Harry Potter and the Goblet of Meh, and other things of musing nature

[lagilman]

Visually lovely, oh my yes. I want one of those mini magic dragns! And overall it did as good a job as it could in the running time I suppose.

But the sense of depth and scope and texture we've had in previous movies? The things that make the books such oversized feasts? Missing. A gaping hole of missing, in fact.

I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong. But I have no desire to see it again. Interesting. I've dealt with adaptions before, and not had this extreme a reaction. Did they gut the story? Or am I just becoming disenchanted? Need to ponder that some more.



And tomorrow is a full day of work and then I'm off for the Great Gilman Festival of Family until Sunday. If my mom didn't make a pecan pie this year, I shall know she truly doesn't love me (she didn't make one last year and I fell onto the floor and wept. Okay, I pouted on the sofa. The point was made, nonetheless)


I have many things I am thankful for this year, but they boil down to three basics, in mostly reverse order:

my health
my career's health
my best-beloveds, friends and family without whom health and career would be pointless. I love you guys.

Okay, yes, and the felines. Even when they do wake me up at 4am.

Comments

[debg.livejournal.com]

Safe travels, bebe. Right this moment, the thing I'm most thankful for is that I'm not a turkey.

[lagilman]

Did you hear that Bush officially pardoned the White House turkey?

(pause, insert obvious joke here)

[debg.livejournal.com]

He's thinking about pardoning Lewis Libby. (No joke, alas)

You know how tired I am? I'm in the middle of a chapter segment in which there is not only hot sex, but hot sex with undercurrents.

And I'm too tired to write it properly.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

There's just no way to condense all that into 2 1/2 hours. We've reached the point that in order to do the books justice, we need to knock off the movies and do Harry Potter - the Series. The books already written are good for at least 44 hour episodes.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

I went to see Harry with five friends and we all had the same feeling about the end...it just kind of peetered out with no emotional pay off. Bah and humbug.