Hello Everyone :-)
Today we’re going hand in hand down memory lane. Let’s wander down about 14 years ago and pay a visit to my 8 year old self.
It’s November 1997. There’s a book out that my Aunty has read and keeps telling myMum Mum goes and buys this book.
We get through the first chapter and I’m hooked. It’s obviously fantastical but rooted in reality, like this really could happen. I think it took us two weeks (if that) to get through it and as soon as we’d finished I read it again by myself. The book was ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.
My Dad read up to book number 3 to us and from then on I read them myself. I just loved them, everything about them, the characters (I think the Potter books first sparked my love of red hair), the places and the adventure. I can remember staying up all night reading book number 4 the day we got it so no one could spoil the ending for me at school the next day.
So I read and read, I cried and laughed and when the films came out I watched them all in the cinema.
That just about brings us up to date.
Tomorrow sees ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2’, the 8th and final film in the Octalogy (yes that's a thing). I’ve tried and I find it impossible to be objective about these films, they’re just too much a part of me and my formative years to criticise. They’re not perfect, I’m aware of that, but I can’t bring myself to think they’re anything other than awesome (yes, even the first two).
I feel a bit weird about the last film. I don’t think it’s helped by the fact that I’ve gotten so used to film series’ going on and on, sequel after sequel and ‘rebooting’ and ‘revisiting’ and ‘reimagining’ and whatever else that it seems odd that something has a definite end.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see it but I’m also a bit sad. I can’t help but feel like the posters are true and tomorrow ‘it all ends’. I’m sure I’ll feel differently when I leave the cinema and of course I’ll always have the books and DVDs to read and watch to my hearts content.
I’m probably going to cry but tomorrow I’ll be first in line at the pictures to see how it all ties up for the boy who lived.
It’s time for today’s…
Reasons to be Cheerful
1. The teaser trailer for ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’’ is out! I was never a massive fan of Guy Richie’s previous but ‘Sherlock Holmes’ was a total revelation. The inclusion of Stephen Fry, Noomi Rapace and Jared Harris in the cast is so exciting :-)
2. It’s a trailer bonanza today as Aardman animations release the trailer for new stop motion creation ‘The Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists’. The story is that The Pirate Captain and his crew of swashbuckling pirates attempt to beat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz in the Pirate of the Year Award. On their quest they battle QueenVictoria Staunton
3. There’s a new legal drama comedy series on E4 called ‘Franklin Franklin
That’s all I’ve got for you today.
Goodbye till next time :-)
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Today we’re going hand in hand down memory lane. Let’s wander down about 14 years ago and pay a visit to my 8 year old self.
It’s November 1997. There’s a book out that my Aunty has read and keeps telling my
We get through the first chapter and I’m hooked. It’s obviously fantastical but rooted in reality, like this really could happen. I think it took us two weeks (if that) to get through it and as soon as we’d finished I read it again by myself. The book was ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.
My Dad read up to book number 3 to us and from then on I read them myself. I just loved them, everything about them, the characters (I think the Potter books first sparked my love of red hair), the places and the adventure. I can remember staying up all night reading book number 4 the day we got it so no one could spoil the ending for me at school the next day.
So I read and read, I cried and laughed and when the films came out I watched them all in the cinema.
That just about brings us up to date.
Tomorrow sees ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2’, the 8th and final film in the Octalogy (yes that's a thing). I’ve tried and I find it impossible to be objective about these films, they’re just too much a part of me and my formative years to criticise. They’re not perfect, I’m aware of that, but I can’t bring myself to think they’re anything other than awesome (yes, even the first two).
I feel a bit weird about the last film. I don’t think it’s helped by the fact that I’ve gotten so used to film series’ going on and on, sequel after sequel and ‘rebooting’ and ‘revisiting’ and ‘reimagining’ and whatever else that it seems odd that something has a definite end.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to see it but I’m also a bit sad. I can’t help but feel like the posters are true and tomorrow ‘it all ends’. I’m sure I’ll feel differently when I leave the cinema and of course I’ll always have the books and DVDs to read and watch to my hearts content.
I’m probably going to cry but tomorrow I’ll be first in line at the pictures to see how it all ties up for the boy who lived.
It’s time for today’s…
Reasons to be Cheerful
1. The teaser trailer for ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’’ is out! I was never a massive fan of Guy Richie’s previous but ‘Sherlock Holmes’ was a total revelation. The inclusion of Stephen Fry, Noomi Rapace and Jared Harris in the cast is so exciting :-)
2. It’s a trailer bonanza today as Aardman animations release the trailer for new stop motion creation ‘The Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists’. The story is that The Pirate Captain and his crew of swashbuckling pirates attempt to beat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz in the Pirate of the Year Award. On their quest they battle Queen
3. There’s a new legal drama comedy series on E4 called ‘
That’s all I’ve got for you today.
Goodbye till next time :-)
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