Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Movie Review

The long-delayed sixth installment of the Harry Potter film saga was definitely worth the wait. Overall, the special effects rocked, key book details were not omitted, and the characters seemed more approachable than in the other movies. The pg rating bothered me though.

I am a big fan of big special effects movies, such as Day After Tomorrow, Lord of the Rings, most horror movies, and most action flicks. But the opening sequence had me...not on the edge of my seat but pretty damn excited. There seemed to be more spell action in this one, similarly to Order of the Phoenix, the movie before this one. The only thing I could really complain about was the lake scene. The zombies did NOT look like zombies. For Lord of the Rings familiars, imagine a giant swarm of Gollum attacking Harry and Dumbledore.

Many people complain that there was too much Ron and Hermione development and not enough about Harry and Ginny. It was there though. And others complain about the lack of Weasley brothers and Weasley marriage reference. People, the movie is long enough as it is; we do not need anymore details. They kept the most important details: memories and Slughorn, Quidditch match, Dumbledore, etc.

I had watched a segment on Half-Blood Prince in which Emma Watson (Hermione) said that it was a movie she thinks everyone could relate to. I totally agree. For teens, there exists much angst among Harry and Draco, and the struggle for love is ever present. For adults, there is the romantic tension between characters and job-tension among the teachers. I, personally, felt really bad for Draco, since he was put up to a task I doubt he had the guts to carry through with.

As for the MPAA rating: NOT PG. Why I think the directors should have made it pg-13: zombies could have been more realistic and scary; sectumsepra is NOT kid-friendly; if I were a parent, I would NOT want my kid seeing so much on-screen kissing and sexual tension; there could have been more sexual tension; and the last reason would spoil too much for those of you too lazy to read the book.

Overall, though, I liked the movie, especially since I am great at ignoring the fact that I read all the books.

Rating: 8/10

Been Getting Really Bad At Posting

Know why?
There's nothing to post about.
Well.

There probably is.
I'm just lazy
And bored
And really bored.

I wish someone could come
To my house
And visit me.
*cough cough*
ONE GUY *cough.*

I Wish I Wrote A Song Today

So I'm sitting here
In my 3oh!3 shirt
Looking like a hiphop artist
Without attitude
And wishing that I
Wrote
A Song
Today
About something totally
Stupid
And pointless
But hey.

I'm chilling with a super cool
Friend tomorrow.

And for your
Information
I'm not talking about
Harry Potter.

Bally Total Fitness

I'm so used to feeling out of place.
Either interest-wise,
Age-wise,
Look-wise,
Language-wise,
And other-wise.

I felt the age-wise
Out of place today at the gym.
But I didn't feel
Fitness-wise
Out of place.

Which is nice.
I didn't get that at Brown.

Damn, skinny chicks xD

First Morning Back [Song]

I woke up this morning
It was weird having to walk a mile
To the bathroom
To my morning whizz.

After I had eggs for the time
In three weeks
My mom said to check my
SAT scores.

Collegeboard tells me they were crummy
And then my mom went
On a tirade about how I'm amoral.

Mornings aren't my favorite
Time of the day.
Mornings are my least favorite time.

Mornings aren't my favorite
Time of the day.
Mornings are my least favorite time.

My dad went to the farmer's market
And got me my favorite yoghurt.
Since I'm used to eating thousands of portion
A day, I chug them one by one.

My mother gave me cherries,
Which are supposed to cleanse my system.
I ate those one by one
And now I have a bad case of indigestion.

Mornings aren't my favorite
Time of the day.
Mornings are my least favorite time.

Brown Summary

Top 10 Things That Rocked:

1. Spike and Live
2. V Dub
3. Anatomy Lab
4. Stem cell class
5. AMP PARTIES
6. The Mall
7. Dye jobs and meat jobs
8. Trip outside R.I.
9. Cool floormates
10. Spacious dorms

Top 10 Things That Sucked:

1. Final presentation for B.M.E. class
2. Long ass lectures in stem cell
3. Creepy neighborhood
4. Anatomy lab
5. Nothing being open before noon on weekends
6. Not having a roommate
7. Teachers losing/ rejecting random assignments
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???

Hi!

Okay so I've been really bad about posting, but that's because when I'm by a computer, I'm either doing homework or doing homework. Yeah, it sucks, but I have about two presentations to do this week and I hate group projects. And I dislike quizzes amidst having two presentations to do. But aside from that, my sunburn is peeling indecently and it's super itchy and BLAH!

But a lot has been on my mind. For whatever reason, my body image issue is seriously affecting me right now. It's consuming my mind. Like, I go to the gym for an hour every day after walking for what feels like forever...and then I eat a lot and feel horrible but satisfied with what I ate and then I start not liking my body all over again >.< It's so stupid. Maybe it's because I am stupid and not as smart and collected as I like to think I am.

Came On Your Own

So I'm still at Brown and I got a sunburn. So I've just lost my beautiful pale status so now my tan is accentuating all the fat on my body and it's gross. And I'm taking a day off all to myself. I think I'll do lots of homework, some summer reading stuff, cleaning my room, and other things.



Oh yeah, by the way, aerosol hair color does shit to your hair. Like, your hair feels all wirey after washing it and smells really weird. Looks like its time for coconut smelly stuff. But the blue looked cool while it lasted, even though combing my hair was next to impossible and it could only really be seen in the back. But it's not something I would want permanently or even temporarily again. I might try spray-in red or auburn to see how I'd look as a red head but that's about it. Mr. Negative has a really nice hair color, but I don't like copying my friends...only people I don't know.



I'm almost done with the script to my stem cell class presentation. I hate using powerpoints so I'm just going to make ilustrations and use index cards and be really old school about it. But for my group project for biomedical engineering involves a 5-page paper and actually designing something that would potentially work. Oh, did I mention that I barely know the kids I'm working with? Yeah. It sucks. But I'm a good people person. I like being open to new people and ideas and stuff like that.



But I probably should put a shirt on. I'm sitting in the dark on a Sunday morning in jeans and a bra and my laziness is pervading into my eating habits.

Sometime Around Sunset

[Tribute to Airborne Toxic Event]

And it starts...
Sometime around sunset.
At least thats when
The night for lovers
Full of passion begins

And they stand
Under the streetlights
Arms clasped around each other
Faces attached like they've seen each other in a while
And they look so cute
Sometimes you can't help
But smile.

And you think
Why can't that be me?
They're kissing and laughing
And holding onto each other.
And everything's blurry
They don't even care to notice
The tears that are falling from your eyes.

And your eyes
Feel like theyre burning
From crying so hard.
You can barely laugh
At the inside jokes you made the week before.
And in general everything gets harder
And harder some more.

And there's everything you want
And everything you can't have
And everything you want
And everything you can't have
And everything you want
And everything...

He Wants To Love Me Woo-ooh

So I'm at Brown. Still. I feel so disgustingly sluggish. Like, I should be doing something way more productive but I'm sitting here in a bubble of body image problem and I'm basically panicking that I gained about 10 pounds and 7 inches. It's gross.

But ever since Sunday, I've been spending much time on campus with my friends, wandering around, being loud, laughing at dumb stuff, having energy drink parties, having these deep-ass conversations I doubt I can have with anyone else I know (besides One Guy) and missing dinner almost every day.

And one of my friends is really negative and almost as randomly-hating-on-people as I am. And I'm actually sort of mad at a lot of people back home. Like, I understand that Papaya hasn't been talking to me because she's touring the world and having fun. But almost everyone else doesn't do shit. Or won't be doing shit until mid-July. And NO, I won't contact you first because I always do the fucking work in most of my interactions with other humans. I just hate being the one waiting at the phone. Or constantly checking my email. Or facebook.

In spite of all this ranting, I'm having fun...

GIVE ME YOUR FUCKING DONUTS BITCH!!! DON'T MAKE ME DO MY ANGRY NOISE - Live

Holy Fucking Waffles

So I LOVE BROWN. AND MY FRIENDS. AND...did I mention I love my friends? They're so fucking cute together it's like an Old-Gregg-funk-ball of cuteness. Yeah, like today they had their first date...I mean I was there, but they were so cool about it.

In the past few days, I've been in an anatomy lab, grew penis-worms, went to my first hot topic, and been staying out until like 11. The anatomy lab was freaking creepy, like...you know that M. Night Shyamalan movie? I saw dead people. At least their faces were covered so it wasn't as awkward.

Hot Topic has lots of really cute clothes, like this tub top I got. It's great. And Kat Von D is my idol.

First Two Days At Brown

I'm not going to write these in poetic form since that takes too much effort and I probably should be doing my homework right now for my two biology courses. Sounds rough? Probably. I like my professors though, they're super enthusiastic in their own ways. The stem cell dude provides lots of examples and really knows his subject. Biomedeng lady is really young-adult-friendly, I guess, because she tries to get us interested...sort of like my old bio teacher back at Joyola.

The people here are super nice though. Spike and Live are really cool. Live actually lives not that far from me, but Spike lives in...boondocks Maryland. But I've met a few other cool people and my roommate is really chilled out. Yeah, city kids! =]

I feel like so many people here are either from NJ, CA, or some other country. But they are so nice, like that girl who knows Spike who came up to us at breakfast.

Speaking of breakfast, the food here is INCREDIBLE! I love it. I mean, last night there wasn't much of a variety, but this morning there was so much food. I made myself a pb&j sandwich and it was good...even though the bread had this weird green stuff on it...don't know why.

Habe Keine Lust (I Don't Feel Like It)

Ever get the feeling
That you just want to lie
Down and just lie there
In your postrate stance
And just watch the world go by you
Until everything is okay?

Or rather,
Until everything was like
It was a year ago?
With a lovely status quo
And lovely everything
Where you didn't have
To feel crappy a lot?

And when The Airborne Toxic Event
Didn't write that song
That makes you cry by the first refrain.

People's Misplace Priorities

I find it really amusing
How the media makes
More of a big deal
About Obama swatting
A fly
Than they do about
His policies.

It's kind of really
Messed up.

Just like dating someone
For their crazy antics
Without looking at
What they could mean for you...

Yeah, life is awkward.

Old Friends

It's really bizarre meeting up
With someone that you haven't
Seen since about freshman year.

There's so much to catch up on,
But nothing to talk about.
Since there's so much to catch up
You don't know where to start
And you don't want to bother.

Because there's so much.

If only school were the same way
When a student misses half a quarter
Worth of work.

Tackling Multiple Languages

I have too many goals.
The one I seem to focus on
A lot on my blog
Is the goal to be skinny
Or at least curvy
Like a stripper.

But my other goals
To be fluent in many languages
And to become a pharmacist.

So far I'm working on German.
In addition to Spanish.

Und ich spreche nicht gut Deutsche...
Aber ich lerne die Landesspreche.

Do as You Please, Please as You Do

People in the subway,
Are interesting to say the least.

Like that Christian guy that's always trying to
Get people to read the Bible.

It's nice to see people have some conviction
About what they believe in.

But the guy that sat next to me
Who the Christian guy addressed was interesting too.

He had some conviction too
And pretty laid back.

Subways are fun sometimes.
Not at 10:30 though.

College Tour Summary

So I haven't been online all week due to ACT and college tour, which lasted all 5 days. But it was fun. I had roomies I liked: Grandson, Sheltered, and Staff of Kings (S.o.K.). I mean, sure, our air conditioning unit got high and our room smelled like smoke, the shower situation kind of sucked, but the nail salon on the last night was fun and it made the trip worth it.

Honestly, I did not find many colleges I liked. I loved Brown U, BU, Stonehill and Trinity College. Brown I've loved for a while and the others are like "stupid" schools according to my mom. But Trinity has no core, Stonehill is gorgeous, and BU has everything I want and the tour guides sounded so enthusiastic. Like, they sounded as if they LOVED their school and that's how I want to feel about my college. It's so weird.

And the tour ended on a bit of a downer. We had finished watching...wait for it...The Notebook. Yes, The Notebook. After watching fun movies like Mean Girls and 007 Casino Royale. Most of the bus bawled at the end. The guys thought it was silly, but I came out of the movie a bit upset. Like, the ending was so depressing and not in that "aw they both died" way. It really goes to show that nothing lasts forever. The couple broke up 3 times before the movie ended. And you might cite only two, but the third occurred with the woman's dementia. Can't even remember being with the other person? And it makes me so sad. Like, I want to think one true love relationship can last forever...not the what I call fake marriages where the parents are together for the kids or for money or for some other reason than loving each other...God, I'm being emo.

And One Guy is prolly reading this and thinking that he needs to work harder or something and babe, you don't. You really don't. I just hope we can make it passed the 3-month threshhold that seems to bind my relationships.

We're at about a month now, right?

Am I Just Odd?

So I told my parents
That I want a guitar.
An electric guitar.
And they suggested I
Get an acoustic-electric
Or an acoustic all together.

I don't want an acoustic though.
Sure, they sound gorgeous
When you play them.
My dad reasoned that you
Could take it places with you
When there's no plug.

But there's something about
Carrying an acoustic guitar
With you to places
Basically implies that
A) You're pretty good.
B) You can sing
C) You can sing and play guitar.

I can sing and play bass.
Just not in front of people.

And I was never much of a performer.
And I don't really like acoustics to
Begin with, even though you're
Supposed to start off on one.

...Wow that was pointless.

[Insert 3oh!3 Lyrics Here]

My birthday was awesome
Even though people came late
And a form of entertainment
That's really fun didn't arrive until later.

What's funny is that
My So-Called Best Friend (SCBFF)
Actually remembered that it was my birthday
Which was weird.
I didn't expect it.

I also didn't expect the
United States History SAT II
To be so difficult this morning.
I thought I prepared so well...
Guess not.

My gifts for my birthday are cool too
And having three events to go to
Three days in a row is interesting too.
First Crane's graduation,
Then my birthday,
Then Fabulous' and her cousin's birthday "linner."

And then college tour on Monday.
What joy.