This is weird, Harry Potter is supposed to be in the local dollar movie this weekend, that seems awful fast. And they've only got two showings a day, early afternoon and 10 PM. Night at the Museum is on two screens.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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Connie Neil - Jul 22, 2009 8:26:41 am PDT #3159 of 30000
brillig
Jon B. - Jul 22, 2009 10:15:24 am PDT #3160 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I wasn't crazy about HP6. I think the reason is that there wasn't a whole lot of plot. All that time was spent with Drago and the vanishing cabinet but to what end? So that some Deatheaters could come through, smash up Hogwarts' Great Hall and set fire to a hut? The Deatheaters were completely unnecessary to killing Dumbledore, so why were they even there? Without the book's big battle, they were redundant.
I thought the Teen Hormone bits were charming but overemphasized. And I agree with Jessica(?) that Ginny's shoelace-tying-blowjob was just weird.
In related news, this bit from the New Yorker's Anthony Lane proves that slash-recognition can be found in the oddest places:
Unless I am mistaken, [Dumbledore] himself has a quiet thing for Harry, forever putting an arm around his shoulder. "Wands out, Harry," he commands.
Sue - Jul 22, 2009 10:29:20 am PDT #3161 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Jon B. - Jul 22, 2009 10:42:26 am PDT #3162 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Ha! I liked this bit: Dumbledore confronts a young Voldemort about a literal flaming box of secrets in his closet!
Tom Scola - Jul 22, 2009 10:43:22 am PDT #3163 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Alice in Wonderland trailer: [link]
Amy - Jul 24, 2009 6:34:14 am PDT #3164 of 30000
Because books.
Saw Half Blood Prince yesterday. I was ... wildly disappointed. It felt completely disjointed, and the storylines they focused on seemed really off to me, especially the angsty! silly! teen! romance .
I thought Rickman was horribly underused, too. But I will say that I thought the spontaneous wand-lighting moment when Dumbledore died was actually a nice shortcut to the general grief, since the setup of the funeral in the book would have taken a lot of time without a lot of payoff, except a chance to cry a little longer.
The whole thing just felt off to me, as if they'd thrown some random scenes at the screen and called it good as a placeholder. Definitely my least favorite of the films.
beekaytee - Jul 24, 2009 8:21:28 am PDT #3165 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I don't necessarily disagree with Amy's point about the wand lighting scene. It did cover a lot of ground pretty much instantly. Except that it sort of made me wonder if Aerosmith had come to perform at the funeral .
Amy - Jul 24, 2009 8:22:32 am PDT #3166 of 30000
Because books.
bonny, BWAH. Exactly.
Somewhere, "Free Bird" was playing, I bet ...
billytea - Jul 24, 2009 8:24:08 am PDT #3167 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Except that it sort of made me wonder ifAerosmith had come to perform at the funeral .
Well, of course they had to be there. Because they DO-O-ON'T WANNA MISS A THI-I-I-ING.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2009 8:28:25 am PDT #3168 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. The "secret twist" in Orphan is actually a surprise and way better than I would have guessed. Link to the Gawker post about it: [link]