11 July 2007
HP, and the E between S and X12 noon: the office was closed as the entire company trooped to the cinema to catch harry potter. yeah baby, free movie is the best thing in the world next to cigarettes with desert.
wala lang. just figured that everyone else will be talking about this anyway and i'm such a faddist.
so yes, this is my official harry potter order of the phoenix (movie) post. the film was okay. i mean i was not disapponted but unlike the earlier ones, this hp movie wouldn't have turned me into the fan that i am now. there are a few details though that made me happy, like the portrayal of dolores umbridge. she was sufficiently a bitch. well, enough for me to love her anyway. what i missed was umbridge and mcgonnagal's big duel, the one towards the end. yeah that would've been grannybitch vs. grannybitch action. 'kinda sad the movie decided to skip that part.
luna lovegood was strangely pretty. if i were a guy, i'd go for her and not that cho chang bimbo. (i expected cho to be much prettier, more delicate. the actress was just too...round. but i guess i'm too asian and my concept of asian beauty is not quite alligned with that of hollywood. then again, i find kelly hu hot.)
another thing i found delicious about the movie is the way it is peppered with innuendos. i don't really want to ruin the film for those who haven't seen it. but take this for instance:
harry: that's private!
snape: not for the dark lord!
(and proceeds to zap him.)
besides these suggestive lines, the movie was also interspersed with, um, very ambiguous images. imagine getting lines like those while your gaze runs up some taaaall and loooong tower, or while it enters some kind of an opening, like through a winding staircase.
i don't know. gelo (my officemate) kept on laughing. right before going inside the moviehouse, we were talking about semiotics. so maybe it's us, not the film.
what i'm really looking forward to is the seventh book installment.
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