Harry Potter?

Well, the past 2 weekends have been somewhat harry potter related...

Last weekend (i.e. just over a week ago), I read the final book. I must say I rather enjoyed the book, and thought it was a good ending to the series... granted the epilogue was kind of cheesy, but I think it still worked...

anyways, all the press leading up to the release of the book talked about how people that the reader cared about were going to die in the book... and I suppose I should say that if you don't want to read me hinting at what happens, you should stop reading. I won't actually come out and say something definite that happened, but I'll stick to vague generalities...

anyways, none of the characters i felt particularly invested in ended up dying... unlike the 6th book, where a certain important figure dies... there were a couple of people who die, where it was kind of "hey, that sucks", but I had no real emotional attachment to those people... could be the fact that I haven't done anything harry potter related (i.e. read or watch) since either the last movie was released or the last book was released... whichever came latest... so I'd had a lot of time to forget about all the incidental characters, and lose any sort of attachment i might have had...

oh, and Snape... I was very happy about what Rowling did with his character... instead of being just a one dimensional character, he actually turned out to be sort of interesting...


OK, you can start reading again... but I have no idea how you'll know this, if you're not reading anymore... i suppose I could have put this part first, but then it would get out of chronological order, and everyone would be sad...

and then the next weekend, which just past, I went and saw the latest harry potter movie...

and like my previous movie review(s) i will also discuss the previews that i remember... first off was some sort of random collection of dinosaurs, mammoths, primitive people, and randomness... the movie was 10,000 BC or somesuch... anyways I have no idea what this movie is about... except that it has mammoths in it... and in case you weren't aware, mammoths are insanely hilarious... so, perhaps someday, i will figure out what this movie is about, and not just remember the preview fondly due to the mammoth-ness... the person a few seats to my right denounced this as "stupid"...

there were some other previews that this person also denounced... which led me to question her taste... although she was right about some...

and then came "charmed" or "enchanted" or some other similarly titled shit... basically a cartoon princess (and later a prince and trusty side-kick chipmunk) end up in modern day New York City... hijinks ensue, and lots of stupid shit seems to happen... the lady seemed to think this was the best thing since sliced bread... which made me then decide that she had absolutely no tasted, and deserved to be punched in the head...

but luckily, the movie started...

surprisingly little Order of the Phoenix, for having a movie named after the organization...

very little in Grimmauld place or whatever... be interesting to see what they do with the last 2 books in that respect... also, it looked different than i imagined... i was imagining sort of a townhousey thing... but it ended up looking more like the front of a much larger building, rather than multiple buildings glued together...

whoever played the part of Umbridge did a good job of portraying the intense jerk-assitude of the character....

and whoever played Luna Lovegood, was similarly good... she played her part very well... and she liked pudding...

so, at the end, Harry makes some comment about how they have something that voldemort doesn't... i was truly hoping that Luna would chime in with a cheerful response of "pudding"... because as we all know, the dark lord doesn't get enough pudding, which is why he is so cranky... and no-nose-ish... and ugly...

so let that be a lesson to you kids... eat your pudding or you'll end up looking like... uh... a cranky, no-nose-ish, ugly wizard dude? uh, i guess... because who wants that? anyways, bad example... oh, and how can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat? do we in fact need no education? or thought control or whatever? anyways, that's quite enough of that random interjection...

grawp was bigger than i imagined...

and now for the bit where I complain about fight scenes... i could never tell which death eaters were which, or really what was going on near the end, due to everyone seemingly having mastered Nightcrawlers ability to teleport random places... so, yeah...

good movie though... i'd recommend it...