great idea: "harry potter and the goblet of fire" in imax.
seemingly great idea: getting there half an hour early.
result: being almost last in line and therefore having to sit in the fourth row of a six story tall movie with dazzling special effects and innovative camera angles. not since my fifth row all the way to the left viewing of "reversal of fortune" have i been so in need of dramamine and reverse telescope goggles at a motion picture.
plus not having read the books, i literally had no idea what was going on at all even for a second so found the dramatic climax inadvertently hilarious like a campy sci-fi movie from the '50s where the characters are pointlessly reacting with huge expressions and emotions to nothing in particular. so i had to bite my lip to keep from hysterically laughing (and getting beaten up by girls with their faces painted like, like, like douchebag harry potter superfans) while people were dying and crying and screaming and glowing and whatever the hell wizards do when they're stealing my money. especially difficult to not laugh when harry said "my wand was connected to his wand" and when some evil guy without a nose screamed "nooooooooooooooooooo!" and when half the characters kept flicking their tongues like pervert snakes/melanie griffith in every movie she's ever been in.
and can someone please tell me what wizards do when they graduate high school? what exactly is the point? do they become magic butchers? magic proctologists? magic caterers? based on the rotten teeth of half the characters, i hope they become magic dental hygienists. at least the toys they'd give away would be cool. and the nitrous would somehow be more magical than non-magical nitrous.
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