Date: June 11Location: AMC Aventura
For the second year in a row, we joined Madison Gallup and her parents for dinner at Johnny Rockets followed by the new Potter film across the hall at AMC. A lovely tradition I hope to repeat for the next two films. I do hope the A/C works next time — we were forced to watch Phoenix in rain forest conditions. We did get free passes out of the deal after more complaining than should have been necessary. The film was quite good, though as such a fan of the books, I always find myself trying to fill in what was left out and wondering how they'll dramatize certain plot points. I'll never be able to experience these films as films first; they'll always be dramatizations of a familiar text (and somehow, this is even more the case with the Potter films than with other literary adaptations).
