Nigel?!?!?!?

[girlyswot]

But otherwise I enjoyed it enormously. I thought Neville was lovely (winks at dogstar101) and Bellatrix was madly fabulous or fabulously mad and Luna was, as hfleming8 so eloquently put it, the shizzle.

Best chat up line? 'I've never Stunned anyone like that before', though clearly redlightspecia1 could give them some lessons in that department.

I'm going to paint my office pink and put up plates with furry kittens on them and terrify all my students. I hate children too. *grins evilly and is very glad she is no longer a school teacher*

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[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Oh yes: the heaving eyebrows and the heaving bosom! Who are you and why can't we have a real Hermione Granger?

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

I specially liked when he told Harry that he was proud to be his parents' son - I thought that was a really nice moment.

Its potential was unrealised for me. Dan and Matthew act really well together but it just went by SO quickly. If the camera had lingered for couple more seconds during the build up and at the end of the scene, the emotional impact would have been greater. The editing was my biggest beef with the film, actually (as well as some cheesy lines that seemed out of place). My favourite scenes were where they managed to slow the breakneck speed down a little - like Grawp - and normally I loathe the endless CGI sequences. I'm a bit of film geek, so I'm quite critical when I feel like opportunites have been squandered. This could have been a GREAT film and I think that's why I felt relatively let down by it. And I HATED the Big brother-ish personality cult of Cornelius Fudge - it completely muddled the political message of the story. Grr. I expected more from someone who'd directed a well-received series like State of Play (although I haven't actually seen it). Mind you, I've heard that the Girl in the Café is nauseatingly naive as well, so maybe I shouldn't have had such high expectations.

/rant

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

He did State of Play! I thought that was brilliant. This, however, wasn't. I was disappointed by so much of it. I think they had decided that they'd just ignore all the issues that bored the 8 - 10 year olds (and this was the slowest book, understandably, for the younger readers). I think they were wrong. They could have used all the visuals to help the younger audience understand what was going on, not ignore it all together.

This was the first of the HP films that I walked out of feeling let down - whatever I night have thought about the others after a bit of reflection.