Monday morning stuffs.

[jsbowden]

Saw HP: OotP last night. Pretty decent flick, but like GoF, it suffers from having a very large book crammed in to an insufficient amount of time. I enjoyed it, but some of the omissions and changes seemed odd choices (while one or two others made sense). The fight in the Ministry of Magic at the end felt rushed, but hey, we were already pushing the 2.5 hour mark, so you do what you gotta. Helena Bonham Carter was awesome as Bellatrix. I think leaving out that Trelawney was the originator of the prophecy in question, and that she issued it to Dumbledore was a huge omission. It also explains Dumbledore's reasons for having kept her around, despite being...well, really mostly useless.

The trailer for Stardust? Totally kicks ass. I'll have to read that in the intervening months (no, I haven't read it or the Sandman GNs, I don't really like reading that style in general).

And, because it amused me:


Find out your Harry Potter personality at LiquidGeneration!