Order of the Phoenix
So! HARRY POTTER. You might've heard me mention that SPN ate all of my HP squee, much like Pacman, and that is still true. Up until half an hour before the movie started, I was sitting there going, "You guys! I'm tragically unexcited about this!"
But as soon as the previews started I got all bouncy and stuff again, so YAY. (Don't know what previews you guys elsewhere saw, but in Germany I keep seeing the preview for The Golden Compass. OMG WHO'S EXCITED?) And considering the fact that I have spent the past few months being like, "Dude, where's my HP squee?" I enjoyed the movie a whole lot more than I thought I would!
It was odd, though. The characters I was the most gleeful about in the OotP movie were some of the ones I was the LEAST gleeful about in the book. Tonks was awesome! LUNA was awesome! I don't even know what I liked so much about them, but they both rocked.
After a billion years of being a Harry/Draco shipper, I couldn't bring myself to give a rat's ass about the H/D screentime. I had a little bit of Remus/Sirius squee at the very beginning when the Order meeting was going on, but that was pretty much the end of my standard pairings excitement. I got real into the rarepairs, though. Lucius/Fudge! Hermione/Grawp! UMBRIDGE/FILCH OTP! \o/
Things that made me happy:
* the cat plates in Umbridge's office
* the shortening of the 150 pages of summer in Grimmauld Place
* they fixed the horribleness that was talking through the Floo in GoF!
* the utter lack of Quidditch
* the crazy flying around shit in the Department of Mysteries battle! So it's not canon! Whatever, it looked really cool.
* the fact that RONALD WEASLEY IS A HOTASS.
* AS ARE THE TWINS, especially at the end
* AS IS GARY OLDMAN, especially with those tattoos. slkdjf.
* the Harry/Sirius hugging action, 'cause if SPN has taught us anything, it's that "He's the only family I've got" is the exact same thing as "I want him to fuck me up the ass"
* speaking of SPN, "There's a storm coming"?? OMG LINE-STEALERS.
Things that made me unhappy:
* Daniel Radcliffe's haircut
* the lack of Portable Swamp. LAME. That was my favorite part of the book!
* "You'll never know friendship! You'll never know love!" . . . NO. Just, no.
* uh, what became of Capslock!Harry? He was there for about thirty seconds in the beginning and then he was gone.
Uh, there are totally more things that made me unhappy than that. I will be back to ETA this shit as soon I remember what they were.
Oh, on the 'things that make me happy' front: at the beginning? It was really prettily filmed. It may well have been that way all the way through the movie, but after a while I got caught up in the plot (and in Ron's mouth twitches, sldkj) and forgot to pay attention to that anymore, but cool use of colors and shapes and general awesomeness.
So yaaay, I do have some HP squee left after all. I'm about 97% sure I'm never going to write HP fic again, but I'm at least excited about DH coming out now. For a while I was straight-up ambivalent, y'all. Worst ex-HP fandomer ever, right here, but it's nice to know that there's still a little bit of HP squee buried beneath all the Wincest and CW RPS lovin'. :D
But as soon as the previews started I got all bouncy and stuff again, so YAY. (Don't know what previews you guys elsewhere saw, but in Germany I keep seeing the preview for The Golden Compass. OMG WHO'S EXCITED?) And considering the fact that I have spent the past few months being like, "Dude, where's my HP squee?" I enjoyed the movie a whole lot more than I thought I would!
It was odd, though. The characters I was the most gleeful about in the OotP movie were some of the ones I was the LEAST gleeful about in the book. Tonks was awesome! LUNA was awesome! I don't even know what I liked so much about them, but they both rocked.
After a billion years of being a Harry/Draco shipper, I couldn't bring myself to give a rat's ass about the H/D screentime. I had a little bit of Remus/Sirius squee at the very beginning when the Order meeting was going on, but that was pretty much the end of my standard pairings excitement. I got real into the rarepairs, though. Lucius/Fudge! Hermione/Grawp! UMBRIDGE/FILCH OTP! \o/
Things that made me happy:
* the cat plates in Umbridge's office
* the shortening of the 150 pages of summer in Grimmauld Place
* they fixed the horribleness that was talking through the Floo in GoF!
* the utter lack of Quidditch
* the crazy flying around shit in the Department of Mysteries battle! So it's not canon! Whatever, it looked really cool.
* the fact that RONALD WEASLEY IS A HOTASS.
* AS ARE THE TWINS, especially at the end
* AS IS GARY OLDMAN, especially with those tattoos. slkdjf.
* the Harry/Sirius hugging action, 'cause if SPN has taught us anything, it's that "He's the only family I've got" is the exact same thing as "I want him to fuck me up the ass"
* speaking of SPN, "There's a storm coming"?? OMG LINE-STEALERS.
Things that made me unhappy:
* Daniel Radcliffe's haircut
* the lack of Portable Swamp. LAME. That was my favorite part of the book!
* "You'll never know friendship! You'll never know love!" . . . NO. Just, no.
* uh, what became of Capslock!Harry? He was there for about thirty seconds in the beginning and then he was gone.
Uh, there are totally more things that made me unhappy than that. I will be back to ETA this shit as soon I remember what they were.
Oh, on the 'things that make me happy' front: at the beginning? It was really prettily filmed. It may well have been that way all the way through the movie, but after a while I got caught up in the plot (and in Ron's mouth twitches, sldkj) and forgot to pay attention to that anymore, but cool use of colors and shapes and general awesomeness.
So yaaay, I do have some HP squee left after all. I'm about 97% sure I'm never going to write HP fic again, but I'm at least excited about DH coming out now. For a while I was straight-up ambivalent, y'all. Worst ex-HP fandomer ever, right here, but it's nice to know that there's still a little bit of HP squee buried beneath all the Wincest and CW RPS lovin'. :D