Heheh, one of my bosses always takes off half the day to see a matinee. So mums the word around here this morning.
But, sigh, I don't think I liked it all that much. Gonna see it again this weekend most likely. And I didn't outright hate it. But it was structureless, no bad guy to add a modicum of tension, pretty much plotless except for the stupid kind of false impediment plot common in the two early (and more juevenile) movies, and the same director of the last film shows no cinematic flair this time around. (The cinematography, not to be confused, is beautiful).
Most of all, I hate "mythos" stories, and that's unfortunately what the series is all about in the late going. I like that stuff firmly in the background and hate when series become "about" their backstory. Ho Hum. And perhaps because so much was cut out of a really long book, the mythos story is confusing ... and that's to me as a reader -- I can only imagine how confounding it will be to those who haven't had the "pleasure."
I put 'pleasure' in quotes because I really disliked this book. It's my least fave, so it should come as no surprise I didn't much like the film. Those who liked the book should fare better.
But I think I've indicated in this thread how awesome the final 50 pages is, and the movie's biggest disappointment to me was how underwhelming it was by comparison.
Before that, however, it breezes along fairly well ... and is pretty funny. The main trio gets some good, if goofy, business. The movie is entertaining.
Yet it feels like set-up for a later film, and really stands less on its own as a movie than as a stalwart part of the series.
Bleh, I don't much care for the last book either. Before the film started last night, I was sad there's only two more movies. Now I'm sort of anxious for it to be done with.
Ok, time for the Pixar Game:
No. 1 with a bullet: Prisoner of Azkaban
Then a pretty steep drop-off ...
No. 2 - Order of the Phoenix
Another steep drop, and crowding around at the bottom of the list ...
3. Goblet of Fire
Tentatively 4 - Half-Blood Prince
4. Chamber of Secrets
5. The Sorcerer's Stone
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