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rj_andersonI finally worked up the courage to a) ask my parents to babysit both boys and the baby for more than two hours and b) be away from the baby for a feeding. Apparently little Paul took the bottle of expressed milk I'd left for him just fine, and went off to sleep with very little fuss. *is hugely relieved*
So... now I've seen The Movie at last! But really, what can be said about it that hasn't been said already?
I think the adaptation was about as good as it could be, considering the length of the source material. I mourned the loss of Krum's hooked nose, but on the other hand, I cried when Harry came back with Cedric's body. Alas, Michael Gambon still has zero understanding of Dumbledore, and appears to be playing a completely different and much less likeable character who wouldn't know how to twinkle if you set him on fire. Brendan Gleeson was brilliant as Mad-Eye (and very much as I'd imagined him, except for the weird patch-arrangement with the eye and the big metal boot on his peg-leg), David Tennant chomped large splintery pieces out of the scenery (now that I think of it, perhaps that's what he was doing with his tongue -- trying to spit them out), Ralph Fiennes should perhaps be notified that nobody wins an Oscar for playing a bald guy with a snake nose but full marks to him for trying, Myrtle in the bath was really creepy in a way that reminded me of the whole HP fandom, the Twins aremadly fanciable more amusing with each movie, and Daniel Radcliffe is all kinds of buff, if a bit short SIXTEEN YEARS OLD FULL STOP.
Oh, and Emma Watson is shrill and annoying, but I think we knew that.
Off to pump (meh, but this is what happens when you miss a feeding) and then to bed.
So... now I've seen The Movie at last! But really, what can be said about it that hasn't been said already?
I think the adaptation was about as good as it could be, considering the length of the source material. I mourned the loss of Krum's hooked nose, but on the other hand, I cried when Harry came back with Cedric's body. Alas, Michael Gambon still has zero understanding of Dumbledore, and appears to be playing a completely different and much less likeable character who wouldn't know how to twinkle if you set him on fire. Brendan Gleeson was brilliant as Mad-Eye (and very much as I'd imagined him, except for the weird patch-arrangement with the eye and the big metal boot on his peg-leg), David Tennant chomped large splintery pieces out of the scenery (now that I think of it, perhaps that's what he was doing with his tongue -- trying to spit them out), Ralph Fiennes should perhaps be notified that nobody wins an Oscar for playing a bald guy with a snake nose but full marks to him for trying, Myrtle in the bath was really creepy in a way that reminded me of the whole HP fandom, the Twins are
Oh, and Emma Watson is shrill and annoying, but I think we knew that.
Off to pump (meh, but this is what happens when you miss a feeding) and then to bed.
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Date: 2005-12-08 04:34 pm (UTC)D'you think one of the house elves, Dobby perhaps, might be a Horcrux?
Naomi