Lord knows I've learned patience over the years with the Harry Potter books. Waiting for news and then waiting for the actual books over the years was fun/maddening.

This is the first time I've felt that same, let's-get-it-over-with feeling I had with the books with the movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is a good movie, but the reality is I'm just counting the days down until I get to the real action. The finale of this series, based on what I know of the plot from the book and judging by the quality of this film, should be a wall-to-wall action-fest full of about a million moments that'll regress me into an eleven year old.

Pretty sweet, really.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is my first and only Blu Ray. I'd like it better if it had an E in the name.

Seriously, Blu Ray is pretty sweet. Not sweet enough that I'd replace any discs I already have with it, but still, pretty sweet.

Of course, my PS3 just died, so there goes that little experiment.
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I had a really emotional time watching Paprika earlier this year. Satoshi Kon, the film's genius director passed away in August, so watching this film shortly after was a bittersweet experience. It's wonderful movie, but knowing that we'd never again be treated to his visionary genius was crummy.

As for the film itself, I reviewed it a couple of years ago.

And here's the trailer:

I didn't like Shane very much.

Can that count as a review?

It's my site, so I'm saying "yes, those six words constitute a full fledged review."

On to the next one.

The Girl Who Played With Fire played better as a film than it did as a book. I had diminishing returns with the books, liking each progressively less. In the case of the films, this, the second, was at least as good as the first.
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