More theaters and Netflix
Aug. 5th, 2009 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariWe got A Mighty Wind from Netflix and watched it over the weekend. It's from the same people responsible for This Is Spinal Tap, and it is almost as hilarious. A Mighty Wind is about three 60s folk groups being reunited for a tribute concert. Some of the songs are hysterical - Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer have an absolutely dead-on sense when it comes to musical parodies and send-ups. Also, Eugene Levy is brilliant as a burnt-out singer/songwriter.
On Saturday we went out to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
The performances were very good and, as usual, the visuals were great. However, I have to admit that it all felt a little perfunctory. Except for a lot of the ending bits, there seemed to be very little emotional depth. And I was very disappointed in the way the revelation that Snape is the Half Blood Prince is just tacked on at the end. I can understand why they chose to cut the lead-up to that moment, but I think that it was very poor choice for the series as a whole. It seems like the films have given pretty short schrift to most of the material having to do with Snape's backstory, and this will turn around and bite them in the end. The lack of knowledge about and understanding of Snape is going to rob his final acts and scenes of a lot of their meaning. I feel like Snape is a fairly complicated character, especially when it comes to his motivations and his relationships to Dumbledore and the Potter family, but we're not getting any of that in the films.
On Saturday we went out to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
The performances were very good and, as usual, the visuals were great. However, I have to admit that it all felt a little perfunctory. Except for a lot of the ending bits, there seemed to be very little emotional depth. And I was very disappointed in the way the revelation that Snape is the Half Blood Prince is just tacked on at the end. I can understand why they chose to cut the lead-up to that moment, but I think that it was very poor choice for the series as a whole. It seems like the films have given pretty short schrift to most of the material having to do with Snape's backstory, and this will turn around and bite them in the end. The lack of knowledge about and understanding of Snape is going to rob his final acts and scenes of a lot of their meaning. I feel like Snape is a fairly complicated character, especially when it comes to his motivations and his relationships to Dumbledore and the Potter family, but we're not getting any of that in the films.
