I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter series... both the books and the movies; and I was really looking forward to the movie adaptation of book six; particularly since it was directed by David Yates- who did such a great job condensing Order of the Phoenix into a viable two hour movie.
Half Blood Prince doesn't quite match the high standard of the predecessor, in fact to a casual movie-goer who hasn't read the book, the whole thing might seem a bit confusing. The book has several sub-plots running in conjunction with the main story arc; and rather than jettison the unimportant ones in favour of focusing on the main A plot, the movie tends to jump from plot to plot and never really delivers a satisfactory realisation of any of them.
Nevertheless there are some lovely moments in the film and the climax is refreshingly downbeat in accordance with the source material. Its just a pity that the film makers chose to put in "new" scenes replacing some events in the book in order to simply the plot they'd actually made it more complex.
However its still a good movie and still a lot better than the Philosopher's stone.
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
Monday, 20 July 2009
And so it begins
Well with my Looking for Normal project on a Hiatus at the moment I thought I'd start another page to share with the WWW my insights with the world, and what's going on with my other stuff....
Well its 12.30 on a Tuesday morning, and I'm aware I have the bi-weekly joy of visiting the jobcentre tomorrow morning. Its an interesting experience actually; I must confess when I first became unemployed I thought I'd be visiting an open audition for Jeremy Kyle- and my earliest visits seemed to reinforce that view. The first time some bloke was thrown out by security, the next another guy was ranting because they didn't give him any money; he hadn't cottoned on the concept that in order to get Jobseekers you actually have to be looking for work...
But as time has passed the visits have become more mundane, and what I am actually seeing are a lot of people like me: ordinary hard working people that are victims of the Labour Government's economic mismanagement. I'm not going to use this post to rant about Messrs Brown, Darling and co- hell I don't need to because the reality is there for all to see at the Jobcentre.
Its the tedium that is the killer. It is hard to find stuff to fill the day. Yes there is the daily routine of job hunting and talking to recruiters etc, but after that you find yourself trying to kill time. I have fallen into the vegging trap on a few occasions- just sitting in front of the telly, flipping through the channels; but fortunately something has come along to pull me out of it. With Normal prepped, I've turned my attention to a couple of other projections; the on going Lapriniya thing (which is once again in development hell) and the under wraps EA plan for 2011...
Right well its now almost 1.00 so its time to nest...
Well its 12.30 on a Tuesday morning, and I'm aware I have the bi-weekly joy of visiting the jobcentre tomorrow morning. Its an interesting experience actually; I must confess when I first became unemployed I thought I'd be visiting an open audition for Jeremy Kyle- and my earliest visits seemed to reinforce that view. The first time some bloke was thrown out by security, the next another guy was ranting because they didn't give him any money; he hadn't cottoned on the concept that in order to get Jobseekers you actually have to be looking for work...
But as time has passed the visits have become more mundane, and what I am actually seeing are a lot of people like me: ordinary hard working people that are victims of the Labour Government's economic mismanagement. I'm not going to use this post to rant about Messrs Brown, Darling and co- hell I don't need to because the reality is there for all to see at the Jobcentre.
Its the tedium that is the killer. It is hard to find stuff to fill the day. Yes there is the daily routine of job hunting and talking to recruiters etc, but after that you find yourself trying to kill time. I have fallen into the vegging trap on a few occasions- just sitting in front of the telly, flipping through the channels; but fortunately something has come along to pull me out of it. With Normal prepped, I've turned my attention to a couple of other projections; the on going Lapriniya thing (which is once again in development hell) and the under wraps EA plan for 2011...
Right well its now almost 1.00 so its time to nest...
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