Oh, visitor-one, won't you sign our guestbook? Our lovely lovely guestbook? Because the guestbook is just so lovely.

Saturday, November 16, 2002

Oh, Claire, don't get mad! I just meant that I didn't like how they characterized Ron. They gave all his good lines to Hermione, which doesn't any sense, because Hermione really doesn't know too much about Wizarding culture, and how even though you live in a Wizarding world, it's not a good idea to hear voices. I got a little pissed off. They basically made Ron the comic relief, which I hated because you could tell that he was going to say something funny, and Ron in the book isn't always funny.

But Tom Felton's best line had to be: "I didn't know you could read." I can't go more in depth, because I'll ruin it for you, but... it was just excellent. So so so so much better than the first one. The spider effects were amazing, and my sister was clutching my arm.

Do I need to mention the LOtR trailer? I squealed. Like, voices came out of my mouth. And the theatre was relatively not at all crowded, because my sister and I were the first ones in line, and we had gotten our tickets at least 5 days before we went. We had the ENTIRE theatre to choose from, and since we came early, we saw the extra tidbit, which really was humorous but no one got it.

Hmm... what else? Oh, yeah, the guy who plays Snape- I know his name, totally, but- excellent on his part. He never says that he hates Gilderoy, but just the way he acts and moves and his FACE completely projects his feelings about him. Especially in the duel scene, you can just feel that Snape is going to kick Gilderoy's ass to Pluto, and he actually kicks his ass to the moon, because the duel scene is in the Great Hall (which, uh, in the book, was not), and there's these cool little moon symbols on the Dueling Table.

Tom Felton's okay. He kind of overacts in some scenes, and it makes them kind of bad. Maybe he shouldn't sneer so much, because the sneering expression he has is extraordinarily bad.

And yeah, Parseltongue? A lot hotter when Tom "I Am Lord Voldemort" Marvolo-Riddle does it. I know everybody's been saying it's sexy-as-hell, but it's like when they put the echo-reverb filter on the Elvish language in FOtR, okay? It sounds cheesy, and they should have just let them hiss and be sexy, and not make it so... yeah, cheesy's all I'm coming up with.

Pacing, again, was weird. It jumped. The movie WAS excellent, but I felt that it lacked a lot of scenes. The HagridFanClub ending was weird. The Quidditch scene I would have LOVED to see go on longer. It was good to see Katie Bell's face, because Justine and I have written Katie/Oliver before. She looks like Amber Benson from Buffy, a little. Oliver Wood- I know all the girls were fawning over him, obviously, but Nellie was most happy when she saw the giant Quidditch diagram Oliver had drawn. They didn't show the early practices, which were pretty funny in the book, where Fred and George are sleeping on each other and all the Chasers are whining and it's a load of fun.

Alfonso Cuaron? You BETTER not screw up Prizoner, okay? That's my favorite book. You cannot screw that up. I will not let you.

I want to produce Movie Seven. I honestly, honestly do. I want to direct it or produce it.

Oh, and my sister and I had a game going throughout the whole movie, and one of us would exclaim something at certain points.

"Dirty!" was our catchphrase, which we yelled when something was especially un-dirty.

Kenneth Branaugh was, of course, perfectly cast. I thought he could have been a little dumber and a little more self-absorbed, but the subtle way he did it was nice, too.

I tried to convince my sister that Lucius Malfoy was indeed very sexy and evil, but she only had eyes for our little Evil Tommy Riddle. Yeah, well, me too. But I liked him before the movie, so I successfully scoffed at the 12 year-old girls coming out of the theatre.

Did anybody else try and prove that they were the bigger Harry Potter fan? I was doing that all after the movie, scoffing at the kids wearing the Hogwarts t-shirts. Do you actually THINK THE KIDS AT HOGWARTS WEAR HOGWARTS T-SHIRTS AND BRING THEIR PLASTIC DRACO FIGURES WITH THEM?

Uh, NO, they don't, hello!

Yeah. I felt a little threatened by the 7 year-olds. I felt it wasn't fair, because those kids shouldn't be reading books with Harry and Draco snogging in them.

Nellie can no longer discern between Fandom and Canon, that is true, but there is no excuse for 7 year-olds reading that stuff! I've been a fan since 1999, buddy! Now, I realize I started a bit late on the HP craze. I know. I hadn't even heard of them until I was 13 or so, which was 1999, of course. And Harry was actually the same age as me when each of the books came out each year. And now he's not, which sucks. He's a year younger. He's a tiny little ickle baby.

*cries*

Man, I wish I wrote Harry Potter. I also wish I had a broomstick.

Is ORLANDO BLOOM INDAHOUSE? No? You say he's run off to go be a milkman?

Friday, November 15, 2002

*squee*

I JUST SAW HARRY POTTER! GASP! CAN'T BREATHE!

Well, I can, enough to make a Tom Marvolo Riddle recognition site. I have to. Despite the lousy scripting in the Chamber, I still vouch that he was very good in the diary sequence. And Lucius Malfoy is a nasty, evil, cunning man with a big shiny stick, yet, it is a brilliant character. Tom Felton needs to learn a new sneer. Got a little sick of Ron. Which means the character that I truly loved is, of course:

Mrs. Norris.

Yes, I do mean the cat. Fabulous acting on her part. And I found a strange fascination with Snape, which is thoroughly disgusting.

Overall, I need to see it again.

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

*rolls eyes* Crazy guestbook people, again.

Monday, November 11, 2002

Ugh. Stupid blogger:

"Error 503: Unable to load template file. We're working on this. Please try back later."

Um, you are obviously not, because it has been like this for weeks. Why don't you love me, Blogger?

I am a little frightened, because most of the Member Logs (the guestbook, which has turned itself into a posting board for those Culted) are from Republicans.

*scared*

I heard they have teeth. Big ones.

Sorry, Cassie.

*smacks head*

I just said Cassie, didn't I? *blinks* Oh, I did. I am very sorry, ALI THE ONE WHO I COMPLETELY KNOW IS ALI.

I'm sorry. I just read her review of HP CoS. I'm dying a slow, painful, Daniel Radcliffe-less death. Most of it, though, is because Christian Coulson and I are not involved. In anything together. *more slow dying* *very painful*

"Alison told Chris Columbus that she really liked Bicentennial Man and he said, "Nobody's ever told me that before." And rightfully so, because that movie sucked."

Heh.

You're way funnier, though, Ali.

*kills Nellie*

DON'T SPOIL THE NON-US PEOPLE!!!

Hmph, now I don't care that I tricked you with the non-naked non-pic of Draco!

Am also extraordinarily envious of Cassie and Ali. I want to be the one who gets drunk and shags Sean Biggerstaff, god dammit!

Sunday, November 10, 2002

HOLY FRICK!

ALIAS!

*hyperventilating*

OH! MY! GOD! Did anybody watch it? Oh, just email me and talk to me about it, because... holy frick. Syd LOVES VAUGHN! The announcer told us so! For next week's Alias!

*dies some more* Sensory overload.

Bonjour, mon cheri, mon amour... je t'adore, y je sais que c'as ne vas jamais marcher entre nous, mais JE T'ADORE!

I knew living in France as a child would come in handy! *scores*

I must go. I just have to. I will be in California then. I NEED TO GO. YOU HEAR ME? NEED!

*dies*

And I'll be in Valencia... I think... unless the parents want Sister P and I to go down the coast with them from Sacramento.