Throughout watching the Half-Blood Prince, I had a sneaking suspicion that no one on the production team had actually read the book. HP6 is all about the blurry line between good and evil, about how talented people can be lead astray. The movie was a watered-down, summer blockbuster that ignored the darker side of the book and instead focused solely on teen love, except for the essential plot moments that needed to be done to set up the seventh and eighth films. And these, of course, were railroaded through without giving them enough time to develop. The choices of what to cut were poor, and the additional scenes were atrocious. Movie fail.