Oh yeah, I saw that, too. I forgot it in my previous list. Yeah, the lack of HBP really irked me. They had actually casted young Lily, James, and Snape but then either never filmed it or cut the parts out of the movie. Worse, Merla (who knows the books waaaay better than I do) says they actually had the balls to add shit in! Boo.
I'm hoping that they include that part into the two Deathly Hollows movies. Knowing about Snape's relationship to Lily is essential to understanding why he does what he does and why he dislikes Harry so much. To keep Snape's past out of the movies is just utter bullshit. It just goes to show that these movies are catered soley to people who have read the books and the writers/directors/producers are all full of shit.
I gave Angels and Demons another shot. Not as terrible as I thought it'd be, but damn if the bad guy's plot relied on a LOT of fucking things going right. It seemed kinda ridiculous. And Tom Hanks' nose has grown. It's Nixonesque in this film!
I had the villian of this movie called the instant he appeared on screen. I haven't even read the book and I said "That's the guy pulling the strings." I knew it had to be an inside job, a man who worked for the church. Near the end of the film I had serious doubts and even thought I was wrong, but when the villian is revealed I was like "I knew it!"
Over the Holiday break I entertained myself with a number of movies. I rented both Angels & Demons and District 9. District 9 was quite possibly the best movie I saw this entire year. I enjoyed every minute of that movie. I was rooting for the aliens and cheering every time someone exploded from that lighting-shooting alien gun.
I also watched the last two PotC films on TV and was reminded why I disliked both of those films. It was like the Matrix-- the first film was quite enjoyable, the last two were passable.
I also finally bought the last LotR movie that I was missing. For some strange reason, I'm missing the second movie of several trilogies I own, including the Matrix, LotR, and Spiderman. In most trilogies the second movie is always the weakest movie, for instance the Matrix, Indiana Jones, and Back to the Future. So I'm not missing much there. But Spiderman 2 was by far the best of the entire series and I don't own it, I only own 1 and 3. And Two Towers is, well, just as epic as the rest of the series.
So now that I have Two Towers I've been watching the trilogy over the break, which takes a while since each extended version is a bloody 4 hours long.
Also, I watched Scrooged with some friends on Christmas. Somewhat amusing.
