Woo hoo! I get to see the new Harry Potter tonight!
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Woo hoo! I get to see the new Harry Potter tonight!
My hubby's company reserved an entire theater auditorium for the premier, and we won tickets in the office drawing. I'm very stoked!
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Well, as you might expect, it was quite excellent (though LONG at 2 1/2 hours!).
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One caveat...if you have very young children, you might want to evaluate whether they are ready for this movie. A couple of kids in the audience were very frightened by Voldemort's reappearance, which got pretty intense, and some were quite upset by the death near the end. Remember, this is the first of the really dark Potter books, and the film reflects that. You know your kids better than I, but if they're very sensitive or easily frightened, you might want to have them give this one a miss until they're a little older. Otherwise, I can recommend it highly. It wasn't perfect, as I mention above, but it's still an excellent movie. Rowling better stop making them so long, though, or they won't be able to make movies of them at all!As you might suppose, with such a long book, they had to cut it significantly. There's very little of the Quiddich World Cup, for example, and they don't get into the fact that Fleur is part Veela (or into Veelas at all) or that the headmistress of Beaux Batons is part giant (in fact, she and Hagrid are quite lovey-dovey right from the start). Saddest for me, though, is there's no Winkey, nor does Dobby make a reappearance!
I thought the editing of the first bit was rather choppy...they could have done a better job with that. It got smoother as the film progressed.
That said, they did really well with the character development and with the intensity of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Cedric's death was heartbreaking, even though I knew it was coming...they did a really good job of making him a truly likeable fellow. The special effects were, predictably, absolutely brilliant.
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Lamby, you are becoming an absolutely wicked forum temptress. I put a former ... er ... friend through massage therapy school, and learned to give a pretty good rub-down, if I do say so myself.Lambchop wrote:I was thinking more along the lines of popcorn and a massage.
Yes, I expected to see a lot chopped out of such a long story as GoF. I think I can live without the house elves, but I hope the Veela aren't underplayed. Same thing happened to LOTR. I still can't believe they cut out Tom Bombadil. He was central to Tolkiens's philosophy, and Rhys-Davis is Tom Bombadil, with no need for make-up!
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Yeah, the popcorn will get them every time!djm wrote:Lamby, you are becoming an absolutely wicked forum temptress.Lambchop wrote:I was thinking more along the lines of popcorn and a massage.
I put a former ... er ... friend through massage therapy school, and learned to give a pretty good rub-down, if I do say so myself.
Oh, hey! That's good! They left out the Veela!Yes, I expected to see a lot chopped out of such a long story as GoF. I think I can live without the house elves, but I hope the Veela aren't underplayed.
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I got to see it yesterday morning, and I was struck by how dark the movie was...I mean colorwise. It was pretty dingy throughout.
Yes, this movie is too much for young children, but it appears that some parents just don't get it. There have been warnings all over the place, but there were little ones in the theater yesterday, and I wanted to smack the mothers upside the head. What on earth were they thinking?
Yes, this movie is too much for young children, but it appears that some parents just don't get it. There have been warnings all over the place, but there were little ones in the theater yesterday, and I wanted to smack the mothers upside the head. What on earth were they thinking?
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Fallacy: you assume they're thinking.Tyghress wrote:... What on earth were they thinking?
I have a couple of kids, now 13-14, in my carpool who appear to have had virtually no restrictions on choices of videogames and movies since they were, I dunno, maybe 9.
They're flat out jaded. The one owns more DVDs than the public library and his collection includes such gems as Texas Chainsaw, Rings 1&2, House of Wax, and he'll have Saw 2 as soon as it's buyable.
Interesting thing is, he is pretty savvy in his analyses of the films' merits. For example: Saw 1 was a "better movie" from a film-making, story-building perspective, but Saw 2 was more fun to watch because of all the gore and the stupid people and the stupid things they do.