I ended up going to see Harry Potter this morning. I arrived at the local shopping centre at about 8:30, and managed to find a really good parking spot about 10m from one of the entrances. Just perfect. Then I did a bit of window shopping – although most of the shops were not open yet so I looked around Big W and picked up some DVD’s that were on special. More shopping once all the shops opened.

Then I wandered over to Cinema. This is not as easy as it sounds. I needed to ask the Customer Service desk how to get to the cinema. I knew where the cinema was, but I did not know how to get there since they had just opened some extensions to the shopping centre, closing the normal entrance to the cinema. I eventually found my way to the cinema by walking through the car park. I am told that this is the main entrance, at least until they are finished with the renevations.

Then I got into the cinema. There were only about 10 people in the room, which seated about 200. This is not really a good utilization, althouh I guess that most people are more worried about doing other things on Christmas Eve! During the advertising at the beginning with still slides something obviously went wrong, and there was only a white screen. I think this is a bit of an oops.

So how was the movie? It was good. It was certainly darker than the others, and the main characters are definitely older and more mature. It appears that they are more than 12 months older than in the previous movie… Or maybe they just had a huge growth spurt… Not sure. Anyway you look at it, the characters are growing up, both in real life, and in the movie.