review

a) back from skiing
b) harry potter holy freaking shit

the movie was AMAZING! i saw it in canberra on way back from snow.

SPOILERS (but you probably don't care anyway)

Things i loved

• lavendar brown. jessie did a AMAZINGLY hilarious job of an over-obssessed lavendar.
• cormack mclaggen. the most disgusting guy ever portrayed beautifully. the way he looked at emma (hermione for you who art dumb) was sickeningly perfect.
• ron weasley. oh my god, he was freaking hilarious. "beautiful, isn't it? the moon."
• horace slughorn. maybe it's because he was in hot fuzz and was "the professor" Digory Kirke in lion-witch-wardrobe and i WUV narnia and am biased, but jim broadbent was very good. as was the sofa.
• dumbledore. knitting patterns is all i can say, knitting patterns.
• the hermione-bird scene. perchance it be the effect of the birds splattering against the door next to "won-won"
• pincers. no more to be said. that line was given suberbly. harry on felix felicis was like an ADHD-affected six-year-old on the crack-that-the-guy-who-plays-Vincent-Crabbe-was-found-growing-and-might-get-14-years-prison-for (how epic, man?). all of felix was good, actually.
• young tom riddle. how feminine was his face as a sixteen-year-old? and HOW FREAKING SCARY WAS HE AS A KID!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
• weasley's wizard wheezes. "how much is this?" "five galleons." "how much is it for me?" "five galleons." "but i'm your brother!" "ten galleons."
• katie bell. they used a ragdoll to animate that freaky scene. sent shivers down me spine.
• talk about dumbledore's age. seemed like a real talk b/w wizarding friends. REALISTIC. "old? dumbledore's not old. he's what,..." "one-hundred-and-fifty?" *laughter* "give or take a few years"

Things I didn't

• ginny weasley. she was awkward around Harry. the kiss was foul. she was also taller than him. it bugged me, being taller than most people. just because she's pretty, doesn't nescessarily (sp?) mean she's a good actress.
• the inferi. only because they scared me. i LOVED the effect, but the result was terrifying. i liked how they did it, but i wouldn't choose to watch it.
• draco malfoy. what a pathetic lump. tom felton may be hot, but his angst was just weepy crap.
• dumbledore's service thing. i REALLY wanted the funeral, but NO.
• absense of Dursleys. understandable. they're such funny characters. you can relate to them easily. a good reference point for aristocratic lumps of bleh.
• the disconnected scenes. the bridge at the beginning wasn't explained. for non-potter-fans (they exist?) it wouldn't have meant anything AT ALL.
• the burrow fight. sure, the ring of fire was cool, but why did they set the burrow alight? don't they need it for the seventh movie...?
• absense of fleur aka phlegm. such a good comedic moment, lost.

i must leave, for dinner/mother is calling me.

hope this helped. (it didn't)

PS - HOW THE HELL DO YEAR 8s KNOW OF MY BLOG. Laura, you have me to answer to.