Long break since last post. Must do better. A few weeks ago I listened to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because I haven't read it since it was first published. I loved it so much and my eagerness to see the movie was increased. I saw it the day after it came to theaters (July 16th--also the day my niece Daphne was born). The movie was a little disappointing as are all of the movies because they never live up to the books. However, this one had a major set back. It seemed so...anticlimactic. I'm not talking about the ending because it had to be that way to "set up" for the next movie. Disappointments included (but are not limited to): the whole Harry and Ginny thing, the Malfoy thing, the deatheaters thing, the Lupin and Tonks thing, Dumbledore's hand didn't look dead enough thing, and on and on.
I'm still very excited to see the last two movies and I'd love to visit the Harry Potter theme park. In other movie news I watched The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe last week. Very gory and kind of dumb but I enjoyed The Big Lebowski references. I saw The Ugly Truth at the theater last Friday. The language was a little crude and the chemistry between Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler was non-existent. I finished Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich. That Lula is a hoot! I'm now reading Generation Dead by Daniel Waters. It's about teens that die but come back as zombies (or the living impaired--to be politically correct) because of a delicate balance between teen hormones and the preservatives found in fast-food, thus making teens the only age group that can come back from the dead. Interesting stuff so far. I've also become a little bit of an eBay and TLC's What Not To Wear addict. The two kind of go hand in hand. I see a cute accessory on What Not To Wear and then wonder if I can find something similar on eBay. I have set a modest price limit per item so I won't get too crazy.I'm leaving on Wednesday to travel to Myrtle Beach for a lovely mini-vacation. Hopefully I will return with wonderful stories and photos.
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I saw HP at midnight, and I thought it was okay. The biggest disappointment to me was the whole Christmas Burrow scene - how the heck are they going to address that with the wedding in the next movie? And the death was incredibly anti-climactic. I fully expected to cry (I bawled like a baby while reading the book), but...nothing. Where was our big battle?
I agree about the Harry Potter. I loved it because I just will but it was so tame. Everything just seemed to move slow and was watered down. All the same I will buy it and watch it over and over!
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