The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) MOVIE REVIEW!!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:39 When it comes to these So thank you We just watched Harry Potter And the Half Blood Prince A.k.a. Harry Potter 6 Um Yeah Wow

Starting point is 00:01:52 What a time that was Friendly reminder all of our reactions for science fiction fantasy go up sci-fi sunda is what we call that day sci-fi fantasy sundays uh yeah man wow well let's have a dialogue here i was aware that dumbledore dies at some point um i definitely didn't know the details I was like what how by why or what I didn't until at the very end when Malfoy was there and I was like oh my god he has to he has to kill him yeah yeah uh that became clear that was uh that was an experience um I I feel I put that one pretty high up there is one of um I don't know top three of the six somewhere there yeah I thought that was a really great one yeah I love that one I would agree with you I think that of the dark side of it is also very realistic in what we are dealing with in the wizarding world with Voldemort being a part of this world now and I think they they realistically

Starting point is 00:03:11 set up the shots and the environment to make us feel like Voldemort is looming now at all times. yeah i think this one checks a lot of boxes and i think like just a random starting point i think this is daniel radcliffe's best job he's done in all them it's like he might have had you know bigger emotional moments in other ones that he's had to do uh but i think as just an overall performance with a with a range and and just seeming completely natural throughout where i'm like damn he really is just harry potter now um i mean he has been for a while and but he's gotten stronger every movie but for some reason this particular one his performance just from beginning to end i think that i think that's the difference with this one is like i don't feel like he needed some big

Starting point is 00:04:10 moment to truly shine he just kind of seemed like he was shining the entire time even in small moments small like subtle moments um pleasant moments even that he just seemed like a so full three dimensional that this to me is the best work he's done since the last movie but like he's just so he's so good in this movie i i loved him in this one a lot yeah i think i think honestly what they did was they showed him and his strengths because he has grown a lot but i was going to mention this when he's crying over dumbledore they did the the shot the right way right where you don't see his full face like crying uh i still i'm not sure that you know him as an actor can really make maybe make that feel very realistic and one where they had a close up i was like

Starting point is 00:05:00 i don't really believe it they did a nice job of just he's in the shadows always sees his head down kind of the top of his head so we don't have to be forced in that perspective of like is he giving it or is he not it's like no just don't shoot it if the actor can't fully give that to you And I don't know, maybe he could. But if he couldn't, then I think that that's why David Yates was like, no, we'll just go here. You just do your crying thing. We're not going to know whether you are or not, which I think because all the rest of it, he was comedic, dramatic, dramatic, subtle, just like it was very good. I think the things that will actually get me more to get emotional are more usually when.

Starting point is 00:05:48 there's like a the the subtext of of anguish the hidden pain it was when it wasn't really when dumbledore was like falling it's like the thing that broke me in the last movie was him saying say oh hey he called him by his dad's name right yeah he called him james and then he died it's like that that that hint of like so much um grief in that one that one line of missing him is the thing that gets to me and then and then the part that got me was him like attacking snape and being like fight back you cow like harry's like it's getting me right now it's like um i need this like i need like you i need like he's trying to unleash it's coming out in anger and wrath but underneath that is just so much loss that he's like trying to engage in pain right now and that's the part that really when he started saying that you know

Starting point is 00:06:44 and it's kind of bigger to me than just uh than a scene if he is just bawling you know um crying hysterically like there was something about that particular delivery of just the betrayal and everything there like feeling the the whole sense of feeling like he knew snake this whole time was this guy and he completely betrayed dumbledore um yeah that that that loss that i really feel like that that line of like fight back you coward and then how he's just charging it at him that was the part that really started breaking me down. Yeah, it was, you know, just Harry seeking vengeance for the man who made everyone feel safe. And it's sort of like really made Hogwarts what is Hogwarts.

Starting point is 00:07:29 And I like that he was yelled at first, he trusted you. I think at a narrative perspective, it's smart to get to actually kill Lofdumoldor. I think narratively it's smart because you ruin that sense of safety. and this is the it's technically the second to last movie because the next ones are two part one and part two oh really yeah so we get two more after this

Starting point is 00:07:56 there's two more movies oh make better but it's that make one one okay yeah like the way how like a lot of I think it was my one would have been I've been the first movie to do that first franchise to do a part one and part two then all all the other adaptations started started doing it and I was not the first one to do a part one part to i'm saying it's the first like adaptation where i started becoming like a norm becoming a thing

Starting point is 00:08:16 yeah yeah um and and so yeah i think it's smart though to really position harry where everything rests on him instead of like there's always kind of a sense that have dumbledors around everything's going to be fine yep harry felt that way even when harry's pulled into the water or the marshes wherever the hell that place was um dumbled doors the one who saves his ass completely weakened And Dumbledore still manages to pull out the greatest magic of all time and save Harry. Yeah. And so it is a smart narrative choice to get rid of him. It doesn't make it any less heartbreaking.

Starting point is 00:08:52 Right. I just think it makes for your overall story, killing off Dumbledore is a really smart maneuver. I think what they did very well in this with that is that obviously the power is now transferring to Harry, Hermione, Ron. but what they said earlier in the film they've done it many a times is why whenever there's trouble it's you three and they're and it ron says yeah i've been asking myself that for the last six years that sets us up as a pod who is is always found together like in the trouble so that when we see them at the end it's like yeah of course you're not harry's not gonna go alone and now they they will really sort of have to prove through their friendship and different strengths, I hope that we'll see in the next one, meaning like different strengths come from Ron, Hermione, and Harry.

Starting point is 00:09:48 And now it's going to be almost maybe like the adventure that he had with Dumbledore, but now he does it with his friends. But it's going to be taking a lot more seriously. They're going to have to like adult up because of what they're going to be dealing with. So I'm interested to see how they all hand. it because we did not really get to see the three of them together

Starting point is 00:10:12 this movie well I'd slightly push back I feel like I feel like we didn't really I feel it sounds like the next one they would be together like all the time because they're hunting for horrockses in the next year from the setup of this

Starting point is 00:10:29 I actually feel like we got more of the trio this time around than we have in the since like the second or third movie like I kind of feel like it's been a little bit absent in the movies yeah and this one I really I got this like he spends a lot of time with Ron he spends a lot of time with Hermione yeah there's not a lot where it's just the three of them because of what's going on with Hermione and Ron but he he does spend an awful lot of time with them this time around and versus like I don't feel like he really did that in order of Phoenix or a goblet of fire

Starting point is 00:11:03 called it fire for understandably he was in the he was in the tournament um an order of phoenix you know it gets parapleg like they're around but it's usually a big group setting and this time around i was like oh he's has a lot of like solo scenes with them yeah um even even with like daniel rag clip i mean with uh ron and harry discussing romantic stuff yeah and attraction and love and Hermione with her, you know, Ron, heartbreak, hardship stuff dealing with jealousy. Yeah. Those elements.

Starting point is 00:11:41 I felt like that was such a prevalent. That's the thing is I've, it seemed like sometimes they are just a supporting characters because they're Harry's friends. Whereas it really seemed like it was a big plot. That's like one of the plots of the movie this time is, yeah. It is what is going on with the three.

Starting point is 00:11:59 of them particularly what's going on with ron and hermite is a plot and then you have like the jenny romance in there which kind of surprises me because jenny's like so freaking confident she's just so so so confident and i i guess i didn't realize i must have failed to see her character arcing into that like the way she just kind of commands a room when harry's in it of when she first almost kisses him right ties his shoes then when she does actually kiss him like close your eyes and like she's in control the smooth talk that she has uh i did i mean she pulled out some like badass power maneuvers in the past but we haven't really spent much time with her in the franchise like in terms of like dedicated scenes

Starting point is 00:12:47 i just did not notice how like confident she is right but i like that i prefer it um versus like another shy girl uh the woman in the in this world tend to be pretty like strong women yeah i think so just dogged on me that it's a uh ridden by a woman this the the franchise yeah jk rally yeah and there's this screenplay writers i feel like i usually see a guy's name and and men have only men have directed this franchise yeah true it's really interesting that's interesting i wonder if there's like a blend of perspective of gender in that way where you're able to actually, because at the end of the main character is a boy

Starting point is 00:13:33 and the main characters tend to be men. Yeah. It doesn't feel like a female book, but this is one of those franchises that seems to equally affect both men and women. I agree. So there's something kind of cool about that. In like power positions.

Starting point is 00:13:48 Yeah. It's not just men or women, right? It does a good job of mixing it. Especially because you see us right away. You know, it's Dumbledore. And then even at the end, you know, it's Maggie Rose. the one in the sky she's another powerful figure in this story right if we're even just

Starting point is 00:14:05 talking about like the the cast yeah um but then i in you mentioning that i'll go back just like the most heartbreaking moment obviously yes summedore dying but i'm saying before that is the way hermione looked at ron after he said you've got some on her face she she wipes it off she's a bit embarrassed and then she looks at him and that is like when you know that him not getting it is actually really hurting her yeah which i really appreciated finally getting us there and they're doing a really good job of holding it off probably till the end yeah right and that is i mean when you think about it people say the office is one of the best love stories they've ever seen between Jim and Pam.

Starting point is 00:15:03 How long did that go on for a really long time? And that's what made it. That tension there, that feeling, obviously they're good. Other people come in the way of them getting together. When it resides on us, the audience, knowing that they are meant for each other, you cannot fulfill that until the end. That's what makes great writing. But I really just loved Hermione's response.

Starting point is 00:15:28 and I thought we really got to see Ron in his comedic side really do such a great job when he's under the love potion. I mean, that was funny. There was some very funny moments in this. Even when Harry goes, when he goes the pointers or whatever, and he's like, I was like, what? Okay, this is, it's funny. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked,

Starting point is 00:15:54 but for each individual one, I really like that we spent time on. Hermione is obviously in love with Ron. Ron has a chance to get with this girl. This girl is obsessed with him. He finally feels like, wow, this is fun. And you see him talking, what her and I have. It's never going to end.

Starting point is 00:16:12 It's just, I can't explain it. And then cut to him being obviously very over it. And then talking, the reveal of him saying, Hermione, in his sleep, I love it. Well, I think attraction, youth, understanding attraction is an established theme early on in this movie when harry is you know hitting on that girl or she hits on him with a newspaper at the very beginning it's setting up so it's like i think this is the movie that where that theme it's it's kind of there throughout all the movies but this is

Starting point is 00:16:46 the one where i feel like it it really has a presence as part of establishing their youth and i and as you were talking it dawned on me the um like the mad respect that I feel like should be given to particularly every actor who has been in here since the first movie because normally what you see in a lot of franchises is actors get to a point where they start phoning it because they're kind of sick of doing it if they've been doing this every single year right for the past like if it's like this is six it's like 10 years probably yeah by that point you know of filming this freaking movies and they just get better every time they just get stronger and more lived in every time i think michael gambon as dumbledore uh was excellent i love how he started off when he was first

Starting point is 00:17:43 replaced richard harris as uh he was more like intense and stern and he brought like the warmth and it's like of course he did he's going to die in this movie it's like serious black is like really warm in the line of yeah so anyone's warm they're dead enough so it brings back that like warmth

Starting point is 00:18:00 and um I love that I love that those layers and how it was like a fun that was the thing is like one of the things we were saying with the last movie

Starting point is 00:18:08 his comments were like oh it's just gonna get darker it's gonna get darn yeah I would agree like this is darker yeah but I think the variation that this movie has in terms of like there does feel like

Starting point is 00:18:20 there's more adventure in this one than order of Phoenix kind of from the get go there is more adventure there is more magic like the last one is like it's just primarily dooming glue yeah it's just like strab and it's great it's a great movie but this one maintains that makes it darker and more adventurous but yeah it still but makes it exciting still i agree so i think like i i do like this one i would probably make that i probably rank this one as my like second or third favorite of the three i've prisoner basketball is this

Starting point is 00:18:54 kind of seems impossible to top yeah because like i do got like some there's other positives i want to go into the i have like weird tiny criticisms about some stuff yeah um sometimes okay first of all the tom riddle flashback the first time when he goes to the orphanage yes i understand the purpose of what dumbledore was doing uh is you know like he sees a darkness in a kid and maybe there's a chance to give him he's just a kid so maybe there's a chance to give him a chance in a new life you know um i just think the way the movie executed that flashback and perhaps it's different in the book i feel like there was an an ounce of hope of like why you would see there's potential this kid could possibly turn into something good like dude you're like the all-knowing wizard you should be

Starting point is 00:19:49 a little bit aware like this is a bad situation what this child is this is like a evil kid right here and it's like you should have like every teacher to keep eyes and ears on him all the time because before this movie it kind of seemed like Tom Riddle was like an all right student who became who got corrupted by darkness over time right no he was already yeah he was already psychopath child at the start and especially with the stuff he was saying and I do think um it like I have to question like the book doesn't just play it that one dimensional in that flashback because it is just like this is pure evil you're looking at it's and the movie is shooting it like he's just pure evil the lines of dialogue he's given is just evil um it to me

Starting point is 00:20:38 it just makes you question some of the journey that of like people not watching tom riddle along the way letting him grow in advance it's like it gets to a certain point where like kind of feels like a lot of this mistakes was on you guys for being like a little bit like naive to something so blatantly obvious right you know like because he just comes across evil all the time he's just even when he's aged up and he's talking with slughorn right he just comes across like super evil so that was like one thing that was running through my mind a little bit but i think that's the reason they didn't finish that memory right he's tom says one thing at the end as dumbledore is leaving and i forget what it is but it really nailed it down where it's like he's got to really know this

Starting point is 00:21:21 kids bad now um and he has sort of a surprise face so he could have we don't know they cut the memory off he could have been like saying uh or after that warned the professors of like this is who tom is right keep an eye out i i i we it does make it annoying it sort of pushes him umulder in uh in a manner of like was is he that dense to not see it coming and i don't think that that's true which is why they caught off the memory sure yeah yeah it's like i give the point of of having me too but i also get what you're saying i think it needed i think it just that one scene was missing a layer yes um especially when you back it with the slughorn scene when he's going to him of asking about horrockses you're like this seems like exactly who that kid would have turned into

Starting point is 00:22:15 is the kid asking about horrockses so of course so yeah that's that's like um that's like a small thing. I get it. You want to drive home how freaking evil Voldemort is. But in bigger picture thing, I don't know, it's probably something that we just feel that no one really gives a shit about. But yeah, I mean, it doesn't really, again, this is still like my second or third favorite of the Harry Potter movies. I love this one. And that might be my only thing. Sometimes, I feel like the, I've never paid attention more to lighting than ever for some reason in the past like six months of my life and there are times where I do feel like the lighting is a little much too dark in terms of like I get it it's a

Starting point is 00:23:01 dark movie like trust me I get it um but there are times where I'm like I could use a little bit of contrast in the way this is because at times it kind of like flattens out the imagery instead of making it like striking or compelling, it makes it feel like weirdly. Okay, I know when I first had this thought. It was during the, when they're all eating ice cream, that scene where they learn about the sand. I'm like, this is just a.

Starting point is 00:23:32 Almost like a tempi of filter. Yeah, it's just a nice pleasant scene to them. And this is so like this one color. Yeah. Like, I don't know why it has to be this one color. And this scene, this scene does not need to be. look this way and there are times where I'm like I could use a little bit more pop like you could you could have it be still dark as shit you could still have it be visually dark and moody and all that

Starting point is 00:23:56 but there were times where I did feel it was like this one flat color that was just like uh we could we could like punch this up a little yeah up the saturation to not make it look like it's filtered yeah yeah that's one temperature that's basically that one little thing again yeah there are plenty of times where it's doing that where it is perfect where it needs to be that it should be that um and and it's like just a few times where i felt that way yeah out of a three hour almost three hour film it's really it's really small like apples compared to like the grandness of what is ultimately a film that flies by for two and a half hours right you know and i think that that darkness i mean we

Starting point is 00:24:44 know that, that the darkness is intentional. Malfoy gets there. We realize, and that's why I said in the beginning, we're very aware with how this direction goes and the way that it's shot and the colors that are used, that Voldemort is now looming over the school the entire time. We even start out with Dumbledore basically almost saying that the dark lord is here without saying it and it's getting dangerous, right? We know that. And we open up on bad weather, right? The W. The B logo comes in and you're like, is this, this is dark. So we got to stick with that in a way. But what I think it does for us at the end in moving us to the next book or chapter is that the sun comes through.

Starting point is 00:25:30 You heard me say that at the end. And what that does, it evokes a certain feeling of like, holy crap. We have been in the dark the entire time. And the second you see that light, that does something to your brain where you go, oh, this is weird. This is like how it used to be. And then they're in the light and we see the phoenix fly through. And it makes it kind of brings you back to how we used to feel in the beginning, right? It's them three.

Starting point is 00:26:05 They're on an adventure of wizardry. They're best friends. And now we're brought into the light. And it's a good representation. of like light taking over the darkness but i think in saving that for the end and in the first time they show us the sun is through the broken windows and you're like that's a message right there january 25th 2025 that's when i locked in my new macro plan diet to tell myself this is the year i get the six pack start at 218 pounds and as of the day i'm down to 191.2 and yeah a big part of

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Starting point is 00:28:23 Yeah. I love, I think his name's Tom Felton, who plays Draco. I think his performance here is really good because they're sending him up, like, this is going to be Draco's big villainous turn. And I like how they maintain primarily through a body language performance. so a lot rides on the actor how much of a conflict this really is that he's in that because every other movie he's like hello putter you know yeah I'm a bad guy totally and then the time it's like all right time to prove you're a bad guy he's like shit I can't do it yeah and I thought this was his most mature performance in and even it's ingrained in him even wanting revenge right his dad's in

Starting point is 00:29:08 Nazcaband now. Yeah. Like stomps on Harry's face. So there's, I think his performance here is so great. And I love the choice to subdue dialogue for him, subdue interaction, whether that just be screenplay or book adaptation, whatever the call is. It's very, it's very different, but natural evolution of what you would do with Dracel Malphoy, given the position that he's in.

Starting point is 00:29:33 So I think his performance here is really great. does he get the iconic lines that he would normally have? No, but it's still like stronger because of the maturity level that he gets. Because I feel like even with that though, it's like with a popular kid or a bully or something, they tend to, it's all out of like pain, right? And but Malfoy, even from the beginning, has always just been like having his group of bullies and been like, take that pull. and you're like that can only it only takes the whole time right yeah he doesn't even I was like bully friends with him no yeah he's solo and you know I think the biggest read for us is that you know people don't always when they're a bully they're not always a bully and

Starting point is 00:30:23 a lot of times you know it can just be for popularity because people like them I found my friends they want me to make fun of this guy and if I don't do it I'm not cool whatever it might be but I think the biggest thing that they showed us is him sobbing in the bathroom That's the first time we've ever seen Malfoy be that emotional or emotional in my recollection. We know it's not good. Yeah. But ever emotional, ever. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:30:48 Instead, he's always, yeah, I'm going to punk you out. We've never seen him cry over it. Now, that's a combination of, you know, his dad being gone, but also that he doesn't actually want to do this. Yeah. He's not really capable. He's just sort of thrown in this position because of where his dad is, who his friends are, and like, you know, I mean, I'm like, hey, man, you've been a jerk for a long time. I don't really feel that bad for you.

Starting point is 00:31:16 But at the same time, it has painted a picture. He is just a normal kid who's really gone the wrong way. And maybe now he'll turn things around. I don't know. I don't know. There are things that don't really get paid off or mentioned again or resolved. Whoever Hermione, the guy who's courting Hermione on the quiddish team. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:42 What becomes of quidditch? They just like have a game and it does something for Ron. I love the quiddish in this, by the way. Like, yeah, it looks awesome. It looks the best it's ever looked. I agree. It doesn't have the best quidditch scenes. I would say the third movie probably have the best quidditch scenes.

Starting point is 00:31:58 Second or third movie had the best quiddish scenes. But in terms of just visual appeal, it definitely looked the best. it looked the most real it's ever looked. Agreed. And I like what it does for Ron. That was fun. But we don't, like, nothing really becomes of the quidditch. I mean, does something ever become of quidditch?

Starting point is 00:32:19 Actually, now I think about it. Is there ever just kind of like a game and people become popular? I don't know. I think about it. There's a real payoff. Well, nothing, nothing really, you mean with the guy or with quidditch, period. Like how the quidditch competition or game affects the narrative. progressing forward in this story never really does right no i don't think that happens honestly what it does

Starting point is 00:32:41 progress is how we see how hermione feels about that guy and we also what it doubles down on is how she sees ron yeah right she thinks ron took the lucky juice and like i said she looks like uh a a wife who's looking at her husband who's like you are such an idiot but she's looking at him with love so i think that's what that game gave us but also it showed us because we didn't know Hermione in that shop and I was like who's that cute boy right he's looking at her and I'm like maybe she smiled at him I don't know but we it's really clear when she uses the confoy or confound him whatever and knocks him out of the way so maybe that's what the game is there for right and for the comedic aspect of Ron being really bad and now just going

Starting point is 00:33:35 you didn't need luck juice you just needed confidence so character advances them totally absolutely in a big way with ron you're like i was so like oh my god he never gave it to him i don't think he even learns that no he doesn't which is good he shouldn't yeah right like for now because he's doing well but he might think he needs it every time though but we haven't seen that yet but i do agree with you so those so something like that like the truth how how the confidence really came from within the muggle world getting attacked at the beginning we don't really bring that back around back to that why maybe in the next movie we will but like that's a pretty big attack that just happened yeah we don't really uh see reaction or we don't really get a reason why why are we there

Starting point is 00:34:26 in the muggle world destroying the bridge it must be must be building to like the bigger picture Like he wants to, well, didn't Voldemort say in the... Voldemort wants to take over. Yeah, he was Hitler in the situation. Yeah, I kill him all off, right? Yeah, so I don't know. Clean's the world. Maybe that's his beginning of it.

Starting point is 00:34:44 Yeah, I just thought we might have like gone back. I agree. I agree. Snape is finally dark arts teacher. We never see him teach a class. Yeah. Which is kind of, that to me is actually like, come on. Give me my one little fan service thing.

Starting point is 00:35:00 Yeah. little thing here because that would have been really fun we don't need it like that's the thing we don't need it we definitely don't need it for the fun as hell but it's like come on he's finally for six movies he wanted to be the dark art seat here he finally gets it

Starting point is 00:35:15 and we don't ever get that seat I know because you could just imagine Snape like in his dry sense of humor going well that didn't work but this would and like just just destroying the children in a way and their confidence which I think would be

Starting point is 00:35:31 very funny it's his passion man yeah i loved alan rickman's performance in this one too yeah that's clearly he's in conflict as well the guy who plays slughorn uh i thought he brought so much to this role oh yeah a lot of the time the teachers who come in are kind of they kind of come in with this um they're always three dimensional but i don't feel like they've ever been three dimensional to this extent no they haven't they're more forgotten but he was very there's a pain yeah in his performance yeah like like loop in the werewolf one uh from the third movie he's there's a pain there uh but this one like i like i guess that's the thing it's a very specific pain there's like there's a regret that this guy carries but i love like the idea of like a collector

Starting point is 00:36:16 as well and he also likes to be like elevated himself he likes to be talked up um i thought there's just so much like full roundedness to this guy yeah way that was really interesting and I like the narrative of how much he had to confront his own pain and accept his own pain in order to give to Harry the information Harry wanted. It wasn't like big twist thing about this guy, you know, which is kind of what they do with the new teachers. Yeah. There's a big thing reveal about them. And it wasn't that.

Starting point is 00:36:52 No, they gave that up front. It was really like he gets to go on like an emotional character arc. Mm-hmm. And I just thought like all around his performance and the writing of him was was so well done. Yeah. I think the casting on his end, if you guys haven't seen the Moulin Rouge, he will go from like, and we're going to do the can can to like immediately being like, oh, no, he's this like fatherly figure just like diving down to a very sad, very, he's so good at doing that, which is why when I saw him,

Starting point is 00:37:26 I'm like, he's probably going to go through the ringer, and it's going to be great. Yeah. And it was. Yeah. This was an awesome one to me. I loved this one a lot. I loved all of them. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:38 They've all been fun. I'm like obsessed with Harry Potter now. There hasn't been one that I love it. And this to me is the example of you can do something that is really dark, but also be really exciting and fun. Yeah. And I thought that this managed to succeed and ride that line in a way that is not an easy, easy thing to accomplish.

Starting point is 00:37:56 feel like for bringing the first time bringing back the same director um i thought he did an excellent job but refining his craft for approaching this one and i think it does help there's always a sense of like sometimes they reuse crews and shit like that and sometimes they get a new director but reuse the same crew like i don't really know what all the details are but i imagine they would probably keep as often as possible the same set designers costume people whatever right yes um but there is for for a thing of like returning to school, returning to the same group of people. I think there is a power and maintain the same director because you probably maintain the same cast. The director is the ultimate lead of the set at that point. So yeah, I think this was, I think this was really cool

Starting point is 00:38:41 and improved upon strengths. I've already maintained strengths, approved upon strengths, areas that might have been a little bit dipping in the last one, I think are brought back here. Yeah. This is an amazing addition to me. I think what happens with that with directors once you have a crew that you can trust he probably trusts them more in this second one you can give them more freedom and know that you can work on other things because you're like they've all got it now they're used to if that was his first team

Starting point is 00:39:09 on the on the first one he directed and the second one when you bring them back they're like oh we get it it's basically you start talking and slang and you're like oh yeah got it like they already understand when the director goes and he just goes up like moves his finger up and the lighting goes oh yeah i got you like that's how it works on set when you're like they're tight and that's probably maybe what they were getting to here which is great for sure for sure well guys um thank you so much i have progressively gotten more tired and more stomach crumpy but we did not have to stop this oh he didn't have to

Starting point is 00:39:47 poop the whole time look at him go um wow but i still feel it's a really weird thing i i don't think i've been in this stage in a while where i'm like yeah do my god physically i'm not good right yeah but mentally and emotionally i'm doing pretty good right maybe he should get poison more often it's kind of strange i'm like all right i'm doing all right um but thank you guys so much for being here thanks tera for sharing your thoughts in your heart sharing all your thoughts you shared every thought all my thoughts every thought that came into your brain i really did i was like i I was like, he's going to find a thing.

Starting point is 00:40:24 And he just goes, yep. Momus before he kisses like, he's going to, she's going to kiss. I know. Oh, my God. I just love it so much. So, so, I know. I know. It's so bad.

Starting point is 00:40:39 It's so bad. It's why we need things to cut to. I know. Anyway, guys, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Tara, for being as lovely and awesome as you are. Wow, we got two more to go. and you best bet we are not going to watch it all at once we're going to spread this shit out and milk it yeah we are baby we're going to watch the next two movies and four separate videos

Starting point is 00:41:01 we'll talk with you guys here adelia chamberlain my god oh my god if there was anyone anyone at our page uh-huh who would be a wonderful professor Truly, I feel like, perhaps of all our patrons, the best professor. At Hogwarts. At Hogwarts. What kind of professor would she be? You got one minute. Okay.

Starting point is 00:41:31 Adelia would be a professor of some kind of mind-based. Maybe, oh, she would be like Professor Trelawney, you know, like teaching occumency and mysticism, like, you know, mind reading and stuff like that. Emma Thompson. Okay. Now I know who you're talking about it. Yes. With the big glass. Yes, I remember them.

Starting point is 00:41:53 So you would be like that kind of teacher, helping us divine from the truly mystical side of this world. I could see her being in a total pothead, yeah. Also with a minor in magical history. Do these kids even have to learn friggin history? I feel like you should actually be out here teaching history of the wizarding world. She probably has a minor and minors, too. A minor and minors, yeah, which is why you're teaching them right now. Because I think Adelaide really cares about the minors.

Starting point is 00:42:17 About the youth and about people who bring things up from holes in the ground. She also really cares about minor problems. yes yeah absolutely she's always on the scene being like oh my god did you rip the corner of your paper let me tape that she's like oh someone need a pencil we need a pencil we need a pencil now man it chaos ensues but she gets the job done eventually she travels back to earth muggle world oh disgusting oh this smell of rat dropping oh gosh then she receives a number two pencil and that's the real magic that's the real thing about a deal That's the real magic. It's not the enchantments.

Starting point is 00:42:53 It's not the tea leaves. It's not the drugs. No. What it is, resilient. It's resilience. That's the real magic. Holy crud. And number two pencils.

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