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Pottermania begins
Jul. 15th, 2007 01:15 amThose of you I've corresponded with via LJ will have noticed I've been rather quiet recently. This is why.
Less than a week to go now, and I'm in the final mad throes of realising that there are some things (including, sadly, my planned costume for the ball) that I have no chance of getting done by Wednesday. And I was most amused last Sunday when my Dad found a box at the side of the house addressed to me - even on Sunday I'm not immune from receiving intriguing parcels! Sectus has doubled my ebay feedback score (not that it was particulary impressive, but considering I registered for ebay back in 2004...)
So, I guess I wanted to add my comments about Movie!OotP to the general clamour. I saw it in Little Whinging's bland cinema, with my parents, on the 12th, and was a litle underwhelmed. In fairness to the movie, the children behind us munching popcorn throughout didn't help, nor did my general stress about Sectus (Why oh why did we go for a Ministry theme when the film is going to fix an unobtainable image of the Ministry in everyone's head? (And yes, I know that was my fault.) And now I want some extendable ears - I'm hoping ebay will provide on time.)
Still, the more we see of the movies, the more I feel they really should have waited until the seventh book had come out so they could write them more coherently. This one felt rushed, with a lot of background detail that wasn't relevant to the plot and was potentially confusing - though visually it was stunning and the sound/music worked well for me. And yet, and yet... on reading OotP - my first book since immersing myself in the fandom - I remember saying to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kennahijja that I couldn't wait to see them film the MoM scene. So if I was set to enjoy any movie, it was this one. But it didn't add anything to my appreciation of the books - seeing things from a more neutral PoV than Book!Harry's didn't add anything, unlike with movie!Gof where the celebratory mood of the Hogwarts spectators brought home the dissonance with Harry's experience in the graveyard much more strongly than as seen by Harry.
( A few more detailed thoughts on the movie )
I don't suppose I'll post again until after Sectus. It's an odd state of mind in which to be reading the last book - I have so much to do in the next few days that the organisation is overshadowing any excitement (or dread) about DH. If anyone's reading this who's going to Sectus, do come and say hello (I'll either be running around like a snidget on speed or collapsed in a corner.)
And to everyone - see you on the other side of The End. :)
Less than a week to go now, and I'm in the final mad throes of realising that there are some things (including, sadly, my planned costume for the ball) that I have no chance of getting done by Wednesday. And I was most amused last Sunday when my Dad found a box at the side of the house addressed to me - even on Sunday I'm not immune from receiving intriguing parcels! Sectus has doubled my ebay feedback score (not that it was particulary impressive, but considering I registered for ebay back in 2004...)
So, I guess I wanted to add my comments about Movie!OotP to the general clamour. I saw it in Little Whinging's bland cinema, with my parents, on the 12th, and was a litle underwhelmed. In fairness to the movie, the children behind us munching popcorn throughout didn't help, nor did my general stress about Sectus (Why oh why did we go for a Ministry theme when the film is going to fix an unobtainable image of the Ministry in everyone's head? (And yes, I know that was my fault.) And now I want some extendable ears - I'm hoping ebay will provide on time.)
Still, the more we see of the movies, the more I feel they really should have waited until the seventh book had come out so they could write them more coherently. This one felt rushed, with a lot of background detail that wasn't relevant to the plot and was potentially confusing - though visually it was stunning and the sound/music worked well for me. And yet, and yet... on reading OotP - my first book since immersing myself in the fandom - I remember saying to
kennahijja that I couldn't wait to see them film the MoM scene. So if I was set to enjoy any movie, it was this one. But it didn't add anything to my appreciation of the books - seeing things from a more neutral PoV than Book!Harry's didn't add anything, unlike with movie!Gof where the celebratory mood of the Hogwarts spectators brought home the dissonance with Harry's experience in the graveyard much more strongly than as seen by Harry.( A few more detailed thoughts on the movie )
I don't suppose I'll post again until after Sectus. It's an odd state of mind in which to be reading the last book - I have so much to do in the next few days that the organisation is overshadowing any excitement (or dread) about DH. If anyone's reading this who's going to Sectus, do come and say hello (I'll either be running around like a snidget on speed or collapsed in a corner.)
And to everyone - see you on the other side of The End. :)
