6.07.2004

It's Monday, and a very social weekend has just drawn to a close -- two movies, two birthday parties, one lavish dinner, and many hours of sleeping in, aaaaaahhhhhh! If only they were all like this...sigh. The cinematic highlight was absolutely "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," four stars! Okay, maybe half of one star is attributable to the screening environment: Nat booked us into the Framingham Premium Cinema, a leather-upholstered, 21+ pub and screening room, totally worth the double-the-usual ticket price. The movie was utterly brilliant -- finally a director who made the beloved story into a movie, not a wax museum piece! The young actors held their own as the narrative flew along, chopping through the plot twists so they made more sense and were more satisfying than in the book. After literally the first minute of film, before the title card came up, we agreed the first two films had been trounced. Even if you're not on the Harry Express yet, go see it, it's a real summer blockbuster, and those are few and far between these days...

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