Friday night

[ksmith]

Back home from seeing Deathly Hallows Pt. 1. Not a particularly coherent storyline, but I think the director et al did their best. Things moved along better than they did in the book, and much of the repetition was cut. Events happened that I didn't remember reading, but I honestly don't remember much of that book. Except for the repetition. And the fact that waaay too much happened offstage.

That said, I liked the movie and will buy the DVD when it comes out.

In between a fast food dinner (at Chipotle, which for all their bragging of their fresh ingredients is highly overrated) and DH, friend and I went to TJ Maxx. I hadn't expected to buy anything, but I found a black/brown handbag--I liked mixed black/brown just as I like mixed metal jewelry--some orange-scented soap for the bathroom, a CLEAN Winter perfume/body butter gift set that was about 1/3 the advertised price, and a hanger thingie with rows of tiny pockets for sorting jewelry. Maybe in the spring, I will have time to once and for all sort the earrings I've collected over the years.

Home now. Fresh coffee's been brewed. Pups are sleeping. Errands tomorrow, after which I will hunker down as we will be hit with weather, rain followed by a drop in temps and snow. Several inches possible. Then the cold settles in, with below zero temps possible at night. Winter's arrived, I guess.

Comments

[jemck.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much exactly how I felt coming out of the cinema.

spoiler alert!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Pt 1 suffered from serious Middle Book Disease. Much knowledge was assumed--no choice, since the world is so rich and so much has happened. But no real payoff at the end. No choice there, either, since they stopped in the middle of the book. But I didn't feel that I had watched a full story. Looking forward to summer and Part 2. I hope they set it up like a war movie--small amount of backstory, then the planning of the Battle for Hogwarts, then half the film or more taken up with the battle itself. I want to see the characters, including all the minor ones, in action.

And I want to see Bellatrix Lestrange die. I want to watch the light leave her eyes.

Question--is Harry's cloak of invisibility the 3rd Deathly Hallow? I haven't seen it for a few movies.