Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - I Get Confused When People Refer to it as OOTP

Katharine and I just came from seeing the 5th Harry Potter book (well...it was actually a movie...we didn't see the book), at the IMAX theater near our house where the last 15 minutes of the movie is in 3D.

I haven't read any of the books aside from the first 50 pages of the first one; and I've never seen the first movie, but I have really enjoyed the 4 sequels so far. Each one seems to get better than the next (with this and the last being tied for best so far). I just know that come this Saturday, when the last of the books are released, that someone is going to f*ck me over and reveal what happens to Harry...there's no way I'll make it the next two years until "Deathly Hallows" comes out in theaters to find out Harry's fate. But this isn't about that. This is about OOTP.

See it on an IMAX screen if you can. The movie is great...Harry doesn't die (because there are two more books obviously and therefore two more movies unless the kids get too old too fast), and if you're like me, you won't notice all the missing subplots from the books. They're not important...I didn't miss them. I know what they are because people told me and they sound like a bunch of filler anyway.

3D scenes...did I mention those are awesome? Did I?

Transformers (2007) - More Than Meets the Eye...and My Expectations

I had no idea what to expect when we went to go see The Transformers last week...I never played with the toys and I've never seen the cartoon.

I played with Star Wars figures, Star Trek figures, Dukes of Hazzard figures, and Love Boat figures. Stop laughing...it's all true. Anyway...like I said through your laughter...I knew nothing about Transformers. For example; I didn't know Transformers talked. I didn't know there were good and bad Transformers. I didn't know Transformers were 30 feet tall. And finally, I don't recall any of the girls in my high school looking like Megan Fox's character...the leading female character of the movie playing opposite Shia LaBeouf.

Transformers was a great movie...Shia LaBeouf is showing up in movies everywhere, currently filming the 4th Indiana Jones movie and recently finishing the soon to be released on DVD Disturbia. I think he made the movie with a mix of action and humor. The only thing about the movie I didn't like was during the robot battle scenes...the robots were all jumbled together and you couldn't tell who was fighting who. That's not important though...everyone should go see this movie and bring the kids!