The Half-Blood Prince

I apologize for not having written a more in depth review of Narnia yet. I've been a bit busy lately. I just started a new job as a massage therapist at a spa and have been in training all last week. I had my first client on Sunday, so hopefully things are settling in a bit.

In my review of The Goblet of Fire I mentioned the fact that I hadn't read the Half-Blood Prince yet. Well I finally got around to checking it out from the library and finished reading it tonight. I have to say, I think Order of the Phoenix will translate better into a movie than Half-Blood Prince. There's more action there. Half-Blood Prince is more about questions. It raises all sorts of questions and then answers them all in the last few chapters. I'd expect that when it's the Half-Blood Prince's turn to be made into a movie that quite a bit will be cut out from the beginning and the middle, and then the last few chapters of the book, starting from when Harry and Dumbledore leave the school, will make up a good portion of the movie. I have to say though, I don't think I'm looking forward to it. I love Alan Rickman, and I really wanted to like Snape. I felt sorry for him and understood his psychology a bit more in Order of the Phoenix. I really wanted him to be a good guy who was spying on the bad guys, not the other way around. I'm holding out hope that he still is - the seventh and final book isn't out yet. But now there are arguments to go both ways, so I have no idea.

It's after midnight here, I should get to sleep. In the meantime, go find the Mission Impossible 3 trailer online and watch it. I can't remember off the top of my head where it's at...Yahoo movies, aol moviefone, something like that. The link is over at aintitcool.com at any rate. I'm hoping that the HD version will pop up at apple.com/trailers soon though.

I enjoy watching my favorite actors play bad guys for some reason. Maybe that's why I like Snape so much. But I think M:I:3 will be no exception. Philip Seymour Hoffman's Mission Impossible bad guy, calm and controlled, telling Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) very matter-of-factly that he is going to hunt down and hurt Hunt's girlfriend then kill him in front of her. Creepiness at it's best, and I think it will really show Hoffman's acting range. I'm not much of a Tom Cruise fan, and honestly I could very easily skip this movie if it weren't for two things: Philip Seymour Hoffman, as previously stated is the first. In the trailer you also see a glimpse of Lawrence Fishburn, another great actor in my opinion. Mission Impossible 2 wasn't very good. But now I feel almost obligated to see the third merely because of those two actors. My prediction is that it will end up to be not a great movie *except* for the fact that Hoffman will steal the show. Go watch the trailer and judge for yourself.