Last time I saw a Harry Potter movie, I walked in expecting suspense, mystery, and questions. I got teenage dreams being crushed and gossipy infighting beyond anything JKR put in her books, and though I loved the scenes that didn't relate to romance, I really detested the way Half-Blood Prince handled the tension of Voldemort's rise ( Read more... )

Plans for today include lazing on a Monday afternoon, clipping JoAnn coupons so I can get my Peony fabric and pattern soon, eventually going out with Kari for dinner tonight, and having a lie-in. I already did sleep in, though; it's nice to have some mornings of not waking up till ten, when most of my other mornings are adventures in rushing out ( Read more... )

In an effort to be a bit less nitpicky and negative about the latest Harry Potter movie, here's me, going on record to list the movie's high points and successes (in true fanfic burning spirit). It wasn't all craziness and loose canon, and for the things it got so very right, I salute this movie.

( Unplagued by an excess of phlegm, the list )

Let me say this: Half-Blood Prince is every bit as awesome and as awful as you've heard. It's important you note that there are good points and bad, and that someone who hasn't read the books is more likely to see the positive, whereas somebody like me, who has read every book well over ten times (some of them as many as sixty, and no, I am not ( Read more... )