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daddytoddJust got back from seeing the new Harry Potter movie.
I'm a total Potter virgin -- never seen any of the previous films, never read any of the books.
I do NOT recommend this movie to anyone not well-versed in the lore. It seemed to mostly consist of unconnected vignettes that bore next to no relationship to anything remotely resembling a "plot."
And maybe it's just because I'm a middle-aged gay man, but honest to god, every female in the movie looked exactly the same, with the exceptions of Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith. Sorry, but all those tweenie girls were completely interchangeable. For all I could tell, Ron Weasely was snogging his own sister...
It wasn't a bad movie, and I thought Daniel Radcliffe showed some promise as an actor (despite a script that didn't make many demands on his acting talents.) But it's NOT the place for a Potter neophyte to start.
II wish I'd followed my gut and gone to see Moon instead.
I'm a total Potter virgin -- never seen any of the previous films, never read any of the books.
I do NOT recommend this movie to anyone not well-versed in the lore. It seemed to mostly consist of unconnected vignettes that bore next to no relationship to anything remotely resembling a "plot."
And maybe it's just because I'm a middle-aged gay man, but honest to god, every female in the movie looked exactly the same, with the exceptions of Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith. Sorry, but all those tweenie girls were completely interchangeable. For all I could tell, Ron Weasely was snogging his own sister...
It wasn't a bad movie, and I thought Daniel Radcliffe showed some promise as an actor (despite a script that didn't make many demands on his acting talents.) But it's NOT the place for a Potter neophyte to start.
II wish I'd followed my gut and gone to see Moon instead.
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Date: 2009-07-20 12:48 pm (UTC)They were published at the end of 2006, for the 40th anniversary of the original series. They all sort of spun out events of the episode "City on the Edge of Forever." The first book recounts McCoy's life trapped in Earth's past, in a timeline where he was never rescued by Kirk & Spock. It was tremendously moving.