Well, I certainly had fun at it.

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Yes, definitely fun. Whatever complaints I had about technical plot stuff, this movie was definitely the most enjoyable of the three.

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So since I can't see it until--minimum--Thursday, does that mean you don't want to talk to me? *sniff*

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Oh, but darling, we don't need to *talk* when we're together. ^_~

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So...what do you want to talk about in particular? Dementors? Sirius? Two-candle boy? Odd changes in Hogwarts architecture? Lack of certain important plot points? How pretty it was? Buckbeek?

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Um -- all of that and more? ^_^; I just want to squeal/nitpick fannishly over the movie with you guys. Luckily, I did get to do that last night with Myra and Jose and Taryn; otherwise, I might have exploded.

But yes! Buckbeak was *wonderful*! And who's two-candle boy? *confused*

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Buckbeak was SO pretty! And the fact that everyone was able to interact with him and touch him blew me away. Jen thinks that Larry Dixon, who visited Dragon's Pen for dinner last summer, designed Buckbeak. Larry had mentioned that he was being considered for the project and the eagle head of Buckbeak is very much in his style. We can't find him in the credits anywhere, though...

I think Jen should explain two-candle guy...

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Yeah, ummm... my bad. He wasn't in the Leaky Cauldron - he was in the Three Broomsticks. I just suck with the names of the places, sometimes. *Blush* Sorry about that.

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Is okay. :-) He was very pretty.

For Dora: Two candle guy in Three Broomsticks was very pretty. As was tea stirring guy. :-P

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LUUUUUUUPPIIIIIIIIIINNN!!!!!!!!

Ahem. No, really - what do you want to talk about???

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Well, that's the *sentiment* I wanted to share, so the details can come later. :D I just saw your LJ entry, and I agree completely -- he and Gary Oldman were both wonderful, and Gary especially really stole the movie for the, oh, thirty minutes of footage he was in.

What I loved so much about David Thewlis' performance is how perfectly muted it was -- Lupin's humor, his suffering, even his paternal attitude were all very mild and quiet, almost like a secret he's willing to share, but only if you look for it. And that's how Lupin's personality is, for me. His limp, his subtly bowed posture, his scars ... It was all perfect.

(Well, almost -- except for that damned mustache. Someone should have told Mr. Thewlis that he had eyeliner on his lip. :P)

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I agree with your statement about Gary. He completely stole the show! He was such a perfect Sirius! I find I actually care about the character to an extent now, feel kinda bad about his death in book five. Fake death. Not a death. Whatever.

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Are you up for dinner tonight, or anytime before Wednesday? 'Cause it'd be fabulous to squeee over the movie with you in person rather than print. XD

I totally worshipped Lupin in this movie - he was the part I was most worried about for a while, and the part that came out the absolute best in the end. I adore him. He's the exactly Lupin that I carry around in my head, pretty much, and that made me so very happy. The chocolate, the swing music, the very mild mannerisms. He was perfect. *Love*

Yeah, the mustache was kind of nasty. But... I can forgive it. So he hasn't got the greatest taste in facial hair - so what? Every man needs his faults. And he certainly doesn't have many others, to speak of.

Well... with exception of the hideous thing into which he transforms. That was just nasty.

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