I all ready have tickets for the midnight show in Glendale. Harry Potter is not necessarily my cup of tea, but the trailer looks good and the midnight show has been a tradition since the very first one and I hate to stop now. Besides, I love the enthusiasm of a opening night crowd.

Ron was sexy as hell in Order of the Phoenix. I re-read the book right afterwards, while everyone was complaining about it being "butchered," when all that was done was a very credible MOVIE ADAPTATION that fails miserably if it simply films the book, and cannot possibly include everything in a 800 page novel. Nor should it.


Mileage may vary, but I found it a brilliant adaptation of a book I didn't particularly care for, and it's my second favorite Harry Potter film .... even though there are several elements I prefer in the book version. Big deal. I think that's as it should be.


I absolutely HATED the book of Half Blood Prince, so I'm eager to see the movie which may adapt a 1200 page novel more to my liking.








By the way, I love the billboard advertising campaign. They are beautiful (especially the bad guys one), and I love how they can show just a little bit of Harry Potter font to communicate worldwide recognizability and equate that with Must See.

Snape! Snape! Snape!

- so it should be your cup of tea ;)

added tags- though anyone who didn't know this might be the most unaware Potter fan in the universe.


Looks so sexy and fashionable, when? Other than the Ball- when even in the book she is transformed into quite a beauty- I did not see this otherwise.

-I also saw the "screaming fit" as someone who was distressed and anxious- and sometimes we get agitated and yell when that happens.

YMMV I guess.

We would see it on the day it comes out, but we have to get ready for DL the next day, so bummer on the movie, yay for the trip!

And the book is about good against evil in the wizard world, so yes, the book does have pain in it, like many books. But it does have fun wizardry stuff in it, otherwise it wouldn't be as good as it is. :)

That's a pretty big spoiler for people who are only watching the movies and haven't read the book.

It's common knowledge-but I tagged it- fine.

It's been years since that book came out-if anyone managed to avoid knowing that all this time they they have truly had blinders on.

IMO.

I think it's pretty common knowledge, but I know people who only watch the movies. So I've never said anything about it to them, and I've no idea if they've gone to great lengths to avoid spoilers like that.


The tags were wise. Thank you.


In fact, till the movie's out about a week, I think it's customary to use spoiler tags even for something this universally popular.

It doesn't take much in the way of blinders, I can assure you. Yes, a Potter fan who doesn't know would have had to work hard. But a lot of people who will see the movie aren't really Harry Potter fans. I know many people who have never touched the books, not gotten into the mass hysteria over them, and know only what they've seen in the movies.

As hard as it is to believe, people who didn't read the books didn't spend a lot of time paying attention to the people talking endlessly about the books.

Since this was a thread specifically about the movie and not the book I thought some care about spoilers might be warranted. Personally, I don't care, I spoiled myself a long time ago.

What she said. :D