someone is raising a red flag about the alcohol in the latest harry potter. i saw the movie and i read the book; i barely noticed the butterbeer and mead...
i see the point brought up in this story in the NYT, but it leaves me a little exasperated. MUST we nit pick and find the negative in everything? are we so politically correct that we cannot merely enjoy a good story? do we believe so little in our abilities to be good parents as to turn blame onto everything else?
this saddens me. i don't know why i didn't expect it. but really, who wants to always expect the worst and accept whatever.
that brings me to something else. quality. in our economy, it seems that quality has suffered the greatest.
for instance the baltimore sun cut its copy desk from 3 to 4 dozen copy editors to six. (when i heard this i let out a very loud and guttural noise... merely writing about it makes me furious.)
since a lot of actual content is online now, there is some misconception that content needn't be treated with the same standards as print. what? WRONG! if most of your content is moving to the web and more readers (read young) are reading on the web--your priorities are backasswards, as my mother would say.
and lastly, i saw 500 days of summer with some awesome peeps. i'd wanted to see it, but was a little hesitant... very glad i was with folks who make me laugh.
the movie itself was absolutely awesome. i'm a huge fan of zoe deschanel, not just as an actress, but more so for her music, (you may recall that i've posted one of She & Him's videos a couple times. ) as for joseph gordon-levitt, he has gone from 3rd rock guru to first rate actor, imho. i'd like to see it again... in some ways it is like fight club... you want to go back and see the hints again, even though you know how it's going to end.
i can't imagine one person who couldn't relate to this movie in some way. the little musical sequence is sheer genius and utterly delightful. i'm not a buyer of dvds, but i was mentally putting in my order for this one halfway through.
in the last half, however, i felt a little too much like the character, tom. there were parts of it that felt a lot like getting mad kitty scratches all over my body and then being submerged in salt water. i don't recommend this for anyone who has recently had their heart broken and isn't to the anger stage or already callused. but, i'm glad that it didn't have a tidy, happy ending. this felt more honest.
however, all you folks blissfully in relationships or happily married should see it. you'll take the hand of your SO and give it a little extra appreciative squeeze. i guarantee it.
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