It's Saturday night, I'm flipping back and forth between the football Tigers playing Iowa State and the Blues/Devils game (Mizzou is leading, Blues are tied). The house smells like oregano and butter (the cloverleaf roll experiment/dry run for Thanksgiving was a success). The pup is hunting squirrels in her sleep (her nose is twitching something fierce).
I'm recovering from 8 hours of sleep in the last 2 days.
Paula and I went to the midnight show of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One after dinner on Thursday, and I have to say, for the most part, I was impressed. More on that in a few.
The crowd at the Regal was fairly young and loud - I was surprised that there were so many older teens there, as it was a November Thursday, with school in session. Lots of costumes. I saw a gal dressed in gold with wings on her head (she was a Snitch), many many Gryffindors, witches, wizards, and a guy in a dress. I'm not sure if he was dressed as Fleur-as-Harry, or if he lost a bet, but he was a SCARY woman. LOL! Whoever dressed him had him in red (!!) heels, and after the third or fourth time he came and went (he was in the row behind us), the shoes were off. I think Paula was traumatized.
We actually got to sit for about 2 hours in the theatre before the movie, and they didn't start the 'in-betweens' until 11:30. At first we were all happy to have something to look at, except they ran the same 'quizzes' about 10 times. We were shouting out the answers to the questions as the pages were displayed. Yeah, we were a little impatient. THEN previews. TRON was first, everyone thought that was cool...but every preview afterwards was greeted with grumbles, and by the time we got to the Yogi Bear preview, there were chants of "Harry, Harry, Harry" rumbling through the theatre. Again, impatient!
I won't go into details about the movie - I'm sure that there are enough blow-by-blow reviews out there to satisfy everyone. I will give my highlights, tho ;D LOTS of skipping around here.
- I missed Dudley saying thank you to Harry.
- "I was afraid you'd lost your way..." made me go 'ooooh...nice double meaning!'
- Where the hell did Harry get the mirror??
- The cupboard under the stairs made me tear up.
- Hermione with Harry's eyebrows. *diez*
- Thought Harry was going to keel over ... Oh, Ginny! lol
- Could Ron be any more smitten?
- YOU HAVE ONE HOUR! (to fix my office)
- Churchyard. *weeps*
- Snake. *jumps* Good god, Bathilda was perfectly creepy.
- Harry Potter, newest member of the polar bear club
- Harry and Hermione look a little...blue....and....nekkid....
- THEY LEFT OUT MY FAVORITE LINES. WAH!!!
- Ron is such a suck-up lol
- The DH story art was cool
- *sob*
I should also say that many of my notes were used for the PFW podcast review and were written down the SECOND time I saw the movie on Friday. Yes, I saw it twice in 14 hours. Yes, I did that for HBP too. yes, I'm a fan! lol The Snatcher scene wasn't as bad the second time, as I sat further back in the theatre and center instead of closer and to the right. I can't imagine trying to watch that from the front rows. Ugh.
Speaking of the podcast, I have no idea when the review will be up, but when it is you can download it via iTunes (search PotterFicWeekly in Podcasts) or off the PFW site, which I think is linked on the right.
My favorite section of dialogue from THE ENTIRE BOOK was left out. It was the part after Ron has destroyed the Horcrux in the locket (yes, the audience cheered at both showings) and before they go back to Hermione. To quote JKR:
"After you left," he said in a low voice, grateful for the fact that Ron's face was hidden, "she cried for a week. Probably longer, only she didn't want me to see. There were loads of nights when we never even spoke to each other. With you gone..."
He could not finish; it was now that Ron was here again that Harry fully realized how much his absence had cost them.
"She's like my sister," he went on. "I love her like a sister and I reckon that she feels the same way about me. It's always been like that. I thought you knew."
Ron did not respond, but turned his face away from Harry and wiped his nose noisily on his sleeve. Harry got to his feet again and walked to where Ron's enormous rucksack lay yards away, discarded as Ron had run toward the pool to save Harry from drowning. He hoisted it onto his own back and walked back to Ron, who clambered to his feet as Harry approached, eyes bloodshot but otherwise composed.
"I'm sorry," he said in a thick voice. "I'm sorry I left. I know I was a -- a --"
He looked around at the darkness, as if hoping a bad enough word would swoop down upon him and claim him.
"You've sort of made up for it tonight," said Harry. "Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcrux. Saving my life."
I listen to the audiobooks and Jim Dale reading the US version of this scene is one of my all-time favorite parts. I was put out that it wasn't included when so much of other dialogue was lifted directly from the book. It's so heartfelt from Harry. :(
If you have read the books, or have seen all of the movies (and yes, this one is not a stand-alone; you need to see ALL of them), go see this one. I may go see it in the HD or IMAX (is there a difference?) the first weekend of December. No 3D this time - not that I mind, since I don't like 3D anyway.
I've been working on Christmas presents - I've made two Rodekool brioche lace scarves and am about 2/3 into a third one. I *may* make one more before I work on fingerless mitts. I didn't get the Ravenclaw shrug finished before the movie due to the fact that I should have stopped what I was working on a week before I did. Meh. It needs to have the sleeves seamed and the body ribbing knitted, and it's done. Almost 6 feet of stockinette! I did one entire half from Saturday to Wednesday and grafted the two sleeves together. 110 stitches of mid-back grafting. Ugh... I do like the Patons wool. Nice stitch definition, pretty drape, and good even fabric.
Mizzou is leading 14-0 with 3 minutes left in the game, and the Blues are tied up 2-2 at the start of the third period, and I think I'm out of gas. I may also be out of parentheses.
Have a nice Thanksgiving, US peoples!
Cheers!
