Category Archives: Films

VIDEO: Lady GaGa ‘Marry the Night’

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I think I might be in love with this woman. The Gagz love has fully flooded back into my heart.

When I first read that it was 14 minutes, I could feel my insides sigh with exasperation. But no. 14 minutes? 14 minutes of pure entertainment, emotional turbulence, and beautiful choreography. Upon first watch, it is already battling with ‘Telephone’ for the ‘Favourite Gaga video’ spot in my eyes. Full directorial duty lay with her this time. Let all her future videos be this enthralling.

HARRY POTTER: Deathly Hallows pt.II midnight viewing

Posted on by under Events, Films, Moi, Reviews

The endless debate of whether or not it actually is over. What is ‘it’ anyway? The whole Harry Potter fandom, saga, or franchise? Just a few hours ago I found an article claiming that WBros. are gonna hang on to the ‘franchise’ for as long as they can, and expand into museums, more theme parks, video games… But the books, and dare I say even the films, were the real deal for the Harry Potter generation. Anything created with the name of Harry Potter after this will just be memorabilia. So yes, for me, something is now over, and that is the ability to look forward to these big release events, and to share these unique good times with friends.

Though I know full well it’s over, it really hasn’t sunk in and I don’t want to accept it – at all. (A Harry Potter shrine is under construction in my – new! – bedroom)

The midnight viewing last night was quite something, and had me at my most excited that I’ve ever been about a Harry Potter film. Hardly had the film started, the ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt II’ sign appeared, that my heart was thumping twice as fast – for real. I so so wanted to like the film, so hoped that it would do the book, the series, the fandom justice.

And what an ending. It was full of almost all the action, battle, suspense, reflection, emotion, humanity that I wanted from it. The Hogwarts battle was epic but the interlude with Snape and the Forbidden Forest was much-appreciated as it slowed down the pace. My favourite parts have to be Neville killing the snake (what a BAMF), the sequence f’rom the dragon escape to Harry reading Voldemort’s mind after the Gringotts episode, and the sequence from the Pensieve leading up to the Forbidden Forest. Favourite quote? “I’ve always wanted to do that spell!”

Criticisms? So many, but only because I’m comparing it with the book: watching Hermione trying to pass off as Bellatrix was excruciating, King’s Cross wasn’t as shocking, revelatory, or satisfying as the book chapter was, why didn’t they use the Cloak more?!!, Molly-Bellatrix duel was anticlimactic, as was Ronmione’s kiss, I’d liked to have seen a re-enactment of the Grindelwald-Dumbledore-Aberforth-Ariana scene, why did Harry snap the Elder Wand, the Great Hall scene was a bit of a cop-out and they should have just kept it how it was and used the Room of Requirement as the entrance into the castle, FRED WEASLEY WHY DIDN’T WE SEE YOU DIE… My biggest issue by far is how they changed the final battle between Voldemort and Harry. And then there was the Epilogue. Oh the Epilogue. It was always inevitably going to be awful so I just have one pressing question – why did the guys, especially Ron and Draco, look twenty years older than their wives?

As usual, Voldemort was a cringeworthy villain, Daniel Radcliffe’s acting was a little less wooden in parts but he’s still got the wrong perception of Harry as a somewhat awkward guy who has a permanent facial expression of indifference to the world, Gambon is not fit to be Dumbledore…

But as a Harry Potter film, it was great- Harry saying bye to Hermione and Ron broke me, the Resurrection Stone scene killed me.  The Rowena Ravenclaw scene surprisingly stands out in my memory, the part where the trio slide off the dragon into the water and Harry reads Voldemort’s mind was a beautiful sequence, the Malfoys leaving Hogwarts together was strangely thrilling to watch, Harry and Voldemort both sensing the destruction of the diadem Horcrux was heartwrenching… Alan Rickman, you were beyond outstanding. You managed to raise Snape’s death to a whole different level in my mind, conveying all the pain, love, shame, repressed truths that death unleashed from him, and if I could have, I would have stood and given you a standing ovation right then and there.

Final gifs to sum up my thoughts about this film?

but also

…. and so it only remains for me to say:

Mischief managed.

p.s. This neatly summarises my thoughts about the Room of Requirement/Malfoy scene:






[EDIT: This has been on repeat on my laptop-




Disclaimer: this post was not conceived to be a quality review.