Order of the Phoenix
I am actually functioning today, which is amazing as I got home at 3:00am and got to work at 8:30am.
I really liked the direction of this one; it somehow felt more mature, more "movie for grown ups." The score was awesome and different. In a series like this, different is good; I don't want to hear the same melody over and over again through seven movies.
The whole plot felt a little disjointed to me, like they cut out a lot but left in other stuff that didn't make sense without the missing scenes. I'm wondering how people who have not read the book will interpret it, if they'll be able to follow the whole thing.
Luna was perfect. I was very happy.
I think they handled Sirius' death well. And there was a very non-drapery feeling to the archway, which was nice. Except the archway isn't explained AT ALL, so that's gotta be confusing for people who don't kno the books.
I loved the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort. Possibly my favourite scene in the movie.
so, all in all I liked it, but it's definitely not my favourite of the series.
I love it when Neil Gaiman sums up my thoughts about Doctor Who:
(spoiler warning)
I thought it was a bit of a curate's egg (in the erroneous sense of Good In Parts, not in the actual sense of All Rotten) but I would forgive a lot for John Simm's performance as the Master, which I loved, especially following Derek Jacobi's, which I loved in a very different way. And if it wasn't Blink or Human Nature, it still had lots of things I liked, and Utopia and The Sound of Drums were both enormous fun. Even if the Toclafane plot was the Cybermen plot of the season two end, and was also the Dalek plot of the Season one end. I hope that season four won't end with the discovery that somehow human brains are fuelling the New Mechanoids. And the least said about the mini-Doctor in the cage and the magic saying of the name that makes it all better, the better......
I really liked the direction of this one; it somehow felt more mature, more "movie for grown ups." The score was awesome and different. In a series like this, different is good; I don't want to hear the same melody over and over again through seven movies.
The whole plot felt a little disjointed to me, like they cut out a lot but left in other stuff that didn't make sense without the missing scenes. I'm wondering how people who have not read the book will interpret it, if they'll be able to follow the whole thing.
Luna was perfect. I was very happy.
I think they handled Sirius' death well. And there was a very non-drapery feeling to the archway, which was nice. Except the archway isn't explained AT ALL, so that's gotta be confusing for people who don't kno the books.
I loved the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort. Possibly my favourite scene in the movie.
so, all in all I liked it, but it's definitely not my favourite of the series.
I love it when Neil Gaiman sums up my thoughts about Doctor Who:
(spoiler warning)
I thought it was a bit of a curate's egg (in the erroneous sense of Good In Parts, not in the actual sense of All Rotten) but I would forgive a lot for John Simm's performance as the Master, which I loved, especially following Derek Jacobi's, which I loved in a very different way. And if it wasn't Blink or Human Nature, it still had lots of things I liked, and Utopia and The Sound of Drums were both enormous fun. Even if the Toclafane plot was the Cybermen plot of the season two end, and was also the Dalek plot of the Season one end. I hope that season four won't end with the discovery that somehow human brains are fuelling the New Mechanoids. And the least said about the mini-Doctor in the cage and the magic saying of the name that makes it all better, the better......