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Nov. 7th, 2005 08:44 amThis review of GoF by a woman who has clearly never read the books makes me want to throttle something. It begins thusly:
I thought I knew what to expect. A couple of hours of child wizards casting spells, some japery involving flying broomsticks, a few owls and maybe some humorous interludes with a green elf. What I got was a two-and-a-half hour monster and death fest.
It gets worse from there, as the reviewer was undoubtedly playing solitaire on her cell phone, only bothering to glance up once in a while when the music sounded ominous or exciting. She consistently missed every single plot point, insisting that there was little to no story and things just happened. Yeah, not understanding why things are happening is a definite problem with a film, but I don't think this is what's happening this time. If you read the rest of her review you'll notice that she hasn't quite grasped some of the fundamental elements of the series, or that she's consciously choosing not to. My impression is that she's trying to be hip by not liking it, "See? I'm all contrarian and against such a popular series. And I could never be one of those silly fans that worship HP."
My fear is that all too many people will go into it with a mindset very much like hers...though Jesus, if you've seen Prisoner of Azkaban you have to have figured out that the series was going in a darker direction. Unless you consider Dementors the equivalent of little fluffy bunnies I guess. And the werewolf attack, what about that? Yes, in the tradition of all good classic stories, particularly fairy tales, things get really fucking dark. You want fluffy magic foo-foo go rent the fucking Care Bears.
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heidi8's post. And even though it infuriated me, thanks for pointing me at it, ravenmb.
Good weekend, no complaints on that front and I got lots done to boot. Saturday was the dance recital which I chose to watch rather than participate in. I just felt too out of shape dance-wise and I couldn't remember most of the double veil routine the night before so that was that. It was nice, though as it gave me a chance to chat with S-, and to just relax and enjoy the dancing. The show itself was incredibly well done and all the performers were superb. I was grinning and clapping like a maniac the entire time.
Afterwards I headed home for a nice quiet evening of crafting and lazing about. Sunday I was jonesing for a Jamba and felt compelled to try out one of the new cherry flavor. Mighty Cherry Charger is hella good, though gods I wish they'd turn it into one of their enlightened smoothies. I just can't justify the 300+ calories in a sixteen size more than say, once a month or so. *sigh*
Met up withtersa and aelfsciene at the Farmer's Market and despite the wicked lavender people who showed up to tempt me with their wares, I was remarkably good. One small bottle of honeysuckle lotion for me, one small bottle of rose geranium for Aelf and that was it. After we parted I zipped down to SC for a shopping trip at Cosentino's and sushi at Ariake. The remains of the sushi will make an excellent lunch today, yum!
Didn't feel like staying up late to watch it last night so I recorded the History Channel's two hour program on the crusades. I'll try to squeeze watching it in tonight, but I doubt it'll happen before Thursday if I'm lucky. Mostly because I want to catch "Viva Blackpool" on BBC America tonight as I'm almost certain that the guy playing Doctor Who 10 is in this one, and the idea of a musical drama intrigues me. Tomorrow I go back to class at long last, and the troupe are already working out a new choreography for Rakkasah so I definitely want to be a part of that. Now whether I can perform in it or not is another thing, but I'd still like to help create it and, of course, learn it.
I thought I knew what to expect. A couple of hours of child wizards casting spells, some japery involving flying broomsticks, a few owls and maybe some humorous interludes with a green elf. What I got was a two-and-a-half hour monster and death fest.
It gets worse from there, as the reviewer was undoubtedly playing solitaire on her cell phone, only bothering to glance up once in a while when the music sounded ominous or exciting. She consistently missed every single plot point, insisting that there was little to no story and things just happened. Yeah, not understanding why things are happening is a definite problem with a film, but I don't think this is what's happening this time. If you read the rest of her review you'll notice that she hasn't quite grasped some of the fundamental elements of the series, or that she's consciously choosing not to. My impression is that she's trying to be hip by not liking it, "See? I'm all contrarian and against such a popular series. And I could never be one of those silly fans that worship HP."
My fear is that all too many people will go into it with a mindset very much like hers...though Jesus, if you've seen Prisoner of Azkaban you have to have figured out that the series was going in a darker direction. Unless you consider Dementors the equivalent of little fluffy bunnies I guess. And the werewolf attack, what about that? Yes, in the tradition of all good classic stories, particularly fairy tales, things get really fucking dark. You want fluffy magic foo-foo go rent the fucking Care Bears.
Check out the excellent ranty fan response on
heidi8's post. And even though it infuriated me, thanks for pointing me at it, ravenmb.Good weekend, no complaints on that front and I got lots done to boot. Saturday was the dance recital which I chose to watch rather than participate in. I just felt too out of shape dance-wise and I couldn't remember most of the double veil routine the night before so that was that. It was nice, though as it gave me a chance to chat with S-, and to just relax and enjoy the dancing. The show itself was incredibly well done and all the performers were superb. I was grinning and clapping like a maniac the entire time.
Afterwards I headed home for a nice quiet evening of crafting and lazing about. Sunday I was jonesing for a Jamba and felt compelled to try out one of the new cherry flavor. Mighty Cherry Charger is hella good, though gods I wish they'd turn it into one of their enlightened smoothies. I just can't justify the 300+ calories in a sixteen size more than say, once a month or so. *sigh*
Met up with
tersa and aelfsciene at the Farmer's Market and despite the wicked lavender people who showed up to tempt me with their wares, I was remarkably good. One small bottle of honeysuckle lotion for me, one small bottle of rose geranium for Aelf and that was it. After we parted I zipped down to SC for a shopping trip at Cosentino's and sushi at Ariake. The remains of the sushi will make an excellent lunch today, yum!Didn't feel like staying up late to watch it last night so I recorded the History Channel's two hour program on the crusades. I'll try to squeeze watching it in tonight, but I doubt it'll happen before Thursday if I'm lucky. Mostly because I want to catch "Viva Blackpool" on BBC America tonight as I'm almost certain that the guy playing Doctor Who 10 is in this one, and the idea of a musical drama intrigues me. Tomorrow I go back to class at long last, and the troupe are already working out a new choreography for Rakkasah so I definitely want to be a part of that. Now whether I can perform in it or not is another thing, but I'd still like to help create it and, of course, learn it.
