21 Nov 2010, Posted by Cat in News, 13 Comments. Tagged weekend
weekend
A quiet post-funeral weekend. Writing, reading, shopping, cleaning and cycling. In some sort of bizarre metaphysical coincidence, Rob and I both finished our novels today. Writing them, that is, not reading them. Nearby on the Princes Highway some sort of charity truck rally was taking place, meaning horns were honking and blaring with gay abandon. So we ditched our laptops and went off to the Gala cinema at Warrawong to see the new Harry Potter. The place was packed with kids which is probably how it should be. I liked the movie well enough, although there was a little too much sitting around in forests doing nothing for my liking.
13 Comments
November 21, 2010 8:15 am
mikandra
Sitting around in forests doing nothing is pretty representative of the book. I don’t think they’ve done too bad a job of filming this rather unnecessarily complicated last book, so far at least.
November 21 2010 08:18 am
Cat @
I've read the book. Reckon those forest scenes were padding, necessary when 2 blockbusters were carved from one novel.
November 21, 2010 10:49 pm
murasaki_1966
Cycling? Since when?
November 21 2010 22:55 pm
Cat @
Half this year. I go along the Wollongong to Thirroul bike track on Sundays with my friend Suellen
November 21, 2010 11:44 pm
alanbaxter
HP7 was once described to me as Harry Potter And The Interminable Emo Camping. Which is exactly what it is. That whole book is padding really, probably because she was desperate to make it thicker than previous volumes, when it would have been far better if it was tighter and a lot shorter. Then they made two films from it! Money grabbers.
November 21 2010 23:46 pm
Cat @
Emo camping it was. And I hate camping at the best of times. But the actors were good and I'll buy the fucking DVD anyway...
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