Which is all very fine, but I haven't read Half Blood Prince.
Me either. I do have a copy, but only because a friend insisted on giving me his and now won't take it back, despite my adamant refusal to read it. I think he just doesn't want it in his house, and I feel that doesn't bode well. Not that I intended to read it anyway.
I'm going to see OotP tonight. I wanted to see Transformers but every one else was all about the HP. Apparently the film is okay and Harry is much less strangle-able than he was in the book. I'm reserving judgement.
If only there was an adult version with incubi, succubi and orgies... written by someone else, obviously, who would do it well...
The adult version is considerably more tasteful than the kiddy edition here (the cover art has been getting increasingly bad). It's all tasteful and photographic with the background knocked back into b/w and only the tasteful locket with a "s" picked out in green stones (malachite?) in colour.
Seen OotP now - it was actually quite good. Possibly due to them removing all of the moments when Harry was a total wanker (he was still a bit of an idiot at the end, but it wasn't so annoying). Oh, and they managed to make Sirius seem like a responsible guardian too.
Like all the other HP films, it felt fairly bitty because they all tend to jump from season to season with not many scenes consecutively for each moment of time - suppose that's unavoidable when the story covers a school year and the important stuff only happens at certain points during it.
Parents seemed to enjoy it, but then mummyfrog was "enjoying" this last night. What do you get left with if you cut all the Harry!wank, anyway? I have issues with pacing in the books, so movie pacing issues don't surprise me either (I only saw HP1)
What do you get left with if you cut all the Harry!wank, anyway?
Um, Harry doing a lot of teaching in the DA, and occasionally telling people off for calling him a liar, and complaining that people don't understand and it might be better not to care. But not SHOUTING AT EVERYONE A LOT and in general much less rage and much more calm.
I may actually force myself to read HBP now - I keep reading lj reviews of the last one that sound as though I might want to read that and I can't really skip a volume.
NOT SHOUTING AT EVERYONE A LOT is very good. Shouty acting always makes me think of Monty Python. I need to track down a copy of HBP, probably from the local library.
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Me either. I do have a copy, but only because a friend insisted on giving me his and now won't take it back, despite my adamant refusal to read it. I think he just doesn't want it in his house, and I feel that doesn't bode well. Not that I intended to read it anyway.
I'm going to see OotP tonight. I wanted to see Transformers but every one else was all about the HP. Apparently the film is okay and Harry is much less strangle-able than he was in the book. I'm reserving judgement.
If only there was an adult version with incubi, succubi and orgies... written by someone else, obviously, who would do it well...
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The adult version of the cover art? I wonder if we have that on this side of the pond or not.
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Like all the other HP films, it felt fairly bitty because they all tend to jump from season to season with not many scenes consecutively for each moment of time - suppose that's unavoidable when the story covers a school year and the important stuff only happens at certain points during it.
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Um, Harry doing a lot of teaching in the DA, and occasionally telling people off for calling him a liar, and complaining that people don't understand and it might be better not to care. But not SHOUTING AT EVERYONE A LOT and in general much less rage and much more calm.
I may actually force myself to read HBP now - I keep reading lj reviews of the last one that sound as though I might want to read that and I can't really skip a volume.
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