Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sean Tiffin

Review by Sean Tiffin

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009
★★★ Liked

Rewatched 18 Dec 2024

This one is chill. It is inoffensive. Soundstages and fake outdoor environments are less prevalent in this than in the previous couple ones because it almost all takes place at the castle and everyone is mostly chillin. There’s very little action in this one, just Ron playing Quidditch (fuck Ron btw; one of the worst characters in anything ever). We’re chillin. Dumbledore is back for one more year and has put up extra forcefield spells around the castle so everybody can have one more chill normal year at Hogwarts before it all goes crazy next year. The color grade on this is warmer. Instead of gray sludge it’s like brown mud. Soft brown mud. It looks like an Apple TV show. It’s pleasant if you can settle into the morphine drip vibe. Good to pop an Ambien to or smoke a jay. Even when Dumbledore dies at the end it’s pretty chilled out. Also Dumbledore and Harry are kind of like peers in this one which I like, they’re like buddy cops on the beat.

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