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

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.]

way better than I would have guessed

Better? Better? Seriously?

What part of Secret Dwarf Hooker is not better?

There are a lot of adjectives I could throw at that-wilder, more interesting, skankier...but I couldn't actually call it good.

Better in terms of more awesome/terrible. I assumed she was a beheaded ghost!