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.
[link]
There was a whole post on Gawker about the homoeroticism in HP6.
ETA: [link]
Ha! I liked this bit:
Dumbledore confronts a young Voldemort about a literal flaming box of secrets in his closet!
Alice in Wonderland trailer: [link]
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.
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
.
bonny, BWAH. Exactly.
Somewhere, "Free Bird" was playing, I bet ...
Except that it sort of made me wonder if
Aerosmith 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.
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]
Chicken. Tikka. On. My. Monitor.
[eta: At the Billytea/Bonny posts, not Orphan.]
