Books and Movies

I finished reading of Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban yesterday. It's one of my favourites in the series, so I decided to watch the movie today.
Normally I'd find myself saying "I don't really know what I prefer. I keep seeing the actors as the characters when I read, at the same time as I use my imagination throughout reading."
I have changed my mind.
I prefer the books.
Watching the movie was as if someone decided to skip 50-80% of the story and put in new things where they saw fit in their own mind, not to mention it felt like someone had hit a HUGE fast forward button to get things over with as quickly as possible. The story didn't flow along in a logic fashion at all, so many things that were nicely explained were chopped into little pieces so that it got to the point where you could JUST make out the thing, but only because the characters told you straight in your face.

The movies are good standing by themselves, but I don't think I'll be watching any of them in a long while. Not when I feel I'm watching a fast forward thing stressing to get to the end.


On a happier note I finally got around to pick up a book on watercoloring. I'll be trying out some of that stuff in the near future, as well as spending a bit more time outside when the weather is sunny. It's so nice and warm when the sun decides to show itself around here, almost like the beginning of the summer months.