Movies. And no, I'm not dead
Jul. 14th, 2007 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyYesterday was movie Friday. I killed my bank account and took Mumsy to see HP:OotP. Which earns a thumbs up for the most part, and to keep spoilage behind a cut, we'll rate as follows:
4,5,1/2, any other movie in creation, 3.
To me, 1/2 are kinda interchangeable, except two is darker.
I'm not sure how spoiler-filled this will be, considering I liked the movie, but don't feel the need to write an epic about it. I liked Luna, loved in fact, but you probably saw that coming. I wished she'd been more odd than breathy and obsessed with nargols, but, again, we can't always have complete Quibbler love, I suppose. Besides, she skipped, and that was cute. When it hits DVD, first person to make me a LL skipping icon wins at life.
Dumbledore is still too angsty, which is annoying, but I was right when I originally finished reading OoTP. I like it better as a movie than I do a book. They cut a ton of Umbridge's bitchiness and Harry's angst, and while I don't like the changes made to the Cho storyline [I know, what storyline?] it made it easier to get through while still getting the angst in general across. The twins leaving in the books was better, but the people somewhere behind us did cheer, and I wasn't terribly disappointed.
The problem with having such an awesome cast is that they tend to sit on the sidelines an awful lot.
I wish they'd done more with Snape's memory, I loved Dumbledore's exit, when the centaurs carried Umbridge away, people clapped, and Tonks was nifty in her brief appearances. I firmly subscribe to the Remus/Sirius love-a-thon, and when Sirius and Harry hugged with Remus in the background, all I could think was, "awww, happy family." Lucius was fantastically chilling, but I'm torn about the death. In the book, what always broke my heart and made it that much more powerful [curse you, years of Whedon-verse] was that had Harry just used his damn brain and the mirror he'd been given, the whole tragedy would have been averted. Plus, where was the "it coulda been Neville" moment?
All that is why I didn't re-read the book prior to seeing the movie, and won't until I see it again, if then. Well, that, and the fact that I really did throw the book across the room a couple of times because it aggrivated me that much.
Again, very pretty movie, and I hope they keep the same mood for the next one.
Oh, and Ginny bears more than a passing resemblence to Lily, eh? And in case you wondered, it wasn't swamped. Saw it at the Eye-sore, and there were maybe a dozen other people at our showing, but then again, they were playing the movie every half hour, so really, it shouldn't have been swamped too early in the day.
The big problem with seeing the movie was we got a large popcorn and I ate a ton of it. This is a little unusual as I almost never eat anything past the previews [most of which screamed, "Don't see me!"] and bad because popcorn makes me ill. Woe!
Then I came home and watched Bobby, since it was due yesterday. Oops. Good movie, though sometimes the dialog was a little forced. I sniffled at felt cheated. Not in the movie, but politically speaking. Overall, I actually really liked Bobby, though it was jam packed with people to the point that you wondered if they could cram another recognizable face in and was it necessary to see Shia's ass? *ponders*
Annnnnnnd to round out our movie madness, I watched A Prairie Home Companion this morning. Cute movie where you just sort of let yourself slide into someone else's life for a little while.
[Yes, the last two flicks were part of a mini Lohan binge. Shove it.]
4,5,1/2, any other movie in creation, 3.
To me, 1/2 are kinda interchangeable, except two is darker.
I'm not sure how spoiler-filled this will be, considering I liked the movie, but don't feel the need to write an epic about it. I liked Luna, loved in fact, but you probably saw that coming. I wished she'd been more odd than breathy and obsessed with nargols, but, again, we can't always have complete Quibbler love, I suppose. Besides, she skipped, and that was cute. When it hits DVD, first person to make me a LL skipping icon wins at life.
Dumbledore is still too angsty, which is annoying, but I was right when I originally finished reading OoTP. I like it better as a movie than I do a book. They cut a ton of Umbridge's bitchiness and Harry's angst, and while I don't like the changes made to the Cho storyline [I know, what storyline?] it made it easier to get through while still getting the angst in general across. The twins leaving in the books was better, but the people somewhere behind us did cheer, and I wasn't terribly disappointed.
The problem with having such an awesome cast is that they tend to sit on the sidelines an awful lot.
I wish they'd done more with Snape's memory, I loved Dumbledore's exit, when the centaurs carried Umbridge away, people clapped, and Tonks was nifty in her brief appearances. I firmly subscribe to the Remus/Sirius love-a-thon, and when Sirius and Harry hugged with Remus in the background, all I could think was, "awww, happy family." Lucius was fantastically chilling, but I'm torn about the death. In the book, what always broke my heart and made it that much more powerful [curse you, years of Whedon-verse] was that had Harry just used his damn brain and the mirror he'd been given, the whole tragedy would have been averted. Plus, where was the "it coulda been Neville" moment?
All that is why I didn't re-read the book prior to seeing the movie, and won't until I see it again, if then. Well, that, and the fact that I really did throw the book across the room a couple of times because it aggrivated me that much.
Again, very pretty movie, and I hope they keep the same mood for the next one.
Oh, and Ginny bears more than a passing resemblence to Lily, eh? And in case you wondered, it wasn't swamped. Saw it at the Eye-sore, and there were maybe a dozen other people at our showing, but then again, they were playing the movie every half hour, so really, it shouldn't have been swamped too early in the day.
The big problem with seeing the movie was we got a large popcorn and I ate a ton of it. This is a little unusual as I almost never eat anything past the previews [most of which screamed, "Don't see me!"] and bad because popcorn makes me ill. Woe!
Then I came home and watched Bobby, since it was due yesterday. Oops. Good movie, though sometimes the dialog was a little forced. I sniffled at felt cheated. Not in the movie, but politically speaking. Overall, I actually really liked Bobby, though it was jam packed with people to the point that you wondered if they could cram another recognizable face in and was it necessary to see Shia's ass? *ponders*
Annnnnnnd to round out our movie madness, I watched A Prairie Home Companion this morning. Cute movie where you just sort of let yourself slide into someone else's life for a little while.
[Yes, the last two flicks were part of a mini Lohan binge. Shove it.]