no spell for "put out a house fire"?
4:35 p.m. Oh, I see, Voldemort is a play on his name ... got it. (Thanks, Marty.)
@milessilverberg Seamus should take that act on the road. It's pretty funny.
4:26 p.m. I like how Harry is getting cocky about being "the chosen one." I feel that I would be cocky about that, too.
4:18 p.m. I'm watching the dinner scene where Horace asks Hermione about her muggle parents. Muggles seem like such afterthoughts in these movies. Are they still causing wars? Curing diseases? Watching Burn Notice? Is life going on as we know it?
4:12 p.m. OK, the scene involving Katie Bell was quite disturbing. It looked like something that belonged in Black Swan.
4:06 p.m. I feel if Quidditch were real, I would not be very good at it.
4:02 p.m. I could never come up with something that evil sounding. If I were evil and had to change my name, it would wind of being something like Knucklebun or Scoodlehip. See, there's no way that would work.
4:00 p.m. I have to give Tom Riddle credit for choosing the name Voldemort. It is an ominous sounding name.
3:55 p.m. Another Harry Potter drinking game: Every time something explodes in a student's face which turns said student's face black and causes his hair to shoot straight up.
3:53 p.m. Here's what I keep forgetting: I have a whole other one of these to sit through tonight.
3:49 p.m. Why does the dark arts professor change every year? I feel I wouldn't unpack my bags if I took over that position.
3:41 p.m. It's nice to see that Malfoy has finally completed his transformation into a British, more d*ckish, Owen Wilson.
3:39 p.m. I feel there has to be a better way to get to Hogwarts than train. Why can't they just use the method they used to get to the World Cup?
3:36 p.m. My god, the guys who play Ron's brothers have aged about 30 years over the course of these films.
3:32 p.m. During Sorcerer's Stone I mentioned that I used to think that Dumbledore was pronounced Dumbledorf. In my defense, half the time it does sound like they're saying Dumbledorf. Especially Emma Watson.
3:28 p.m. Horace just said, "I taught the whole Black family," while talking about Sirius. That line made me think of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
3:26 p.m. I admire that Harry hasn't updtated his glasses to the hipper square look. Good for him.
3:23 p.m. I thnk I like Gambon better as Dumbledore. Is that wrong to say? I feel he's less cranky.
3:21 p.m. Ha. Dumbledore looks like a buffoon dressed like that on a train platform. Kind of how baseball players look silly wearing their uniform not on a baseball field.
3:15 p.m. I haven't had a lot of human contact over the last 29 hours. I'm afraid that I'm going to become one of those weird Americans who develop an accent after spending too much time around British people.
3:09 p.m. I thought a preview was the start of the movie. It was a preview for a Harry Potter video game. I was thinking that the effects had really gone down hill since the last film ... but had also improved in some areas. Alas....
3:05 p.m. Here's what is weird to me: I just went from one of those "have never seen a Harry Potter" people to now almost being a "have seen every Harry Potter" person. Neither feels quite right.
PREVIOUSLY
· Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
· Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
· Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
· Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
· Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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I can tell you right now, without even seeing you, that you are significantly more awesome than you were before yesterday. And after you finish HBP, we can talk about which house you'd be sorted into.
Are you still going to have time to shower and put on something nice and get to the screening? Are you on schedule?
I think that I'm looking for a Jerry Springer closing thought after you finish this puppy! You still haven't really addressed if you might be changing into a Harry Potter fan - nor if you drank last night to drown out the first 1/2 of your marathon
I may smell, but I will be there.
The least faithful adaptation. Yet I loved it. LOVED it. Why?
It's gorgeous. Should have won the Oscar for cinematography.
Somehow they smuggled a British new wave film meets moody gothic Hammer-style movie in the guise of a summer blockbuster. I approve.
Quidditch as a character moment for Ron, instead of just being there only because it was in the books.
Better executed than in the book: Malfoy being the yang to Harry's yin.
Phallic imagery all up in this mother! Said quidditch scene is rife with them such as when Ron figuratively waves his big dick around... that's our Ron. Or when that other kid strokes his enormous broom when looking at Hermione (dirty movie, I saw what you did).
Loss of innocence imagery. Hey, Malfoy, I see you eating that sinful apple. That gal leading Ron up the staircase... Hello, Hogwarts hallway BJs!
Joseph Conrad would approve of the literal 'baptism of fire' that happens in the movie. Seriously, it's there.
I'm a sucker for coming-of-age/death-of-childhood movies. This one was more like the magical equivalent of Freaks and Geeks, Adventureland, etc. so I dug it a lot.
Easy way to get hammered: make a drinking game whenever the sexual undertones (or is that overtones?) surface.
I am tending to agree with a post from two movies ago: how are you managing to take in the movies while typing a comment every few minutes, responding to other comments, going to pee . . .? I know you are treating this as an endurance contest, but did you like any of them?
I really have a fondness for all of them because it is remarkable to me that the producers were able to retain (mostly) the same cast for a series of movies which really did not suck. I mean, really, even the first two were not terrible in the great scheme of things.
And yes, I do prefer the Yates movies, although I am not especially looking forward to the next two, because that book was a little unfocused.
Oh, good.
Well, I'm kind of used to taking notes during a film. Only this time I have to (attempt) to spell check them first. I enjoyed the third film and the fifth film. This one seems good so far.
"I’m afraid that I’m going to become one of those weird Americans who develop an accent after spending too much time around British people."
Like Madonna?
Or Gwyneth Paltrow for awhile. Before she became a Country Western star.
I don't know if your question has been answered yet but the DAtDA position is cursed. No teacher ever lasts more than a year there. Voldemort wanted the position back when he was Tom Riddle+when he didnt get it, he cursed it.
i double checked my facts b/c i didnt know exactly. 2nd paragraph: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Defence_Against_the_Dark_Arts
Ah! Thanks!
Re: the drinking game (thanks for mentioning my work!) where someone's face turns black from an exploding potion or spell: that's specifically Seamus Finnigan's thing. Kid can't cut a break.
RE: 4:06 p.m. I feel if Quidditch were real, I would not be very good at it.
- um... guess what.. it sort of is. I suggest for your next blog you spend a week with the Emerson Quidditch team. They take it very seriously haha
Ok, I think your comments have been hilarious and I've enjoyed your commentary for the past 2 days! Thank you! Enjoy Deathly Hallows part 1 tonight! Can't wait to hear your review of it tomorrow.
My niece used to think I was cool until the day I asked her if she had seen or read about Harry Potter and the Half BloodED Prince. My bad.
It should be noted that the attack on the Burrow wasn't in the books, so I can't be sure about this, but it seems like the Death Eaters would use Fiendfyre--cursed fire caused by Dark Magic that can't be put out using the Augamenti charm (which creates water).
If I were dying, I would masturbate constantly!! And since you can make an argument that we ARE dying, pardon me...
Harry would totally beat Anakin, as long as he was quick about it. His wand would enable him to keep a safe distance, and his invisibility cloak would give him the element of surprise. As soon as he got within light saber's distance though, he'd be screwed.
I think you are becoming a fan. After tonight you'll be reading the books.
Yeah, but a Jedi can sense people.
Hmmmm...
this was very fun to read, mike. so after all that are we gonna get an epilogue on if you actually liked each movie or not? im sure the 6 movies in 2 days means you're not very happy right now but they didn't all suck,right?
Hey, thanks! I will have something for tomorrow after I've seen Deathly Hollows.
She did the Avada Kedavra/Abra Cadabra thing on purpose.
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