these last two weeks have been the ACTUAL WORST, btw, thank god for break

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I was like, moderately kind of apathetic about the Harry Potter release in a of-course-I'm-still-going-to-see-it kind of way until this morning in my bio lecture (omg it was like, an actual lecture, which was apparently way more than I could take slightly hungover on the Friday before fall break, because I ACTUALLY COULD NOT MAKE MYSELF PAY

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[book_babe]

SO MUCH HARRY POTTER LOVE. also i am with you on the emma watson pretty thing, i legitimately was thinking how pretty she was throughout most of it.

i want to see it againn, i like really need to see it again. but i thought it was visually gorgeous and there really isn't anything i hate about it which is kind of ish a first. but i thought it was done beautifully, both as an hp movie and as like, a film in general, in the sense that there were just like...really good choices made with things, idkkk.

basically: LOVE.

i also have this wonderful appreciation for how they did the scenes with malfoy (and i say that not as a 'sdnfiosdnf tom felton' thing...a few years ago it might have been that), but as a 'i really think his character is fascinating' thing, and there were just these beautiful moments where he only got a second or so of facetime but said SO MUCH, because it was cut/whatever so perfectly and it was just. it made me so happy, because they just captured it, you know?

oh, and snape. i cannot even. so much love

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I FORGOTTTTTTTTTT ABOUT THAT, but yeah I was thinking about how Tom Felton has turned out to be such a good actor. I was never that into Draco as a character in the books, but I feel like Tom Felton has a way of like, I don't know, enhancing the character? And you are right, making a little out of a lot.

AND GIRL DON'T YOU GET OTHER DAYS OFF?! Because that's why we get the entire week: because we have not had a day off since Labor Day.

And gooooooooooooooooood we are ANCIENT, MELISSA. Ancient.

[book_babe]

blerg, i forgot to respond to this. I don't think i was that into him in the books much, either, but I sort of grew to be a lot more into him in the books after getting into him in the movies, if that makes sense. I feel like Tom Felton does so much with him, makes him into the character that he is or should be, even if we don't get to read it, per se. I don't know. just. Love.

Oh haha yeah, i feel like we've probably had this conversation other years, too. We get less days off than we used to, though. We get Veteran's Day off and that's it. Freshmen year it was Columbus and Veteran's, last year it was just Columbus and there was outrage that we had school on Veteran's day, so this year we had class on Columbus (and a lot of anti-Columbus articles - as in 'horrible person we shouldn't celebrate this day' articles in the school newspaper) and no class on Veteran's day. So...you still get an extra day, you bum.

so so so ancient. don't understand how this happened.

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Yeah that does make sense. It's really only been the last two movies that I enjoyed his performance especially, so it never really crossed over into the books for me.

I feel like all I do lately is complain about how OLD I FEEL. It starts so EARLY, Melissa, I am a crotchey old grandma!!! AT TWENTY-ONE!!!!!

[book_babe]

also i always forget you get a real break for thanksgiving instead of the three days we do, i am so jealous.

/pointless.

[book_babe]

also: (i am avoiding sleep) we have been friends for so long, i always forget that. i just went to the lj homepage for the first time in forever and the most recent virtual gift listed is from you...from october 2007 for my eighteenth birthday. dude.

when did we get old.

[ambiguousreason]

I hate where they've taken Julie's story, because Derek sucks and the plotline is just dumb, and it had so much potential. She's lonely and trying to figure out where she fits and it's hard and I just feel like they could've and should've come up with something better for her. But ugh I love what you said about forgetting these are actual storylines, FNL seems like real life as opposed to a television show more than anything else I watch and that's one of the best things about it.

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I AGREE THAT HE SUCKS, and I agree with the dude's assessment that Derek doesn't have enough charisma to pull it off really? But the way he phrased it still bothers me so much and I don't know why! Except I guess I do, it's that he tries to put the badness of the storyline on Julie's "lack of judgment" when that's not really the... issue here, I don't think? The Julie-sleeps-with-her-TA storyline is dumb in conception, but I don't think there's anything muddled about her motivations.

[manasseh]

Sometimes you just gotta mess with the Sleakeazy's while you're doing your research, I GET IT GIRL.

lolling so hard omg. But yeaaaaah at the beginning I was like "DAYUMN GURL" and then I felt kind of bad because she was mind-wiping her parents and I was supposed to be sad about that. IDK which pre-title card scene I love more, the one for HBP (I SUPER REALLY LOVE THAT BIT WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHERS) or the one for DH1 (SUCH TIGHT STORYTELLING W2G YATES/KLOVES).

Oh the vistas were amaaaaazing. So many visually interesting places for them to camp! I really loved that, it made the camping seem so much cooler/less intensely boring than I remember. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE? I really dug the spot where Harry and Hermione talked about the snitch and Beedle the Bard.

AHHHH THAT SCENE AT THE BURROW AHHHHHH I LOVE IT. I WAS STUNNED IT HAPPENED AT ALL, THERE WAS SO MUCH RONALD ALL OVER THE PLACE THERE AND I WAS LIKE "DEAR GOD RON HAS SCREENTIME RON HAS SCREENTIME"

but the way this flowed kind of made me wish they had split all the books in

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IT IS JUST SO MUCH LIKE, blonder and straighter when you look at what they were doing in the first film. Why is that so hard guys, SHE'D STILL BE REALLY PRETTY. But whatever. BUT UGH Y, both these two films have just pulled you straight into the story so TIGHTLY.

I loved when the popped up on the BEACH during the walking, and the mobile home thing was interesting too. And the one you said, HONESTLY THEY WERE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY VARIED? But yeah it totally amped up the camping. The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!! Oh well, I'm really just glad they split this one. Even if I thought it was kind of a dumb/money-grubbing decision when I first heard.

I KNOOOOOOOOOW IT WAS MY FAVORITE. It came up so early, I was so shocked/surprised! Ron doing something useful! Having more sense than Harry! THIS NEVER HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES.

[manasseh]

I KNOOOOOW I rewatched the first six movies over the course of this past week and was like "ICKLE CHILDREN ;~; wait hermione's hair isn't bushy >:|" but then I rolled with it.

Varying the places RLY helped show the passage of time, you're totally right about that. I think it was cool for another reason -- people got to see all the different scenery in Britain. Logically I know the entire countryside is not all boring dreary foggy whatever but SEEING so many unusual places in the movie was AWESOME. AWESOME I SAY.

The visuals/the pacing of the camping actually kind of erases the argument that the books need to be condensed to be correct for a movie format. They could have done so much!!lol possibly unpopular opinion but I wish Yates had been directing from the get-go. IDEK how much responsibility he has for how his movies have turned out but IDC. I think they've only improved since he's come on. IMAGINE HOW THE FIRST ONES COULD'VE BEEN WITHOUT CHRIS COLUMBUS

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I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT TOO, ACTUALLY!! The first place they jumped to was so Britain-y, but a lot of the others were not what I expected, they did a really good job of varying the British landscape. I don't think I even knew it was that varied.

I HAVE NO IDEA IF THAT'S UNPOPULAR OR NOT BUT I AGREE SO COMPLETELY. He really fucking knows how to make these visually interesting, 5, 6, and 7-1 were all visually pretty stunning. I thought 3 was pretty lovely too but 1, 2, and 4 are just so... blah in comparison.

I WOULD ENJOY 3.5 MORE HOURS OF THIS NOT GOING TO LIE