{"id":1497,"date":"2011-06-03T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:26:28","slug":"big_screen_harr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/big_screen_harr.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: Harry Potter &#038; The Deathly Hallows, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as January. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had just watched 1-6 on DVD as I had only seen the first couple long ago&#8230; I thought this was by far the best film. But it is also the one I wasn&#8217;t quilting through the watching of, so&#8230; I liked when they were out camping on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Some derivative moments though. Maybe it&#8217;s the movies moreso than the book, but there were so many times when all I could think about was Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n<p>I still prefer the Pullman books (His Dark Materials trilogy) to these, as I have all along&#8211; especially after watching these movies. These are entertaining, but seem much more formulaic to me and the story\/ideas\/execution seem less original than Pullman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as January. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see&#8230; I had just watched 1-6 on DVD as I had only seen the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/big_screen_harr.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}