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Headed to Gainsville today to see Harry Potter again with Penguin Boy and Rivin. It was a lot of fun. The weirdness came in, in part, driving along the Ocala National Forest and seeing a past storm had taken some very tall Long Leaf Pines (thin trunked) and twisted them like twizzlers and cut them down. Can you imagine the force required to twist a tree trunk round and round?
I saw Harry once already the day after it came out but between being sick and orals I never got the chance to give my thoughts. For the most part I really liked it. Yes, it was a bit rushed and stuff was cut out but that's to be expected. Rowling was happy with it and that's good enough for me in the light of most authors usually hate movie adaptations and are very vocal about it. Hearing a pleased author is pretty novel. I liked the more mature interplay of Ron, Harry and Hermoinie. Yes, I would have liked to see more of the time traveling stress on Hermoinie and Prof. Lupine actually taking his medicine so we could be clued in to his werewolf nature which really rather comes out of the blue if you didn't already know the story. The parts with Sirius were exceedingly rushed but again, this movie is 2 1/2 hours as it is so it's to be expected. I thought the acting was very good. It's always hard to tell if child actors will actually have talent as they grow but these ones definitely do. Harry's quite cute as is Ron (cute, as opposed to attractive which unfortunately Ron isn't). I'm not sure how they're mostly oblivious to the cuteness of Hermoinie (though the attraction between her and Ron might have been a tad over done).
Things I didn't like: Lupine's moustache and clothing, Malfoy, he did little more than snivel, and some of the things they didn't show like the whole Padfoot, Mooney, Wormtail and Prongs significance (or did that come in book 4?)
I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about the next movie. Book 3 was the last book I actually liked. I thought 4 &5 were boring, especially 4 with the 100+ pages of the Quidditch World Cup, that was a total snore. Both of those books will have to be cut significantly even to fit into 2 1/2 hours. It should be interesting.
On the way home (when I foolishly didn't stop to eat in Gainesville like I planned. That's the sucky thing about being diabetic. I used to be able to eat once or twice a day and be fine. Now, forget it. I don't get those small meals and I get shaky and nauseaous), we get caught in storms all the way through the Ocala National Forest but they weren't bad. We're almost home somewhere between DeLeon Springs and DeLand and we're seeing electrical crews out then bits of trees on the road, plastic chairs and metal sheeting all over the road then whole trees down and people from the trailer park coming to look. Yep, at least we MISSED the tornado that went right thru where I had to drive.
We get home and within an hour the electricity goes out and stays that way for at least an hour. That's when you realize that yes, the electric light IS one of the most important inventions of all time. Reading comic books by candle light sucks but it's like quarter to ten. I'm not sleepy so I had to do something. Luckily the lights are back on because I didn't fancy trying to go to sleep without a fan in the sauna that is post-storm Florida.
I saw Harry once already the day after it came out but between being sick and orals I never got the chance to give my thoughts. For the most part I really liked it. Yes, it was a bit rushed and stuff was cut out but that's to be expected. Rowling was happy with it and that's good enough for me in the light of most authors usually hate movie adaptations and are very vocal about it. Hearing a pleased author is pretty novel. I liked the more mature interplay of Ron, Harry and Hermoinie. Yes, I would have liked to see more of the time traveling stress on Hermoinie and Prof. Lupine actually taking his medicine so we could be clued in to his werewolf nature which really rather comes out of the blue if you didn't already know the story. The parts with Sirius were exceedingly rushed but again, this movie is 2 1/2 hours as it is so it's to be expected. I thought the acting was very good. It's always hard to tell if child actors will actually have talent as they grow but these ones definitely do. Harry's quite cute as is Ron (cute, as opposed to attractive which unfortunately Ron isn't). I'm not sure how they're mostly oblivious to the cuteness of Hermoinie (though the attraction between her and Ron might have been a tad over done).
Things I didn't like: Lupine's moustache and clothing, Malfoy, he did little more than snivel, and some of the things they didn't show like the whole Padfoot, Mooney, Wormtail and Prongs significance (or did that come in book 4?)
I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about the next movie. Book 3 was the last book I actually liked. I thought 4 &5 were boring, especially 4 with the 100+ pages of the Quidditch World Cup, that was a total snore. Both of those books will have to be cut significantly even to fit into 2 1/2 hours. It should be interesting.
On the way home (when I foolishly didn't stop to eat in Gainesville like I planned. That's the sucky thing about being diabetic. I used to be able to eat once or twice a day and be fine. Now, forget it. I don't get those small meals and I get shaky and nauseaous), we get caught in storms all the way through the Ocala National Forest but they weren't bad. We're almost home somewhere between DeLeon Springs and DeLand and we're seeing electrical crews out then bits of trees on the road, plastic chairs and metal sheeting all over the road then whole trees down and people from the trailer park coming to look. Yep, at least we MISSED the tornado that went right thru where I had to drive.
We get home and within an hour the electricity goes out and stays that way for at least an hour. That's when you realize that yes, the electric light IS one of the most important inventions of all time. Reading comic books by candle light sucks but it's like quarter to ten. I'm not sleepy so I had to do something. Luckily the lights are back on because I didn't fancy trying to go to sleep without a fan in the sauna that is post-storm Florida.
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