Oh, Luna. I love you so.

[impy]

Saw Half Blood Prince. Long movie. Needed an intermission. Didn't have one. Long walk back to bathroom. Not enough Luna. Not. Enough. Luna.

Very pretty though. The movie. Not just Luna. Though every time Luna got to speak, you could see little hearts come up from the audience. Not just me. The rest of them, too.

Also? Really good popcorn there. Usually I munch on the buttery goodness until the previews are done and then hand it off. I demolished waaaaaaaaay too much but didn't get that icky feeling I normally do after binging on popcorn.

So long as I don't try and remember all that they left out of the book, I'm quite happy with HBP. Very pretty, very moody, and despite being two and a half hours long, it moved fairly quickly. And my favorite bits were the more horror themed elements, like when Katie is cursed and Harry damn near kills Draco.

That said, and the Luna love cannot be stressed enough, there were things that bothered me. Tonks calling Remus sweetheart. Yes. I'm one of those obnoxious people who does not/will never get the Remus/Tonks thing because Remus/Sirius is plain to see and anything else is blasphemy really.

On the flip side, I really don't like how downplayed the adults are in the movies. Dumbledore is pretty much the only one who isn't, and new!D [I don't care that he's been in more of the movies now. He's still new!D] is more creepy than Dumbledore should be. Unless he's asking about knitting. Then, not so much of the creepy vibe. Go figure. Anyway, the other adults get shoved off to the side for reasons that I can only imagine are "kids don't want to see adults and the adults seeing this movie are going to see it either way. I need more Hermione pining for Ron. STAT. What do you mean I can't say STAT? I just said it again. STAT. Stat. STAT. See? Now, where's the heartbreak?"

I'm also an awful fan. It took me until cuckoo Lavender put R + L in a little heart for me to know who the blue hell she was. Granted, if she was on screen and Luna was as well, I think you know where I was directing my attention.

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[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I knew that Dumbledore's death was better done in the book, but I didn't recall much from the book. And it would explain why I was waiting for the fighting to commence and... it never did. Oi. I don't fully understand the downplaying of the Weasleys in general other than, I guess, time constraints, though that's not stopped them from upping Hermione's time. Mwerp.

And I choose to blame makeup and the new costume for Maggie Smith looking older than the other movies. I refuse to accept any reality where she is, in fact, aging and might not live to be a thousand, give or take a century. I refuse!