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Submitted without comment from the list of 50 things you didn’t know about Barack Obama:
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• His favourite fictional television programmes are M*A*S*H and The Wire
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By Dumbledore’s purple suit!
It looks like they’re going to be pretty faithful to the book.
Apologies for being a bit of an absentee landlord for the last week (give or take) but stress, work, Potter and an fugue that just does not seem to want to go away has distracted me.
I’m sure most of the (few) regulars/staff here having be expecting this since release day. So here we go.
I finished this book on Sunday morning around 1:30 or so. And I loved it. Of course, being that this is the newest Potter book I have yet to be able to pour over the book by listening/reading it 6 to 10 times… but my reaction after I finished it and still today is one of nearly unabashed love.
From this point on. There will be spoilers. Big ones. Continue reading ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…’
The pain!
The temptation to look up Harry Potter spoilers before the release (in nearly less than two days!) is becoming physically painful.
I mean they’re right there on the internets…. calling to me!
Normally I am a huge spoiler freak but I want to be surprised by this book, damn it!
Hopefully I will hold out.
As mentioned earlier, I saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on Tuesday night. And I really enjoyed it. OotP is easily my favourite Potter books and thus you would think it would be the hardest of the films to please me. Yet it seems the opposite is true. Because I enjoyed this one far more than any of the other Potter films.
Oh sure, they liberally messed with Rowlings plot and many other fanish quibles but fundamentally this was a good adaption of a difficult book to adapt. Oh sure Lupin barely got one line of dialogue. The Department of Mysteries battle was limited to only one or two rooms. Harry wasn’t as angry or as big of jerk as in the novel, but you know, do those fanish issues really matter? Sometimes, maybe (ok, usually). But not for this film or this novel.
I just damned excited that some of my favourite bits of the whole Potter experience were finally visualized. Or sure, these events and these characters were well visualized in my head but there is just something about seeing some piece of fiction that you love visualized on the screen.
This is what the whole Harry Potter mythos does to me, it makes me wax sentimentally.
Anyway, the acting was solid. The part of Luna Lovegood was well cast and well acted (oh sure, the girl they cast as Luna looked nothing like how I pictured her in my head, but again, who cares?). The special effects were well-done, more or less, except for the Grawp stuff which looked fake. But I never really cared for Grawp so it didn’t bother me.
As I noted before, the plot of the film was well reshuffled from the book, so many of the events and characters from the book were left out or placed in a different context. Most of the characters not discarded by the writer & director were handled well, except for poor Cho. Miss Chaing gets pushed aside very fast, almost as though they could have just cut her and lost virtually nothing.
Of course, this downplay of Cho gives my preferred Harry love interest Ginny more room to breathe. In fact in almost every scene that Ginny is in an extended visual hint that its likely that she and Harry are going to get together (Look: she’s powerful! Look: she’s dedicated to fighting Voldemorte! Look: she likes him!). I think I may have noticed this only because I am a big fan of the whole Harry/Ginny dynamic (and I know that is not necessary a popular nor common view in the extended Potter fan community but I am a big fan of the Luke/Mara parring too…).
As for a final verdict, I would say this film is well-worth seeing for most Potter fans. Though many may not be able to stomach the many changes and revisions (for film) made by the creators on Rowlings orginal work.
Tomorrow I am going to buy the new They Might Be Giants & Spoon albums and see Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoneix at midnight.
An awesome day or what?
So, now am going to sleep so that I can do all that fun stuff and work a eight and half hour shift at work.
Ok. This is going to be an extended ramble about the first three Harry Potter novels. This means several things.
- If you are here for pithy comics commentary about comics this is not the post for you! You can go here if that’s your thing.
- The entry is a ramble. Thus not a review or a critique or anything so sophisticated. Consider what you find below to be a stream of consciousness about the first three Potter novels.
- I make no claims as to a fresh or new insights are to be found below.
With that out of the way, lets get to it!
Continue reading ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher Prisoner of the Chamber of Stone’
It had to happen…
Much to the bemusement of several of the staff members here (especially PL) I am going to officially declare July, HARRY POTTER MONTH here at Blurred Productions.
What exactly does this mean? It gives me an excuse to ramble about how much I love the books and how ambivalent I am about the movies (well, at least the first two, the later two have been better).
And of course expect reviews of the new movie and Deathly Hallows once its released.
You’re a dead wizard, Harry!
The covers to the final Harry Potter novel have been released.
I find the cover to the British version very, very interesting.
Unlike the American version, where I am unsure as to what the fuck is going on.
And of course, both of the covers leave far more questions then answers. Like, seriously are Harry and Voldemort fighting in the Roman Coliseum? And those cloaked figures behind them? Huh?
Needless to say this has reignited my burning desire to have this book NOW.
