Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

after being forced to wait an extra 8-9 months for this movie to come out. i was quite excited to finally see the next installment in the harry potter series. as i remember, the 6th book wasnt the greatest, it added a lot of mystery to the whole saga and set up the 7th book. sadly, this movie failed to do that. [spoiler alert] the whole point of the book was 3 things: 1 - to find out who is the half blood prince, 2 - to find out what draco malfoy is doing, and 3 - learning more about voldemort while he was at hogwarts and before he came to power. the movie focused on two things, first was finding out what malfoy was up to and second was all the love triangles forming. it was like a teen romance in the wizarding world. the director changed and left out a lot of things that i'm sure a lot of the audience wanted to see. for instance finding about marvolo's ring and how tom riddle got his name! how can they leave out the entire gaunt family?!?! also they never showed another memory of how tom riddle wanted the defense against the dark arts job. and lastly i was very unhappy with the ending, there was supposed to be a big battle between the death eaters that entered the castle and the rest of the students. but they completely cut that part out and it seemed like the death eaters were in there for nothing except to kill dumbledore. overall id say the movie was just ok at best. the most fun part was probably the quidditch but they didnt chant 'weasley is our king' which ticked me off again. sigh... damn these directors.