Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SPOILERS)

[Alex]

It was "horrible" because I went in needing a specific book and could barely get through the store because of people just sitting on the floor lounging about and generally being indifferent to anybody who might actually be there to shop at 8 p.m. (and also, to manage the midnight queue they had rearranged shelving making it nearly impossible to get to the cash registers without an overhead view of the store). I knew there was going to be a lot of people there but I expected there'd be more order to things (I didn't know they had a wristband system that didn't require queuing. Harry Potter was not the specific reason it was horrible, just the thing that caused so many people to be there. If they'd all been there for a Philip Roth signing it would have been just as horrible.

Yes, I find the 50-year-old guy wearing a what looks like a $4.99 Harry Potter costume they bought at Wal-Mart earlier in the day to be somewhat silly. If you're going to go all out, go all out and put some effort into it.

Azkaban was the most filmic of the movies but I still found seriously flawed as a story (I can't defend this position anymore since I barely remember what happened in the movie but I know that is how I felt after seeing it).

You and I agreed on Transformers and disagree on Potter; such are the trials of individual taste.