Thursday, December 26, 2002

Long long replies to stejuste *gigantonomous sweatdrop* ^_____________^ In many parts or blogger will crash. (sorry.)

++harry potter++

LOLOL! i don't find Draco cute. he reminds me of Macaulay Culkin :} Lucius *does* looks good, i just have difficulty liking him as a person coz they made him so irredeemably nasty :} The funniest thing was that every time he appeared I found myself thinking "rie is going to go nuts over him" *lololol*!!! i was anticipating your response - glad to see I guessed right! hahahahaha! :)

*rotfl* You know me too well my dear stejuste *grin* I can't help it, the looks seem to override the evil. In fact, I think the nastiness makes Lucius more interesting *heh* I dunno why people go nuts over Draco - so far I've found at least 2 people that love him *big sweatdrop* Come to think of it, he does look like Culkin, with that flat face and even flatter hairdo *rotfl* Nope. Not attractive at all.

which one was Wood? is that the Scots guy who leads the quidditch team? i was drooling over him in movie 1 and was quite happy to see him reappear *beam* Am i the only one who thinks Tom Riddle looks frighteningly like Johnny Depp???!!

Yup, Wood is the quidditch leader. *grin* But I think he falls under the 'normal-cute' category, not exotic enough *lol* I honestly think you might be the only one to think that way m'dear; Riddle -does not- look like Depp!!!!! His face is too round for one thing, and he looks well-nourished. Depp just looks like a half-drowned cat most of the time *lol*
I'm not sure who exactly he looks like, but it's not Depp for sure *grin*

really! i didn't know there was a comic part. i thought i stayed to the end but i may have been mistaken. did i miss it? shoot!!! what was the part about, do you know?

i couldn't stand him in the book and i couldn't stand him in the movie, so i guess they chose the actor well and he certainly played the part perfectly. he was soooo revoltingly annoying!!! *laugh* and that HAIR! i couldn't stand that HAIR!!!!! :)

*rotfl* Yep. The HAIR. And the Teeth. *lol* Did you know Hugh Grant nearly got the role? Thank goodness he didn't, otherwise we'd have a Lockhart that manages to look vain and very sorry for himself at the same time ^^;;; I think the comic part showed a picture of Lockhart's new book - it had a picture of him on the cover, and the book was entitled 'Who Am I?' *rotfl* I really liked the part in the Chamber when he lost his memory *lol* And the part when he was flying, and he was exclaiming "This is amazing! It's like Magic!" *rotfl* Oh gawd, the irony *lol*

i didn't like him, but then i didn't expect to. i was annoyed with him in the book and he was just as annoying in the movie. (because of the way he kept getting harry into trouble, that kind of "well-meaning" busybodyness always irritates me) but at least he didn't go around saying "meesa wantsa save harry potter-sah!" :P :} (Jar Jar probably tops the list of animated characters i want to pulverize. come to think of it, he may just be the *only* one on the damn list :} )

i'm still waiting for CGI to get to the level where things don't look fake. they're good enough at backgrounds now to give me pause, and some animations on playstation etc look so real you could almost get taken in. so the level of it right now is still disappointing to me - the centaur in movie 1 was disappointing to me, and i found all the creatures looked rather fake. the mandrakes were decent, they didn't look too fake, they looked more like some of the creatures in Labyrinth - almost like they were clay models rather than CGI. the spiders looked very fake but i loved the whole EightLeggedFreaks ripoff. car was hilarious and sulked just like it should have.

i found the phoenix remarkably fake looking, but everyone here who saw it said it was great. must be just me with the high standards. i thought it looked like a rather poor, rough, muppet-show-standard puppet. which is not to say i didn't like it, i actually found the phoenix very endearing. but then again i liked the phoenix in the book, too. maybe my movie taste just follows my book taste :} :) i went "awwwww!!" when he cried and healed Harry. hehehehe :)

*rotfl* you're right. Jar-jar-binks wins hands down *lol* At least there's no such thing in LOTR ^^;;; I thought the phoenix was real fake too!!! Given their level of tech, they could have made it look better. I mean, phoenixes are supposed to glow/radiate fire! They're not supposed to look like old rheumatised birds! I think after you've read E Nesbit's books, your idea of phoenixes becomes very different ^^ I loved her phoenix - it was beautiful!

You're such a sentimentalist, stejuste! *lol* I was watching that particular scene where Harry was healed with amusement *lol* I'm sorry, the CG just looked so..fake. I couldn't help it, i mean, the bird didn't look particularly sad, and the tear didn't look particularly real. I've got a feeling I'm too jaded. Either that or my imagination has gone so far ahead of technology that nothing meets my expectations *grin*

how do you get an elvish name? is it one of those website things? it's pretty!!! :)

you get it from here: The Barrow Downs Elf Name Generator

It's not a very good one, i.e. you can enter your name in caps or any other variation you can think off, and you'll end up with a different name each time. I actually tried a few before I got one I liked *lol* The site has other things like hobbit names, which are particularly funny. I remember I once got one which sounded more like a meal than a name *lol*

++Pullman's Dark Materials Trilogy++

tim powers has this freaky thing about eyes. in almost all his books, at least one character has something happen to at least one eye. *shudder* and piers anthony of course has that whole adolescent male thing about the chasm between the sexes :} orson scott card is remarkably complex, yet he's quite predictable in an indefinable way - it's always about certain modes of interaction, growing up, etc.

I get what you mean - just like Lackey always has one angsty herald who thinks the world hates him and all *grin* Card loves to torture young kids, that's for sure. The eventual hero always has some torturous past *lol* But maybe this is what makes us like a particular author more than another - I suppose some people just like a certain type of hero more *grin*

i thought he was so mean to the characters!!! especially the way he was killing nice people off left right and center... i *did* cry - numerous times! *blish* :)

I know!!!! The ending especially! I thought that was so tragic, the way Lyra and the boy ( i forgot his name) had to be separated forever.>.< And the part where the boy's father died just as he found him *bawls lungs out* I really hate tragic endings, but sometimes, that's the way it is. Must stop my habit of running away from unhappy things ^^;;; I tend to shy away from unpleasant parts in a story, especially if I�m reading the book again - for example, when re-reading the Last Herald-Mage series, I kept skipping the part where Vanyel was 'raped' >.< Horrible part ne!

yeah, i don't think it's really a kiddy book either. more like a Young Adult book. it's interesting, some children's books are really *kiddy* level, and some are so deep you can re-read them over and over as you grow up and find yourself understanding more each time. those are the really good ones, i guess.

Hmm. Maybe they're there to make the kids who read them more mature in their thinking? I've just thought of another series, you remember C.S. Lewis' Narnia series? I think that series falls into the category you've just described too ^^ I think I�ve read that series umpteen times, and each time, it just becomes more poignant ^^

Something weird happened the other day - I was walking around the kids/teens section in the library, and guess what I found? The -entire- Last Herald-Mage series! Which makes me wonder why the government bothers to censor anything at all if they're actually encouraging kids to read about Vanyel. *lol* Not that it's bad or anything...*rotfl*

but it was definitely a very good read. not quite on a par with orson scott card for complexity, but definitely a close second.

Yup, I agree. Card tends to concentrate more on the politics, the nuances of society, while Pullman concentrates more on character and human nature. I've just read Card's book, Flux. it's a collection of seven short stories about the future of mankind. And it's very disturbing. One of the stories brings up the question of using cloning technology. *shudder* it was horrible! The government, being totalitarian, captures a member of the opposition. They try to make him confess his guilt on screen, which he refuses. They then process to record his memories, and then they hang him. Next, they enter the memories into one of his clones, and 'resurrect' him. They then proceed to kill him again when he does not confess. The whole thing goes on, as he is killed again, and again, and again >.< Rather bleak, but very possible, and very scary. >.<

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