I'm also a fan of the increasing darkness! Everything's getting so fucked up. It's great to see a book supposedly written for kids which has the young hero losing all three of his father figures! And the increasingly dark atmosphere/climate/whatever is also good because it brings out different sides to characters and makes them do desperate things and all that jazz. So yes, OMG!DARKNESSZ!!2!@!
Ooh, I'd never really thought about having one of the 'bad guys' for a favourite character, that's really interesting. Bella is great, she's just a complete nutter isn't she? And from the clips I've seen, Helena Bonham Carter is going to be awesome; at one point she's got hold of Neville by the hair! Snape is... gnarly, and I *love* that we still don't know whose side he's on. He's such a complex character, and bits like "Snape's worst memory" go so far to explaining things like why he hates Harry and the Marauders and why he might have wanted to be a Death Eater. I've got a suspicion he had a thing for Lily and was at Godric's Hollow the night the Potters died, but that's just me being a bit romantic. But, ANGST! He has so much angst and I loves it.
Oh no, you hate Sirius! :p There's times when I don't particularly like his behaviour (usually when he's being a dick to Snape), but I find him completely fascinating and a bit heartbreaking because he never really grows up. And Gary Oldman is righteous. And he was such a rake when he was young! I can't help it, I love the whole Marauders idea. Not when they were younger and arrogant bullying gobshites, but the stuff we haven't seen so much of (except in photos), when they were all twenty and beautiful and dashing and fighting for something important.
And McGonagall wins at life, just for all the snark.
I'm so glad JK made the producers go with the all-British cast thing, I can't imagine some of the dodgy accnts we would have been forced to watch if she hadn't! I can't wait to see Alan Rickman get his hands on some of the really juicy Snape stuff in OotP and HBP (and DH, hopefully!), he's going to be amazing. I really like Gambon's Dumbledore as well (it was weird, Philospher's Stone was on TV yesterday, and it was Richard Harris. I'd almost forgotten about him). I think I like PoA the best so far as well, although OotP looks awesome, mainly because of the tone and the visuals (and Lupin!) and all that. And I'm like you in that I don't mind if the films are a bit different from the books, because they're two separate things, and they're designed for different kinds of experiences. I quite liked GoF, though, what was it that bothered you about it? Really? Worse than the Chris Columbus ones?
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Date: 2007-07-08 10:16 am (UTC)Ooh, I'd never really thought about having one of the 'bad guys' for a favourite character, that's really interesting. Bella is great, she's just a complete nutter isn't she? And from the clips I've seen, Helena Bonham Carter is going to be awesome; at one point she's got hold of Neville by the hair! Snape is... gnarly, and I *love* that we still don't know whose side he's on. He's such a complex character, and bits like "Snape's worst memory" go so far to explaining things like why he hates Harry and the Marauders and why he might have wanted to be a Death Eater. I've got a suspicion he had a thing for Lily and was at Godric's Hollow the night the Potters died, but that's just me being a bit romantic. But, ANGST! He has so much angst and I loves it.
Oh no, you hate Sirius! :p There's times when I don't particularly like his behaviour (usually when he's being a dick to Snape), but I find him completely fascinating and a bit heartbreaking because he never really grows up. And Gary Oldman is righteous. And he was such a rake when he was young! I can't help it, I love the whole Marauders idea. Not when they were younger and arrogant bullying gobshites, but the stuff we haven't seen so much of (except in photos), when they were all twenty and beautiful and dashing and fighting for something important.
And McGonagall wins at life, just for all the snark.
I'm so glad JK made the producers go with the all-British cast thing, I can't imagine some of the dodgy accnts we would have been forced to watch if she hadn't! I can't wait to see Alan Rickman get his hands on some of the really juicy Snape stuff in OotP and HBP (and DH, hopefully!), he's going to be amazing. I really like Gambon's Dumbledore as well (it was weird, Philospher's Stone was on TV yesterday, and it was Richard Harris. I'd almost forgotten about him). I think I like PoA the best so far as well, although OotP looks awesome, mainly because of the tone and the visuals (and Lupin!) and all that. And I'm like you in that I don't mind if the films are a bit different from the books, because they're two separate things, and they're designed for different kinds of experiences. I quite liked GoF, though, what was it that bothered you about it? Really? Worse than the Chris Columbus ones?
Random: LMAO!