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Tell me tell me! I have to wait till Friday.. and I can't! Give me SOMETHING!
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 12:18 PM
Did anyone go see the midnight showing of Harry Potter 5? I really really REALLY wanted to go, but I couldn't go without my dear sister. And she had summer school the next morning.. so guess what.. No going for me! Dash it all! But in any case.. I'll be going on Friday. I'm just wondering if anyone actually went. Or maybe I'm the only HP person here (which I think is untrue and highly unlikely). But if you did, how was it! How'd you like it?
Tell me tell me! I have to wait till Friday.. and I can't! Give me SOMETHING!
Tell me tell me! I have to wait till Friday.. and I can't! Give me SOMETHING!
Whatever happens..happens.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 12:22 PM
Spoiler:
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 12:49 PM
I've got tickets to the 7:25 p.m. showing of it tommorrow, I just didn't want to deal with a crowd of tired little kids at the midnight showing or the showings today.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 01:12 PM
or the crowds of geeks dressed up and talking and acting like they just came from Hogwarts-- yeah no thanks.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:11 PM
Ah.
<--- understands
I should have dressed up as a pirate for Pirates, I do it with my friends even when we're not going to movies. That would have been killer.
<--- understands
I should have dressed up as a pirate for Pirates, I do it with my friends even when we're not going to movies. That would have been killer.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:13 PM
I can see that Moony is in Ravenclaw, the smart house.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:15 PM
Yeah.. All the quizzes say that's where I belong. But more importantly, that's where I believe I should be. So what the hell! GO RAVENCLAW!
Plus, all geekiness on -- I think I'd have a better chance of being on the Quidditch team
Plus, all geekiness on -- I think I'd have a better chance of being on the Quidditch team
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 02:26 PM
The quizes always put me down as rating highest in Ravenclaw, second highest in Griffindor, third in Slythern, and lowest in Hufflepuff. I might, if it was real, end up in Slythern just because I have a pet snake and have always loved snakes.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 04:11 PM
Gryffindor for the win!
I'm going on Friday, not been released here yet, got another 110 minutes yet. Still, have to be up for 3am, might try and get a ticket
I'm going on Friday, not been released here yet, got another 110 minutes yet. Still, have to be up for 3am, might try and get a ticket
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 07:50 PM
I went to the midnight showing.
For the most part, it was excellent. However, its biggest fault was it inability to encompass all of the enormous book. Rather than cut out plot elements that were not strictly necessary, David Yates decided to include everything in truncated form. The result of this is that it's only possible to follow everything closely if you've read the book. I imagine that a person who has not read it (this is speculation, because I have) would have a tough time understanding the significance of the prophecy, the story of Neville's parents, or the purpose of characters like Tonks and Bellatrix.
Obviously, the movie can't include everything. I wouldn't have had a problem at all if it weren't for the irritating trend that's been plaguing movies for the past few years. They've been waaaaaaaaay too long. Why did Harry Potter, the one film that deserves to be unusually long, have to buck the trend?
I just don't understand. Brokeback Mountain included a solid twenty minutes of unnecessary sheep footage. The Lord of the Rings movies had two or three battle sequences it didn't need. Walk the Line was about a half hour longer than it needed to be. And Harry Potter can't even find the time to tell us that Dumbledore wanted to keep Trelawney at Hogwarts because she told the prophecy? It's outrageous.
For the most part, it was excellent. However, its biggest fault was it inability to encompass all of the enormous book. Rather than cut out plot elements that were not strictly necessary, David Yates decided to include everything in truncated form. The result of this is that it's only possible to follow everything closely if you've read the book. I imagine that a person who has not read it (this is speculation, because I have) would have a tough time understanding the significance of the prophecy, the story of Neville's parents, or the purpose of characters like Tonks and Bellatrix.
Obviously, the movie can't include everything. I wouldn't have had a problem at all if it weren't for the irritating trend that's been plaguing movies for the past few years. They've been waaaaaaaaay too long. Why did Harry Potter, the one film that deserves to be unusually long, have to buck the trend?
I just don't understand. Brokeback Mountain included a solid twenty minutes of unnecessary sheep footage. The Lord of the Rings movies had two or three battle sequences it didn't need. Walk the Line was about a half hour longer than it needed to be. And Harry Potter can't even find the time to tell us that Dumbledore wanted to keep Trelawney at Hogwarts because she told the prophecy? It's outrageous.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 08:13 PM
dude3, on Jul 11 2007, 07:50 PM, said:
The Lord of the Rings movies had two or three battle sequences it didn't need.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. TLotR was cut way too short. Every battle that was included was absolutely necessary. Even the extended LotR was too short because it didn't include Tom Bombidil, the barrowdowns, or the scouring of the Shire; all of which would have helped the story.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 09:00 PM
Manta, on Jul 11 2007, 07:13 PM, said:
Wrong, wrong, wrong. TLotR was cut way too short. Every battle that was included was absolutely necessary. Even the extended LotR was too short because it didn't include Tom Bombidil, the barrowdowns, or the scouring of the Shire; all of which would have helped the story.
What about the singing?
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 09:19 PM
I believe the singing was a little on the low side considering how many more songs there were in the book, but there were enough songs to in the movie to give it the right flavor. Leaving out a song is not as bad as leaving out a major part of the story.
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Posted 11 July 2007 - 09:25 PM
Manta, on Jul 11 2007, 09:13 PM, said:
Wrong, wrong, wrong. TLotR was cut way too short. Every battle that was included was absolutely necessary. Even the extended LotR was too short because it didn't include Tom Bombidil, the barrowdowns, or the scouring of the Shire; all of which would have helped the story.
The absence of Tom and the 'downs pissed me off to no end.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 01:30 AM
dude3, on Jul 11 2007, 05:50 PM, said:
I went to the midnight showing.
For the most part, it was excellent. However, its biggest fault was it inability to encompass all of the enormous book. Rather than cut out plot elements that were not strictly necessary, David Yates decided to include everything in truncated form. The result of this is that it's only possible to follow everything closely if you've read the book. I imagine that a person who has not read it (this is speculation, because I have) would have a tough time understanding the significance of the prophecy, the story of Neville's parents, or the purpose of characters like Tonks and Bellatrix.
Obviously, the movie can't include everything. I wouldn't have had a problem at all if it weren't for the irritating trend that's been plaguing movies for the past few years. They've been waaaaaaaaay too long. Why did Harry Potter, the one film that deserves to be unusually long, have to buck the trend?
I just don't understand. Brokeback Mountain included a solid twenty minutes of unnecessary sheep footage. The Lord of the Rings movies had two or three battle sequences it didn't need. Walk the Line was about a half hour longer than it needed to be. And Harry Potter can't even find the time to tell us that Dumbledore wanted to keep Trelawney at Hogwarts because she told the prophecy? It's outrageous.
For the most part, it was excellent. However, its biggest fault was it inability to encompass all of the enormous book. Rather than cut out plot elements that were not strictly necessary, David Yates decided to include everything in truncated form. The result of this is that it's only possible to follow everything closely if you've read the book. I imagine that a person who has not read it (this is speculation, because I have) would have a tough time understanding the significance of the prophecy, the story of Neville's parents, or the purpose of characters like Tonks and Bellatrix.
Obviously, the movie can't include everything. I wouldn't have had a problem at all if it weren't for the irritating trend that's been plaguing movies for the past few years. They've been waaaaaaaaay too long. Why did Harry Potter, the one film that deserves to be unusually long, have to buck the trend?
I just don't understand. Brokeback Mountain included a solid twenty minutes of unnecessary sheep footage. The Lord of the Rings movies had two or three battle sequences it didn't need. Walk the Line was about a half hour longer than it needed to be. And Harry Potter can't even find the time to tell us that Dumbledore wanted to keep Trelawney at Hogwarts because she told the prophecy? It's outrageous.
You're kidding me.. how could they leave that out? That's kind of crucial, don't you think? I also heard that instead of Harry's hand being engraved with "I must not tell lies" it's "I must not break the rules" What the hell? Why would you change two words? What's the difference? But I haven't seen it.. so I don't even know if that's true.
Whatever happens..happens.
