http://mymovie.medialife.org/ Brian's informal notes on the movies he sees en-us Copyright Brian Miller, even the weird stuff. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2290 Ahh finally, Molly's Harry Potter movie catch-up has caught up and I get to see this for the first time. I really remember the last book the least for some reason so this was kind of like watching a movie version of some dream i had a year ago. I could never quite tell if things felt familiar because I remembered them from the book, because I kind of knew the abstract lego-version from the game, or if I was just tricking myself into believing that i was remember when I really wasn't. Even through that fog though, this was pretty good. I was surprised to see the pace slow considerably since they broke the book in half. There's no way he would've spent that much time in random wilderness locations if this was book 4 or 6. It was kind of nice although even with all the extra time, the whole incident with finding the sword in the froxen lake still made zero sense to me. Huh? I didn't get it at all.

I'm looking forward to seeing the last movie though. I think the whole series has been great, even if Mad Eye gets a grand total of 9 minutes of screen time as himself. I feel like James and Lily get more time than he did. Oh well. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2290 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:43:46 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2289 Last movie in the series and probably the most heavily edited or streamlined of the three. So much of the cat and mouse between The Section and Blomqvist is omitted here, it hardly seems like anything. Furthermore, the whole conflict with Erika backing down rather than taking a new job... probably better for screenplay purposes but it completely changes her character. It's also hard to live up to the complete dismantling of Teleborian in the book but the movie still does a good job of it. Without the human trafficking though the fight at the end seemed a bit arbitrary but whatever. I wonder if these movies are well regarded aside from Noomi Rapace's performance. They seem kind of mediocre to me. Definitely a case of the book clouding my judgement.

I'm still glad to have seen them though. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2289 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:02:48 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2288 Oops. Forgot to write notes about this. Finally getting around to this series after reading the books but before seeing Fincher's take. This was a pretty weird book structure-wise and I think the movie struggles trying to make it work. The end in particular seems really hurried and forced. Do the people who didn't read the book understand why Lisbeth was a blonde at the end? probably not, but on the other hand maybe not knowing every excrutiating step to her financial heist isn't a bad thing. Also the weird complexity of Blomqvist running a magazine but publishing a book is completely side-stepped, probably for the better.

All in all it's a pretty bland movie I thought. Sure, Noomi Rapace was great and the male lead as well, but it's just kind of all hurried and bland and not that interesting when i see it on the screen. Bleeding into the second movie a bit because I watched it on Christmas and kept my tradition of no notes on that day, the blonde giant and zalachenko REALLY fall flat on screen. In the book we're inside every character so we really feel them breathe and think but seeing them flash by on the screen is a bit disappointing. Also, without Lisbeth falling in love with Blomqvist, it really takes a whole arc out of the trilogy.

Big news right? the books were better. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2288 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:16:47 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2287 Back at home and trying my hardest to catch up on this series. This was only the second time I'd seen this one and I liked it more than I remembered. Maybe it's because I don't remember the last two books very well so I'm less mindful of all the details that they're skipping but... whatever. This was handled much better than the last one even if the whole thing is super dark (literally, as in hard to see) now and the side characters (including Ron) feel like they're hardly in it at all. Oh Well. It's a good movie nonetheless. Only two more to go! http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2287 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:44:36 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2286 Had to pack and go to bed before seeing the third one but that's alright. Still love these movies. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2286 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:41:57 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2285 Here's a shocker: Back to the Future looks great on Blu-ray. So did the Jurassic Park trilogy. Not much to say about this except for... home for the holidays watching movies with my parents. http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2285 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:41:15 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2284 Merry Christmas! http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2284 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:40:10 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2283 Merry Christmas! http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2283 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:39:10 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2282 Merry Christmas! http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2282 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:37:58 GMT http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2281 Merry Christmas! http://mymovie.medialife.org/?action=movieDetails&movieID=2281 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:36:58 GMT