My (belated) thoughts on the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2 ( Read more... )

I just wanted to repost here a comment I made to spin1978 about anime-to-film adaptations. Of course, this line of thought flows partly from the general adaptation-fail (not just the racefail) of The Last Airbender, but it's largely inspired by an interesting point that Ebert--himself a fan of Hayao Miyazaki's anime films--brought up in his review of TLA. ( Read more... )

Poll Movie!Gambit

...that I have a newborn niece, as of about 5:00 AM this past Saturday. Sorry, it was kind of a strange weekend and I wasn't online much. Then the news broke on Facebook when my dad posted pics, and some of you got the news there. And in all that, I somehow forgot I still hadn't announced on LJ ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've posted a tribond question, but I had an idea for one last night that I had to share.

For those of you who have never played the game before, the goal is to find the common factor between three things.

( Here's the question, complete with visual aids )

7 weeks to go, guys. :D

Some recommended reading: The Premature Prediction ~ A very interesting prediction about how the end of Book 7 might go down, with some thoughts on the origin of Lord Voldemort and the nature of the connection between him and Harry. This is a follow-up to The Changeling Hypothesis, which you might want to check out, also, ( Read more... )