Harry Potter

[lnr]

Well, that was fun :-) Bloody hell it's long though, especially when you have to turn up early to get good seats! Left the house just after 8 got home at more or less midnight. I suspect I'm going to have an impressive bruise on my thigh from walking into one of the stupid cupholder armrests on the way out though, at the moment it's already a distinct *lump* which is mildly disturbing.

Looking forward to a nice relaxed weekend anyway. May have to read lots more Famous Five to fill up the time if I keep running out of news and livejournal and so on though. Seem OK so long as I keep busy at the moment.

This skirt is too short really.

Comments

[simonb.livejournal.com]

From the length of the film I'm guessing that they tried to make the film follow the book again. How close was the film to the book in the end ?

Having a distinct lump from walking into something can occasionally happen; it should go down in a day or two, although putting something cold on it can help reduce the swelling a bit.

Hope you have a nice and relaxing weekend :)

[lnr]

It did seem to be fairly faithful to the book for the most part, though it's a while since I read it. Nothing really leapt out and made me go "Nooo! that's all wrong!" so it must have been at least reasonable :-) I think Lockhart was done very well indeed, but that Moaning Myrtle wasn't quite miserable enough really. Not the world's best film ever, but good fun and a fair adaptation. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to people who aren't into the books, as both Mobbsy and rjk found the plot somewhat flimsy.

I now have an impressive bruise, with a pink bit in the middle where the skin is slightly broken. Bloody nuisance, I should learn to be more careful.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

IIRC, it was almost entirely faithful to the book but left a few things out (well you'd have to really). And I think you're right about Moaning Myrtle - she was played as very OTT, rather than genuinely depressive, and was also far too attractive - she had spots in the book, and picked them. Lockhart was brilliant, as were the mandrakes and Professor Sprout, but they did underplay Hermione's Muggle roots a bit, which I think detracted from the plausibility a bit.

Not, that is, that Chamber of Secrets isn't possibly the most weakly plotted of all the Harry Potter books, seconded closely by Prisoner of Azkaban (Azkaban itself being a severe case of retcon given Hagrid's apparent lack of a strong negative reaction to it in CoS). It relies far too much on whoever's reading it identifying strongly with Harry, I think, and even then is a little on the schoolboy-hero-fantasy side.

*koff* anyway. Enough of my Harry Potter fangirl trivia corner :)

[simonb.livejournal.com]

I should probably re-read the book at some point before seeing it :)

As for the bruise, I'd recommend something with arnica in it; AFAIR the Body shops' peppermint foot lotion has arnica in it.