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Jul. 22nd, 2009 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logicbuttonIt's going to be another fifty-hour week. Pretty sure it's going to be like this until the end of August.
I got a new computer, though! It's so exciting; I can turn it on and go to the restroom and when I come back, it's booted up. Also, I can't hear the fan from my bedroom, and the mouse buttons aren't mushy and sticky from having orange juice spilled on them. At least, the keyboard smelled like oranges around the same time I noticed that the buttons were wonky, even though I never did recall spilling anything on that laptop. Anyway, it's going to be awhile before I've got everything downloaded and installed, what with pretty much living at work on the weekdays and then spending the weekends running errands and trying to catch up on sleep, but I did get The Sims 3 (yay for a computer that can actually run it!), so I must not value free time that much.
As I mentioned earlier, I saw Half-Blood Prince last weekend. People don't seem to be able to agree on whether the movie was just a huge jumble of disjointed scenes or a pale, stripped shadow of the book. I, for one, am asking the important questions, like why the fuck did they feel the need to add a dead bird to an otherwise dead bird-free story. But getting back on topic, couldn't it be both? Although I wouldn't call it a pale, stripped shadow of anything, really. Luna endeared the hell out of herself to me, Harry and Ginny had a surprising amount of chemistry (as did Ron and Hermione), and the scene in the underground lake was exactly, precisely as I had imagined it (with one exception, more on that in a bit). One thing they didn't change but I wish they had: the soundtrack was lifted straight from Order of the Phoenix--not that it wasn't a great soundtrack, but new music for a new movie would have been nice. I can't imagine they didn't have the budget for it. One thing they did change and I'm very glad they did: I was absolutely terrified that the Inferi were going to be like I had imagined: pale, waterlogged, dead-eyed. Instead, they all looked like Gollum. In the second or two before they first appeared, the theater (FULL of little kids) was dead silent; you probably could have heard in the back a pin drop in the front, and I was sitting there petrified at what was about to burst into view and into decades worth of nightmares at any moment, and then it turned out not to be so bad. The movie's sense of humor completely charmed me, too; Cormac McLaggen was brilliant, and Lavender was great too, and I feel like there was something else I was going to mention, but I can't remember what it was. Well, anyway, great movie, am sure I'll see it again, whether before or after I buy the DVD.
Oh, and! FMA: Brotherhood has been so good lately.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clodia_risa told me that episode 15 was everything and more that I would have wanted in an adaptation of those chapters, and she was so right. The voices were perfect, the animation was great, the lines were well-timed, and the story was endearing. A total turnaround from most of the earlier episodes, really. One of you said that you would have liked to see Roy's reaction to...the scene from the end of chapter 30, which I agree would have made the episode even better, but I'm not going to complain. I hope not too many people were driven away by the production values of the first 14 episodes (well, besides the first one, I guess), although maybe some were like me and kept watching it every week for the opening theme. Which has now been replaced. Oh well.
I got a new computer, though! It's so exciting; I can turn it on and go to the restroom and when I come back, it's booted up. Also, I can't hear the fan from my bedroom, and the mouse buttons aren't mushy and sticky from having orange juice spilled on them. At least, the keyboard smelled like oranges around the same time I noticed that the buttons were wonky, even though I never did recall spilling anything on that laptop. Anyway, it's going to be awhile before I've got everything downloaded and installed, what with pretty much living at work on the weekdays and then spending the weekends running errands and trying to catch up on sleep, but I did get The Sims 3 (yay for a computer that can actually run it!), so I must not value free time that much.
As I mentioned earlier, I saw Half-Blood Prince last weekend. People don't seem to be able to agree on whether the movie was just a huge jumble of disjointed scenes or a pale, stripped shadow of the book. I, for one, am asking the important questions, like why the fuck did they feel the need to add a dead bird to an otherwise dead bird-free story. But getting back on topic, couldn't it be both? Although I wouldn't call it a pale, stripped shadow of anything, really. Luna endeared the hell out of herself to me, Harry and Ginny had a surprising amount of chemistry (as did Ron and Hermione), and the scene in the underground lake was exactly, precisely as I had imagined it (with one exception, more on that in a bit). One thing they didn't change but I wish they had: the soundtrack was lifted straight from Order of the Phoenix--not that it wasn't a great soundtrack, but new music for a new movie would have been nice. I can't imagine they didn't have the budget for it. One thing they did change and I'm very glad they did: I was absolutely terrified that the Inferi were going to be like I had imagined: pale, waterlogged, dead-eyed. Instead, they all looked like Gollum. In the second or two before they first appeared, the theater (FULL of little kids) was dead silent; you probably could have heard in the back a pin drop in the front, and I was sitting there petrified at what was about to burst into view and into decades worth of nightmares at any moment, and then it turned out not to be so bad. The movie's sense of humor completely charmed me, too; Cormac McLaggen was brilliant, and Lavender was great too, and I feel like there was something else I was going to mention, but I can't remember what it was. Well, anyway, great movie, am sure I'll see it again, whether before or after I buy the DVD.
Oh, and! FMA: Brotherhood has been so good lately.
clodia_risa told me that episode 15 was everything and more that I would have wanted in an adaptation of those chapters, and she was so right. The voices were perfect, the animation was great, the lines were well-timed, and the story was endearing. A total turnaround from most of the earlier episodes, really. One of you said that you would have liked to see Roy's reaction to...the scene from the end of chapter 30, which I agree would have made the episode even better, but I'm not going to complain. I hope not too many people were driven away by the production values of the first 14 episodes (well, besides the first one, I guess), although maybe some were like me and kept watching it every week for the opening theme. Which has now been replaced. Oh well.
