No, wait for it--

[nekokoban]

I still think the coolest thing about "being an adult" is the whole autonomy over what I do and when I do it when it comes to socializing. So if, say, I come home from work and find zinjadu sitting in front of my door and going "dude, Harry Potter?" I can just toss my stuff down and head on back out without having to explain or justify or even really let anyone know where I'm going. (I mean, I did call my mom, but that was also a preplanned thing, and she would've fussed if I'd forgotten to call. Again.)

So, yes! Harry Potter movie -- I feel so accomplished; if not for my accomplices, there would be a very good chance I would not have seen it at all. 8Db But I'm glad I did, and it was definitely one of the cooler parts about being "adult." I mean, yeah, there's that whole job thing and the bills and the headaches, but there's also going to a movie and then holing up at a Red Robin afterwards with buddies and being. Kind of stupid, but that's par course♥

I also saw the Transformers movie yesterday, as part of a team outing (I can think of much worse things than an official company outing and being paid to see what was in fact a ver entertaining movie). Apparently I internalized more of the Transformers mythos from when I was a kid than I thought -- a lot of it was vaguely familiar in that tip-of-the-tongue (brain) sort of way.

The downside? I've seen the trailer for The Dark is Rising.

...

Christopher Eccleston, I do love you. But that trailer made me want to stab someone with the ice cream cone I was eating. :(

(I mean, okay, the friends I was with haven't read the book, so they agreed that it looked like a sort of generically cool fantasy movie. But as soon as I heard them going on about Will, Will, Will, I, I ... whut.)

And I still have roughly an hour before bedtime, so! Time to work on springkink stuff that's due Saturday. :Db

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[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Saw the Dark is Rising trailer at Harry Potter yesterday as well, and at first I just could. not. believe. that it was the right movie. For the first half of it I was going, well, maybe there's some other movie coming out with a kid named Will Stanton! And then the last half I was just watching through my fingers and flinching every two seconds. Because D: (my childhood~~~)

[nekokoban]

HAHAHA ME TOO. DDDDD: I seriously sat there for the first part going "oh, hey, this looks like it might be fun--" and then I realized that no, the kid was Will Stanton and then I started weeping. WHY, MR. DIRECTOR, WHY.

I raged a lot. :\

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

I think the person next to me thought I was having a seizure, I was flailing so much. :( Why do they always have to try and update these things? WHY?
Also, reading down thread: what! How can they possibly be taking out the Arthurian elements?

(On a vaguely related note: it's really interesting how many people on my flist saw the trailer and are up in arms about this. I had no idea so many people had read the books!)