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This is my review: Meh. That pretty much sums up my experience watching the final Harry Potter film. I was well-prepared and I had read the final book about a month ago to make sure I would be able to make an accurate comparison. I think that was my mistake. As a result, I was bored. The whole first half of the movie was, basically, a giant bore. I don't really understand why everyone hated the first part of the movie - I thought it was great. Yeah, the parts with them in a tent were boring, but they were way worse in the book. That's what I like about the movies - they take the boring parts of the books and make them more interesting or, at least, funny. Unfortunately, the last film didn't do that well enough for me. Seriously, the best way to describe it is... meh. Once the battle started, I was really disappointed. I thought they would show more fighting, and not some lame Voldemort plus Harry swirly black smoke monster. However, when they showed their faces melding tog...

This is my sister's review: This movie makes Part 1 worth seeing, which is high praise considering I fell asleep in theater for that sleeper.* Helps you remember that this is just the way the book felt, so many pages of FUCKING CAMPING. In fact, if you haven’t seen Part II yet, stop reading this and go watch Part I. If that is definitely not going to happen, watch this short video that completely synopsizes the plot while including mostly movie lines and almost all replicated scenes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II is The Voldemort Movie of the franchise. Ralph Fiennes is wonderful: giddy, panicked, indifferently violent. His portrayal demonstrated how this is a man who split his soul so many times that he didn’t even notice one of them; something my reading of JK Rowling’s Voldemort didn’t give me. If this is The Voldemort Movie, Neville “people die everyday” Longbottom definitely gets second billing for long-awaited awesomeness. The courtyard scene was just right, e...

I love Star Trek . Especially The Next Generation , which I personally think is the best ever. Of course, I've never really watched the orginial, but that will change soon. Netflix, in their enduring wisdom, has jacked up their rates to make it so you can't have the instant queue and receive DVDs in the mail without paying out the ass. Whatever, I will keep my instant queue and will be super happy. Especially because now the instant queue inclues Star Trek , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Voyager , and Star Trek: Enterprise . No Deep Space Nine , which is a little strange, but not important. I have started with TNG because it's my favorite and I love it. I'm currently watching season 2 out of 7, and I have seriously never been happier. And I'll tell you something - the things I used to find irritating about the show (mainly Wesley Crusher and Deanna Troi) are not irritating to me at all anymore. In fact, I think Wesley is a super interesting and well th...

My parents have been watching the live feeds for Big Brother for the last few seasons, and I always made fun of them because, well, it seems weird to want to watch random people all day. A little creepy, even. Unfortunately, I am now one of the creepy people. I decided to get the live feed because they were going to bring back old houseguests, and I hoped one of them would be Evil Dick. I was right, which is awesome. Unfortunately, he's already gone. Like, one episode in. Seriously. I guess they're saying it's a family emergency - I hope we get more details. I can't imagine any family emergency being that serious. I mean, like, it's half a million dollars. Sorry to my parents, but if one of you died or something, I'm not sure I would leave the house. Like, a once in a lifetime opportunity, and what could I do - you'd be dead (sorry mom and dad). But for real, it better have been something serious because I was more exited about him being in the house than a...

I think it makes me the world's worst feminist, but I don't really enjoy reading fiction written by women. Seriously. I mean, obviously chick lit is awful if it's written by a man, so there's that kind of fiction - Sarah Mlynowski, Harriet Evans (at least her first two), Jennifer Weiner, and Sophie Kinsella - all great. But when it comes to a legal thriller or other books like that, I think (in general) the ones written by women are totally awful. They have love stories or they're overly descriptive and obnoxious. Obviously, I'm sure there are some women who write great legal thrillers and government thrillers/mysteries, but I have never come across one. Yuck. Usually I read chick lit and fun teen fiction for fun, because that's what I enjoy the most. However, lately I've been drawn to legal/government thriller/mysteries. I read Michael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer and absolutely loved it, as I loved the film with Matthew McConaughey - they got the...

Initially, I was not that excited about the new season of Big Brother - I tend to get bored with the show about halfway through because I inevitably hate about 70% of the people and to be honest, it's on WAY too often and I never had time for it. However, I no longer have cable, and I don't watch any television that isn't on Netflix's instant queue - so it seems like perfect timing for Big Brother ! This season, they're bringing back probably six houseguests who have been on the show before, and I have mixed feelings about it. While I would LOVE to see Will back in the house, and definitely Evil Dick, I think bringing people back onto reality shows is usually a rotten idea. Like on Survivor - Boston Rob ran the table on that show this past season, and the others let him. Sure, they got rid of Russell (sad), but they still let a former player screw them all over and out of a million dollars. Former houseguests have an advantage and it isn't fair. Maybe they sho...

This show is great, because I love dancing. The problem is, I'm not a huge fan of contemporary dance, or at least the contemporary dance that gets featured on the show. It's way too much like boring dance recitals from my high school and I find it boring. Isn't it possible to have contemporary dance to some upbeat music? It's like the winter olympics with figure skating. They always do the fun and fast song with the short program but the long program is always something slow and crazy boring. Like that one guy's JFK thing - who was that? Somebody Wyle or something. Anyway, it's all about contemporary, and I guess it's awesome or whatever, but then they add all the broadway dancing in there and it's like what the hell? It's not that much fun to watch and it isn't that impressive to watch when it's only two people - and the hip hop routines and just getting worse and worse, thanks to stupid Tabitha and Napoleon, who are totally hit or miss. I m...