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.

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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

Comments

[nekokoban]

No, I guessed.

And uh. Yeah. Apparently they wanted to make the Rider "sympathetic" and his "reasons for turning more understandable" -- something like that. And I'm all for shades of gray between light and dark, but dudes, dudes! There are other characters you could have easily used instead. D:

[white_aster]

wait what? It's been a long time since I read the books, but did they ever really get into the Black Rider's background? I mean, they did with the Walker, to some degree, but I thought that the Black Rider was always kind of a mystery?

Dammit, and I'm not sure if I have these books anymore or if I got rid of them in my last cleaning spree.... ._.

[nekokoban]

I think that yeah, we didn't really find out much about the Rider -- but obviously, he was not sexy sympathetic enough for Hollywood. :p

My old copies of the books are at my parent's house in Austin, but! I did buy a new copy of The Dark is Rising since that really was my favorite of the sequence.

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I'mma reread it, I think, and pretend I don't know the movie's coming. 8Db

[white_aster]

oh gawd. So they're going to put in his Tragic Romantic reason for joining the Dark? oh good lord.

I think that that is an excellent idea! XD