HBP SPOILERS!! (and also coffee)
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bitchy_merlinThere are two parts to this post. Part One is exponentially less exciting than Part Two, so I'll try to make it short and sweet.
Thanks to THE MIDNIGHT SCREENING OF HBP OMG I got all of two hours of sleep this morning, and was rudely awoken by my alarm clock at 6:30 to bust ass up to the office for work. On the way, I stopped off at a Starbucks in order that/for the purpose of consuming much needed caffeine. It wasn't until I was a block away from the office that I noticed what the guy who made my coffee (is barista the masc and fam version?) had written on my cup:
And there was a smiley face!
I thought it was really cute and it totally made my day. (Well, the afternoon kind of sucked because of the two hours of sleep thing, combined with the part where my boss called to berate me for a flaw in an aspect of my work that no one had told me about, so I had no idea what she was talking about.... etc. But that's beside the point.) The point is, the cup made me happy. :-) Thank you, Mr. Barista man.
Oh, and another thing that was awesome was the fact that there was basically no one else in the office today. Yay, solitude!
Part Two
OKAY SO. GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING? AT TWELVE-OH-ONE AYEMME? THAAAAAT'S RIGHT! I SAW
and it was FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY.
AL;SKDJFLAKSDJ WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? We got to the theatre at nine, and THE LINE WAS HUGE, OK. I did not expect that. AND THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE AND THEY WERE ALL DRESSED UP LIKE THE GQMFS THEY WERE AND ;ALKNDFIEAKD YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY, FANS! I love fans! (But the fans do not love my friends and I; there was one particular group of girls who kept shushing us and sending us dirty glares. Not that I can blame them. BUT WE WERE WEARING OUR CLASSICS SHIRTS*. OBVIOUSLY SOME DEGREE OF OBNOXIOUSNESS WAS TO BE EXPECTED.)
AND THEN. AND THEN. THEY LET US INTO THE AUDITORIUM. ....And we kind of did nothing for the next two hours. BUT IT WAS AWESOME. Saw lots of Hermiones, loads of half-assed "it's a robe, it counts", and even a few Dobbys. Though I think the Mrs. Weasley was my favourite. Anyway, we sat and ate overpriced, highly caloric cinema food, and it was good. Also, a random cameraman came in and filmed people for a while. Lots of cheering.
Finally, the movie actually started (YAAAAAAY!!!) and the crowd went wild (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and OHMYGOD THAT MOVIE. IT WAS SO AWESOME.
Okay, well there were some things I didn't like so much. So it's kind of a love-hate relationship. BUT AN AWESOME ONE.
Nitpicks:
1. SO OKAY, WHAT THE FUCK WAS WITH THE UNBREAKABLE VOW SCENE? Helllllllo, I know it's the movie and obviously they're going to mess things up but NARCISSA, WHAT THE FUCK. IS WITH YOUR HAIR. SERIOUSLY. YOU ARE NOT PRETTY ENOUGH TO BE DRACO MALFOY'S MOTHER. /shallow
2. AND THE EXPLODEY BURROW SCENE, WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT. THE FUCK. I mean, I can understand how that would save them time and stuff for DH, but HOW WAS THAT RELEVANT TO ANYTHING, EVER, AT ALL? Squick.
3. TONKS AND LUPIN. Didn't like'em in the book, sure as hell don't like the itty-bitty rushed two-second clip of them in the movie. Okay, time constraints, but ;alkejra;i I DON'T EVEN.
4. WHERE WERE BILL ANDPHLEGM FLEUR!?!
The Bad Thing that deserves a separate mention:
5. THE ENDING, WHAT THE FUCK!? No, seriously, spoiler jokes aside. WHAT. How was that, in any way, remotely as dramatic as the book? WHAT WAS THE POINT. Um, by "ending", I mean the SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE moment where everything kind of jerks to a stop and you're all like "He did what now?" before it sinks in. WHERE WAS THE FUCKING DRAMATIC TENSION? That was not tense. That was like a day at the spa, what colour would you like for your nails and oh btw Dumbledore just got AK'd off a tower - round or square edges? And there was no Awesomely Epic Battle Sequence! I was really looking forward to that! Epic fail.
5.5 I really didn't like Michael "This is my acting face!" Gambon's Dumbledore. Acting fail.
5.75 The non-verbal spell-casting. Sure, they work on it in the book, but WTF, malfoy and Harry in the washroom. SPELLS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME COLOUR. THEY DON'T ALL FLY THROUGH THE AIR THE SAME WAY. GET IT RIGHT, N0OBS. Also, Harry's sectumsempra looks insanely unprovoked if you can't hear Malfoy screaming Crucio! beforehand.
5.85 (I swear, I really did like the movie!) A) My God, the ending. Dude. Like. How did they turn the entirety of "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!" *huff huff* *angst angst* into "uh... ciao, Potter." *Snape rolls Harry's wand like 5 cm away from his hand* SO MUCH LESS EXCITING. >:|
OKAY, NOW:
THINGS THAT WERE INDESCRIBABLY AWESOME!
1. The waitress! Okay, random, but cute! Sorry Harry, sometimes saving the world has to intrude on one's love life.
2. "I do so love knitting patterns"
3. Slughorn's pedo!eyes. Okay, he needed to channel more walrus, but the eyes were totes there, so it was good.
4. QUIDDITCH. OKAY. This is so fail, but I only just realized how much Quidditch = rugby, but on broomsticks. In mid-air. HOW GLORIOUS WAS THAT?! So then the Quidditch match got 1000000000x more exciting AND OMG RON WITH THE SAVES AND THE AWESOMENESS AND ALSO THE MID-AIR TACKLES.
5. Malfoy in a suit. Because if you're going to angst, you might as well scorch panties while doing so. And did you see that look on his face when he entered the Great Hall and saw Harry talking to Katie Bell? SO. JEALOUS.
6. LATIN. UNF UNF, BABY. ALAN RICKMAN. SPEAKING LATIN. IN THE SAME SCENE AS DRACO MALFOY. OH MY GOD *fans self* ME DELECTAT. ID AMO, ID AMO, ID AMO ♥
7. MALFOY. just. Being in the movie. *loves*
8. THE SHIPPING!!! Thanks to this movie, I ship everyone/everyone. Dude. They were all so cute! Harry and Ginny (never thought I'd say that), Ron and Hermione (AWWW~~), hell, even Ron/Lavender, just for the lulz. AND OF COURSE THE EPICALLY ANGSTY BATHROOM SCENE WITH HARRY AND DRACO, Y/Y? SLASH FODDER! Need fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiic...
9. THE SLUG CLUB XMAS PARTY! THE GOLDEN SHIMMERY CURTAINS. HARRY AND HERMIONE'S LITTLE TALK. SNAPE AND THE SHIMMERY CURTAINS. I WAS DAZZLED TO THE POINT OF INCOHERENCY. Speaking of which, I highly enjoyed the humour they put in this moive; it kept things from becoming too dark and dreary, but did so in a way that wasn't completely out of character. Much love.
10. LAV-LAV AND WON-WON BREAKING UP, WITH DUMBLES, MCG AND SNAPE IN THE BACKGROUND. OH. MY. GOD, I DON'T THINK I STOPPED LAUGHING AT ALL DURING THAT SCENE. THE "WTF" FACES WERE TOO MUCH.
11. Fred and Georgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I don't think I'll be able to make it through the second part of the seventh movie. Just. Them.
12. I LOVED EVERYTHING ♥
...there will probably be more after the next time I see the movie.
* ERRARE HUMANUM ETS. (Sed flocci non facimus.)
Thanks to THE MIDNIGHT SCREENING OF HBP OMG I got all of two hours of sleep this morning, and was rudely awoken by my alarm clock at 6:30 to bust ass up to the office for work. On the way, I stopped off at a Starbucks in order that/for the purpose of consuming much needed caffeine. It wasn't until I was a block away from the office that I noticed what the guy who made my coffee (is barista the masc and fam version?) had written on my cup:
And there was a smiley face!
I thought it was really cute and it totally made my day. (Well, the afternoon kind of sucked because of the two hours of sleep thing, combined with the part where my boss called to berate me for a flaw in an aspect of my work that no one had told me about, so I had no idea what she was talking about.... etc. But that's beside the point.) The point is, the cup made me happy. :-) Thank you, Mr. Barista man.
Oh, and another thing that was awesome was the fact that there was basically no one else in the office today. Yay, solitude!
Part Two
OKAY SO. GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING? AT TWELVE-OH-ONE AYEMME? THAAAAAT'S RIGHT! I SAW
and it was FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY.
AL;SKDJFLAKSDJ WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? We got to the theatre at nine, and THE LINE WAS HUGE, OK. I did not expect that. AND THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE AND THEY WERE ALL DRESSED UP LIKE THE GQMFS THEY WERE AND ;ALKNDFIEAKD YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY, FANS! I love fans! (But the fans do not love my friends and I; there was one particular group of girls who kept shushing us and sending us dirty glares. Not that I can blame them. BUT WE WERE WEARING OUR CLASSICS SHIRTS*. OBVIOUSLY SOME DEGREE OF OBNOXIOUSNESS WAS TO BE EXPECTED.)
AND THEN. AND THEN. THEY LET US INTO THE AUDITORIUM. ....And we kind of did nothing for the next two hours. BUT IT WAS AWESOME. Saw lots of Hermiones, loads of half-assed "it's a robe, it counts", and even a few Dobbys. Though I think the Mrs. Weasley was my favourite. Anyway, we sat and ate overpriced, highly caloric cinema food, and it was good. Also, a random cameraman came in and filmed people for a while. Lots of cheering.
Finally, the movie actually started (YAAAAAAY!!!) and the crowd went wild (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and OHMYGOD THAT MOVIE. IT WAS SO AWESOME.
Okay, well there were some things I didn't like so much. So it's kind of a love-hate relationship. BUT AN AWESOME ONE.
Nitpicks:
1. SO OKAY, WHAT THE FUCK WAS WITH THE UNBREAKABLE VOW SCENE? Helllllllo, I know it's the movie and obviously they're going to mess things up but NARCISSA, WHAT THE FUCK. IS WITH YOUR HAIR. SERIOUSLY. YOU ARE NOT PRETTY ENOUGH TO BE DRACO MALFOY'S MOTHER. /shallow
2. AND THE EXPLODEY BURROW SCENE, WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT. THE FUCK. I mean, I can understand how that would save them time and stuff for DH, but HOW WAS THAT RELEVANT TO ANYTHING, EVER, AT ALL? Squick.
3. TONKS AND LUPIN. Didn't like'em in the book, sure as hell don't like the itty-bitty rushed two-second clip of them in the movie. Okay, time constraints, but ;alkejra;i I DON'T EVEN.
4. WHERE WERE BILL AND
The Bad Thing that deserves a separate mention:
5. THE ENDING, WHAT THE FUCK!? No, seriously, spoiler jokes aside. WHAT. How was that, in any way, remotely as dramatic as the book? WHAT WAS THE POINT. Um, by "ending", I mean the SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE moment where everything kind of jerks to a stop and you're all like "He did what now?" before it sinks in. WHERE WAS THE FUCKING DRAMATIC TENSION? That was not tense. That was like a day at the spa, what colour would you like for your nails and oh btw Dumbledore just got AK'd off a tower - round or square edges? And there was no Awesomely Epic Battle Sequence! I was really looking forward to that! Epic fail.
5.5 I really didn't like Michael "This is my acting face!" Gambon's Dumbledore. Acting fail.
5.75 The non-verbal spell-casting. Sure, they work on it in the book, but WTF, malfoy and Harry in the washroom. SPELLS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME COLOUR. THEY DON'T ALL FLY THROUGH THE AIR THE SAME WAY. GET IT RIGHT, N0OBS. Also, Harry's sectumsempra looks insanely unprovoked if you can't hear Malfoy screaming Crucio! beforehand.
5.85 (I swear, I really did like the movie!) A) My God, the ending. Dude. Like. How did they turn the entirety of "DON'T CALL ME A COWARD!" *huff huff* *angst angst* into "uh... ciao, Potter." *Snape rolls Harry's wand like 5 cm away from his hand* SO MUCH LESS EXCITING. >:|
OKAY, NOW:
THINGS THAT WERE INDESCRIBABLY AWESOME!
1. The waitress! Okay, random, but cute! Sorry Harry, sometimes saving the world has to intrude on one's love life.
2. "I do so love knitting patterns"
3. Slughorn's pedo!eyes. Okay, he needed to channel more walrus, but the eyes were totes there, so it was good.
4. QUIDDITCH. OKAY. This is so fail, but I only just realized how much Quidditch = rugby, but on broomsticks. In mid-air. HOW GLORIOUS WAS THAT?! So then the Quidditch match got 1000000000x more exciting AND OMG RON WITH THE SAVES AND THE AWESOMENESS AND ALSO THE MID-AIR TACKLES.
5. Malfoy in a suit. Because if you're going to angst, you might as well scorch panties while doing so. And did you see that look on his face when he entered the Great Hall and saw Harry talking to Katie Bell? SO. JEALOUS.
6. LATIN. UNF UNF, BABY. ALAN RICKMAN. SPEAKING LATIN. IN THE SAME SCENE AS DRACO MALFOY. OH MY GOD *fans self* ME DELECTAT. ID AMO, ID AMO, ID AMO ♥
7. MALFOY. just. Being in the movie. *loves*
8. THE SHIPPING!!! Thanks to this movie, I ship everyone/everyone. Dude. They were all so cute! Harry and Ginny (never thought I'd say that), Ron and Hermione (AWWW~~), hell, even Ron/Lavender, just for the lulz. AND OF COURSE THE EPICALLY ANGSTY BATHROOM SCENE WITH HARRY AND DRACO, Y/Y? SLASH FODDER! Need fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiic...
9. THE SLUG CLUB XMAS PARTY! THE GOLDEN SHIMMERY CURTAINS. HARRY AND HERMIONE'S LITTLE TALK. SNAPE AND THE SHIMMERY CURTAINS. I WAS DAZZLED TO THE POINT OF INCOHERENCY. Speaking of which, I highly enjoyed the humour they put in this moive; it kept things from becoming too dark and dreary, but did so in a way that wasn't completely out of character. Much love.
10. LAV-LAV AND WON-WON BREAKING UP, WITH DUMBLES, MCG AND SNAPE IN THE BACKGROUND. OH. MY. GOD, I DON'T THINK I STOPPED LAUGHING AT ALL DURING THAT SCENE. THE "WTF" FACES WERE TOO MUCH.
11. Fred and Georgeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I don't think I'll be able to make it through the second part of the seventh movie. Just. Them.
12. I LOVED EVERYTHING ♥
...there will probably be more after the next time I see the movie.
* ERRARE HUMANUM ETS. (Sed flocci non facimus.)
