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Jul. 13th, 2007 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raxacorricofallapatoriusWell, I'm back, in a limited fashion. I still haven't seen the movie, but when I started getting alerts on all the new Alec goodies, I couldn't resist posting them right away. And of course, that necessitated going to my flist and then I...well, I just couldn't help myself, and I started reading. Hello, my name is Tracy, and I am an LJ addict. :c)
At any rate, I *will* go offline and STAY offline when the book comes out. The movie can't be any more spoiled for me at this point (especially after Alec got all specific about his scene in the interview for ITC), so I guess I'll stick around until Thursday or so.
Isn't that great?
*sound of crickets chirping*
Ahem. Yes, well.
A'right, then.
I have mixed feelings about the film which have nothing to do with any reviews of the movie itself. OotP was my least-favorite HP book, and I absolutely loathed Harry through most of it. I spent most of my reading time wanting to slap that boy upside the head and tell him not to be so selfish and shallow. Ron and Hermione were hardly even in the book, and it just seemed so fractured and angry. Umbridge made my skin crawl in a way that even Voldemort didn't, and the whole Harry/Cho thing was just...drippy. I guess Rowling had to sort of resolve that crush to make way for the whole Harry/Ginny thing in HBP, but it still seemed such a dreary way of ending what should have been a little more meaningful (IMHO). Oh well.
As for the film, I'm happy that everyone so far says that Evanna Lynch is the perfect Luna, because she's one of my favorite characters, so I'm pleased that there seems to be universal acclaim for her performance.
And even though I now know that the Young Snape scene is rather different from the book, and not nearly as long as I'd hoped, we still get the main point of it; that James and company were a bunch of jerks, and not the shining idols that Harry believed them to be. It's such a pivotal moment in the storyline that if it had fallen flat it would have really made a botch of the next two films.
Anyway, in going over my last few entries, I realized that I've said almost nothing that isn't HP- or Alec Hopkins- related in days. Once the book is out, and I've had a chance to babble about it with everyone, then I suppose I'll get around to "regular" posting again, whatever that means. Assuming I don't expire from grief over Snape's death.
Yep. His death. I'm still convinced that's the only way this story arc makes any sense. Death in a noble cause, saving old Scar Head in Book 7.
So, yeah. I'm off to buy tickets for the movie. ;c)
At any rate, I *will* go offline and STAY offline when the book comes out. The movie can't be any more spoiled for me at this point (especially after Alec got all specific about his scene in the interview for ITC), so I guess I'll stick around until Thursday or so.
Isn't that great?
*sound of crickets chirping*
Ahem. Yes, well.
A'right, then.
I have mixed feelings about the film which have nothing to do with any reviews of the movie itself. OotP was my least-favorite HP book, and I absolutely loathed Harry through most of it. I spent most of my reading time wanting to slap that boy upside the head and tell him not to be so selfish and shallow. Ron and Hermione were hardly even in the book, and it just seemed so fractured and angry. Umbridge made my skin crawl in a way that even Voldemort didn't, and the whole Harry/Cho thing was just...drippy. I guess Rowling had to sort of resolve that crush to make way for the whole Harry/Ginny thing in HBP, but it still seemed such a dreary way of ending what should have been a little more meaningful (IMHO). Oh well.
As for the film, I'm happy that everyone so far says that Evanna Lynch is the perfect Luna, because she's one of my favorite characters, so I'm pleased that there seems to be universal acclaim for her performance.
And even though I now know that the Young Snape scene is rather different from the book, and not nearly as long as I'd hoped, we still get the main point of it; that James and company were a bunch of jerks, and not the shining idols that Harry believed them to be. It's such a pivotal moment in the storyline that if it had fallen flat it would have really made a botch of the next two films.
Anyway, in going over my last few entries, I realized that I've said almost nothing that isn't HP- or Alec Hopkins- related in days. Once the book is out, and I've had a chance to babble about it with everyone, then I suppose I'll get around to "regular" posting again, whatever that means. Assuming I don't expire from grief over Snape's death.
Yep. His death. I'm still convinced that's the only way this story arc makes any sense. Death in a noble cause, saving old Scar Head in Book 7.
So, yeah. I'm off to buy tickets for the movie. ;c)
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Date: 2007-07-13 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-13 01:08 pm (UTC)And even though I've read Order of the Phoenix, I still don't want to know too many details from the movie either. It's a while since I read the book and I still like to be surprised by all the visuals etc.
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Date: 2007-07-13 01:58 pm (UTC)I've tried to stay away from any point-by-point reviews of the film, but I have some idea of the basics.
But the book, the book is MAJOR. I've waited 10 years to find out what happens, and I refuse to give an idiot any opportunity to ruin it for me.
Griffin and I are going to the bookstore at midnight to pick our copy up. Are you hopefully being more sensible and getting it later in the day? :c)
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:00 pm (UTC)"and I absolutely loathed Harry through most of it."
Date: 2007-07-13 03:56 pm (UTC)