ROTTEN TOMATOES: Yates Plans Harry Potter VI: Half Blood Prince Comments

Yates Plans Harry Potter VI: Half Blood Prince

by Fred Topel | July 19, 2007

Summary

David Yates has just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but he's already planning the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Where Order is an intense film about teenage feelings of isolation, Prince will go to the next level of teenage years. Back to Article

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FoxDragoon writes:
on Jul 19 2007 02:04 AM

In other words, we can expect a lot more "snogging" on the next film.

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AmazingAndrex writes:
on Jul 19 2007 02:15 AM

Lol @ snogging. Just have a sex scene and be done with it for crying out loud. YOU LISTENING TO ME JK?! >:|

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 19 2007 04:31 AM

lol, yeah I live in the UK and snogging is by far my favorite Britishism. They also call it copping off and getting your kit off. Those are for sex though. It really is a different language. Apparently a lot of Brits were shocked they allowed pisspot to stay in the film. Apparently that's a bad word here like fanny.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 19 2007 04:32 AM

In reply to this comment (#946931)
According to "The Onion" There's a date rape scene in the new book.

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Wooby writes:
on Jul 19 2007 04:56 AM

Wooby Plans To Skip Harry Potter VI: Half Blood Prince.

Wake me when somebody removes Yates from this film franchise.

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Mr. Kong writes:
on Jul 19 2007 05:43 AM

Sex and drugs? Wonderful.

(sarcasm)

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adml_shake writes:
on Jul 19 2007 06:37 AM

Well I can't wait to see how bad this movie is butcher.

And theres no rape scene in the new book, I got a the copy of it thats floating around the net.

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Devin1498 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 07:25 AM

Um doesn't sound too good, but hopefully by "different" he means "not suck"

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Vicens17 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 07:41 AM

THERE WILL BE A SEX SCENE!!!

*SPOILER FOR HBP*

Voldemorts slut mother seduces a man with a potion and has sex with him to create Voldemort, while Harry watches! Actually, no he doesnt watch.

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DanielLee8793 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 07:55 AM

Well this guy did the HP movie good, so hopefully he will keep it up with the next one.

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The Witless Wonder writes:
on Jul 19 2007 08:18 AM

Yay! Can't wait to see what he does with it. He did an excellent job on the 5th one and i'm glad to see that the 6th will be an entirely different type of film. Keeps it fresh (unlike going from SS to Cos from Columbus which felt like watching the same exact film).

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The Witless Wonder writes:
on Jul 19 2007 08:21 AM

Yay! Can't wait to see what he does with it. He did an excellent job on the 5th one and i'm glad to see that the 6th will be an entirely different type of film. Keeps it fresh (unlike going from SS to Cos from Columbus which felt like watching the same exact film).

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The Witless Wonder writes:
on Jul 19 2007 08:21 AM

Wow this comment system sucks.

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bobdebicker writes:
on Jul 19 2007 08:45 AM

i call it "banana jammin"

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mojodaddy writes:
on Jul 19 2007 08:50 AM

I thought that Order of the phoenix was the best movie so far. If Yates is directing again, it's good news in my book.

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Landshark writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:03 AM

This will by far be the best one, and will be 10xs darker than Order. Ebert is going to hate it though, since he still wants a little kiddy film.

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DariusVIII writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:13 AM

I think they should bring back Alfonso....5 was my second favorite movie, but 6 is really dark, and no one can do dark like Alfonso.

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DariusVIII writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:14 AM

I think they should bring back Alfonso....5 was my second favorite movie, but 6 is really dark, and no one can do dark like Alfonso.

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DariusVIII writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:15 AM

Wow, and totally agree the new comment system blows....you don't even see your comment when it's added cuz now it doesn't take you to a new page...

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arendr writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:43 AM

There sure are a lot of naysayers here. Potter 5 was the only one I really liked, other than the third film. I only read up to book 5 so I don't really know what's going on in the series right now.

How hilarious would a sex scene be? Harry takes out his wand and says "avara rigidiro!".

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next one with Yates at the helm. There are a lot of other directors who would make a great Potter movie. Del Toro comes to mind.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 19 2007 10:09 AM

In reply to this comment (#947168)
I know, The Onion is a fake internet newspaper like the Daily Show or Colbert Report, but the news snippet is very funny.

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ManofStee1 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 10:24 AM

I'm so glad they're keeping Yates for Book VI, Order of the Phoenix was far and away the best of the bunch so far.

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sr78 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 10:40 AM

[quote]That is, without the drugs.[/quote]

And the sex. And the rock and roll.

Since all adaptations have been pretty faithful to the books up till now, I can't imagine they'd start to invent scenes that aren't in the book. From what I can remember about part 6 there's Harry snogging Ginny once and that's it.

Anyway, the PG-rating (mandatory for every director because of the young audience) for this series would make it rather impossible. I have no clue where Yates is getting all this from; he should resign from the series anyway, the next book is tailormade for Cuaron, he did the best one of the series so far. But he won't get it because Rowling didn't like him...

As for rock and roll, the addition of that guy from Suede in part four was a good find.

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southwick writes:
on Jul 19 2007 10:52 AM

In reply to this comment (#947566)
[quote] This will by far be the best one, and will be 10xs darker than Order. Ebert is going to hate it though, since he still wants a little kiddy film.[/quote]

Ebert didn't ask for a kiddy film, he just asked for the magic to be brought back.
Yates took out almost all of the little things that had made the past films so great, and it lost some of its magic. The whole movie felt almost cramped, with a tiny cast, and too little time spent on anyone but Harry. Hopefully he learns from his mistakes, and his next film won't be the LOWEST RATED film in the bunch .

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Exode writes:
on Jul 19 2007 10:53 AM

Other than recasting Ginny is there anyway you think that they would write the relationship between the two out of the next film? After all, she doesn't look to be aging as fast as Harry and I do believe Harry might be sent to Azkaban for that one if you know what I mean.

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arendr writes:
on Jul 19 2007 11:28 AM

In reply to this comment (#948185)
I agree that the movie felt cramped, although it seemed to me that it was trimmed a bit much in editing. But it was still a great ride, and much better than the previous film.

Ebert's a decent reviewer, but he has strange opinions sometimes. It's like he finds one weird reason to like or dislike a movie, and then he focuses only on that. It's like it clouds his ability to fairly judge the film.

Does he not understand that as you get older, the "magic" does disappear? The world does get darker as you age.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 19 2007 11:32 AM

In reply to this comment (#948203)
It's alright they have a bit of time before filming and she's hitting that age where most little girls start to grow up very quickly. Watch PoA and GoF and look how much Emma Watson has grown. Plus I think the little girl they have playing Ginny has done a bang up job so far even though they've seriously reduced her part. What she does she does well.

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bookworm1994 writes:
on Jul 19 2007 03:47 PM

Wow.

Let's see: Harry and Hermione have a casual date when they suddenly start making out and find themselves naked in bed. Next morning, that freaky newspaper girl publishes an article and the Ministry of Magic kicks Harry and Hermione out. On the Hogwarts Express home, the train crashes and they die. Interesting way to end book 7, eh?

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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on Jul 19 2007 05:59 PM

Yates made the worst movie so far. I can only hope he doesn't butcher the next one as well. If the Inferi scene is ruined by him, then heads wil roll.

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Bob* writes:
on Jul 19 2007 06:41 PM

In reply to this comment (#947533)
I second that :)

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Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Jul 19 2007 09:49 PM

In reply to this comment (#949610)
He probably had the hardest movie to make given the relatively ponderous source material. Unfortunately, Book 6 has similar pacing... That'll be the nice thing about 7... the pacing will be necessarily quickened so that she can wrap up everything.

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Wedge Rockett writes:
on Jul 20 2007 06:35 AM

Phoenix was a lowpoint in an otherwise fine movie series. Get rid of Yates, he has no idea and skips character for the sake of action.

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nevermachine writes:
on Jul 20 2007 11:17 AM

What they need to do, in my humble opinion, is bring back Dave McKean as lead art director! He%u2019s the reason Prisoner went so dark! (Which certainly set the tone from there on out- order was not nearly dark enough or scary at all for that matter) He drew the marauders map! He is one of my favorite artists and I hope that he gets the chance to work on some of these next films! Oh, if you are not familiar with him, check out Mirror mask, or any of the Sandman comic cover illustrations.

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master baker writes:
on Jul 20 2007 05:41 PM

In reply to this comment (#946970)
wow people are right when they say that the UK has a complete different language there

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kentatm writes:
on Jul 22 2007 07:42 PM

In reply to this comment (#947987)
[quote]Anyway, the PG-rating (mandatory for every director because of the young audience) for this series would make it rather impossible. I have no clue where Yates is getting all this from; he should resign from the series anyway, the next book is tailormade for Cuaron, he did the best one of the series so far. But he won't get it because Rowling didn't like him...[/quote]

the last two flicks have been PG13.

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The Bastard writes:
on Jul 22 2007 09:44 PM

In reply to this comment (#946926)
the pacing in every movie since chamber of secrets has been terrible. too much information packed into 2 1/2 hours. the end of goblet of fire was butchered, but not nearly to the extent order of the phoenix was. they lobbed off parts of subplots that made them relevant to the overall plot, thus rendering the subplots irrelevant.

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frizguru writes:
on Jul 23 2007 07:54 PM

All I know after reading them all and following it for years, is that there is no reason to make it less then 2 or 2.5 hours long. The books are long enough, and there is more then enough in the books to reproduce on film. While Yates can be commended for taking on a hit after others have succeeded, and was able to pull it off, he also let down a large portion of hard-core fans. They should not be worried about keeping them short or cutting things out just because they were not built up on others, or they do not see them to be important. I could guarantee that it would still be a box office smash if it was 3 hours long, look at other book-turned-movie releases, Lord of the Rings for example.

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Jack the MOnkey 314 writes:
on Jul 23 2007 07:54 PM

what exactly is snogging

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Bigbrother writes:
on Jul 24 2007 08:01 AM

In reply to this comment (#967716)
Kissing. Used in the British context..."I was caught snogging the fishwife by some cheeky git" or "Give us a snog then missus" or "That chippie would snog her own brovah if there was a quid in it for'er"

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knowingtoast85 writes:
on Jul 24 2007 12:44 PM

Somebody mentioned that the rock-and-roll singer from "Goblet" was a good addition. It was one of the worst things I've ever seen committed to film. No exaggeration.

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Jack the MOnkey 314 writes:
on Jul 24 2007 03:36 PM

what exactly is snogg ing

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The Bastard writes:
on Jul 25 2007 03:22 PM

In reply to this comment (#969292)
dude, you got your answer like three posts ago...

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Chynadoll70 writes:
on Aug 12 2007 01:37 PM

I am in 100% agreement that Order of the Phoenix was a terrible film. Let's not even worry about all the stuff they left out (which is about 70% of the book). This film lacked continuity to the previous 4. None of the locations looked the same. Even Sirius in the fire was completely different from the last film, and I don't even want to talk about how the dementors were different. The new characters were seriously under developed, and some of the scenes didn't even take place in the book. The new screen writer did an absolute horrible job of writing this film. I hope Steve Kloves comes back as the screen writer for HBP. He did the screen play for the first 4 films, and even though there were differences from the books, they were no where NEAR the complete butchering this film was. HBP is my favorite book of the series, and I'm not even sure I want to go see the film considering the disaster this one was. Yates and Goldenberg missed the mark on this one.....BIG time!

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Tommy F writes:
on Feb 15 2008 02:53 PM

Im quite pleased with with yates being the director (there hasnt been a good one scince colombo ; apart from ootp) and im glad hes macking chnages as u can feel the change in the books

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Tommy F writes:
on Feb 15 2008 02:59 PM

true - the ootp was abit different from the book bt not as bad as 3 and 4 and i think 5 works in corolation to the books

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