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poliphiloWe 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-12-05 04:54 am (UTC)This is very true, and I think that when all seven books/films have come out those of us who've read them all will be at a distinct advantage when it comes to deriving enjoyment from the films.
I had a lot of trouble with Book Six. I could smell the unhappy ending at the beginning, but that didn't make it any easier to take. I am expecting Book Seven to be almost unbearably dark, and if Harry survives he is hardly likely to be unscathed.