The Harry Potter Movie Thread

[Ther]

So who's seen the latest Harry Potter movie? What were you thoughts on it? Was it as good as the book? The other movies?

[Elijah_Morendale]

I was thinking about seeing it on one of my days off next week. I haven't bothered to read the books (although I did clear through 26 chapters of "Goblet of Fire" in one sitting, never to pick it up again), but I thoroughly enjoy the movies.

[Amaril Torrun]

I'd say it was as good as it could have been under a time limit. With the books going into massive detail throughout an entire year, it'd be pretty difficult to show everything in a movie. I'd say it was better than the 4th movie, but the books are better. I can't help thinking that those who watch the movies without reading the books are missing out way too much of the good stuff.

[Breaker]

I was thinking about seeing it on one of my days off next week. I haven't bothered to read the books (although I did clear through 26 chapters of "Goblet of Fire" in one sitting, never to pick it up again), but I thoroughly enjoy the movies.

Man, I gotta ask... why start with the fourth (I'm pretty sure it's the fourth) book, and what made you stop after 26 chapters? Was there something utterly disgusting at the end of chapter 26?

[Elijah_Morendale]

I just sorta' lost interest after clearing half of the book in one sitting.

I read that much about a week or so before the respective movie came out in theaters, and I just wanted a heads up as to what I was spending my hard earned eight bucks on.

[Amaril Torrun]

Lol, the first time I picked up a Harry Potter book was at the YMCA pool. I also started with the fourth book, but after the first chapter I realized that maybe I should read them in order. I was completely clueless as to what the Harry Potter craze was all about.

[Serilliant]

I have to admit, I will only watch the latest movie because I have a sort of, inappropriate, awkwardly illegal crush on Daniel (we're on a first name basis). I don't know why, either. Those 'erotic' photos of him are... not really. But still.

So yeah, I watch it for him. I don't know what the fuck the story is about. Something about witches?

[Karuka]

I've had the series ruined for me by a friend. I had the opportunity to go to the midnight showing, and I was like "psh. Sleeping."

I'll go see it in a couple of weeks with a friend I want to hang out with. Probably the same reason I might see Transformers, even though I'm opposed to seeing both movies.

Btw...the only part in the fourth movie worth watching was when the Durmstang (sp?) boys came in with their cool dance routine. That was hawt.

[Amaril Torrun]

Lol, yeah. I didn't really like the fourth movie.

[IBB]

I went to see it with some of my friends on Wednesday, and, well, Amaril kind of already touched on the main issue I had with it-- that it was kind of glaringly obvious that they were working with a lot of material that had to be covered within a fixed time.

I only saw, like, the last half of the fourth movie, and even then I didn't really start paying attention until OMG DAVID TENNANT!! (http://imdb.com/name/nm0855039/) (Which is practically what I said when he showed up :p) I am a pretty big Doctor Who fangirl, plus I happen to think Tennant is just plain cute. :rolleyes:

And am I the only one here who's kept up with the series from book one? (Albeit rather passively-- my dad's the one who keeps buying the books for me damnit! :p)

[thorn aldsmith]

no i have kept up with the books and the films and i have preordered the 7th book

[Atzar]

I read the first five books. I liked them, up until the books experienced an irreversible character pool deletion. Since said character was my favorite, I lost interest.

[Amaril Torrun]

the sixth took an even darker side than the 5th, which was darker than the fourth, and so on. Rowling seems to getting in touch with her evilness within and taking it out on the wizarding folk

[Sok]

The movies really are all quite bad... I've never managed to sit through an entire one after that Secret Chamber one.

The books... I enjoy the books, they can be entertaining... but JK Rowling really isn't as good an author as people tell her she is, nor she believes herself to be. By this point I mostly keep reading because I've already gotten this far, they have gotten at the same time both better and worse.

[Saxon]

Saw the movie, and I've read all the books. Its a decent film for teenagers and adults and a fantastic one for children of all ages. I can't wait to read the 7th book because I'd like to see an end to something that began right around the time I was 11. Give or take a year.

The only question puzzling me is how a boy wizard in a school of witchcraft climbed the world's bestseller list. It'd be a good sociology thesis if you managed to look hard enough. :rolleyes:

[Karuka]

Didn't the Pope ban the books? if so, that would so totally explain that one.

I'll read book 7 just to be done with the series and because I will take crap on crap if I don't. It happened for book 6, too. I didn't read that one for months.

[Elijah_Morendale]

Yeah, if I remember correctly, there was a big stink over it with the church an the hardcore right wing nut-jobs. And with that kind of attention, you couldn't help but to see what all the fuss was about.

And as we all know, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

[sasquatch]

I saw the movie today and was rather disappointed. Not a big fan of the movies...but I love the books. We already have the seventh one preordered and are going to Borders on the night it is released for their bash thing. I do hope it's the last we see of Harry and his friends, though.

[Andrew]

I have read books 1-6 and seen movies 1-5. The only reason I keep watching the movies is momentum, because they all have disappointed. This movie was particularly painful, because they did such a decent job of it all through the first half, then as they neared the ending, started to suck. The whole climax was full of really expensive special effects nowhere near as cool as what they could have done on a low budget while still staying true to the book.

[Christina Bredith]

It is a shame that the climax of the movie, near the end, was a bit less "magical battle" and a bit more "what's-going-on special effects" than you might have hoped for, but seeing it in IMAX 3D made up for it. <3

Translation: I quite enjoyed it, and plan to see it again while I'm on vacation next week.