So I'm sitting here studying for my consolidations midterm tomorrow (this is the most frustrating, complicated, and time consuming thing you'll ever learn - for any accountants out there).
I took a week off gaming to do this and to be honest, I'm only upset that I can't watch Harry Potter until Sunday (group meetings all Saturday).
So besides the lame excuses of "oh HP is lame and for little kids" "why would I watch something on opening weekend?"
... I want to hear some epic reasons of WHY you can't watch Harry Potter at opening night/Friday night/this weekend. I want to hear about how you were in such a hurry to go watch Harry Potter that your car went dry on gas/you forgot to fill up and you had to call roadside assistance, etc etc etc.
I'm also kinda upset that there are no "new" trailers popping up, which sometimes happen the week before the movie.
I would do anything to watch that while not losing studying time right now =(
I don't want to watch the Harry Potter movies, because I read the books and I want to keep my image of the characters and situations and not the one that the movie gives me (although it is impossible to avoid seeing characters and stuff).
Sounds like a lame excuse, but that's my reason. Perhaps I will watch them all together someday, but not yet.
The 7th book was terribad so the 7th movie will likely be pretty bad. Also, after that disgusting excuse for a 6th movie, i'm not giving any more money to people who make HP movies.
I am not going because, I participate in high school. Quite fortunately I have a lot of friends. We shall get together that day after school, and do stuff. We are not watching that movie. We will be playing Call of Duty Black Ops, and hopefully prank calling people who are watching the movie. Saying random things to them to make them yell like a maniac while watching the movie. Should be very exciting.
Whoa. I just wrote very formally. Harry Potter excitement does that to me.
Well the worst feeling too is if all your friends see a movie in the first weekend and you don't see it because you don't want to get tickets 1-2 hours in advance :O
then you want to see it and pretty much EVERYONE has seen it hahaha
that happened to my friend for inception and i gotta say, it's worth the line-up.
I'd rather watch it in theatres because I want that experience =D watching an epic movie on my screen just doesn't do it justice =(
I would but I'm not a fan of waiting in line for 3 hours to get decent seats and I rather not be looking straight up at the screen to watch the movie, I'll just wait like 2 weeks or so till the crowd dies down.
On November 19 2010 15:06 LuckyFool wrote: I still need to watch the 6th one lulz.
Oh god, if you actually read the 6th book then you'll think it's terrible. Also if you didn't read the 6th book you still might think it's terrible. The movie was bare minimum plot and nothing more.
I tolerated the first two films, wanted to walk out of the third one, and could only stomach about half an hour of the fourth one when I caught it on TV. Not gonna bother seeing any more.
I don't think we'd have a premiere showing in our town. Or in our country, for that matter. Even if we had, in order to see it, I would have to travel to another city. And unless I go there in advance to get a ticket, they'd probably be sold out by the time I arrive. So I would probably have to book a hotel room in order to facilitate myself, unless I feel like traveling one way, buying a ticket, then traveling back. all in a single day.
I wish they'd reopen the old cinemas we had on the main street. I've had so many fun moments in my childhood there Now one is in a state of permament closure, and the other one got turned into a disco club. I saw my first animated movie there; now it is a house of gluttony and lust.
This is what capitalism brought. It was supposed to be better. It was supposed to mean freedom. But does it? No. Am I truly free if I can not watch the latest installment of the Harry Potter series? We even set our parliament on fire to earn this... freedom. But are we truly free?
No. Not until we are able to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on its premiere day.
I too have finals tomorrow. And while I would like to see HP in theaters eventually idc that much and will probably only go if a friend asks me to go with them or something.
The movies aren't good movies, I've seen all but the 3rd one (and this new one), and the 6th one is the only one that is even a decent coherent movie in its own right. They all suffer from a complex of needing to tell the plot of the book, so that's all they do, without any of the real charm that made the books what they are. It's like they are constructed out of duty rather than artistry. Without the backing that the books give them in terms of familiarity with the stories and sense of the characters living their lives, the movies existing by themselves would be considered to have very amateur storytelling, awkward transitions and no real flow or rhyme or reason to the course of events. They also bring no new value or perspective that's not in the books while dryly sucking the liveliness of having these things exist in the imagination. To me they were like watching the cliff notes of the novel, with a moving picture and random jokes thrown in. They are shells of movies, they look pretty much like real movies, but there is nothing at their heart that isn't just transcribed directly from the books (where it actually has the opportunity to be fleshed out), there is nothing that inspired them besides the necessity to make a movie out of everything because it's an opportunity to make money and to show off CGI effects (which is a perverse twisting of the themes about magic that are in the book, that magic is at its heart is not really about the flashy lights and explosions and doing cool tricks, the movies never really explore magic to see anything deeper than that).
That said I'll be seeing the new one Saturday night.
Watching it tomorrow in IMAX! Wasn't actually planning to watch it in theaters (expensive these days...) but a friend of mine gave me tickets... so hey.
Watched it yesterday, I found it pretty terrible although a friend of mine hadn't read the books so she thought it was pretty good. Part 2 has to be epic though, there are only cool stuff left in the book so even I could make a good movie out of that..
On November 19 2010 15:06 LuckyFool wrote: I still need to watch the 6th one lulz.
Oh god, if you actually read the 6th book then you'll think it's terrible. Also if you didn't read the 6th book you still might think it's terrible. The movie was bare minimum plot and nothing more.
Thats what I thought about all the movies tbh (except the first 2). The only reason I bother to watch them other then that I can for free is its always nice seeing Emma Watson on screen LOL
Because the harry potter movies are terribadddddddddddddddddd, I got fed up of the crap acting and refused to watch anymore after the 2nd, I am a definite fan of the books though.
On November 19 2010 15:42 Nikon wrote: I don't think we'd have a premiere showing in our town. Or in our country, for that matter. Even if we had, in order to see it, I would have to travel to another city. And unless I go there in advance to get a ticket, they'd probably be sold out by the time I arrive. So I would probably have to book a hotel room in order to facilitate myself, unless I feel like traveling one way, buying a ticket, then traveling back. all in a single day.
I wish they'd reopen the old cinemas we had on the main street. I've had so many fun moments in my childhood there Now one is in a state of permament closure, and the other one got turned into a disco club. I saw my first animated movie there; now it is a house of gluttony and lust.
This is what capitalism brought. It was supposed to be better. It was supposed to mean freedom. But does it? No. Am I truly free if I can not watch the latest installment of the Harry Potter series? We even set our parliament on fire to earn this... freedom. But are we truly free?
No. Not until we are able to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on its premiere day.
i agree. how can they say that you're free when you can't watch harry potter??!?!?
Its not even possible to enjoy a movie when the theater is full of retards being obnoxiously loud, let alone with TALL ASS GIANTS who insist on sitting right the fuck in front of me.
I just saw the movie. I'd say it wasn't too shabby. I wouldn't watch it again in theaters though. Not worth the 11 bucks. The scene with emma watson being topless was actually pretty hot. Maybe because I've always found her to be hot...
oh. and i realize the blog says "why NOT" . decided to put in my comment anyways.
Going to San Diego Saturday with a bunch of friends to visit a friend, then we're going to head over to a theater and watch it. We're Fandangoing it just to be sure.
Honestly, when I hear people my age tell me they've never read the books, that's just... tragic, almost. Those books defined my childhood. It's like hearing someone say they've never watched the original Toy Story... HOW DO YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF.
On November 19 2010 15:16 LuckyFool wrote: I thought the first couple HP movies were amazing. 3rd one was downhill and the rest have been fun but not quite as good as the first two imo.
Weird, most people think the opposite. The first two movies were whatever, the third one was an actual good film. Different strokes :o
cause i've already attended the avant-premiere last saturday had to make a huuuuge queue tho, but was worth it. They were reselling the tickets for 250 bucks!!
I was going to go somewhere to watch it but I feel I may be abducted by aliens if I leave the house, so I'm going to stay in where I know I'll be abducted by the awfulness that is day time television, but hopefully I'll at least wake up in the right bed.
Because the cinematic adaptions took a giant dump on one of my favourite book series with horrible casting and crappy, half-assed plot-altering rewrites.
On November 19 2010 15:16 LuckyFool wrote: I thought the first couple HP movies were amazing. 3rd one was downhill and the rest have been fun but not quite as good as the first two imo.
Weird, most people think the opposite. The first two movies were whatever, the third one was an actual good film. Different strokes :o
Problem with the third one for me and most of the people I talked to were it moved so fast, maybe most of the people I talked too were in the minority lol.
It was the first real movie for me where it felt like they left out too much from the book- books getting longer and the movie length staying around the same or shorter.
In regards to what people are saying about the movies:
The first 2 movies were perfect for the way the books were written, and the movies after, since the books took a darker turn, had to reflect that. I don't think Christopher Columbus could have continued on with what he had/the way he did the first 2 movies. It wouldn't have been as dark, or funny, in my opinion. But still, I wish he HAD continued on.
But I admit, after watching the 6th movie last night(in preparation for tonight), they don't have the same magic the first 2 had. -shrug-
/super harry potter nerd fan girl know it all thing
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Now one is in a state of permament closure, and the other one got turned into a disco club. I saw my first animated movie there; now it is a house of gluttony and lust.
had to make a huuuuge queue tho, but was worth it. They were reselling the tickets for 250 bucks!!
