Mal ,'Shindig'
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I am sad it is over, but overall, I was very satisfied with the movie. I have nits, as I tend to have, but overall it was magnificent and wonderful. I am sad.
And, a total geek. Though the funniest t-shirt I saw last night was one that said, "Snitches be crazy!"
It's funny 'cause it's true!
The t-shirt I desperately want is the one that says "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" on the front and "Mischief managed" on the back. If the possible new job doesn't fall through, that may be my first frivolous purchase with the first frivolous paycheck.
If she says Neville will marry Hannah Abbott that's good enough for me.
I'm currently rereading one of my favorite HP fics that features this pairing, called "The Colors of Fire" by Sher. Really well done.
My local movie theater is running HP7.2 in 3D, 3D IMAX, 2D, and "digital projection". Is there an appreciable difference between the regular projection (with film, one imagine) compared to digital projection?
Some people say film is "warmer" than digital but I can't tell. Digital projectors are quieter so you don't get the projector noise but that also means the rustlings of your fellow patrons are more obvious. After opening weekend, film begins to show wear.
I'd go with digital projection and skip the 3D. (I saw it in 3D and the conversion was pretty obvious. Not as bad as Clash of the Titans, but dark and muddy in that way that all 3D conversion jobs are.)
I'd pick digital over film because (a) film wears out, and this will be showing round the clock, and (b) it's such an effects-heavy movie that the digital print is closer to the "original" format anyway.
I liked that I knew exactly who McGonagall was thinking of when she asked Neville to find someone who was good with explosives
I hated that Harry didn't fix his wand. Good going, wizard, now you have NO wands.
I missed Grawp and the centaurs.
Damn Lav-lav. Not sure why that one really made my guts churn.
I cried pretty steadily from the scene in the boathouse on. Hey, boathouse !
(It occurs to me when the showrunner says Castiel is millions of years old, I cheer, because that's what I've always thought--but it's grey canon too--just completely unaddressed on the show, and people keep assuming 2K years for characterisation choices I think are completely unnecessary. So I guess it depends on what your preference was beforehand, or how much it snaps into place for you when you hear it. But I wouldn't try and win an argument with it, other than to say "the writers think of him that way, and nothing on the show contradicts it)
(If it had been an action taken that was later untaken after the film stopped rolling, that's a bit different. That lives in the headcanon world. Dean is doing things to Castiel right now that might not turn out to actually happen by the start of the next season, or ever)
I will go search for the site I found that questioned whether you should see any given 3D version of new movies.