Honestly, I don't think that even Volvo drivers can compare their woeful driving skills to people who drive wearing hats. Especially straw hats. At night.
Yes, this evening, I was driving along, wondering what the matter was with the driver in front of me (it looked as though an camel having an epileptic fit was behind the wheel, "steering" - I use the term loosely). Turns out, they were wearing a straw hat. At night, while in a car. Go figure.
Also, I have discovered that hoodies are possibly all about making seedy old bearded men on bikes look even seedier.
SO I went and saw Harry Potter the other night. All I can say about it is that as a film it was great, as a faithful copy of the book it was poor (of course, I despise films that try and make a direct copy of a book). The scenes they added were great, and some of the stuff they left out was a little disappointing. On the whole though, a good movie. Go see it.
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I agree, the movie was great. All i've heard is people complain about how it's wondering from the books story line was terrible and that people who hadn't read the book would be totally confused and the director was just the most awful being on the planet...IF YOU WANTED TO SEE THE BOOK GO READ THE BOOK!
As someone who has not read the 6th book but stopped at number 5 i would like to publicly declare that i perfectly understood the film and enjoyed it thoroughly
excellent. i rather like the fact that they actually wrote new material for the film. i also like the new director's style and vision of the films.
the thing people don't understand is that adapting a book into a film and trying to visually represent the words on the page will never work. two totally separate mediums with different conventions, technical aspects and appeals cannot produce an identical thing.
what makes for a GOOD adaptation of a book into a film is the capacity of the director to capture the spirit of the book, the essence, if you like.
and this, i believe, is what they have done perfectly. the sixth book was great, but incredibly dark and creepy, and especially in the last say, 40 minutes, the film got this wonderfully right.
as an aside, people whinge about the film essentially leaving huge chunks out of the end, like Dumbledore's funeral, etc, but i don't think that anything was really lost by that, to be honest. seeing fawkes fly off was poignant and moving - the perfect note to end the film on, i reckon.
well hurrah for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince!
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