I really should be in bed right now

[guanin]

I have class at 11 tomorrow. It's now 2:14. And I've watched the Harry Potter trailers probably six times by now. They're on loop. Unstoppable! Okay, not unstoppable, but I suddenly have all this dormant HP interest coming back. Though what the people who saw the screenings are saying does make me wary. The trailer for the fourth movie looked cool, too, and yet... eh (I don't see what's so great about it; my favorite is the third one). Now I'm bracing myself for a repeat of Hellboy 2: cool action scenes mixed with unbearable sap. And yet I'm watching them!

I gotta say: that shot of Dumbledore surrounded by fire. Totally reminds me of Gandalf.

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[guanin.livejournal.com]

*snort* True. It does worry me that they seem to have focused to much on the teen romance. Except for a couple of things, that's the easiest stuff to cut and actually irritated me quite a bit in the book.

I did go to bed a few minutes after posting this. As a consequence, I kept trying not to yawn through class today.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

The whole book really annoyed me, frankly. It was the first time I actually got sick of Harry and all his teenaged-boy-ness. But I think it's kind of crucial that he does have those moments of irritating teenaged-boy-ness. And again, just because it's in the trailers, doesn't mean it'll be that big in the movie; I'd hope not anyway. But chances are I won't see it either way; I still haven't seen 3 all the way or 4 at all.

Well that's no good. I'm officially on Spring Break right now so...all the naps I want! For today at least.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

I read it once and have never picked it up again. I agree with the people who say that it looks like badfic. People who've gone to the screening say it's all about the sap and not enough about the plot. I think someone said it might as well have been called Harry Potter and the Hormones. So it's not just the trailers, then, though they could be exaggerating, but I have very low tolerance for this stuff. I love, love 3. It's the best one, imo. The fourth I didn't like. And I often get into fights because of this.

I have one more week of class and then I'm free!

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I liked it better than, um, five which I didn't read all the way through, but you have to admit there really wasn't much of a plot to speak of until the very end. But yeah, the jealousy stuff was really annoying and will probably be even more so on screen. Three was done by a Mexican director, so that makes it de facto awesome ;)

Woo! Break!

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Actually five is one of my favorites. 3-5 really. And I wouldn't say that there wasn't plot until the end. Yeah, Pedro Almodovar. And he was awesome. But then he convinced the next director to make book 4 into only one movie and they wound focusing on all the wrong things.