Two Thumbs Down for the new Potter Movie Part 1

To begin with, I will not go into an in dept critique into this topic for tat will take forever and I'm saving that time to do these essay's of which we have been assigned. Secondly, I will just bullet point my issues with the movie as to save time of which I am Highly lacking today. Note that the movie did had its good parts and I am not entirely disappointed with its performance.

                                                                             Dislikes

• My first and main issue with the movie is that THEY SHORTENED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do believe that in the last book every detail was relevent to the plot and the producers just chopped everything up and distributed it among the plot in random orders of 3's. To be honest, this I would say basically summerizes my disappointment and should bring this topic to a complete hault but I do feel like going into a bit of detail as to what I was sorely pissirritated with.
• They fucked everything up in the beginning, even though I must admit snape looked like a bad ass all flying through the air and shit and walking through the gate...it was not supposed to be him alone. When they were at the Malfoys the lady was not turning overhead but was merely just floating there...and the camera's did not concentrate on Draco's discomfort in the least. And since were's on the topic of the Mannor..what the hell was up with the Albino Peacock....that would of been a hella funny animal to see in the movie as Rowling did mention it in the book. And what the hell is up with Belatrix.....she fails hardcore in acting her scene's out..she was right there when they brought Harry which was not suposed to happen and..idk man just fail.
• Harry's acting.....kind of off because it was more childish and what it appeared to be in the book. Ron became a linebacker out of nowhere...Hermaione acting was on point though..
• DANCING SCENE!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf man......why didn't Harry and Hermaione made out after that....seriously....that was messed up....though I do understand why the dance scene was added in there..still ....it just didnt work.
• Most of the Patronoses that were supposed to have shape...had none.
• But seriously ..scenes that were supposed to be there were never seen.
• They treated Kreacher bad..which they werent supposed to...Creatures tale was never told.
• No invisibility cloak in sight
• Cafe scene sucked!
• Harry hardly disguises himself....

                                                                         Likes

• They did do that Dobby Dieing scene pretty damn well......But...after that, the whole burial of Dobby was supposed to be this epic emotional thing but...nothing....
• Tale of the 3 brothers was good too.

Progress

"Reasonable people adapt to the world. Unreasonable people persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on unreasonable people." --George Bernard Shaw

Indeed most  of us are too busy in our aim for magnificance and wealth that we tend to forget the path of which we are setting for our spawns. Share with me your thoughts on the topic...

AVATAR

Set in the year 2154, it involves a mission by U. S. Armed Forces to the earth-sized moon orbiting around a huge star. This world called Pandora, is a rich source of a mineral Earth desperately needs. Pandora hosts a planetary forest inhabited peacefully by the Na'vi, a blue-skinned, golden-eyed race of slender giants maybe 12 feet tall each. The air not breathable by humans, and the landscape makes us look tiny. To venture we use avatars -Na'vi lookalikes grown organically and mind-controlled by humans who remain wired up in a trance-like state on the ship. The Na'vi live on the planet by knowing it well, living in harmony with nature, and being wise about the creatures they share with. In this and countless other ways they parallel Native Americans.<-- This is probably one of the main reasons I respect this movie which I will elaborate on later. James Cameron is one man who knows how to spend almost $300 million wisely. "Avatar is not simply a sensational entertainment, although it is that, it's a technical breakthrough" says the famous critique named Roberd Ebert who works for Chicago Sun-Times. I full heartedly agree with this man due to the vast immense application of special effects making each Na'vi interact with with its environment so epically and  making them look sexy in a way with the blue skin and the golden eyes-this must be due to the characteristics of the human body which they parallel in the movie- because we wouldn't say that a blob is sexy am I right? Though the movie was about 163 minutes, it did not feel too long due to all the exciting character and plot developments throughout the movie. Throughout the entire movie I was thinking of how much the movie, I couldn't help but notice how it promoted being Green with all the interraction of wildlife and the plants which are so amazing, like for example; The trait that the entire planet is intertwined and communicates with the wildlife and the natives by the links which the roots of the great forest to which in my opinion and is referenced in the movie paralleled to the Human Nervous System. Ever since watching this movie I kept thinking "Pocahontas" and the message which all these movie's share is that you "respect nature and it shall respect and sustain you, mistreat it and it shall abandon you". And ever since, I have been fascinated by the inner workings of plants and humans, influenced my choice in a Biology major, in hopes that one day, maybe, I can dublicate the fictional inner workings of these plants on Pandora or make a super plant that absorbs alot of CO2 while releasing alot of O2's, not saying im a hard core environmentalist or anything but just for the purpose of progressing science- when in fact there are scientists today currently working on my ideals- who knows maybe it might just happen. There you have it, hats off to this movie....it was truely amazing.

P.S.

Those Floating mountains are awesome! If only earth had that kind of Geological Phenomena!

 

 

Presentation Review

             Dumbledore

In alot movies which contain some kind of "syfi" or "fantisy adventure " theme, you always see one of the most powerful people in the story to be portrayed as a 1000 year old dude with long white hair, who is seemingly wise beyond belief, has had many experiences with the unknown and could probably be a one man army.
Throughout the first six series of of the story that is "Harry Potter", this was my impression when it came to  Dumbledore was. I was impressed because he was the kind of person you should look up too as a role model in the wizarding society. After finishing the final book of J.K. Rowling's I must say that the crafty old guy was selfish. Though, I can say that there are some heavy emotional reasons for his acts of selfishness; numero uno!- Someone of a group of people kills your family member whom you dearly love, would that not give you reason to dispise the lot of them? Would not you want to see this lost family member again? Would not you want to protect the rest of the world from these kind of people? is it logical to sacrifice one innocent life for many innocent lives?...etc.
In a way, all these acts are selfish sure but you can agree that the series was one hell of a Wizarding Chess game expertly played by Dumbledore and Voldemort. Considering Harry including his crew and the Death Eaters are  Pieces on opposite ends of the board.

There you have it, I favor the Egoism with Dumbledore Presentation......wonder why no one did a presentation on Snape and Egoism....the last book dive into his backstory which was an interesting piece.

Highlights

To begin with, the event which we were assigned to attend at Broward College's south campus with that artist went quite better than I had expected, I especially liked the part where we could eat as many sandwitch's, cookies, (and all the other items I currently can not remember) as we wished at the end.
On another note, I have finally finished reading the Potter book...well, a couple weeks ago I had finished actually and I must say that I am looking forward to our discussions and watching the movie when it's released. This final book really made the entire series look like puzzle pieces being layed out to an end resulting photograph of __________________.

10-10-10 Miami Carnival

If yall was only single...

Jammin!!!



This is my Guyanese(GT) Crew notice the flag

       I'll Just let these pictures explain my weekend. College Algebra Time! (Walked + Jamming 25 Blocks following about 23 floats with lots of liquor+food = ????)
Well  then sir/mam....if you divide the Jamming 25 Blocks by the alchohol then cross multiply  the variable "X"= the number of girls I was with you will see that the answer to our equation = one hell of a great time.

Pretty

The Silver Doe



Silver-White Doe, moon-bright and dazzling



"Are - you - mental?"









"Second best, always, eternally overshadowed...."





FTW Ron!!!!I was expecting a warm welcome back at the tent...I could not have been more wrong. LMAO at Hermione's reaction.

 This is a scene which I think was really cool...hopefully you guys are at this point in the book. I was literally like...."Holy *$%@# Ron!!" And I'm not even that big of a fan when it somes to the book.....still this scene revealed alot about Ron. Hermione's and Ron's relationshop is a puzzle in an of itself.

The Unseen Link





The night wet and windy, two children dressed as pumpkins waddling across the square, and the shop windows covered in paper spiders, all the tawdry Muggle trappings of a world in which they did not believe...And he was gliding along, that sense of purpose and power and rightness in him that he always knew on these occasions....Not anger...that was for weaker souls than he...but triumph, yes....



"Avada Kadavera!"



At the sight of him, she dropped her son into the crib behind her and threw her arms wide, as if this would help, as if in shielding him from sight she hoped to be chosen instead....
"Please..have mercy...have mercy...Not Harry! Please - I'll do anything -"
"Stand aside. Stand aside, girl!!"



 Of all the babies on the planet which he could have killed, why aim for Harry Potter? Did he get some kind of palm reading that revealed some kid named Harry Potter lead to his downfall? In addition....what's with Harry and his connection to Voldemort? Why does he see what Voldemort sees, feel the way he feels(emotionally, physically), and why sometimes act accordingly? I think that link is cool, though for the character in the book seems pretty horrific cause he sees the traumatizing scenes and thoughts unfold before him. The dude saw the memories of his parent's death through the eyes of their killer....thats messed up man. Another thing that has been bothering me in this whole story is why didnt they explain in the first place the reason  wizards and the magical creatures are hiding from the Muggles? I'm sure at some point in history they all must of been living together in harmony. If it were so I bet in the past the Muggles were like..."Y-you know what, you magical guys are making us look bad in comparison with your magic and your death spells and what have you, your kind could totally be a threath to our kind soooo nothin personal but we're just gonna hoff you guys ........" *begins the Salem witch hunts and all the other witch hunts I dont know about in history,burns enchanted forests, etc. Some of the wizards and magical creatures go into hiding, forms their own communities in secret which now grew into what the story is today* Dang..I think I just contributed to the A History of Magic  text book they should pay me. 

Anniversery Of 9/11

             Tuesday September 11, 2001                                 

                                                        Twas a regular school day in South America for me, I lived in the country called Guyana in Native American language translates to "Land of many waters". I was around 11 years old at the time just sitting there in class chatting with my friend as we did our school work. At that stage of my life, I was quite imaginative, watched alot of cartoons, Power Rangers was more than a TV show to me. Myself and a friend were just sitting there arguing on which power ranger was the best "Blue FTW! btw" then one of the neighbouring teachers came in and told our teacher that 2 Planes just flew into the Towers in New York; "Towers in New York?" I thought(Ya I did not pay much attention to the world around me). Hmm..... come to think of it we had an unscheduled early release, as curious as I was I went home to find my cousin watching the news, there I saw two towers in smoke crumble to pieces. I knew that lots of people died at that moment but it did not emotionaly phase me, instead it fed my curiousity. I kept questioning what those towers were, how many people died and so fourth. We pretty much watched the news all day of an event occuring accross the atlantic and I quickly gained knowledge of what occured, what the towers were and the estimated death toll. This event did not impact me or anyone I personally knew at the time, to us in Guyana the event was astronomically unbelievable we just observed in awe as the days went by, observing  the thousands of families who lost their loved ones; hoping that they would look ahead to a brighter future because a life of missery and mouring is not what their loved ones would want them to go through.

Something To Think About

How would you weigh your options?

"Now consider the alternatives: either God exists or he does not exist. If he does exist, we lose nothing for believing that he does exist. If he does exist, however, we loose everything if we choose not to believe. The rational choice must be to believe in God's existence; we have everything to gain, infinite happiness and immortality, and nothing to loose"
                                                       Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

This guy was deep, he went along the rational route because rationality is a major trait among us(we use Banks because its irrational for us to keep all our money at the crib) . The greater truth is out there, somewhere waiting to either be discovered or waiting to unravel itself before us.  If there are causes and effects, then what was the very first cause before recorded history to result in the present effects? What are your thoughts on this subject peeps?

Dumbledore In Memoriam



Albus Dumbledore died too easily yo.....He should of went out fighting.

      To be honest, I thought Albus Dumbledore had "sprung into being as Harry had known him, venerable and silver-haired and old." I mean seriously, after watching all these movies it would seem very out of place to even imagine the guy as a teenager. His legendary duel with some guy named Grindelwald, who was supposed to be considered one of the most dangerous Dark Wizards of all time back in the day?, common, Dumbledore in his prime was your regular combo of Jordan + Wyaid . Not to mention losing all those close family members so abruptly must of really rattled him, and all this happening before he fought Grindelwald,? Talk about a rough life, can you say you'd of been that epic after loosing all the family you've got?
In addition to being so epically hard core, the dude traveled a lot!!! What if he learned  to shoot thunderbolts like Zeus while in Greece, or could you imagine him having a conversation with Emoteph from that movie The Mummy in Egypt?? LoL. He was supposed to be a High up minister of some sorts? Why turn down that position for headmaster of a school? Must be some deep answer behind that...
I think they kilt this character too soon man,  he deserved a better death. Who wouldn't of rather seen him die while fighting Voldemort?  (that would of brought some serious box office ratings on the big screen) plus it makes lots of sense since the old guy obviously had far more exprience, than for him loosing to some spoiled kid and and a stuck up English dude.

Summer Heat

Just how far did these drops of water(H2O) travel just to get to you?
Life is a Gift, use it boldly! Take a step without looking for once.

My summer was spent observing some of the craziest things in nature, sometimes we are so busy looking at the big picture that we tend to forget all the smaller, seemingly unimportant chain of events which makes everyday life possible. The organization of the body's organ systems working as a unit to maintain what the average person 90% of the time takes for granted. Unless your doctor tells you your at risk of a heart attack we usually forget that our heart exists neither do we pay any attention to its function. Totally oblivious to the mechanisms involved in sustaining life because quite frankly we have better things to worry about than to try understanding things when we have people who specialize it for us. "Would knowing these things benefit the individual in any way?"....you tell me. Random facts is what I picked up this summer, nothing too interesting but that is all I can say happened. Did not go anywhere too special which I would like to mention, played Basketball a lot because I live near a park and pretty much lead an active reoccurring two months.

Philosophy

" The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason"
                                                                                                  Bertrand Russel (1872-1970)

Basically lets open our minds to this  Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows  reading and just do the best you can with it, even if you don't like it.