HP7.2

The other day I got the chance to see the last Harry Potter movie. I didn't see it at midnight, I saw it at about 9:00 PM, I think seeing midnight premiers is kind of overrated. I felt the movie was good but I feel other aspects of the movie would have been better had it followed the book. For one thing I thought the battle between Harry and Voldemort with them flying around, and combining heads, and Voldemort's coat wrapping around Harry was kind of bizarre. I feel that the way Neville killed Nagini was also better in the book and I think it would've been a better movie had they talked to Dumbledore's portrait like in the book. I've been a little annoyed with the directing style of the last four movies. They have all had the same director and for each of his movies I felt that he was trying to rush through and get it over with and I wish he would go at a slower pace so that the audience could better absorb what was going on. For example I felt that the scene with Snape memories was rushed and had it been slowed down it would've had a better emotional impact.

Why you want money more than love, or intelligence

This concept is inspired by would you rather questions. I once saw a statistic that said that some large number of kids would rather be rich than really smart. I don't think that's necessary a shallow answer. I'll explain why.

Let's say someone asked you if you would rather have love or money. You might feel that love is more important than money but what if this question came from a game with hundreds of would you rather questions, such as: Would you rather be able to fly or breath underwater, would you rather have, or would you rather travel through time or into outer space. Neither of these is possible so the nature of these questions suggests that the person granting these is some sort magical genie.

Imagine if a genie gave you the choice between having love or more money than you will ever know what to do with. Or between a lot of intelligence or more money than you will ever know what to do with. I would choose money in either of those situations. Because wealth can be thrust upon someone. Intelligence or can not so the idea is abstract and would make me uncomfortable.

I know you probably think I'm over thinking this but I think that's fun.

Best Picture

This morning at 5:38 AM PST the Oscar nominations were announced by the 83rd Oscar Ceremony. Four of nominees for Best picture are movies that I've never heard of until this morning when I went to Wikipedia and three of them are movies that I've barely heard of, mostly because of the Golden Globe ceremonies. It's fine that a lot of the movies are ones that I haven't heard but I think that the Academy made a mistake when expanding the number of best picture nominations from 5 to 10. Ten nominations for one of the most famous awards out there is too many in my opinion, because giving that many nominations makes the nomination not as big of a deal. If you ask me they should lower it back to 5 or maybe 7. They probably won't change it any time soon so I'll predict that most Pixar movies from here on out will receive a nomination for best picture and win the Best Animation Oscar.