spousal duties

[realthog]

Oh, gawd, I'm being dragged orft to see Harry Potter and the Half-Cut Prince tonight. Wish me strength, folks.

Last night we likewise went out on a date, and we discovered a magnificent beer: Troeg's Hopback Amber. Now, if I could smuggle a few bottles of that into the cinema tonight perhaps it'd help with the ol' fortitude . . .

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[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

Loath as I am to admit it, I have read six-and-a-half of the books and seen four (or possibly three; I can't remember) of the films. Enough's enough. More than enough, actually.

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add: best of luck...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Forgot to add: best of luck..."

Thanks, guv.

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

What did you think of the film, then?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Like the rest of them, it was moderately okay: good special effects, a couple of good performances, somewhat tedious, derivative plotting -- ya know.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Further to my last note, there's a pretty accurate review of the movie here: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/movies/15harry.html?8mu&emc=mu. My only difference from the reviewer would be that I thought (Pam disagrees) Rickman wasn't up to his usual speed.

Oh, and the reviewer doesn't mention that some of the visuals were extraordinarily lovely.

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

Sounds like typical 'middle volume' fare -- characters hanging around waitin for the ending.

One of the things that's always annoyed me about the Harry Potter series is that it wants to be 'grown-up', contemporary, and have genuine danger; yet it's set in a quaint, old-fashioned, half-jokey public school world -- and the two just sit awkwardly together. This film sounds like more of the same.

And that's probably the most analytical thing I'll ever write about Harry Potter...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"the two just sit awkwardly together"

I hadn't really been aware of this in the Potter movies (and anyway, as a general rule, I enjoy such dichotomies, as you know!) until this latest: there's some truly ghastly adolescent clowning (Ron swallows a love potion) smack up against some sterner stuff, and it really, really doesn't work.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

And you didn't pull your own head off even once?

[thisplacehere.livejournal.com]

No, but if I tried to read one these days, I might...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'd stick with the Glenmorangie instead, then.