As mentioned in my previous post we went to the flicks last night. (What a quaint old fashioned term). We'd seen the trailers and additionally I'd heard somewhere something to the effect of 'what they did to London', alluding, in my mind, to some fantastic special effects.
Visually it was up to scratch and the score worked well. Time -honoured SPOILER ALERT.
My voice can be heard amongst those that bemoan the formulaic nature of so much of what comes out of Hollywood. In fairness I think I must have not only become accustomed, but to a point dependant, on that formula. We've all seen the sites that point out how all the films (Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter) are all the same story, but that just wasn't the case with Half-Blood.
The shiny robots and Megan Fox breast shots that passed for Transformers 2 may have been (fun) crap but at least it had a climactic fight-out. That, discussing it afterwards, seems to have been the problem for both of us. The 'attack of the gollums ' as we dubbed it, was so easily dispatched that it didn't really qualify as a battle. When the moment the film had been building to finally happened, I was asked if I felt anything. I said then and I still believe it was something of a damp squib.
I dare say that fans will disagree and J.K could care less what I think, but, well...
...welcome to the disappointment.
