"Why do we have to follow the spiders?! Why can't we follow the butterflies?!?!"
Yeah, so I'm using this to post my own personal comments on the movie. :D So what? I needed a place to compose it for HOL. Besides, you *know* you want my opinion. :P
Cele Starr's Small Town HP Experience
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**sighs** Ah yes, small town life. It's more than a month since the movie came out, and due to pretty miserable winter driving conditions (yep, I'm a Canuck through and through!) I've been stuck here since the beginning of November or so. Nevertheless, I was a trooper, making it through the wait, and braving the Friday night crowd of fifth-graders holding sweaty hands with their 'date' as they wait for Harry Potter to triumphantly arrive on screen.
I rushed into the small, historic theatre an hour before the movie started, rushing to a seat in about the middle, hoping my family would follow. We munched on our popcorn, discussed what to expect, when in the aisle there arose such a clatter, we sprang from our seats to see what was the matter! Lo and behold, a group of rowdy teens! Rowdy friends of Cele! We sprinted to seats closer to the front, ready to go.
Soon, the seven-year-olds down in front decided to shine a laser pointer at us. Aaron explained the *exact* physics of laser pointers, while Kate dared them to blind themselves, which they promptly began to do. KIDS! This prompted *us* to move.
Finally, the beginning! Bedazzled and ready for some fun after previews of The Hot Chick, Star Trek, and LOTR (one good thing about small-town theatres: no crazy commercials that ought to be on TV, NOT MOVIES!), we sat, anxious, screaming, jumping...
Fave moments, random comments, and general small-town view stuff, in decisively UNchronological order: :D
Dobby: In the beginning, Kate leaned over to me, whispering, "I really thought Dobby would be green!" I had to admit, I thought this Dobby was super-ugly, but he grew on me. ;) I had a teacher who we nicknamed Dobby once. Awesome drama teacher, whose words are used as the name for my LJ now. Maybe that's why I always like Dobby, no matter what ugliness these silly movie people will enforce upon him.
Random: Kids screamed. A lot.
Ron is the *wussiest* kid *ever*, but the cutest at the same time. And his voice! Dropped like a scary roller coaster. WHOOSH!, as Kate kept saying. And what facial expressions! Go Ron!
Hermione, raising her hand to answer the Mandrake question. Kate pokes me, simply whispers, "YOU!" Huh?! What?! But...but...but...
Humph. I'll take it as a compliment.
What, no Peeves?! AGAIN! WHAT IS THIS! IT'S A CONSPIRACY AGAINST PEEVES, I TELL YOU!!! oops...
Spiders: I am arachnophobic. I watched this scene through a scarf. A thick one. I guess that meant it was good and realistic. I love the line about the butterflies. :D
Ron + Hermione = LOVE. Duh, folks!
Lucius and that stupid curse! I am the ONLY one of my friends who noticed this, but I told them, and I think they were glad I informed them of that, it was the talk of the theatre as we left. I mean, overreacting or what?! I can't see Lucius being that quick to react with an Unforgivable, and I can't see J.K thinking so either. She has *got* to make sure that people don't take liberaties with her stories!!!
Oliver Wood/Sean Biggerstaff + ME = LOVE Again, Duh, folks! :P Although, almost *all* of the small-town girls in there between the ages of 14 and 20 who were in there would beg to disagree with me...there was quite a loud collective **sigh** every time he appeared on screen....*long sigh*
And then there's Tom Riddle...yes, evil *can* be handsome!!! Yes, you can tell this 'experience' was written by a hormonal teenage girl! If you wanted accuracy and impartiality, you'd be reading Ebert and Roeper right now!!!
And *then* there's Kenneth Branagh...there could NOT BE a more PERFECT Lockhart! I kept thinking "Hamlet", but that's ok, because the Hamlet side of him worked! Truly!
Slightly more serious notes:
The first time Dumbledore appeared, I gasped and almost cried as the sudden realization once again stuck me that Richard Harris was really dead. Again, this evening, I mourn the loss of such a wonderful actor.
The transitions were horrible. If I hadn't read the book, I would've *HATED* this movie, because I couldn't have understood it! It was like scene, scene, scene, with none of the joiners in-between to actually explain what was going on.
All in all, I left jumping up and down, 'jubliant', and ready to see number three! I have more opinions, but I probably ought to keep some things to myself. Go see it! Now! Even if you already have. I'll make you. I know Parselltongue, you know. Oh, so you don't believe me. FINE! See....hhiiiissssss **cough, splutter** Yeah, ok, so I don't. See it anyway, but not in a theatre with little kids who throw things or shine laser pointers in your eyes.
Can't wait till ST: Nemisis and LOTR!
LaterDayz,
~Cele
Cele Starr's Small Town HP Experience
=====================================
**sighs** Ah yes, small town life. It's more than a month since the movie came out, and due to pretty miserable winter driving conditions (yep, I'm a Canuck through and through!) I've been stuck here since the beginning of November or so. Nevertheless, I was a trooper, making it through the wait, and braving the Friday night crowd of fifth-graders holding sweaty hands with their 'date' as they wait for Harry Potter to triumphantly arrive on screen.
I rushed into the small, historic theatre an hour before the movie started, rushing to a seat in about the middle, hoping my family would follow. We munched on our popcorn, discussed what to expect, when in the aisle there arose such a clatter, we sprang from our seats to see what was the matter! Lo and behold, a group of rowdy teens! Rowdy friends of Cele! We sprinted to seats closer to the front, ready to go.
Soon, the seven-year-olds down in front decided to shine a laser pointer at us. Aaron explained the *exact* physics of laser pointers, while Kate dared them to blind themselves, which they promptly began to do. KIDS! This prompted *us* to move.
Finally, the beginning! Bedazzled and ready for some fun after previews of The Hot Chick, Star Trek, and LOTR (one good thing about small-town theatres: no crazy commercials that ought to be on TV, NOT MOVIES!), we sat, anxious, screaming, jumping...
Fave moments, random comments, and general small-town view stuff, in decisively UNchronological order: :D
Dobby: In the beginning, Kate leaned over to me, whispering, "I really thought Dobby would be green!" I had to admit, I thought this Dobby was super-ugly, but he grew on me. ;) I had a teacher who we nicknamed Dobby once. Awesome drama teacher, whose words are used as the name for my LJ now. Maybe that's why I always like Dobby, no matter what ugliness these silly movie people will enforce upon him.
Random: Kids screamed. A lot.
Ron is the *wussiest* kid *ever*, but the cutest at the same time. And his voice! Dropped like a scary roller coaster. WHOOSH!, as Kate kept saying. And what facial expressions! Go Ron!
Hermione, raising her hand to answer the Mandrake question. Kate pokes me, simply whispers, "YOU!" Huh?! What?! But...but...but...
Humph. I'll take it as a compliment.
What, no Peeves?! AGAIN! WHAT IS THIS! IT'S A CONSPIRACY AGAINST PEEVES, I TELL YOU!!! oops...
Spiders: I am arachnophobic. I watched this scene through a scarf. A thick one. I guess that meant it was good and realistic. I love the line about the butterflies. :D
Ron + Hermione = LOVE. Duh, folks!
Lucius and that stupid curse! I am the ONLY one of my friends who noticed this, but I told them, and I think they were glad I informed them of that, it was the talk of the theatre as we left. I mean, overreacting or what?! I can't see Lucius being that quick to react with an Unforgivable, and I can't see J.K thinking so either. She has *got* to make sure that people don't take liberaties with her stories!!!
Oliver Wood/Sean Biggerstaff + ME = LOVE Again, Duh, folks! :P Although, almost *all* of the small-town girls in there between the ages of 14 and 20 who were in there would beg to disagree with me...there was quite a loud collective **sigh** every time he appeared on screen....*long sigh*
And then there's Tom Riddle...yes, evil *can* be handsome!!! Yes, you can tell this 'experience' was written by a hormonal teenage girl! If you wanted accuracy and impartiality, you'd be reading Ebert and Roeper right now!!!
And *then* there's Kenneth Branagh...there could NOT BE a more PERFECT Lockhart! I kept thinking "Hamlet", but that's ok, because the Hamlet side of him worked! Truly!
Slightly more serious notes:
The first time Dumbledore appeared, I gasped and almost cried as the sudden realization once again stuck me that Richard Harris was really dead. Again, this evening, I mourn the loss of such a wonderful actor.
The transitions were horrible. If I hadn't read the book, I would've *HATED* this movie, because I couldn't have understood it! It was like scene, scene, scene, with none of the joiners in-between to actually explain what was going on.
All in all, I left jumping up and down, 'jubliant', and ready to see number three! I have more opinions, but I probably ought to keep some things to myself. Go see it! Now! Even if you already have. I'll make you. I know Parselltongue, you know. Oh, so you don't believe me. FINE! See....hhiiiissssss **cough, splutter** Yeah, ok, so I don't. See it anyway, but not in a theatre with little kids who throw things or shine laser pointers in your eyes.
Can't wait till ST: Nemisis and LOTR!
LaterDayz,
~Cele