Hey, Things Must Be Looking Up- I'm Talking About Harry Potter!

[poliphilo]

We watched Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets last night- Ailz on her nine-inch bed-side TV and me on the wide screen at home. Afterwards we discussed it on the phone.

What did you think?

It was fun.

Yes- fun.

I like the Harry Potter films. Like not love. I don't find myself getting drawn into that world- enjoyable as it is- and I don't identify with any of the characters. As I've said before, I actually spent my teenage years at a faux-gothic boarding school in the middle of nowhere and- well- I find Rowling's vision a little starry-eyed.

God, but I bet all the other kids really resent and hate Harry and his chums for repeatedly saving the world and being feted and feasted at the end of the day!

Bloody, little, do-gooding teachers' pets!

And all the stories are exactly the same- and all the villains far too easy to defeat and that wimpy little Malfoy kid must be the least threatening (and worst-acted) screen villain in the history of the movies. All you have to do is look at him funny and he falls over.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

My own guess is that he's always been cast as someone we don't much identify with -- although a heck of a lot of us really loved his Sheriff of Nottingham.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess he's not pretty in a way that contemporary Hollywood can engage with.

Contemporary Hollywood is so fucking stupid.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I (and many other females of my demographic) consider Rickman as Snape to be extremely sexy!

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

hear, hear.