Long live Hogwarts!

[webcowgirl]

I'm rather ashamed to say I very much liked the new Harry Potter flick. Goblet of Fire or something, kind of shocking since I've found most of the series to be light reads. I don't think we can really talk of me providing spoilers (and I'm not going to do a proper review), since I figure everyone I know has read the book (or hasn't and doesn't care at all), but this was the first of the HP movies that actually sucked me into the story. I can recall the exact scene: it was shortly after the "World Quidditch Cup," and Harry had just got beaned in the noggin. Suddenly, I found I was ... afraid. An emotion! It's like they were real people and not just a bunch of actors on a sound stage! And later, I was very disturbed by the underwater scene, the ending of which left me a little misty-eyed, and I was really struggling as Potter had to deal with the anger and rejection of his friends. And ... there was blood. And death. And flirtatious ghosts. And swearing.

Yep, this is a dark Potter, not suitable for kiddies. I might even go again.

Comments

Potter does pubes

[atokon.livejournal.com]

Does harry have magical zits, use enchanted stridex, and is his voice changing yet? I have zillions of nieces and nephews who just suck these books up. oh well.

ato

[butterflake.livejournal.com]

How interesting. I had just about the opposite response to the movie. I felt that every scene was so rushed through there wasn't any time for real emotions nor any sort of climax to build.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Do I get to see you sometime over this long weekend?

[butterflake.livejournal.com]

We don't really have plans over the weekend at all, except that Andrew can't really leave the apartment for extended periods of time. You guys should come over for dinner and games though. What night(s) or afternoon(s) are you free?

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

All of them so far, especially Friday.

[miss-bordeaux.livejournal.com]

I want to catch it as a matinee but CJ thinks it will be really corny and wants to wait till it goes to video/dvd.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

It wasn't corny at all, it was creepy and dark, like a movie made for adults or something, with a bit of a Japanese horror sensibility. Go to a matinee over the holiday weekend - I think you'll really enjoy it.

[poh.livejournal.com]

Damn, Harry's buff.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

I can see why Myrtle was hovering in the bath.