Kubo and the Two Strings

My Thoughts:

-    The movie was good. I enjoyed it for the most part, but I feel like it was just shy of being an awesome movie, and that is frustrating. 

-    I think that if someone else had helped with the story, like John Lasseter or someone with equally amazing storytelling skills, this movie could have been SO much better.

-    I don't EVER say this about books or movies, but I felt like this movie was white washed. I usually don't care, but for this movie, I cared. I wish more of the voice acting had been done by actual Japanese actors. I liked Charlize Theron a lot. Her voice was perfect for her character, but I really didn't like Matthew McConaughey. His voice just didn't fit with the movie, and I hated that his character was classic male idiot. Why couldn't he have been the epic warrior he was? I also wish the Moon King had been a different actor, like Ken Watanabe or something.

-    The animation was awesome! I loved the stop motion stuff. They did a great job.

-    The origami was cool!

-    My favorite part about watching this movie was that my husband and I had the whole theater to ourselves. We were able to talk and be loud. I walked up and down aisles with Sqeaker. I also made shadow puppets on the screen, and poked the characters in the nose. It was SO fun. 

-    This movie is definitely worth seeing, but I probably wouldn't buy it. I'd watch it again though.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

My Thoughts:

-    The movie starts EXACTLY where Part 1 ended. 

-    Why does Ron always look stoned?

-    I don't think Harry and Lord Voldemort could feel the horcruxes be destroyed or sense them.  I'm pretty sure they didn't.  That was kinda weird for me in the movie.

-    I was impressed with the CG!  It really made the movie more thrilling.  I was like "WHOA!"  "That's cool!"  "That's creepy!" etc.  They did a good job. 

-    They didn't do justice to the whole Snape's memory bit.  I wish they could have spent a little more time on that.  It was good, but I wanted it to be heart wrenching and awesome!!!

-    I felt like they could have made one movie out of the two.  They could have cut out a lot of the camping bit in the first and combined the 2.  

-    I still like the books better, but I think they did an ok to good job with the movies.  Most of their casting was really spot on.  The editing in some of them are kinda crazy.  This one's editing was better, but there were some random scenes that I was like "what just happened?"

-    It is kinda sad, but kind of a relief that the Harry Potter series has come to end in both book and movies.  I enjoyed anticipating the next book, and I feel like Harry and the gang are long time friends of mine.  I'm glad it is over though.  It was time for something new...like The Hunger Games!