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tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-06-04 10:09 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-06-04 10:09 pm
Simon's Rock, PoA, summer, argh!
Had my Simon's Rock interview today--according to the admissions lady, there's really no reason I wouldn't get in, and I get official word next week or so. Sweetness.
Unfortunately, for freshmen at SR term starts on 14 or 15 August, which is like two days after camp ends. So basically I get out of school, lounge around the house the rest of June, go to Seattle at the end of the month, continue to lounge during the first half of July, then go to camp. Camp lasts till early August, and then I get about two or three days at home to say goodbye to everyone, pack, shower affection on the cats, go see the Phantom of the Opera tour in Baltimore--and then wham, bam, I'm off to college. Scary.
Did see the Prisoner of Azkaban movie while I was up in the middle of bumfucking nowhere, Massachusetts, for my interview. Alfonso Cuaron is my new god. Why? He knows how to use his CGI without showing it off. The first two movies were sort of "oh look! sparkly! animated! let's make it as fancy as we can and shove it in the audience's face!" In this one, with the exception of the werewolf sequence, it was just quietly worked in to help the plot along, not to stop the plot short so the audience can ooh and aah. Buckbeak was so beautifully rendered you could barely tell he was animated at all, and a lot of the magic stuff like moving pictures and lumos was just sort of there. Yay, two thumbs up for the correct use of animation!
Great funny moments. Boggarts and tap-dancing spiders, haha.
Forgive me, Lord, one fangirlish outburst.... OMG TEH SLASH!!!!!11111one1!!! *dies* Remus/Sirius = CANON. No argument. None. They are henceforth the Old Married Couple. I had my doubts about Gary Oldman, but he just is Sirius, and same with David Thewlis as Lupin (aside from the mustache, which we'll just avoid talking about...)
Another good thing about the directing here is that there's some deviation from canon, but it's all completely understandable, captures the spirit of the thing, and just in general adds to the movie. Unlike most book movies, where every time something gets changed people start shrieking "OMGWTF" and with good reason, this was done pretty damn well. The whole movie just rocked.
There were only a couple problems I noticed. One is that it would probably be hideously confusing to anyone who hasn't read the book, and the other is the werewolf. Alfonso, Alfonso, why did you do it? You fell into the trap of Bad CGI. Why not just animate the transformation and use a real animal for the wolf instead of that monstrosity? *sob*
Oh, but Oldman and Thewlis were so good. And SO SLASHY OMG.
And where am I right now? Actually, I'm not quite sure; I'm in a Hampton Inn with internet access that's either in Massachusetts, New York, or Pennsylvania--they all start to blur together after seven hours in the car. I think it's New York but I'm not quite sure.
Note to self: Simon's Rock = awesome. Restaurants in the nearby town = horrible.
Unfortunately, for freshmen at SR term starts on 14 or 15 August, which is like two days after camp ends. So basically I get out of school, lounge around the house the rest of June, go to Seattle at the end of the month, continue to lounge during the first half of July, then go to camp. Camp lasts till early August, and then I get about two or three days at home to say goodbye to everyone, pack, shower affection on the cats, go see the Phantom of the Opera tour in Baltimore--and then wham, bam, I'm off to college. Scary.
Did see the Prisoner of Azkaban movie while I was up in the middle of bumfucking nowhere, Massachusetts, for my interview. Alfonso Cuaron is my new god. Why? He knows how to use his CGI without showing it off. The first two movies were sort of "oh look! sparkly! animated! let's make it as fancy as we can and shove it in the audience's face!" In this one, with the exception of the werewolf sequence, it was just quietly worked in to help the plot along, not to stop the plot short so the audience can ooh and aah. Buckbeak was so beautifully rendered you could barely tell he was animated at all, and a lot of the magic stuff like moving pictures and lumos was just sort of there. Yay, two thumbs up for the correct use of animation!
Great funny moments. Boggarts and tap-dancing spiders, haha.
Forgive me, Lord, one fangirlish outburst.... OMG TEH SLASH!!!!!11111one1!!! *dies* Remus/Sirius = CANON. No argument. None. They are henceforth the Old Married Couple. I had my doubts about Gary Oldman, but he just is Sirius, and same with David Thewlis as Lupin (aside from the mustache, which we'll just avoid talking about...)
Another good thing about the directing here is that there's some deviation from canon, but it's all completely understandable, captures the spirit of the thing, and just in general adds to the movie. Unlike most book movies, where every time something gets changed people start shrieking "OMGWTF" and with good reason, this was done pretty damn well. The whole movie just rocked.
There were only a couple problems I noticed. One is that it would probably be hideously confusing to anyone who hasn't read the book, and the other is the werewolf. Alfonso, Alfonso, why did you do it? You fell into the trap of Bad CGI. Why not just animate the transformation and use a real animal for the wolf instead of that monstrosity? *sob*
Oh, but Oldman and Thewlis were so good. And SO SLASHY OMG.
And where am I right now? Actually, I'm not quite sure; I'm in a Hampton Inn with internet access that's either in Massachusetts, New York, or Pennsylvania--they all start to blur together after seven hours in the car. I think it's New York but I'm not quite sure.
Note to self: Simon's Rock = awesome. Restaurants in the nearby town = horrible.