Comments | mortalus: I finally saw OotP today

mortalus

I finally saw OotP today

Aug 13, 2007 01:04

About two minutes after I woke up, I got a call from a professor I do some work for. He's in New Zealand right now, and he called to catch me up on all the stuff he wants me to do by the end of the month (i.e. before he gets back). Well, that was great, except when the call was over, I was left with twenty minutes to get ready for the movie. I am ( Read more... )

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shaitanah August 13 2007, 07:44:38 UTC

They cut out so many really cool scenes. The book is so much better! The film was a real disappointment to me. Maybe I need to rewatch it several times without a stupid dubbing and think it over.

mortalus August 13 2007, 16:23:35 UTC

I guess it's hard for the films to disappoint me since I have such low expectations going in. All the movies suck compared to the books, but unlike the worst of them (PoA was nearly unwatchable, IMO) this one was decently entertaining.

shaitanah August 13 2007, 16:27:48 UTC

Yes, I hated how much they cut out of PoA - about the Marauders, etc. But I liked the atmosphere of the film, and Radcliffe's acting. Whereas OotP was more like action for the sake of action ans special FX for the sake of special FX. The only thing I liked about is what I always like about Harry Potter: Voldemort.

mortalus August 13 2007, 18:16:47 UTC

I wish Voldie was in the books more. We probably won't even see him in the next movie :( :( :(

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manicr August 13 2007, 16:27:59 UTC

You right about summed up my opinion of the movie as well :) However, a Voldemort in a suit is always a good thing regardless of how random it is.

Oooh, a fellow glossophile! I study (computational) linguistics (as well as some other stuff) at University and I do enjoy it. Though socio- and psycholinguistics do interest me more than the active study of comparative linguistics. Finnish (though not an indo-european language but uralic) does though has fun diphthongs - they are an exception to the general rules. Then again, most of the finnish language is an exception - makes it fun to know, no?

mortalus August 13 2007, 18:26:58 UTC

More Voldemort = more good in general. The suit looked better on him than the ugly robes they stuck him in.

Funny you would mention Finnish - it's the only non-Indo-European language I was looking at yesterday. It has an impressive array of diphthongs. There's something really special about Finnish; I haven't learned enough about linguistics yet to figure out what it is, but it's there. Anyway, it's musical to hear it, my grandmother has Alzheimer's and usually speaks in Finnish instead of English now. I wish I could speak it :(

manicr August 13 2007, 20:07:24 UTC

It's love.

I am Finnish, it a language I'm familiar with, and my professors like using as an example for exceptions. Usually I end having to play "native prpnounciator" because Swedish professors suck at pronouncing the long words we have.

It an odd duck in Europe *shrug* It is a part of a smallish and somewhat isolated lingustic group of languages - it hasn't changed very much and doesn't really like "borrowing" words from other languages because they don't fit the system it has. It's fairly difficult to learn too because it IS so different.

Musical? That is a first, suppose so, probably due the high frequency of dihpthongs and vowels in general blended with the hard consonant may have that effect. It's good for shouting at least. Have you seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68

Sorry about your Grandmum, sucks not to be able to talk the same language with your family.

mortalus August 13 2007, 21:05:07 UTC

Heh, no, hadn't seen that YouTube clip. Hilarious!