General Musings

Movie Review: Harry Potter 7


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Ok. I’ve read the other reviews on the internet over the weekend and most of them say this movie is great.

Huh?

One reviewer even said she read the book and still thought the movie was great.

Huh?

The movie effects were pretty good.

That is the only positive thing I can say about this movie.

I didn’t expect the first half to be as exciting as the second half promises to be but my major disappointment lies with how much the movie deviated and sometimes never resembled the book.

I have to admit that seeing Snape fly into Malfoy manor in the very beginning made the movie feel promising.

The cafe’ fight wasn’t long enough. The camera bouncing around during the forest fight scene with the snatchers gave me a headache.

For those of us who enjoyed the book, this movie was bad.

10 Plot Holes You May Have Missed

I saw this post this morning and pretty much agree with all of them.

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – This is a problem in the book as well, but it’s in the movie so it counts. Barty Crouch, Jr., disguised as Mad-Eye Moody, arranges for the Triwizard Cup to be a portkey to take Harry to the graveyard in Little Hangleton so that he can be used to bring Voldemort back to life and then killed. He’s in the guise of a teacher at the school, so he had any number of opportunities to make a portkey out of, well, pretty much anything that he could be sure Harry would touch — Harry’s schoolbooks, his shoes, whatever. It’s been argued that Voldemort wanted to keep his existence a secret and make it look like Harry perished during the task, but really, having Harry just disappear without a trace wouldn’t be any more suspicious. And, incidentally, why did he make the cup a two-way portkey? It’s been established that most portkeys are one-use, one-way only. Why not make this portkey one of those, so that Harry had no way to escape?

The Harry Potter one is definitely “spot on.”

Hmmm

I woke up this morning thinking that this was some big kind of day.

I shook my head and then it came to me.

I’ve got Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop Tarts!

Rock on.

RIP: Oracle Octopus

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(Reuters) – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany’s soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.

Looks like they’re going to need a new one of them.

Full story here.

Happy Halloween

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Basically derived from a Celtic holiday used to commemorate the end of summer and welcome the “dark” half of the year.

The witches, goblins, etc. is just extra crap thrown in for good measure and used to piss off the folks who see the devil in everything. It usually works too.

May the Celtic festival of Samhain be a happy one.

Goodbye summer. You bitch.

Election Prediction

I’m sure we’ll see a lot of folks go on Tuesday.

Rightfully so.

We’ll have to sit and listen to all of the conservative pundits talk about how “great” their predictions were and how they “knew” this would happen…blah…blah…and blah.

In a bad economy, the controlling party is always going to be the loser. That is all I need to know.

No need to predict the blatantly obvious.

The one good thing that will come out of all of this will happen when the newly elected members enter congress and apply the brakes to this out of control socialism. We may not see any real repeals take place until 2012 when Obama will more than likely get booted out. You can’t ignore the electorate and expect to have those same people give you another term.

Until they take office, the old guard can still do a crap ton (technical term) of damage.

Just remember the shape they left the national mall in the last time they had a “rally.”

The line that defines what congress can and can’t do has been moved so many times that it’s hard to figure out where it’s supposed to be.

As Glenn Beck pointed out on his show last night ‘people have lost faith in other people.’ I’m paraphrasing but you get the idea.

As hard as it is to grasp, we’ll probably need a 3rd party to gain control of the house, senate, and white house in order to fix most of the problems that we have and basically repeal decades of legislation that completely harmed America. Let’s face it. The Republicans and Democrats caused all of this. They also wrote legislation and rules that are conducive to keeping them in power.

If you doubt what I’ve just said, look up the rules for a Presidential debate.