Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I got to go omg yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

omg no time for full review but

possibly my favorite one yet

with the exception of one needless, pointless, stupid scene in the middle, the regular casting fail, some upsetting dialogue changes, and the fact that the last scene cut me to the core in a typical Steve-Kloves-is-a-bitch way, I loved it.

like holy crap Draco and Dumbledore (who was actually Dumbledore this time, hurrah!) and even Harry made me cry and made me nauseous and oh my God.  DRACO.  SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE.  DUMBLEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE.  Slughorn was brilliant.  Rupert Grint!  What the hell are you doing in this movie, Emma Watson, comme d'hab.  BELLATRIX IS A FUCKING CRAZY BITCH Y'ALL.

thank you friends for believing in my ability to get into this movie.

omg have to be at work in six hours whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

this is not my HP reaction post

because I need to get offline. But it's coming later tonight probz, so, uh, WARNING DOUBLE POST? I dunno.

This is just a short one to say ONOEZ, CHRIS COLUMBUS IS DIRECTING THE PERCY JACKSON FILM. Which I guess I should've known, but anyway, point is, as much as I want to be excited, I am now feeling v. cautious, because his adaptations of HP were painfully faithful (except when they weren't, which was only more glaringly obvious because they had sucked just about everything else away--srsly the only reason to rewatch the first two films are a. baby!DannyDannyR [oh God his interviews are making me love him, the jerk] and b. the adult cast) and not that interesting, cinematically speaking. One thing I remember most about HP5 and especially saw in HP6 is how they're movies that are also movies, and take advantage of the medium. Case in point: the first two movies are not icon-able. OotP and HBP most definitely are.

(I spent a great deal of HBP going "plz to be going back and remaking the first films, Mr. Yates!)

But anyway, Percy Jackson teaser trailer, what what!

(or, Things That Are Better Than The ATLA Teaser Trailer.)