The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is B-movie spoofing at its finest. I laughed quite heartily throughout, although it begins to wear at the end. Still, it has many classic lines that you will want to repeat over and over with your friends in public until the people haven't seen it yet get annoyed and tell you to shut up.
Alfred Hitchcock presents, season 1 is 39 episodes of entertainment. I find it quite enjoyable. And 39 episodes for one season? That is 2 normal seasons and 3 first seasons today.
Smallville is pretty good this season. Slightly less angst, a lot more comic book type action. Nice to see James Marsters back too. And the episode of Aquaman was classic. Rumor has it that they're going to do Aquaman as a TV series, although it won't be a spinoff of Smallville.
Of the 3 new Alien Invasion series, Surface is by far the best. In terms of actually moving the plot forward, weird and scary moments and great special effects for a TV series. Invasion is okay, but it feels like the plot is inching along. Like all they had was the premise and don't know what to do with it from there. Threshold is okay, sometimes it's really good, sometimes not. It's certainly the grossest. It will probably be the first to be cancelled though. Lost is still entertaining, but I still need to be convinced that the writers are going somewhere interesting with the show.
I went to a midnight showing of Harry Potter and found it pretty enjoyable. Although I continue to think of Harry as a mediocre individual, only able to do the things he does by cheating and the help of other people. But that's just a nitpick.
Just saw the Hairy Pothead last night myself. And it's an interesting comment, but you're right. It's like everyone around him is so anxious for him to be a famous hero that they do everything in their power to enable him to succeed in spite of himself. As far as my recollection of the books is concerned, he's only a fair-to-average student, and we've sort of gotten the idea that he has tremendous potential power, but hasn't been stretched to discover that power. He's been given shortcuts and easy answers so far, except for preteen and early teen angst. 'Course, I haven't read "Half Blood Prince" yet.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, as much as I wanted to be able to say, "meh." when people asked me my opinion of the movie, I was actually excited and dragged into the story by well-integrated special effects and good character acting. I think this might be the best of the series in terms of writing and directing.
Mad-Eye Moody is easily my favorite character of the first four books (outpacing Dumbledore, Hagrid, and the rest handily), and the film only reinforced that opinion. I mean, really! It takes Dumbledore four years to finally get a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher with actual experience and expertise! Well, I guess there was Lupin, but he seemed a little ineffectual.
I also like the continuity they've managed to cultivate with the majority of the actors, aside from those who've died, of course. Alan Rickman is my second favorite actor in the series so far, even though I don't necessarily love Snape. At least we're starting to get the idea that he's not a wolf "guarding" the sheep pen. He might actually be a good guy to have on your side. . . Add to that the fact that he apparently doesn't believe in cutting Harry any slack, and he starts to look like a better teacher than any of the rest of the faculty.