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So, today I went and saw the Half-Blood Prince at the movies. I had an awful lot of fun watching it, but I have no idea how much of said fun comes from any inherent quality in the actual film, and how much was just because I was sitting next to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laurenmitchell and we spent pretty much the entire movie laughing hysterically every two minutes (and probably frightening everyone else in the cinema).
Yeah, some of the stuff that cracked us up was the intentional comedy. And some was just random fannishness, or stuff that is amusing in retrospect having read Deathly Hallows (Oh, Dumbledore and his talk of young love ;_;) or, you know, hilarious subtext.
Most notable of which was ( Highly amusing spoiler )
I have to wonder, though, how well the movie held up for people who hadn't read the book, as few as they may be. Because yeah, I could follow what was going on, given I've read the book multiple times, but I did wonder if without all the day-to-day transitional stuff that was cut how much people could follow things.
Oh, and NOT ENOUGH RON BEING AWESOME! Damn, writers, try to remember the main characters are a trio, not just Harry&Hermione plus one.
Also, I was... not entirely pleased with the ending.
( Cut for PAGE 606 TOTALLY TRUE spoilers )
On the plus side, the above quibbles aside, I didn't have any real problems with the acting (even Emma Watson seems to have quit with the eyebrow acting!). And it had some wonderfully impressive cinematography in parts.
...And now I want to read HP fic all over again. Dammit!
ETA: And on a note that is sort of related, and sort of ...not, Mother dearest has apparently gotten us tickets to see David Copperfield (that illusionist dude) when he's in Melbourne. Huh.
laurenmitchell and we spent pretty much the entire movie laughing hysterically every two minutes (and probably frightening everyone else in the cinema).Yeah, some of the stuff that cracked us up was the intentional comedy. And some was just random fannishness, or stuff that is amusing in retrospect having read Deathly Hallows (Oh, Dumbledore and his talk of young love ;_;) or, you know, hilarious subtext.
Most notable of which was ( Highly amusing spoiler )
I have to wonder, though, how well the movie held up for people who hadn't read the book, as few as they may be. Because yeah, I could follow what was going on, given I've read the book multiple times, but I did wonder if without all the day-to-day transitional stuff that was cut how much people could follow things.
Oh, and NOT ENOUGH RON BEING AWESOME! Damn, writers, try to remember the main characters are a trio, not just Harry&Hermione plus one.
Also, I was... not entirely pleased with the ending.
( Cut for PAGE 606 TOTALLY TRUE spoilers )
On the plus side, the above quibbles aside, I didn't have any real problems with the acting (even Emma Watson seems to have quit with the eyebrow acting!). And it had some wonderfully impressive cinematography in parts.
...And now I want to read HP fic all over again. Dammit!
ETA: And on a note that is sort of related, and sort of ...not, Mother dearest has apparently gotten us tickets to see David Copperfield (that illusionist dude) when he's in Melbourne. Huh.
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