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Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (the first one) felt like it was two films smooshed into one and I don't think the smooshing quite worked.

The first film was all about the joy of magic, all fwee and joy and nifflers and Jacob.
The second film was all about the perils of magic, and not acknowledging it, and was all dark and misery.

As you may have guessed, I enjoyed the happy film more.

Eddie Redmayne was having to do a lot of heavy welding along the joins of the two films and he does excellently (I have been mean about his work before, but he's marvellous as Newt) but it still doesn't work.

Colin Farrell and Ezra Miller are also really good, but I fear Dan Fogler's performance is overlooked because he does such a good job of being so utterly normal.

One thing I didn't like is that while we know they can't kill Grindlewald, at point did I believe their attempts at capturing him. That could have been done better.

There is however a cuddly toy niffler that shall be mine once lockdown is over. I have resisted so far but quarantine is making me frivolous.

2 from RL:

Dear Once and Present Housemate, you might get fewer funny looks wandering around the area we now call home, if you didn't wander out the place looking like you're better than everyone here. Me, I don't get funny looks, but that's because I smile at people, particularly our neighbours. Who are not yelling in foreign, they're yelling in Albanian, which okay, I only know because they had relatives coming over who accidentally rang our doorbell but still, I seem to get on better with people which, since I'm a socially maladept misfit, does not bode well for you.

Dear men of the world, asking a girl out 3 minutes after meeting her is not going to work. Particularly when she's just back from the gym and is therefore wearing tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt. See people, I'm trying, why must guys chat me up when I am doing my best to look drab?

It strikes me that the three men most likely to read this are also the three men of my acquaintance least likely to do this, but should any of you have influence over small male children, teach them this so that they may not repeat the mistakes of far too many men.

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About Heroes - I think the writers really need to try and decide what they're doing with Peter Petrelli, because he's got this weird split, because, when he's being a nurse, he's cool, and when he chooses to be sneaky, he's cool, but the rest of the time he comes across as whiny and I don't know why.

About Harry Potter - ( Spoilers for Deathly Hallows )

Thought it was pretty dark and then watched Farscape and saw that it really wasn't. It's the one where Scorpius's back story is revealled and everyone is angry and pyscho. And Braca kicks ass.

I now have the 'Hallowed' book. But I haven't started reading it because Danny and Dave invited me round to watch them try (and succeed) to distill wine into brandy.

On the Vino affair, his B sample has come back positive and Kloeden is now muddying the waters nicely with talk of a conspiracy and of the ASO (organisation in charge of the Tour) and the UCI (organisation in charge of cycling in general) using cyclists and their results as pawns in their on-going war and maybe influencing the test results.

This story is going to run and run.

Saw it today with Nan, and so hence here is my review

( The things I liked )

My favourite thing, and this soooooo is not a spoiler, Ferret! Malfoy. Seriously, it may well have made my week.

( Things I am not decided on )

( Things I really didn't like )

It must have been quite good at least, the good outweighs the bad by at least half a page. I prefer it to POA anyway.

Some things that amused me and are not spoilers:
The kids really are growing up and it's getting a mite obvious.
The merpeople really aren't that scary. I don't see what the fuss was about. Aragog was way scarier.

And for once, ( Read more... )

I know a couple of people on my f-list gave their views on the film and I would reply except I can't find them. At least I though Stasia and Becky had done. Or am I going mad?

Went shopping with Mother. She bought me a suit for any interviews I have. Suit is lovely, comfortable and was hideously expensive. Am yet more beholden to Mother.

Bought the special edition of the Usual Suspects (finally) and Withnail and I, both on DVD, for under a tenner. All hail HMV sales and NUS cards.

Anyway, I was in the Hallmark shop and I saw the Goblet of Fire calendar and there was a picture of David Tennent on it, and unfortunately my brain went straight to 'yummy'.

Not good.

I mean, admittedly I still think the casting directors are wrong with both Crouchs, but dude, I so want to see it now. Well that and the picture of the Twins.

It's one of the things that really annoys me about the build up to the Christmas Invasion was how David Tennant is all twinkly but there is so much more to him than that.

The man can act, damn it! Anyone who's seen Casanova will tell you that.

The Christmas Invasion was every bit as awkwardly good as is expected. The SFX were BBC SFX, you know, good with the occasional man in rubber suit/bad CGI moment.

And most importantly, yes, this is definitely not the same Doctor.

That's important, his basic traits have to remain the same (just, fair, his entire impatient Doctorly arrogance) while the personality quirks have to change, and with him they have.

Mum doesn't like this Doctor as much, and I can see why. While he's not as obviously alien, he's not as sympathetic - ( For spoilery instance )

Loved the political stuff, although it may date badly.

And dear Gods do I love this new Doctor. But I worry about him, there's something just a little off, just a little not right, and it worries me. Especially right at the end.

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time a regeneration has sent the Doctor loopy but this is the bad loopy, not the 'gosh, I have no idea who I am' loopy (although that is a feature) or the 'I feel weak and feeble' (which is also there), I worry that this is something else.

But whereas 9 was the last man standing of the time war, and messed up because of that (and having seen the 2nd part of 'The Empty Child' I feel so sorry for him, with the whole 'let this be the one where everyone lives'. Poor Doctor.) this one isn't. This one's old and dangerous in a young body.

I mean, that seen at the end where *** **** the **** and he punishes them and his whole speech about humanity, dear Gods was he ever scary. Clever and scary, which is even more terrifying.

But yes, looking forward to the new series and I should probably work on a better Dr. Who number 10 icon.

This is what Remus looks like in my head



I think I have problems.

Also small apology for not politics filtering the last post immediately, that's been fixed.

So amused to hear some of my RL friends reactions to HP and HBP. They're like the on-line ones but sanely expressed.

( And now for a Buffy quiz )

The long fic of doom is now 42kb big, shows no sign of ending, has a stupid amount of unavoidable exposition and now is trying to make me write serious things that I normally don't touch with a barge-pole.

There are times when I hate my brain. It gives me these ideas that all on the same storyline, but doesn't give me the linking bits. And four linked HBP (and one pre-HBP) ficlets is a bit of an odd thing to write. Give me a long fic or give a short fic, brain, but don't give me this bizarrely broken up long fic.

( 'Shippy things )

( For Red has no self-control and read it in one sitting )

More later, must go work.