Ah, last night I saw HP3 with five other friends (including miss__scarlet. It was awesome, and for all of you on my friends list who said it's better/worth seeing a second time, I believe you, and I'm going back for more! Alfonso Cuaron - while you can really see the difference between his directing (he's fond of those arty panning shots and bringing more of the muggle world into focus) - did a brilliant job. In fact, I actually liked #3 the best out of the three so far. I think it's partly to do with the way the main actors have really grown into their acting, and because like I said Alfonso Cuaron has brought in more of the muggle world and made it more ... "this is happening now, in your time, you just don't realise it because you're a muggle". It's the clothes, the direction, the actors selected to play the various roles from the book, and most of all the way he's combined it so almost seamlessly with the element of fantasy (all the stuff that's "cool" about time when - according to fantasy, lol - magic was rife through the world, like quills, etc). Amanda and I did note his fondness for filters though, lol. Not that it was a problem. I actually rather enjoyed it. I would have also liked to have seen how Cuaron would have directed the original Dumbledore, had he not died, and how Dumbledore would have played off that.
While I understand that it's sad for younger readers/viewers if they do rate the later ones MA, I really appreciated the more mature turn of this film. I loved the first two, but they are "young" in an almost childish way.

There were no fangirls going bonkers. Thank goodness or I might have leapt out of my seat and strangled them. Buuut .... (and, my bad) I accidentally called out after HP finished conjuring the patronus, "ohh, look at his hair!" which actually sent some of the audience near us into paroxysms of laughter (along with the row my friends and I had claimed). It was rather funny to look at I admit. And everyone applauded Hermione. You know when. That's something else I appreciated about this movie, Hermione is coming into her own and is a gutsy piece of work. I really liked that about Cuaron's direction/the script/etc.

tre_corde and miss__scarlet, AJ and I will probably go and see it a second time because of a) where we had to sit, b) second immersion in a film that was so fantastic, c) to take D. Would you like to come for a second viewing (tre_corde after you've seen it on Sunday, that is). I hope when we go back that we're not inundated with screaming fangirls - we were lucky this time. Mainly because we were seeing the last session of the night which ended at midnight - far too late for most respectable mothers to be allowing their kids out on a school night.

After we went we decided midnight was far too early to be heading home and went to a nearby pub having a ladies' night for a drink. The others left after about an hour, maybe less, then AJ and I ran into my friend J, and resultingly N and E. So we chatted to them for an hour, then went home. I have to say I really dislike the majority of the patrons at Shenanigan's. The guys are awful. Someone undid the bow on my top in the hope that the whole thing would fall off - fortunately it had buttons underneath the sash. I glared him until he apologised and retied it, all the while trying to pass it off on his mates either side of him. Arsehole. I shouldn't have let him retie it - it's like inviting more, but he grabbed it to do so and I didn't argue I was so fed up. Various males, maybe about five percent? will try and grab/touch/caress parts of you - and that's true of any girl going there. It's annoying. I understand the "I need to get past, this is me going past you here so don't step back and hurt my toes" touch, but grabbing butts, waists, hips, thighs and hands is not on *brings out a castrating knife* Are we clear, gentlemen?