Yeah, I've discovered that if you're going to start a conversation with a perfect stranger, the best ones to choose are fandom people (and hey, we're not perfect strangers so plus! :P). About the only thing that makes the huge lines at cons worth while is that you can become best friends with the people around you for the day :)
How about I try calling you tomorrow at 8?
What did you and her disagree about in terms of the movie? Well it's been a while since I've read the book, so the movie wasn't that painful to watch (I wasn't noticing everything they didn't put in, or got wrong). Andrea's more in the fandom though, so she noticed more, and would bitch over the little details (Andrea: "Umbridge didn't look like a toad! She was supposed to look like a toad!" Mom: "It's kind of hard to find actors who really look like toads" Andrea: "Because I'm sure the actor who plays Volemort really looks like, why couldn't they have put make up on!" Me: It wouldn't have looked real? Also it's a waste of time and money?"). What really pissed me off though is when she started talking about the books in general, and the 7th book specifically. I mean both of us get a lot of our thoughts from on-line where other people come up with them and we just pick and choose which to believe. Andrea kept talking about things that are more fanon than canon. She'd put greater meaning into things than I think they deserved (like she said that Dumbledore implied that he wanted Snape to kill him in the 4th book. *rolls eyes*). Or would talk about theories like they were fact, and I just didn't want to hear it, because I'd rather just read the 7th book and not have expectations. Although I did get one up on her. She has this huge theory that in the end, it's going to be Neville that kills Voldemort, not Harry, since in the fifth book Dumbledore says that both Harry and Neville fit the description of the prophesy. But I totally killed that theory because if that were really going to happen, it would have made it into the movie. Instead that whole scene and conversation was skipped.
What'd you like about it? I liked that they made the movie better than the book in a lot of ways. I mean when I read the book, Harry was such a whiny little brat that I could barely stand it. Harry had a few mood swings in the movie but not really the huge amounts of self pity and emo dialogs. Also, something my sister Jenny mentioned; they made Sirius less annoying too. I mean in the book he was biting at the bit and being reckless, and using Harry as a replacement for James, and while they had a tiny bit of that in the movie, there wasn't as much. I really liked how they showed Umbridge interviewing all the teachers, although it would have been nice to see a bit more of the Hagrid story line.
What did you think of the movie? (you might have made a post, but I'm soooo far behind on my flist right now it's not even funny. I'm thinking of just giving up ans skipping the weeks worth I'm behind on now :S)
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How about I try calling you tomorrow at 8?
What did you and her disagree about in terms of the movie?
Well it's been a while since I've read the book, so the movie wasn't that painful to watch (I wasn't noticing everything they didn't put in, or got wrong). Andrea's more in the fandom though, so she noticed more, and would bitch over the little details (Andrea: "Umbridge didn't look like a toad! She was supposed to look like a toad!" Mom: "It's kind of hard to find actors who really look like toads" Andrea: "Because I'm sure the actor who plays Volemort really looks like, why couldn't they have put make up on!" Me: It wouldn't have looked real? Also it's a waste of time and money?").
What really pissed me off though is when she started talking about the books in general, and the 7th book specifically. I mean both of us get a lot of our thoughts from on-line where other people come up with them and we just pick and choose which to believe. Andrea kept talking about things that are more fanon than canon. She'd put greater meaning into things than I think they deserved (like she said that Dumbledore implied that he wanted Snape to kill him in the 4th book. *rolls eyes*). Or would talk about theories like they were fact, and I just didn't want to hear it, because I'd rather just read the 7th book and not have expectations. Although I did get one up on her. She has this huge theory that in the end, it's going to be Neville that kills Voldemort, not Harry, since in the fifth book Dumbledore says that both Harry and Neville fit the description of the prophesy. But I totally killed that theory because if that were really going to happen, it would have made it into the movie. Instead that whole scene and conversation was skipped.
What'd you like about it?
I liked that they made the movie better than the book in a lot of ways. I mean when I read the book, Harry was such a whiny little brat that I could barely stand it. Harry had a few mood swings in the movie but not really the huge amounts of self pity and emo dialogs. Also, something my sister Jenny mentioned; they made Sirius less annoying too. I mean in the book he was biting at the bit and being reckless, and using Harry as a replacement for James, and while they had a tiny bit of that in the movie, there wasn't as much.
I really liked how they showed Umbridge interviewing all the teachers, although it would have been nice to see a bit more of the Hagrid story line.
What did you think of the movie? (you might have made a post, but I'm soooo far behind on my flist right now it's not even funny. I'm thinking of just giving up ans skipping the weeks worth I'm behind on now :S)