Before I forget entirely, a few thoughts on Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part I:
- Is it humanly possible for Nick Moran to be in a film and not look like an Adam Ant groupie? The odds at this point are very much stacked against it.
- Lucius is oh-so-perfectly disheveled and twitchy. I can't quite get over that, or how Narcissa will probably purse her lips even tighter and say that he's "going through a bad patch at the moment" and the spaces in between the words will tell you just how often Lucius has been hitting the bottle of Scotch lately and exactly how often they have had words about it.
Draco, for his part, looks quietly anxious and bewildered that the world is not all sunshine and butterflies now that the Dark Lord is in power, and is wondering in the back of his mind if the Dark Lord is not in fact absolutely batshit insane in addition to having creepy fingernails.
Well played, Malfoys. Well played. I salute you and your dysfunctional ways.
- Neville 'BAMF' Longbottom: snappy insults still not his strong point. But oh how far he has come from that trembling lower lip in Sorcerer's Stone.
- The Three Brothers tale felt very much like goutwort's work, from colors to textures to the fluidity of movement, that I had to wonder if he wasn't part of that production team somehow. (This would explain his longer-than-usual absence from the interwebs, no?)
- In the space of just a few movies, Daniel Radcliffe has gone from the Boy Who Wore Clinging Shirts to The Boy Who Can't Keep A Shirt On To Save His Life. It may possibly have made me point and snigger rudely, which I think was not the intended effect. Oh well.
This is likely to be the
very last time, no I mean it this time really, my
Deathly Hallows prediction stickers are going to be relevant, so feel free to avail yourself of them now, if you haven't already. They also exist in
icon form, but stickers have a certain something, you know?
For more useful insights, you could do worse that these:
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roadrunnertwice has
an interesting observation regarding the stylized Harry and Hermione from Ron's horcrux battle. I have to agree, since it explains the subconscious revulsion that scene evoked.
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mrvelocipede points members of the Longbottom Fanciers Int'l Auxillary out there to this
rather great thing by lazybookreviews that should be reblogged by all and sundry.
My mother is pestering me about when the second part will be out, and how early in advance you can reserve midnight tickets. Between that and her constant squee over the Mighty Boosh and Gogol Bordello, I think my mother wins. At everything.
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