next epic catch-up post: HBP
So I was a bad pathetic excuse for a nerd. I didn't go to see HBP at midnight on Wendnesday. But there were extenuating circumstances! I worked 9-4 on Tuesday! And 8-4 on Wednesday! And we were driving to Otakon on Thursday! So I wanted to get some sleep in the mix, so sue me. :P So anyway Sam and Heather and Nate came over Wednesday night and we went to the 10:25 show (which still had a line and hour early) in costume of course (we were the founders, but Nate wouldn't wear the Slytherin garb we so kindly provided to him so we just looked like three people cosplaying the primary colors or perhaps two wizards and a girl in a yellow snuggie. (Our yellow cape is felt and a bit... voluminous. Sorry, Heather. :X)
So anyway, the movie.
As a person who holds the movies up to the impossibly high standards of the books, I often have many many nitpicky things to say about the movies. However, as I probably like the 6th book the least out of all the books despite its 'lol hai im a badly written pg 13 harry/draco fanfic' subplot, I have only read it two (maybe three) times and I am thus not the expert of content that I can proudly claim when discussing the first four (and maybe five). Thus I did not really have the encyclopedic knowledge necessary to truly pick apart the movie. I may have enjoyed it more because of this. Who knows?
So yeah, to get on with it... I did think this one was pretty good, although (once again, as I say with every movie) "they left *insert part they left out here* out, that part was really important to the plot, how are they going to fix that and fit it all into the last movie(s)?" (this is in reference to the poor missing older Weasley brothers and the whole Gaunt family subplot, and honestly, it's the title of the damn movie so why was the the half-blood prince thing so poorly explained?) And why do they spend so much goddamn time on non-canon filler scenes when they COULD put in useful info/soomething interesting? Why was there ten minutes of running through the Weasley's weird corn wheat grass field and jumping at real/pretend death eaters and then they burned down the Burrow? wtfff. I have had this beef since the third movieeee.
...One thumb up out of two? Somewhere thereabouts is what I'd rate it. Maybe a little more, possibly because Malfoy was soooooo goood. I'm not Tom Felton's hugest fan (yes, he's attractive, and yes, I understand that he's awesome and gorgeous and I agree, he's just not the desktop on my computer, okay? *looks at piratesmile331* I have nothing against him...) but he was absolutely spectacular in this. My heart was absolutely broken by his sad helpless face when Bella came through the vanishing cabinet. I think like three other people on the internet at least have said it in these same words but he's grown so much from "Scared, Potter?" I wanted to hug him foreverrrr.
And Slughorn was so perfectly awkward the whole time and THE FELIX FELICIS, OH MY GOD, THE PINCERRRRS AND 'SIRRR!' TWO THUMBS WAY WAY UP TO YOU MR. RADCLIFFE FOR THAT CINEMATIC BRILLIANCE.
And was anyone else a little disturbed by the Inferi? I wasn't scared by them, per se, they just sort of looked gollum-y to me, but what got to me because I don't remember it being like that in the book (and correct me if I'm wrong because like I said I'm not the expert) was when Harry fell into the water, and there were mountains of Inferi under the water. Like literally mountains of these dead gollum-y zombies. It put me in mind of nothing so much as pictures or footage from the Holocaust, like looking at mass graves at Auschwitz or something. I dunno if I've been dulled by fandom or conspiracy theory or too long away from the books or what but I don't think I've ever thought of Voldemort as an indiscriminate murder on that sort of grand scale. Because that water was hella deep and the bodies were just piled up to the top of it... There were at the least thousands of inferi in that lake, and I dunno, I feel like... Voldemort would kill people who got in his way, and people who opposed him but I can't imagine him killing on such a grand scale. I don't even know that Grindelwald would, and I imagine him as far more Hitlery than Tom Riddle ever was. I'm reading way too far into a three second shot of Harry underwater. I just wanted to share my musings on that bit and possibly spark some debate.
All in all I did enjoy the movie... I'd give it a 3.25/5? something like that.
More catching-up-to-life-right-now-blogging to come later on. :D Up next: H/D, Otakon, Myrtle Beach, work, real life, Key West, True Blood, K-ON, Youmacon, college, and much much more! :D
PS: I ALMOST FORGOT LUNA HOW COULD I DO THAT WHEN SHE WAS SOOO AWESOMEEEE AND PERFECT AS USUALLLL ♥
So anyway, the movie.
As a person who holds the movies up to the impossibly high standards of the books, I often have many many nitpicky things to say about the movies. However, as I probably like the 6th book the least out of all the books despite its 'lol hai im a badly written pg 13 harry/draco fanfic' subplot, I have only read it two (maybe three) times and I am thus not the expert of content that I can proudly claim when discussing the first four (and maybe five). Thus I did not really have the encyclopedic knowledge necessary to truly pick apart the movie. I may have enjoyed it more because of this. Who knows?
So yeah, to get on with it... I did think this one was pretty good, although (once again, as I say with every movie) "they left *insert part they left out here* out, that part was really important to the plot, how are they going to fix that and fit it all into the last movie(s)?" (this is in reference to the poor missing older Weasley brothers and the whole Gaunt family subplot, and honestly, it's the title of the damn movie so why was the the half-blood prince thing so poorly explained?) And why do they spend so much goddamn time on non-canon filler scenes when they COULD put in useful info/soomething interesting? Why was there ten minutes of running through the Weasley's weird corn wheat grass field and jumping at real/pretend death eaters and then they burned down the Burrow? wtfff. I have had this beef since the third movieeee.
...One thumb up out of two? Somewhere thereabouts is what I'd rate it. Maybe a little more, possibly because Malfoy was soooooo goood. I'm not Tom Felton's hugest fan (yes, he's attractive, and yes, I understand that he's awesome and gorgeous and I agree, he's just not the desktop on my computer, okay? *looks at piratesmile331* I have nothing against him...) but he was absolutely spectacular in this. My heart was absolutely broken by his sad helpless face when Bella came through the vanishing cabinet. I think like three other people on the internet at least have said it in these same words but he's grown so much from "Scared, Potter?" I wanted to hug him foreverrrr.
And Slughorn was so perfectly awkward the whole time and THE FELIX FELICIS, OH MY GOD, THE PINCERRRRS AND 'SIRRR!' TWO THUMBS WAY WAY UP TO YOU MR. RADCLIFFE FOR THAT CINEMATIC BRILLIANCE.
And was anyone else a little disturbed by the Inferi? I wasn't scared by them, per se, they just sort of looked gollum-y to me, but what got to me because I don't remember it being like that in the book (and correct me if I'm wrong because like I said I'm not the expert) was when Harry fell into the water, and there were mountains of Inferi under the water. Like literally mountains of these dead gollum-y zombies. It put me in mind of nothing so much as pictures or footage from the Holocaust, like looking at mass graves at Auschwitz or something. I dunno if I've been dulled by fandom or conspiracy theory or too long away from the books or what but I don't think I've ever thought of Voldemort as an indiscriminate murder on that sort of grand scale. Because that water was hella deep and the bodies were just piled up to the top of it... There were at the least thousands of inferi in that lake, and I dunno, I feel like... Voldemort would kill people who got in his way, and people who opposed him but I can't imagine him killing on such a grand scale. I don't even know that Grindelwald would, and I imagine him as far more Hitlery than Tom Riddle ever was. I'm reading way too far into a three second shot of Harry underwater. I just wanted to share my musings on that bit and possibly spark some debate.
All in all I did enjoy the movie... I'd give it a 3.25/5? something like that.
More catching-up-to-life-right-now-blogging to come later on. :D Up next: H/D, Otakon, Myrtle Beach, work, real life, Key West, True Blood, K-ON, Youmacon, college, and much much more! :D
PS: I ALMOST FORGOT LUNA HOW COULD I DO THAT WHEN SHE WAS SOOO AWESOMEEEE AND PERFECT AS USUALLLL ♥