Elder Wand

pre-note: this post is about the new harry potter film. if you haven't seen the movie or read the book, and you care about spoilers, don't read this post! that is all. move along.

liked: the movie was very true to the book for the most part, only a few changes and most of them made sense from a film-making perspective. making hedwig sacrifice herself to make the death a bit more meaningful was wonderful, and the minor changes to speed scenes up and get them out on the road were necessary. overall it was probably my favorite of the seven films, and it had a great 'middle movie' sort of 'empire strikes back' feel to it, which agrees with the reviews. well acted by all, but especially emma watson whose dialogue basically drove the film.

disliked: the pacing could've been a little bit better, though it was an improvement on the book. the omission of wormtail's death was understandable, but i felt kind of cheated out of a strong moment from the book. getting rid of 'potterwatch' and the scene with dean thomas and things like that kind of disconnected everything further from hogwarts, which again is understandable, but the short scene on the hogwarts express sort of made up for it. the scene was confusing, and i may be wrong, but i didn't see harry disarm draco at malfoy manor. dunno how they're gonna get around that. that's pretty integral to the storyline.

anyway, all in all, it was a good day. waiting in line was fun, made some short-term friends and drank way too much pepsi, but i made it. my legs were so cramped! not excited that i have to work tomorrow, but that's life i suppose. it shouldn't be too bad. becky and christin were kind of off their rockers the whole time, but they had a lot of fun. i think my second viewing of the film will do a bit more to solidify my opinion on a lot of things, and possibly clarify some things i may have seen wrong the first time around. that'll be tuesday. ;-D for now, it's time for sleep!

note: posted the next day for obvious reasons.