Badly written thoughts upon first viewing of HBP

Yesterday I saw the new Half-Blood Prince movie finally! After waiting 8 extra months, I figured I could wait a couple days after it came out instead of seeing it at the midnight release for a few reasons: First, I was finishing re-reading all the books up to that point (because everyone knows the books are so much better), and second, some of my friends would not be able to come then, and third, because 2 years ago for Order of the Phoenix, we were the only ones at our theater who were dressed up and I was really disappointed, so it's not that I was not enough of a hard core fan to see it at midnight, it's that I was too true of a fan to care about parading it around to people who aren't. woot. This paragraph sucks.

Overall, it was good. In my opinion, worse than the 5th only because it was too cheesy, and of course none will beat the first 2, but much better than the 3rd and 4th because they did a horrible job with those. (so my tentative order of liking is 1,2,5,6,3,4)
Now that I've covered that (with bad sentence structure), I will move on to review some more detailed points I remember from my first viewing of the movie. I wrote down a lot of things, so this is going to be really long. I don't notice the acting quite as much as whether things were in the movie or not, unless it is really good or really bad. And a general disclaimer is probably in order: I understand that things need to be cut out for time and money's sake, and adapted for better viewing on the screen, and emphasized to be made more obvious so non-book-readers can follow. However, I am still resentful, but the movies are what I have to look forward to now that all the books are finished.

Complaints (in no particular order):

• The cave is made of ice blocks! Or are they glass blocks? Caves are made of ROCK!!! How did Dumbledore not melt the island with all that fire? And the potion could easily have been made green like it is in the book--that is just and unnecessary change, though it probably wouldn't matter to most people.
• Death eaters do not become smoke and fly away, they apparate like everyone else!
• Lack of Hogwarts school uniforms!
• Ginny and Harry's kiss in the room of requirement! So AWKWARDly done and cheesy!
• Lack of Parvati Patil.
• Not enough Tonks
• No apparation lessons! (okay, apparition. I prefer apparation)
• Where is the minister of magic?
• Dmbledore's death scene did not make me cry, it looked fake. (also should be noted that Sirius's death scene was not done justice either!) Harry should have been invisible/paralyzed, but it is understandable that he does not wear the cloak in the movie so the audience can see him.
• Although Michael Gambon acted like Dumbledore this time, I realized I still don't like his gravelly voice, because sometimes you just can't understand some words that come out of his mouth. And he still doesn't wear glasses!
• Dumbledore's wand was just sitting on his desk at the end! Wtf, where is it going to end up?!?!
• Stuff I already knew was cut, like the battle with the death eaters at the end; why did they need to show up if there was no fight? No Bill and Fleur, no Dumbledore's funeral, but it was still disappointing that it had to be left out.
• The added Burrow scene! Where are they going to live now? Did they just let it burn to the ground? WTF! And Harry and Ginny running through the corn stalks into a puddle!
• The soundtrack was disappointing because it used the same songs as OotP, plus more cryptic "ooooh"s from the choir, and probably some more tracks that I didn't notice. I really REALLY hope John Williams comes back for the last movies!!!

Delights:

• Luna, of course.
• The Malfoy-stomping-Harry's-nose-on-the-train scene.
• Malfoy in general.
• Quidditch was good.
• Slughorn was EXCELLENT!
• I loved Harry and Ron's fight for the newer-looking potions book, it was cute!
• Bellatrix was good, except a little overdone with the speaking to people's shoulders thing.
• So many lines directly from the book!

The bad things seem to outweigh the good things here, but really it was very enjoyable. I want to see it again soon so I can take in more of the little things that I might have missed the first time.

Song of the day: The Moaning Myrtles: Bathroom Acoustics