Ginny, Ginny, Ginny

In a post I posted here a few years back, I went off about how awkward Ginny Weasley is. What bothers me the most is that it feels like JK Rowling changed her entire character after Book 2. Then the actress who was cast as the shy girl in Book 2, suddenly has to be an entirely different person, and the result is awkward.

However, in my blog I went off about how awkward she looked and even though I didn't write this, I thought, "she's not pretty enough in this movie." And I posted a butt-load of pictures of the actress, Bonnie Wright, looking prettier than she did in the movies.

That was stupid of me. Ginny was never written as a breathtaking beauty. I've only been accustomed to seeing super models in movies, and was thrown when a lead male was attracted to someone who was not a stereotypical drop-dead gorgeous woman, whose only personality was being female.

All that aside, how did Ginny shed her entire personality and trade in for a new one? Honestly. How did she do that?

UPDATE: I just watched Goblet of Fire, and Half-Blood Prince again, paying specific attention to our friend, Bonnie Wright. The problem with Ginny is the follows: awkward writing, (no doubt on purpose,) and, I'm sorry, but Bonnie Wright did not know how to do the role justice. She comes closest in Half-Blood Prince when Ron unwraps dress robes given to him by his mom, thinks they're Ginny's and tries to pass them off to her. Ginny's response, "I'm not wearing that. It's ghastly." Well done Bonnie. But everything else... doesn't fit with how Ginny would have actually delivered these lines.

Bonnie was cast to play a shy Ginny. She excelled at that. But she wasn't ready to portray a more relaxed and comfortable character, or the one Ginny becomes by Half-Blood Prince.

Jurassic World or Chris and his Raptor Friends

When I explain the plot, it sounds ridiculous. It is ridiculous, but gosh-darnit if it doesn't make for a fun movie. The best things about this movie are the actors. I adore all of them. I went to see the movie because of the cast. Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt specifically, and it doesn't hurt that Kitty and David Wallace were in there too. (Oh I'm sorry. Kitty is in Arrested Development, and David Wallace is in The Office. Apparently they got married. Keep up.)

It wasn't as, I can't believe I'm saying this, much as a "film" as the first Jurassic Park. It didn't have as much subtext or messages about humanity. The lesson we learned was "You can't control dinosaurs." But at the end it turned out that we kind of could.... REALLY the lesson I, personally, learned was that a t-rex will showboat during a movie if you let her, and take over the end, even if she wasn't a big feature throughout most of the movie.

The movie delivered and was EXACTLY what you'd expect, which is great. It's scary, it's fun, it has moments of nonsense, and moments when you scream at the screen, and moments when you're thinking, "Why am I in this theater watching a scary movie? Why do I do this to myself? I must be crazy." But it was enjoyable, well done and extremely entertaining.

Why haven't you seen it yet?

Superman Batman: Public Enemies

No.

No.

No.

No. Don't see this movie. It hurts. 

My number one complaint, apart from animated cleavage window, is how Powergirl (right,) is obviously way older than Toyman (below,) but she's somehow a "girl," (despite OBVIOUSLY being a woman....) and he's somehow a "man." I'm gonna need more proof, like a pee-pee window. (Oh, I'm sorry; is that totally inappropriate?)

So Lex is president of the USA, (probably not the worst one we've had either,) and he gets everyone to hate on Superman, but Batman, being smart and all, fights the other super dorks (none of which are well-known, so stop hoping Wonder Woman, Aquaman or hell, even the Green Lantern, show up,) and eventually they get Powergirl to see their side. Pointless fight after fight and boringness and boringness, and at the end ToyMAN has built a rocket that looks like Superman and Batman at the same time. 

Batman does a lot of stupid stuff when in the original 90's cartoon he would have been smarter, and Superman was... also pretty dumb.

And did we already complain about Powergirl? I mean holy cow people. Before they mentioned her name, I thought she was Boobwoman, since that's generally where logos go.... COME ON!

Dumb and Dumber To

I've never in my life wished so much for the power to unwatch the first hour of a movie that for some asinine reason I watched. I am a lesser person for having watched it that far. Not only was it not funny, but the merciless disgustingness and vortex of imploding lackness make up the worst movie I have ever seen. That's right; worse than Batman and Robin. Worse than Manos Hands of Fate. Worse than Avatar.

I say this not to be mean, but to convince those who, like me, were sure it would be funny, that it is actually offensive and humerless. There isn't enough soap in the world to cleanse my ears and eyes after sitting through just part of this movie.

The Maze Runner

Take a movie that's super slow, then add nonsense. Yup. You've got The Maze Runner. 

It. Doesn't. Make. Sense. At the end you think, "Okay. It's answers time." But instead of answers you get plot holes. For that matter, instead of character development we get flop. Not even good flop. We get, "You know I'm not going to make it because I'm talking about getting out of here and seeing my parents" flop.

Then a girl shows up and we're like, "Oooooooh. I've never seen one of those before." Not exciting!

Then the maze doors don't close and the monsters are going to get us. DUH! Why haven't you morons been preparing for that? It was obviously going to happen!

In short it was a really dumb movie. I really was not a fan. I liked it better than Episode One, but less than Big Hero Six. (I guess that's a pretty big section of movies crammed in-between those two, but what are you gonna do?)

Big Hero Six

I've only heard good things about this movie. I want to leave it at that but I wont. You're not reading this to hear you're opinion, so here's mine.

I thought the characters were...

No. I can't do it. Here, SOME of the characters were great, (The brothers, and I love Baymax but only because YOU HAVE TO OR ELSE YOURE A MONSTER!) but really I've seen them each in Disney movies before. It was like the makers went to the closet and started pulling out the dusty characters from previous movies. They're so last season! And if you're going to go back into that closet at least come out with Olaf or Maximus!

Before I saw it I was told that Baymax dies. Even then I knew he'd be brought back! (He's a robot! Make 12 of 'em!) I knew the bad guy wasn't who we were supposed to think he was, so obviously he'd be the dead guy. (He wears a mask for a reason. If he was the obvious bad guy he wouldn't have been in a mask. Masks are ALWAYS for the audience and they ALWAYS cover up that we already know said person or that said person is a girl when we think she's a dude.) 

 It took forever to get going. They should have offed the brother in the first ten minutes. (We didn't get attached. We saw the previews and knew it was coming!) And the dialog! NOBODY says "We're alone now because our parents died, remember?" (Or whatever the exact phrasing was.) Of course YOU remember! If that was said for our benefit then don't you think we FIGURED THAT OUT WITHOUT YOUR HELP? They live with their aunt! OBVIOUSLY we're gonna assume their parents died.

**breathes**

Okay, maybe I'm angry at the movie because I had just finished formatting a play for someone and it reminded me of the dialog. "Remember...." OF COURSE HE REMEMBERS!"  Or maybe I'm mad at the movie because I was expecting something... I don't know, because it was honestly exactly what I was expecting.

The thing is, I don't hate it. I sound like I do, but I don't. I just, as Rosalie Hale puts it, don't particularly like it.

I wouldn't even say that! I'd say it was all right, (while secretly repeating everything I just wrote.)

Sliding Doors

Here's an oldie but a... movie.

I saw this movie when it was new, and I was young, and I thought the premise was clever, which it is; problem is - oh. my. gosh.

And I might add blarg.

I like John Hannah. You might know him better as Jonathan from The Mummy, (Evie's (Rachel Weisz) brother.) Anyway, I like him.
And that's about it. The 90's were an unfortunate era of Gwyneth Paltrow acting British. In fact, my biggest criticism of this movie is that it should have just been set in New York. Gwyneth Paltrow is much more believable as a New Yorkian.... Actually, maybe San Francisco. I'm not sure anyone would believe she lived in New York either.

Like I said, it's a fun premise, but it's dull. Instead of having a scene where her exboyfriend is talking to his friend somewhere interesting, it's ALWAYS at some stupid bar. ALWAYS. It's like they only had 4 filming locations.

Still interested in seeing it? Okay, let's see. Synopsis. Gwyneth Paltrow's life splits into two dimensions: one where she makes a train, and one where she doesn't. In the life where she makes the train, she catches her live-in boyfriend cheating on her, cuts her hair, meets John Hannah, falls in love, gets a better job, then dies. The other her misses the train, takes an excruciatingly long time finding out her boyfriend's cheating on her, finally dumps him and meets John Hannah. In a nut shell, she takes a real long time doing something that could have taken two days.