Thursday, July 14, 2011

Tonight Will be fun!

Tonight I am going to watch the final Harry Potter film at midnight with other fans at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre. It feels as though my childhood has officially come to an end tonight. The first one came out when I turned 11 and now I am 21. And it feels as though so many feel the same way. Even though I did watch it last night, tonight will be the last midnight showing of this film. Apparently there is an Ultimate Fan Celebration, and I cannot wait!

Last night I went to a special screening in Los Angeles were many fans gathered and we watched it in 3D in IMAX. It truly was an amazing experience. When the movie was playing it was so quiet you can hear a pen drop. And... some sniffling at points in the film. For me it has become my favorite from the series. To see Alan Rickman act Snape to the very end was so heart wrenching. I truly felt this film did justice to the book in its adaption to the movie screen.

After the film there was a Q&A with David Yates. It was interesting to listen to him. And how he was happy that J.K. Rowling loved this movie.

Overall i am so happy I went.

Also this weekend Winnie the Pooh comes out this weekend as well. And that movie was just an amazing film! I highly recommend it to any Disney fan. It was so adorable. Also Nessie, the movie short, was so cute and that made me go "awwwwww". So CUTE! I recommend both films to any person who loves great movies.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Opening ceremony at AM2

10:17am We were just allowed in to the room.

It's been a couple of hours since the opening ceremony. But here is what happened at the opening ceremony.

The lights dimmed and we all applauded. Than a recording and music went on, I could not make out what it said. Than a dance group, common ground group, came out and performed. It was enetertaining and over all really good. One person didn't know the steps very well and was behind everyone else. :(

Afterwards the MC came on stage,he introduced himself and than began talking about AM2. He started talking about how this is the first year and that they are excited to show the hard work they put into it. He than asked us to join him in saying "anime amen!" After that he introduced AM2 vice chair Jay Lee(sp?) who than continued with a thanks to the attendees fir coming to AM2.

They also brought up that there will be a fundraiser and other ways to donate to japan relief for the earthquake.

Around 10:40am they introduced the guest of honors! (Technically the first the introduced was Scandal but they were not here today.) First was Sixh., who just introduced themselves. The second to go up was Gashicon who said pleasure to be here, and nice to meet you. The third to go was heidi., they got yoshiku to speak for the group and said hello, and this is there first time over seas.

Next was Sadie and each member said something. First was Aki said than you for inviting us. Second was Mao who asked how are you and wanted us to show how excited we were by yelling. Third was Mizuki who said have fun today! And last was Tsurugi who said he was a crazy boy. The last member, Kei, was not at opening ceremonies but would later join them for the panel.

After them it was KanonxKanon. Kanon, girl, said hello nice to meet you. And Kanon,boy, came out stood and did a dragon ball z thing before sitting down. After them was Miho Shimogasa who said basically hello, nice to meet you and I have been looking forward to this convention.

Than it was Akihiko Yamashita who said nice to meet you and that he arrived two days ago up in north California, it was gloomy but here in L.A it is sunny. Sunao katabuchi said he was slightly tired because he just finished a show before coming. And he hopes the audience enjoys MaiMai Miracle as much as Black Lagoon. Last but not least was Masao Maruyama who said it has been 5 years since he last came to Anaheim and he hopes we enjoy Mai Mai miracle and afterwards to talk to him and the director about the film.

After this they did a blue ribbon cutting. Where all of the guest of honors have a piece to cut. And thins concluded the opening ceremony.

I will come back soon with more updates of what I have done at AM2! :)