LonnieOlson » Movies http://lonnieolson.com/blog Words from the geeky sysadmin Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Book 6) http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2005/04/07/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-book-6/ http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2005/04/07/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-book-6/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:30:28 +0000 fungus http://kittypee.com/wordpress/2005/04/07/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-book-6/ Yay! The next installment of the Harry Potter series is set to debut July 16, 2005.
You can pre-order it now.

If all goes as expected it will be the best one yet. Each book seems to get better on a logarithmic scale. Maybe book 7 will be infinitely good. :)

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I enjoyed the amazing technical and visual skill of both Miller and Rodriguez. Watching the film was quite beautiful. I also enjoyed the fact that each of the heros were not always heros or damaged in some way. It made it easier to connect to the characters.

Now for my complaints. The film was quite long. Probably due to the fact that it was actually three separate stories linked very superficially. I would have enjoyed each story separately much more. The stories not intertwined at all, thus not required to be shown together. How about showing only two stories this time around, and two more in “Sin City 2″, etc.

I, and probably many others, can only take this level of mega-violence just so long before getting sick. I can deal with violence as necessary to support a story. This film was long enough and had constant almost non-stop violence that it had crossed my limit. I have normally thought I had a very high tolerance for violence.

On a more humorous note, my friend Casey’s only reason she didn’t like the film was that all the men had makeup jobs to make them ugly. Now I agree that they all did look quite ugly, except for Clive Owen. I don’t agree that this is a good reason to hate a movie.

Overall this movie was quite good.

See my friend’s comments

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I got my replacement hard drive yesterday. The old one was failing only a month after I bought it. I was kind of bummed. I always though Maxtor had sold really good drives. At least I was blaming Maxtor until I pulled the old one out and burned my fingers. Now I have to sing the praises to Maxtor for replacing it so easily for me. Now I am in the market for a hard drive cooling system. ;)

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/ came out today on DVD. I loved this movie. You just gotta see it. I know it looks strange, but it is well worth it, and has enough cheese to keep the normal movie-goer happy, and still not gross-out the real film buff.

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