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You won't be disappointed, Boomer. Public Enemies is an amazing film - Michael Mann's best since Heat.

AWESOMEZ!!!

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Kiskaloo wrote:I went to the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - along with about 2000 high school girls.

Loved it as I love all of the HP films. It didn't seem rushed like The Order of the Phoenix did, but it actually wasn't as dark of a film. It's actually rather full of levity and the acting is great.

And Bonnie Wright's Ginny Weasley...

Loved it too,the book was lighter so it makes sense that the movie was lighter.
The really amazing thing is that it barely followed the book but all the original scenes were good.

I saw Public Enemies as well, I found it enjoyable enough. Probably not my favorite Mann movie, but it was good.

I saw HP6, too, and I loved it - there were things I would've done differently, but most of the new stuff they added in was good stuff.

Snape being the Half-Blood Prince wasn't played up enough. It's the
title of the movie, for heaven's sake. It was just sort of...tacked on
as an afterthought. I also think there was a little too much stalker!Lavender. It was funny, but once the audience understood she's a psycho there wasn't need to keep playing it up.

Regardless, it was a good movie, and...the trailers! I'm so excited for 9 and The Princess and the Frog it's not even funny.

TwistedRose wrote:I'm so excited for 9 and The Princess and the Frog it's not even funny.

So am I. :dance:

......she looks familiar...

Nah, no go.

Allineare, but they did steal her style. We just have to wait for the movie on the 22nd.

I was in the HP-Preview yesterday and... what can i say... It was cool ^_______^ ! I liked it a lot more than the 5th movie but I hated that they took out so many scences which were in the book (I wonder how thy´re going to do the 7th movie.... ) and that it was so much about relationships and I imagined Slughorn a lot different and didn´t get the beginning but there were many Snape-scenes in it so I was happy ^0^

The Deathly Hollows will be filmed as two separate movies released a year apart just so they can get in as much of the book as possible.

I can't quite decide if I like The Half Blood Prince more than The Order of Phoenix. I will admit that The Order of the Phoenix deeply disappointed me because of all the stuff they cut out of the book that I wanted to see. And it didn't help it was the shortest of the films in terms of run-time (if even only three minutes less than my favorite film - The Prisoner of Azkaban). So many of my favorite characters (Mad-Eye Moody, Lupin, Tonks) were in the book and none of them were in the movie for more than a few seconds. And while it had plenty of Luna Lovegood goodness (Evanna Lynch = ), we didn't see her roaring lion hat and "Weasley is Our King". Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire were both ~20 minutes longer, after all, so there was precedent to let Order of the Phoenix run close to three hours to get the story in.

Half-Blood Prince did address some of this, since we do get to see Luna's lion hat and a bit more Lupin and Tonks. Still, overall the movie was much lighter than the middle three and I really like the dark movies more. So I think this will come in #4 on my list behind Azkaban, Goblet and OoTF.

I have to give a shout-out to rusty-spring for recommending the ADV dub of the anime Ghost Stories.

The show is a decade old and about as interesting as watching paint dry in Japanese (or with English subtitles). ADV evidently knew this, and therefore commissioned Steven Foster to write the greatest dub in the history of American anime production. It follows the general gist of the story, but in a comedic way that is absolutely hilarious. I was laughing my ass off at what Fabulous Subs did to Element Hunters, but this is on an entirely different level.

I don't know how many, if any, of you are familiar with a group called "Pinesalad Productions" (named after episode 18 of the original Macross TV series), but when I listen to this dub, I am reminded of Pam Buck, Missy Wilson and all the rest of them and the silliness they did ("The Dirty Pair Duz Dishes", "The Revenge of B.D." and other classics).

I so recommend the rental. Show it to friends. Throw a party. It will be a blast. I'm ripping them all now to show at Comic Con next week.