The Half Blood Prince and the Woe of the Earphones. And Bleach Too...

So yeah, I went to go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince today. I went in not expecting much, due to the fact that all the movies since Prisoner of Azkaban have been off-the-wall lame and not as good. It's safe to say that I was slightly surprised and thoroughly impressed by the movie I saw today. They kept pretty close to the book, although I was a tad disappointed that they left out the scene between the Minister of Magic and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The visual effects were stunning and the blue-grey filter over the entire film made it a great piece of eye-candy as far as attracting views for its cinematic thrills. The actors have also matured and possibly gotten even better. Tom Felton [Draco Malfoy] had his perfect chance to shine in this movie, and did wonderfully so. The legendary Alan Rickman [Severus Snape] also had his chance to rise up to the front of the cast. He does well with showing all of Snape's conflicting emotions throughout the movie. All I can say is that I cannot wait for Deathly Hallows and the role that Snape will have in that. [The Prince's Tale anyone? The absolute best chapter Rowling has ever forked out] Bonnie Wright [Ginny Weasley] was also impressive as well, plus she looked way more grown up. There wasn't too much romance thrown into the movie either, which was a bonus.

One thing that happened that arose a love-hate relationship with this movie was the Burrow scene. As most fans know, the Burrow is the title of the place where the Weasley's reside. In the movie, over Christmas holidays Bellatrix Lestrange and Ferinir Greyback attack the house and its residents, burning the Burrow to the ground. Harry had a nice epic fight scene against the two, plus Ginny was thrown in there as well.

In conclusion, I can safely say that the Half-Blood Prince is the best rendition of the Harry Potter movie franchise yet. Sure it was not perfect, but it was pretty darn good. I give it a 9/10. I really recommend seeing it, even if you are a rabid book fan. I adore the books and I still enjoyed the movie, finding minor faults with it.



I swear, I am about fed up with the earphones for my iPod. Seriously, are these things that damn fragile? I don't mistreat them, yet on ALL of them the left earpiece has gone out. I got some nice Koss ones like these, only to have them stop working three months later. All right, that's okay. Then I get some old Phillips out that I never used. Five weeks later the left ear goes out in them as well. Finally I have some that a friend lended to me, but I feel that I'm listening on borrowed time. How long will it be before one of the earpieces goes out? RAWR!!! These headphone companies need to stop making them so freakin' fragile. People are going to store their iPods in pockets and the earphones will be flopping everywhere, so shouldn't they be more durable?




And I think it's pretty much safe to say that Tite Kubo is going downhill with Bleach. I just finished reading Chapter 366 and found that it was kind of boring. Yes action is nice, but when it's just showing off Hollow forms of Viazards that I've already seen, I don't want to see it yet again. I want to see some other action. It seems like Ichigo and his strange fight with Ulquiorra has just been blown over and forgotten about, as well as Yammy's big revelation about being the Cero Espada. Come on, show me something good. This manga needs to finish, it's not Dragonball Z so it cannot keep going.

Meh, I'm sleepy.