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- Snap This: Death Eaters Ahead
- Why I Hate Ginny Weasley
- ‘Harry Potter’ Star Alfie Enoch (Dean Thomas) Also Got Really Hot
- Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Already Has a Fake Twitter Account
- Watch Jonah Hill Lose a Ton of Weight in 5 Seconds
- ‘The Unwritten’ Comic Book Series Is Meta Proof of How Universal ‘Harry Potter’ Became
- Season One of ‘Hey Dude’ Comes Out on DVD Next Week
- Questionable Choices: Jennifer Love Hewitt Needs Coffee (And a Bigger Purse)
- Watching the Second NSFW ‘Friends with Benefits’ Trailer Probably Won’t Ruin the Movie
- ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2′ and the Five Stages of Grief
| Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT
I love it when you can hack real life, and not just the Internet. Some Potterhead manipulated this road sign in Lexington, Kentucky, to warn oncoming drivers about “Death Eaters Ahead” — and if those drivers weren’t in a flying blue car, then the second notice of “Muggles Beware” also applies. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:52 AM PDT
As both a Potterphile and a feminist, I’m Team Hermione Granger for life. I also love how Molly Weasley comes into her own, think Fleur Delacour gets a bum rap just because she’s part veela, and wish we had more Luna Lovegood scenes. But there’s one female Harry Potter character who I absolutely cannot stand: Ginny Weasley. I love Ron and Hermione together and like the way that their relationship slowly built up over time. It felt realistic and true to the characters. However, Harry and Ginny’s relationship felt much more forced. One minute Harry was in love with Cho Chang, and five minutes later he was in love with Ginny. Ginny doesn’t get much characterization on her own. She’s primarily defined through other people: Ron’s kid sister, Harry’s girlfriend, Molly’s daughter. Ginny in the books is fleshed out a little bit more (she dates Dean Thomas for awhile; she plays an active role in Dumbledore’s Army). But her role in the movies is primarily boiled down to pining after Harry and simpering whenever he’s on screen. Bonnie Wright is game and does what she can with the material, but Ginny is more of a concept than a person. Since the true secret love between Ron and Harry can’t ever become romantic, Ginny is basically a female stand-in for her brother in Harry’s life. The Weasleys have essentially adopted Harry and consider him a member of the family, so marrying Ginny is just a way to make his family membership official. Harry and Ginny’s pairing almost seems too easy – she’s an easy person to slot into the fourth space in the happy ending quadrangle and her recognizability in the Potterverse means that Rowling didn’t have to invent a new character or write an afterword where an adult Harry was married to a stranger the audience wasn’t invested in. After all, Ron and Hermione double-dating with Harry and Ginny for the rest of their lives while their cute redheaded kids have a play date is a nice visual for a happy ending. It’s just not the one I would have written. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| ‘Harry Potter’ Star Alfie Enoch (Dean Thomas) Also Got Really Hot Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:35 AM PDT
While Dean may have gotten dumped for Harry Potter, we think Ginny Weasley let the much more attractive guy go. Call us, Dean! Related posts: Post from: Crushable ‘Harry Potter’ Star Alfie Enoch (Dean Thomas) Also Got Really Hot |
| Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Already Has a Fake Twitter Account Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:20 AM PDT
This account would be even more hilarious if poor little Leah wasn’t actually being raised by people who would rather make her a Twitter profile than spend time with her or make sure she eats properly. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Amber Portwood’s Daughter Leah Already Has a Fake Twitter Account |
| Watch Jonah Hill Lose a Ton of Weight in 5 Seconds Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:47 AM PDT |
| ‘The Unwritten’ Comic Book Series Is Meta Proof of How Universal ‘Harry Potter’ Became Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:57 AM PDT
Begun in 2009 under DC’s Vertigo imprint (responsible for Y: The Last Man and Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman), The Unwritten finds an unlikely hero in the apathetic Tom Taylor, whose father Wilson wrote an award-winning series about a boy wizard named Tommy Taylor. Though he’s the model for the protagonist, Tom himself is aimless and cynical, and makes most of his money doing appearances at comic conventions — his father had disappeared year earlier at the height of the series’ popularity. After being kidnapped by Count Ambrosio, the villain of the Tommy Taylor books, and then saved by Tommy’s friend Lizzy Hexam, Tom goes into hiding to unravel this mystery. His fans, hungrily searching for his whereabouts, think that he might be Tommy Taylor come to life, who will act as some sort of messiah. So like I said, Carey fills in many of the holes that we expected him to but in ways that never copy Rowling’s books. Tom even has daddy issues, just like Harry, who lost James and Lily when he was a baby. Last month, Carey and primary artist Peter Gross posted a Father’s Day story set in the Unwritten universe to DC’s Vertigo blog — it’ll give you a taste of the dynamic between Tom and Wilson. For the record, Carey says that the primary influence on The Unwritten was actually the story of Christopher Milne, the young boy whose father immortalized him as Christopher Robin in the Winnie the Pooh books. Still, you can’t deny that Harry Potter provided a convenient, easily recognizable skin within which Carey could wrap his story. I’ve actually never read The Unwritten; I shied away from the full summary on Wikipedia because I want to remain mostly unspoiled for the series. Now that Harry Potter is ending — I’m seeing Deathly Hallows, Part 2 on Sunday — I’m going to need to get my wizarding fix somehow. Related posts: Post from: Crushable ‘The Unwritten’ Comic Book Series Is Meta Proof of How Universal ‘Harry Potter’ Became |
| Season One of ‘Hey Dude’ Comes Out on DVD Next Week Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:38 AM PDT |
| Questionable Choices: Jennifer Love Hewitt Needs Coffee (And a Bigger Purse) Posted: 15 Jul 2011 08:10 AM PDT
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| Watching the Second NSFW ‘Friends with Benefits’ Trailer Probably Won’t Ruin the Movie Posted: 15 Jul 2011 07:47 AM PDT This new red-band trailer from Friends with Benefits uses a lot of jokes from the first NSFW teaser that was released a couple of months ago. That’s a good move, because the last thing this movie, which has gotten mostly positive buzz, could do would be to lay all its cards on the table a week before its release date and get the same lukewarm reaction that No Strings Attached did. What I actually like better than Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis naked is the sardonic soundtrack of “New York, New York” playing in the background of Mila’s outraged ramblings about being emotionally damaged, and Justin’s straight-man reactions. It emphasizes the movie’s almost meta take on romantic comedies and how they ruin our generation’s ability to have genuine relationships. Related posts: Post from: Crushable Watching the Second NSFW ‘Friends with Benefits’ Trailer Probably Won’t Ruin the Movie |
| ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2′ and the Five Stages of Grief Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT
Even before I went into the theater to watch the very last Harry Potter film, I’d spent weeks going back through the books and movies realizing the finality of what was about to happen. It’s just a movie, I told myself. But after a decade of investing in this story, I knew it was going to be hard to watch the series wrap up for good. In fact, I went through the famous five stages of grief that were identified by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Stage One: Denial Because this movie picked up exactly where the last one left off (on the island, shortly after Dobby’s death), there was no time to get nostalgic. The movie jumped right into the action without any context, knowing that most people in the audience would already have caught up on the story. With Pottermania in full swing, I saw souvenirs and memorabilia everywhere. How could it be ending when there were 700 golden snitch necklaces to choose from on Etsy? Stage Two: Anger Although the point of splitting the final film into two parts was so that they could cover more of the story, there were still omissions I got upset about. We saw dead Fred Weasley, but not his death scene. And while we did see the Weasley family mourning their son, we didn’t get Percy’s homecoming/redemption arc. Fred got more screentime as a corpse than as a living person. Ditto Tonks and Remus, possibly my favorite couple in the series. Where was the full backstory about Dumbledore’s sister? We saw her portrait and Aberforth made a reference to her death, but there was no more explanation. Basically no reference to Peter Pettigrew at all? I know that it is impossible to make a movie that will satisfy every single fan, but there were definitely some major omissions. Stage Three: Bargaining There are plenty of Harry Potter movie lovers who haven’t read the books, but already knowing what was going to happen didn’t reduce the amount of anxiety I had watching the movie. I already knew that Harry was going to be resurrected, but that didn’t keep me from almost having a spasm waiting for his big moment. If you just let Fred live, you can do whatever you want with some other character, I would say to myself, knowing full well that a) the movie had already been written and filmed so my own editorial contributions would be too late and b) JK Rowling didn’t write it that way. Stage Four: Depression When the “Nineteen Years Later” caption came up, many people in the crowd began to cheer. In a way, it was a reminder that the movie wasn’t actually over yet and we could still spend a few last minutes in Potterland. But it was also the unveiling of the final act of the final scene, and that’s when it hit me that Harry Potter was over, and it wasn’t going to come back. I basically bawled during the entire scene, especially when Harry said his son’s name – “Albus Severus Potter” out loud. I actually teared up just writing that. There were a few nice moments of levity – I knew Ron would have a gut! – but that only put the sadness in starker relief. Stage Five: Acceptance My senior class’ motto (yeah, I don’t know why our entire effing class needed its own motto, but whatever) was “Don’t be sad that it’s over, be glad that it happened.” And that’s the feeling of peace I’ve had since watching the movie on Tuesday – yes, I am sad that it’s over, but I am so, so glad that it all happened. There won’t be any more movies, but the existing eight ones will be treasures that I can keep rewatching whenever I want. The books will always retain their magic, even if JK Rowling never writes another word. There were some wonderful, uplifting moments in the last movie that I can think about whenever I start to tear up – Molly Weasley’s big applause line, Hermione and Ron finally kissing, Neville being a badass and chopping off the snake’s head. And, at least for another few weeks, I can go back to the theater and watch it again. Related posts: Post from: Crushable ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2′ and the Five Stages of Grief |
Warning: If you haven’t read the last Potter book or haven’t seen the latest film, you might want to wait on reading the post, since it refers to some plot points from Deathly Hallows.
While we here at Crushable HQ have been totally kvelling over the awkward-to-smokin’ transition of 
Yesterday, I got all ranty about the fact that Teen Mom stars Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley had 
When it comes to comic books based on cultural phenomena, there are tiers. Twilight and Glee get cheap, unauthorized biographies from Bluewater Productions. Harry Potter got the British Fantasy Society Award-nominated The Unwritten. J.K. Rowling‘s series provided the perfect shorthand for author Mike Carey — it’s about a boy wizard? Immediately we know it’ll cover (or at least touch upon) being thrust into a new reality, the perils of fame, and the myth of the chosen one.
I’m torn on my thoughts regarding this picture. Part of me is like “Dude, everybody has mornings when they wear grubby sweats and trudge down the street to get some coffee and why do we have to be all judgey about it?” and part of me is like “Well, that’s what happens when you’re constantly calling the paparazzi to tell them when you’ll be somewhere and beg them to take pictures of you, Jennifer Love Hewitt.” But both halves of me that girlfriend definitely needs a bigger purse, because that one isn’t coming close to hiding her face as much as she wants. 
Editor’s note: This review is pretty spoilery. If you haven’t read the book and don’t know how it ends, or if you haven’t seen the movie yet and want to wait to see what the director did, you might want to read this review with your fingers over your eyes.| You are subscribed to email updates from Crushable To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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