I watched HP4 on my way back from Tokyo -- I liked it. I did feel like this was really the first of the movies that require you to have read the book to know what's going on. It was almost like a "scenes from..." movie, really. But good.

Watching Narnia on the train home now -- this one feels much more literal -- which I suppose is a consequence both of the relatively flat subject (see my earlier post on the books) and the fact that it's only about 200 pages of material. I find that, like the books, I'm not nearly as interested in Narnia as I am in Hogwarts. That makes me a little sad, somehow.

update: the talking animals in Narnia are sort of creepy. don't misunderstand: i'm generally a huge fan of anthropomorphizing animals -- the office monkeys with the whoopie cushion are my current favorites -- it's just these particular Narnian ones that i find disquieting.