End of an Era

Tonight I'm going to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (try saying that three times fast!) over in Liffey Valley. There is no explaining all the emotions I am feeling right now. Sadness that it's ending. Happiness that it's all coming to an end and Voldemort will get what's coming to him. Nostalgic for all the times I've gone to see these movies. Pure terror at the thought that when the first one came out I was so much younger and had my whole life ahead of me... Suffice to say, it's a bit of a rollercoaster. To make it all even more emotional I am bringing my two cousins along, the very same cousins I brought to see the first one. I think I brought the two of them...maybe it was just one of them? Anyhoo, I brough someone who was a child in an attempt to cover up my desperate need to see the film without looking like a big child myself. I remember buying them the little kiddie popcorn with the box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans. Aw, bless. It's a bucket of popcorn and a large coke these days! They grow up so fast... Anyway, I can't quite believe it's been eleven years.

What really bugged me though is when I was booking the tickets. There's like six or seven showings of it in 3D but only three in the normal 2D. This whole 3D thing is just getting ridiculous, I am so over it! It's such a con, you pay extra money to wear those stupid glasses and watch a film that's been shot purely to have stuff jump out at the audience. And have you ever noticed the colour of 3D films is like, duller than normal? It's like looking at the screen through a dirty window, like on a bus on a really wet day and all the downstairs windows are mucky. How the hell is that better?! I mean, I love Harry Potter and all the movies but I really don't want to see a constipated protagonist, a gormless redhead and Emma Watson's Amazing Acting Eyebrows jumping out of the screen at me. What ever happened to just telling the frickin' story without having to factor in shots of stuff lunging at the screen. On top of that, by the end of the film the 3D effect has actually worn off; you've become de-sensitised to the whole thing after the first half hour so all that money and looking like a knob was for nothing!

 In honour of my trip to see Harry Potter I decided to make fairy cakes with something Harry Potter-ish on them. the only thing I was capable of making however was school ties in the Gryffindor colours, because a) I've never actually made a cake decoration and b) I only had red and yellow icing. They're not exactly masterpieces but I'm sure they taste damn good...

Now I'm afraid I have to go, my cat just brought in a dead bird and laid it at my feet...