That girl who wrote that fic.

I just got home from a midnight showing of OOTP and I really ought to try to get to sleep. But here I am instead, posting. :-D

I LOVED IT! OMG, so so much. It was just about everything I hoped it would be! ( SPOILERS for the film. )

This was linked to from The Leaky Cauldron, and it's hilarious because the reporter clearly does not know what the fuck she is talking about. She thinks Umbridge is about to stab the Trio in the Forbidden Forest scene (with her wand, perhaps?), and she thinks there is a Harry/Cho/Luna love triangle in the movie. o_0

I mean, come on. Surely someone involved in the production of this segment must have read the books? Apparently not. Haven't these people heard of research? Don't they know how popular these books are, and how stupid it makes them look when they get it so very wrong?

Spoilers for the film, obviously.

I'm usually pretty philosophical about the HP films, because they're just adaptations of the books. They are never going to contain everything in the books, not even everything that fans think is important. I was rolling my eyes when fen were complaining about the color of Hermione's dress in GOF, because that wasn't a story-changing detail. There were other things to say about Hermione's "transformation" in the film that had really big implications for Hermione as a character, but no -- it was all about the pink dress.

But I have to admit that I'm just as WTF as everyone else is about this one: ( OOTP spoilers here. )

It's not going to stop me from seeing the film at midnight on opening night, though, and it won't stop me from loving it. This won't be the only thing they'll change, and it probably won't be the worst. In the end, the films are just an interpretation of the books, just like our fanfic is an interpretation and extension of the books -- and one that I'm sure plenty of people would disagree with even more vehemently. Of course, I don't make all the money the filmmakers do...

And along those lines, I had an interesting conversation with MDH over the weekend about the HP films. His favorite film of them all is the first one, and he hates the POA film. POA is my favorite of the four, and I'm not sure which of the two first films is my least favorite. But I think our difference of opinion is partly due to the fact that he hasn't read the books. His experience of watching the films is completely different from mine as a result. Where I finally saw characterization and heart starting with the POA film, he saw the series go from being about magic and fantasy to being too realistic and too much about teen angst. He sees the plasticine acting and technicolor world in the first two films as something really wonderful, where I see it as a whitewashing of the very souls of those books. Hey, I can be biased in my own LJ... ;-)