Disappointed

I'm all hot and bothered; we've been home about half an hour after nipping out to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

I've never read any of the books and I'm pretty sure that this is one of those cinematic mistakes that means only people who have read the book first can properly fill in the plot elements that hit the cutting room floor, or understand the significance of half of what's going on. I knew that the stories get darker as Harry gets older and I don't mind that. What I did mind was the fact that with occasional exceptions, the sense of wonder that made the earlier films so fun was missing and had been replaced not by well-scripted character development, but an over abundance of teenage angst. Harry needed a damned good slap about twenty minutes into the film to snap him out of it. Sadly he never got it and that was that.

I shudder to think what was cut out; certainly some necessary plot points. Maybe they will be added back for the DVD release. What was left in was hmmm... pretty. I didn't realise that Sirius had copped it when he did and to be honest, I didn't care when I found out. The greatest irony of the movie though, is that having identified that huge plot points were missing, making sections of the movie almost incoherent as the cast just appeared in one place or another for no apparent reason, was that what remained was too long. Too long by about 30 to 40 minutes.

It seems that afterwards, I came a cross as rather over-vehement while I was explaining my disappointment to ellefurtle and I inadvertently left her somewhat dismayed. That was not my intention and it didn't start out like that in my head. At some level I clearly disliked the movie more than I am owning up to. It certainly didn't make me want to rush off and read the book.

All in all a damned shame; I was really looking forward to seeing the movie and I feel completely deflated and rather disappointed.

Disappointed

I'm all hot and bothered; we've been home about half an hour after nipping out to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

I've never read any of the books and I'm pretty sure that this is one of those cinematic mistakes that means only people who have read the book first can properly fill in the plot elements that hit the cutting room floor, or understand the significance of half of what's going on. I knew that the stories get darker as Harry gets older and I don't mind that. What I did mind was the fact that with occasional exceptions, the sense of wonder that made the earlier films so fun was missing and had been replaced not by well-scripted character development, but an over abundance of teenage angst. Harry needed a damned good slap about twenty minutes into the film to snap him out of it. Sadly he never got it and that was that.

I shudder to think what was cut out; certainly some necessary plot points. Maybe they will be added back for the DVD release. What was left in was hmmm... pretty. I didn't realise that Sirius had copped it when he did and to be honest, I didn't care when I found out. The greatest irony of the movie though, is that having identified that huge plot points were missing, making sections of the movie almost incoherent as the cast just appeared in one place or another for no apparent reason, was that what remained was too long. Too long by about 30 to 40 minutes.

It seems that afterwards, I came a cross as rather over-vehement while I was explaining my disappointment to ellefurtle and I inadvertently left her somewhat dismayed. That was not my intention and it didn't start out like that in my head. At some level I clearly disliked the movie more than I am owning up to. It certainly didn't make me want to rush off and read the book.

All in all a damned shame; I was really looking forward to seeing the movie and I feel completely deflated and rather disappointed.

Electronic Tidy Up

I have been clearing stuff off my P:/ drive at work – it is a personal drive held on one of the servers – rather than locally and switching stuff to the C:\ drive instead. This is largely because we are not supposed to keep pictures and/or movie/audio files on the system and IT are having a purge on any files of the wrong type to free up space. Other than a surprising amount of jpegs, I have nothing else and certainly nothing to worry about, but I just spent a while moving them so I could sort them out and keep the ones I want.

In the middle of this exercise, I found myself schmoozing through the folders I’d marked personal (that being the natural home for such rubbish) and discovered a fair amount of stuff I’d forgotten about. As you might expect, for instance, there’s nearly as much old NWO stuff on the work computer as there is the home PC. There are snippets of started but unfinished stories and redrafts thereof, particularly Dimpler Towers (which I ought to revisit at some point) and some examples of Mort’s shenanigans from back in the days when immerwahr and ysharros used to run their PBM En Garde game.

The oddest thing there and something which gives very little clue to what I intended, has three paragraphs setting the scene for what appears to be a short story dealing with “The Holy Dentures of Orleans”. Just finding a Word file with that name is intriguing. I wonder what I was up to before being diverted away from it?

Electronic Tidy Up

I have been clearing stuff off my P:/ drive at work – it is a personal drive held on one of the servers – rather than locally and switching stuff to the C:\ drive instead. This is largely because we are not supposed to keep pictures and/or movie/audio files on the system and IT are having a purge on any files of the wrong type to free up space. Other than a surprising amount of jpegs, I have nothing else and certainly nothing to worry about, but I just spent a while moving them so I could sort them out and keep the ones I want.

In the middle of this exercise, I found myself schmoozing through the folders I’d marked personal (that being the natural home for such rubbish) and discovered a fair amount of stuff I’d forgotten about. As you might expect, for instance, there’s nearly as much old NWO stuff on the work computer as there is the home PC. There are snippets of started but unfinished stories and redrafts thereof, particularly Dimpler Towers (which I ought to revisit at some point) and some examples of Mort’s shenanigans from back in the days when immerwahr and ysharros used to run their PBM En Garde game.

The oddest thing there and something which gives very little clue to what I intended, has three paragraphs setting the scene for what appears to be a short story dealing with “The Holy Dentures of Orleans”. Just finding a Word file with that name is intriguing. I wonder what I was up to before being diverted away from it?

The Greatest Quiz Answers Ever Given...

( Never underestimate the stupidity of the Great Unwashed )

All completely unverified by me.

The Greatest Quiz Answers Ever Given...

( Never underestimate the stupidity of the Great Unwashed )

All completely unverified by me.