Yes I was supposed to get started on my English essay, and yes, I ended up watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with my suitemates instead. =Þ What can I say, I thought it was more important to spend time with my suitemates.
Anyway, the movie was pretty good, a bit choppy, but fun to watch. What was irritating though, was the theatre staff. For the first maybe five minutes of the movie, they left the lights on! At first all of the lights were on at full power, and then it was just the wall sconces dimmed, but they were still on! Argh! What kind of poor management is that? I think people even actually got up at the beginning to tell theatre staff that the lights were on, so who knows if they would've have ever turned them off without being told!
But back to the movie. It's funny, but it seems like the actors aged an awful lot over one year. Ron and Harry's voices were noticeably different. Hermione stayed about the same though. Gilderoy Lockhart was very well-played, I must admit. What else to say? ::shrug:: I feel like reading the books again. ^_^
That's the thing with the HP movies, though. They're good and all, but I never feel compelled to watch them more than once, and I don't really wait in eager expectation for the next movie; I'm way more excited about the fifth book. I know it's like comparing cucumbers and tomatoes (didn't want to use the same old "apples and oranges" =Þ) but it's totally different from Lord of the Rings. With The Fellowship of the Ring, I watched the movie three times in theatres, and then again in the special edition--12.5 hrs of my life on the first movie alone! I get excited seeing the trailer for The Two Towers (which, incidentally, played before HP:CoS today), and I count down days until dvd releases, not just the movies, but dvds! Oh, and the soundtrack for LotR! As soon as one comes out for The Two Towers, I am buying it! =D I love the scores!
Of course it's a totally different story with the books. I can zip through all four HP books in a day, but it took me 1.5 days to plow through The Two Towers alone, and I only finished it because I wanted to read The Return of the King. Anyway, those are just some of the random thoughts that I've had concerning movies today. Dec. 18th, LotR: Two Towers!! Yay! I want all those "making of" and "visual companion" books too!