Going Postal Part I

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I probably ought to point people who also can't wait for the DVD release to this post. I couldn't resist.

1. The clacks towers. They're so pretty. Although I do wonder why the people manning them are so incredibly slow at what they are doing, I can hardly see anyone beating any sort of postal service if every individual letter has to be signalled by flashes of light created by men pulling shutters sloooooowly.
2. OMG, it's Ankh-Morpork! I think I'm in love with this movie's version of the city more than anything else. Both costumes, architecture and choice of location just make this perfect.
3. Look, movie, I am sure you had a limited budget for animals and such, but would renting a trained wolf-like dog for an afternoon really have been so much more expensive than the bad monkeysuit you made Angua wear? And since when does she go around revealing her status to everybody?
4. I respect you theatry actors, but really, is it so hard to adapt for movies? It's a different kind of acting. Looking at you, baddies, and you, Drumknott (and lose the eyeliner, for heaven's sake - it looks silly and is wildly OOC), though never at you, Vetinari, keep it up. <3
5. Moist is perfect, though considering his character or lack-thereof, there wasn't much they could get wrong, really.
6. Pump 19 does not have emotions, remember? Remember? Being a golem and that...? 
7. Awesome that you just randomly stuck POC in there without making a big deal out of it, I really do appreciate that, but seriously, why does it have to be just one guy at the Pinnery (though I do love POC nerds representing) and Crispin Horsefry, of all people? Why not Reacher? 
8. Look, movie, I can assure you, we can deal with badass women. There is really, really, really no need to make Adora do something vulnerable and endearing revealing her OMG tragic past whenever she's just done something incredibly badass. The book didn't need it, and neither does the movie version. Though I guess the attempt at making her past a bigger part of the plot is nice, refitting her character to fit the love plot is awful. Women are not only there to morally improve the hero, though I'd agree that, of discworld novels, this is probably the one in which this is in fact the case to a certain extent.
9. Speaking of female characters, dwarfs. Remember dwarfs in P'Terry's world? It's kind of important that they look like male dwarfs, for the heads-on struggle of dwarfs to embrace femininity is all manners of awesome. No self-respecting dwarf lady would go around without her beard, period (and how I am rooting for them, I can tell you). Unless you wanted to include little people who aren't dwarfs, that's cool.
10. Flashbacking!Moist. Yes, we know, we know, he harmed people. You really didn't need to drive that home quite so often, and the credit crunch thing? Neat, but not strictly speaking necessary.
11. Dead-pan delivery of funny lines is hard, I get it. Practice it more, actors.
12. Ridcully seems to have caught a serious case of serious!face and OOCitis, why is that?

So, overall, this is a really enjoyable movie and so, so much better than Colour of Magic or Hogfather, and I can't wait for the second part.

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