What the hell, Harry Potter?

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:39 pm

@Maxus: who is Orochimaru?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:56 pm

Korwin wrote:@Maxus: who is Orochimaru?

Orochimaru

-Username17

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:47 pm

Oh Naruto, I was hoping for an book

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:23 pm

http://www.harrypotterfanzone.com/wp-co ... lynch2.jpg

You're kidding me, right? Please tell me you're fucking kidding me. Srsly, not.... hot, barely registers as acceptably good looking; I see better looking girls on campus than that brick-chinned, log-nosed, dome-foreheaded face.

Ultimately, the face looks so boring. Sort of ugly too. I'm half expecting it's b/c of media bombardment, or something similar that's making a skull and face like that to be considered "good" in terms of femme facial standards.There's got to be a better pic than that.

Then again... I find many faces to be grotesque, and so many more to be completely unmemorable. The amount of "good looking" people I see tends to be infinitesimally small, and people who others describe as "hot" do absolutely nothing for me at all.

and Harry Potter...... just so much head-shaking dumb. Just so much head-shakingly dumb fills those stories.

The morality lessons are... so easy to punch holes through; the amazing stupidity of Harry over, and over, and over again is ridiculous; at a much younger age than him, myself, my brother, my friend, and his two younger brothers were able to come up with fiendishly complicated plans on how to defeat bizarre puzzle ghost-liches, successfully take on Ogres in their lairs, and take on dragons in 2e with pretty much mundane equipment and resources.

Harry... has a bunch of stupid tiny little challenges to beat; and has the force multiplier of massive amounts of magical support and..... always "barely wins".

Either a bunch of Canadian teens are more strategically savy than Rowling (completely possible; I mean, we took pretty evilish alignments to not be constrained by things like "morality" in case the game ever forced us to labour over a moral decision that we as players would have made anyway) or Harry really is supposed to be that stupid. More likely Rowling is that inept as an author.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:24 pm

You gonna be okay, JE?

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:25 pm

That's a lot of words to say that you find different people pretty than what other people do.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:06 pm

JE, here is what I actually wrote. I've bolded some things for emphasis.

ubernoob wrote:Emma Watson and Evanna Lynch have both gotten INCREDIBLY pretty as they've aged. Especially Evanna Lynch. I totally did see the last movie just to watch them both be pretty on screen. Plus, the shitty plot is a LOT more tolerable when you've got CG effects every two minutes looking pretty.

Granted, HP isn't as pretty as Avatar (furries; not airbenders), but the most recent movie was totally worth killing an hour and a half watching it with some friends.

Edit: http://www.harrypotterfanzone.com/wp-co ... lynch2.jpg

If you'll kindly note how many times I wrote the word hot. Please count them. And duh, they look better on screen. Makeup. Duh.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:08 pm

Yeah, she is pretty cute. Part of it is the onscreen persona, though. Like some of the good-crazy girls I hung out with in high school.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:09 am

You're too picky, JE.

Or perhaps Jigoku said it best. Something about an easy-going girl with loads of creativity is better than anything.

Sashi · Post by **Sashi** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:08 am

Judging__Eagle wrote:http://www.harrypotterfanzone.com/wp-co ... lynch2.jpg

You're kidding me, right? Please tell me you're fucking kidding me. Srsly, not.... hot, barely registers as acceptably good looking; I see better looking girls on campus than that brick-chinned, log-nosed, dome-foreheaded face.

Ultimately, the face looks so boring. Sort of ugly too. I'm half expecting it's b/c of media bombardment, or something similar that's making a skull and face like that to be considered "good" in terms of femme facial standards.There's got to be a better pic than that.

And I bet her knees are sharp, as well.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:26 am

Sigma wrote:You're too picky, JE.

Honestly, I don't think she's very cute/pretty/hot/good-looking either.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:45 am

I think she's pretty.

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:57 am

ubernoob wrote:JE, here is what I actually wrote. I've bolded some things for emphasis.
ubernoob wrote:Emma Watson and Evanna Lynch have both gotten INCREDIBLY pretty as they've aged. Especially Evanna Lynch. I totally did see the last movie just to watch them both be pretty on screen. Plus, the shitty plot is a LOT more tolerable when you've got CG effects every two minutes looking pretty.

Granted, HP isn't as pretty as Avatar (furries; not airbenders), but the most recent movie was totally worth killing an hour and a half watching it with some friends.

Edit: http://www.harrypotterfanzone.com/wp-co ... lynch2.jpg
If you'll kindly note how many times I wrote the word hot. Please count them. And duh, they look better on screen. Makeup. Duh.

Fine, not hot. However, absolutely, definitely, not pretty. Completely the opposite of pretty. Really, it's that vaguely defined part of her facial features, like clods of clay that weren't quite formed into a face, that throws me.

And Siggy, that's probably true. Wrong eye shape on a person is something that I've realized is one of my triggers for negative reaction to faces. Bone structure, facial symmetry and a bunch of other things also affect my opinion. These aren't even conscious decisions, I've only been able to realize them after making them all of the time for most of my life.

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:00 am

I like both Lynch and Watson, but more for their ability to portray their roles very convincingly aside from just physical beauty.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:58 am

Yeah, I'm joining the "I think she's pretty, JE is very picky" crowd.

Calibron · Post by **Calibron** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:34 am

Something about the way her face is arranged around her nose is unattractive, that, along with the masculine shape of her jaw and large forehead, not that I've got any room to talk in the particular area, stops her from going from decently pretty to noticeably attractive; in that picture at least, anyway.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:05 am

On a related note, Evanna Lynch seems to have a doppelganger from eastern europe as a model. The set was pretty good, and the resemblance is rather striking.

koz · Post by **koz** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:33 am

Sorry, but I agree with Maj. There is nothing remotely good about how either of them have aged. Frankly, at the risk of sounding like some kind of lolicon, they looked better when they were younger.

Sir Neil · Post by **Sir Neil** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:17 am

Luna/Evanna Lynch was adorable in the last HP movie I saw. (Order of the Phoenix, maybe?) She seems much prettier in the movie than in the book's description.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:36 pm

Sir Neil wrote:Luna/Evanna Lynch was adorable in the last HP movie I saw. (Order of the Phoenix, maybe?) She seems much prettier in the movie than in the book's description.

It's been a while since I've touched the books, but I don't recall her being described as notably pretty ANYWHERE. Seems like the studios decided to make her pretty (makeup!) just to make the movie more watchable?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:42 pm

ubernoob wrote:
Sir Neil wrote:Luna/Evanna Lynch was adorable in the last HP movie I saw. (Order of the Phoenix, maybe?) She seems much prettier in the movie than in the book's description.
It's been a while since I've touched the books, but I don't recall her being described as notably pretty ANYWHERE. Seems like the studios decided to make her pretty (makeup!) just to make the movie more watchable?

She was largely a bit character in the books, with few notable scenes or efforts except that she was nominally part of the cavalry. Really she was "that weird kid no one's friends with, so you should be SELFLESS and be friends with her because it'll make you a better person" in the books. Seriously. In Order of the Phoenix, Cho laughs that Harry is hanging out with the weird kids (Luna, Neville, and Ginny) and he actually gets embarrassed, like a dumbass.

The movies decided to go more with a "yeah, she's weird, what's wrong with that?" treatment.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:17 pm

Prak_Anima wrote: The movies decided to go more with a "yeah, she's weird, what's wrong with that?" treatment.

You can get away with being pretty damn weird if you're pretty.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:31 pm

ubernoob wrote:Seems like the studios decided to make her pretty (makeup!) just to make the movie more watchable?

American movies and television tend to cast every part at least two steps more good-looking than warranted. Even the ugly people are (usually) someone you'd hit on in a club, because they only look ugly compared to the model-quality people surrounding them.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:50 pm

Mister_Sinister wrote:Sorry, but I agree with Maj. There is nothing remotely good about how either of them have aged. Frankly, at the risk of sounding like some kind of lolicon, they looked better when they were younger.

Somehow,after reading your second sentence, I had a feeling it was going to be followed by the third one.

angelfromanotherpin wrote:
ubernoob wrote:Seems like the studios decided to make her pretty (makeup!) just to make the movie more watchable?
American movies and television tend to cast every part at least two steps more good-looking than warranted. Even the ugly people are (usually) someone you'd hit on in a club, because they only look ugly compared to the model-quality people surrounding them.

Hollywood Homely?

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:45 pm

Zinegata wrote:I like both Lynch and Watson, but read Playboy for the articles.