Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has some of the worst cinematography I have ever seen. There is not a single shot in this movie where everything doesn’t look grey and washed out. I have no clue how this got nominated for a cinematography Oscar because it looks awful.
That’s not to say that Half-Blood Prince is a bad movie, though; the book is my favourite in the series. It does a great job adapting a lot of the parts of the book, with Snape killing Dumbledore, I think Slughorn is done great, the introduction of the horcruxes is done well, and it is overall just a good plot. I do think the movie focuses a bit too much on the love stories between Ginny and Harry and the triangle between Hermione, Ron and Lavender, but it wasn’t that bad plot-wise, rather the chemistry between the actors just felt so unnatural as they had been friends for so long, especially Harry and Ginny, every scene they had together made me cringe from second-hand embarrassment. But the actors do their best to try and make it as awkward as possible, and they do a great job in the rest of the movie, too.
Overall, Half-Blood Prince is a movie that, while having a decent to good plot, is weighed down by some of the worst colour grading I have ever seen in all of cinema. We give Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a 64%.
