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Well today is the release day of the third movie installment of Harry Potter! I'm excited. But I won't be seeing it until next weekend. Is anyone else going to see it today?

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Harry Potter sucks.

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I probably will see it... but end up seeing it in secrecy so people dont end up making fun of me for the next few weeks for going to see harry potter.... ive read the first 3 books and i like em :)

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Harry Potter is not something to make fun of. Granted, not everyone likes the books/movies but those of us who do have nothing to be embarrassed about. They're good books.

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I'm going to see it with a girl at 10:45 pm tonight.

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hey, two great things! way to go

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The trailer looked cool. Nice orchestra there. Seems pretty tense too!
*wants to read the books first, one day*

GIVE SPOILER WARNINGS PLEASE!!!

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I dont plan on being in a big rush to see it. I havent seen any of them in full lenght, i saw the first one i think it was, but it was on TV, and i had nothing better to do, so i watched it.

But i dont make fun of it because i like LOTR...

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I saw it earlier today. I liked it. But it leaves out a lot of back history, and I'm not completely sure somebody who hasn't read the books would be able to completely get it without going "huh?" at least once. It kind of speed through things, especially near the end. And it kind of ruined the Patronus :unsure:

But it was still good.


*shrugs and walks away*

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Ya, I've read all 5 books a couple times over.

Didn't bother with the first two films though. I'll probably be seeing this sometime in theatres. Harry Potter isn't as good as it used to be when I was but a wee child.

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You and I are in the same boat. :( Me and five of my friends were going to go watch it today, but I discovered last night that the theatre is having Shrek 2 on AGAIN, so I'm going to have to wait till next weekend to see it. So we'll be seeing it at the same time, at least. :D

While the movie's arent as good as the books, they are still enjoyable and help give me that harry potter "fix". I've read all the books and am kind of addicted to them, they are some of the best books I've ever read, so anything I can experiance that is harry potter related is a good thing for me.

And I agree with JS that Harry Potter isnt something to be made fun of. Like I said, five of my friends are going with me. lol. Everyone loves harry potter, at least it's like that where I live. It's not a "just for little kids" thing.

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I saw Day After Tomorow today... Decent movie, needed some more destruction though. While I was there, I saw some losers dressed up as characters from Harry Potters.. So I called them losers, and they just walked away, haha. That made my night.

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Wouldn't something as sad as calling people losers who just walked away "making your night" also qualify you to be a loser? o_O

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I red the second threee books but not the first cause i had already seen the movie and I will admit they r good books
if I do happen to see I'm gunna be a jerk and ruin it for the people in the theater hahahhahahaha
cause i am evil it is fun...

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combined with seeing the movie 'day after tomorrow'

;)



actually day after tomorrow is a halarious movie. one of the worst i've ever seen, but halarious. the dialog in it is so unintentially funny.


However, on with harry potter, great movie. saw it at 11pm
all the harry potter movies have been great.

And no Ginkasa, i've never read any of the books and never went 'huh?' once, was completly understandable to me.

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Oh...well...then...nevermind...

However, I do suggest you read Prisoner of Azkaban, if not the whole series. There is a lot of backhistory and stuff that was left out of the movie that, if it doesn't make anything clearer, is at least interesting. And nice to know.

And the book is always better anyway.


*shrugs and walks away*

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My date had a few bones to pick with it but overall we were very entertained.

For one we could definitely tell the difference in directing. The choice of shots was rather different from the previous movies, and it just didn't have that "magical" feel they did.

There IS confusing parts in the movie. But it all becomes clear eventually. It's really not that hard a movie to follow.

Dumbledore's actor apparently changed, too. I didn't even notice; I guess I'm not a stickler for those things. Heh.

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Nope.

"Just tell her how you feel, man."

Haha... That line cracked me up the most.

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I saw Harry Potter last night at 6:00. I liked it a lot. The new Dumbledore doesn't act exactly like the original though. And me and my friends agreed that we missed seeing Dumbledore and Harry have a long talk like they usually do at least once in every movie. And I must say, Hermione has become quite easy on the eyes, if you know what I mean. ;) Buckbeak was cool too.

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Yep, gotta love that 13 year old ass :drool:

:rolleyes:

I think I've gotten over the whole Olsen Twins thing though. I still have a hard time shaking the full house images out of my mind. They're...hot.

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Ya.....those pre-pubecent days didn't really do it for me. But now, well they are hot, but the novelty is starting to wear off. Kind of like an over-hyped game, thats been hyped up for like, 7 years, then comes out and sucks.

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A few weeks ago some magazines had some pictures of them at some premiere for their movie or something, and one of them is noticeably thin and the magazines acknowledged this. She was bony, eww. :unsure:

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Of course the new Dumbledore didn't act exactly like Richard Harris. It wouldn't have been good if he did. Everybody knows its a new guy playing Dumbledore, there's no hiding it. I'd rather the actor make the character his own rather than try to imitate Harris.


*shrugs and walks away*

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**SPOILER WARNING**

















The entire firbolt part was horribly done....but other than that i thought it was great. and the actor for hermione is hot.....(shes 17)......the actor for malfoy is different...but he's still decent. i think the actor picks for both lupin and sirius were horrible.......i always pictured sirius as more of an aragorn person. As for lupin, guess it was alright, but his werewolf form looked weak..... The special effects were nice, but most of all, you GOTTA love the jamaican talking head ("Dis iz gonna be a bompy ride!")

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she's FOURTEEN, you pedaphile...shes cute, I'll give you that...and she could very well be hot in a few years, but calling a 14 year old hot is just...wrong

no it isnt...same as the first two movies

And the movie was great...I really enjoyed it, much better than the first two movies. Better director (makes a world of difference), better story (3rd book was my favourite), better acting. 4 stars.

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Its not that pedophilic if you're sixteen, which gimpy is (unless his profile...lies...for some...reason). A girl I know was dating a 17 year old when she was 14 (well...she's still dating him... I think... ages are different of course....16 and 19...).

So... Maybe not so wrong...

Very annoying though. Very, very annoying.


*shrugs and walks away*

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Just because your friend did it, that doesnt make it not pedephelia. Its still disgustingly wrong...well to me anyways.

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Ginkasa is wrong. The new Dumbledore replacement needs to act EXACTLY as Richard Harris did. To do otherwise simply ruins the character. It'd be okay if Richard Harris had never been Dumbledore but since he was, the replacements need to follow his interpretation.

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It was good. saw it on opening night. also saw kitana in the same theater after the movie

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It ruins the character if one actor tries to perfectly imitate another actor. Acting is like anything else, people do it differently. Faced with the same character, two different actors will always give you two completely different performances. Trying to perform in some way not natural to the actor can ruin his performance. Its better for an actor to portray his own interpretation of the character and perform his best rather than copy someone else and give a mediocre or bad performance.


*shrugs and walks away*

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not while taking over for a series that has already been established. In a case like this there is a need to make it so you dont notice the actor change. its not the time for an actor to suddenly do his own thing.

However considering his minor parts it wasnt terribly a big deal.

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I agree with Ginky.

The new dumbledore is going to have to be dumbledore for 5 movies. That's the majority of the HP series, so I think it's fair that he should be able to act like HE wants.

He cant spend 5 films acting like another actor acts.

But yeah, it is a minor part, like Null said. It's a major role, but a minor part, if that makes any sense at all. So it's not a huge deal.

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At the end the movie it didn't have the part where Fudge and Snape come into the hospital ward wondering how Sirius escaped. The part where Snape accuses Harry and Fudge starts to dislike him a bit. That kind of sucked.


Overall I thought the movie was pretty good. I don't know why it isn't 3+ hours though. It could have easily incorporated more parts that would've added to the story.

I also like the feel of the film. It feels more real and imo that makes it more 'magical'.

/spoiler




I don't like it how when a book is turned into a movie, I lose all the images that I imagined while reading the book. Like, before the Harry Potter movies came out I had my own image of how everyone looked and how Hogwarts and the world in general looked. Now, when I read the books I see the actors as the characters. Same with LOTR and every other book2movie.
Oh well.

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Then don't watch the movies :p


*shrugs and walks away*

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Or don't read the books. I didnt read the LOTR books, therefor, there was no let down to me when i say the characters.

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i thought the movie was really good. it did bother me that so much was taken out but what they left in was good, and it was done well. On the book to movie subject, I had my own visions of the Harry potter world and I don't like those to be changed. However, seeing the stories come to life gives a new spin on things. And it makes an interesting adaptation to the book that I might not have caught on to while I was reading. But the book is always better.

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Well, I saw the movie with my little brothers.

Not an avid reader of the novels (read like the first chapter or two of the second book), but I thought it was a pretty good movie.

Never really seemed to drag too much, and worked in some ways. Though some of it seemed like mini sketches put together with no real connection. Some finally made connections, while others I think were just there.

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Another thing that I forgot to mention...

...didn't Harry's patrones take the form of a stag? It showed it in the first scene but in the book the patronus was supposed to travel and chase away the dementors. When Harry goes back in the past and performs the patronus charm it doesn't actually form a stag like it did in the first scene, but just a lot of bright light. In the books he could command the patronus on what to do.

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Yeah, the Patronus was the biggest departure from the books. Harry was never capable of mastering the Expecto Patronum spell during his lesson with Lupin like in the movie.

The Patronus was also supposed to take the form of some animal or spirit that was embedded in the person's soul for some reason or another. In the book when Harry was finally able to summon his Patronus at the end it took the form of a stag and rode down the dementors.

It was then revealed that Harry's father chose the stag when he became an animagi.

Its all connected and completely removed from the movie.


*shrugs and walks away*

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*spoilers*


I noticed how it didn't have a very magical feel as well. They hardly wore robes at all. It wasn't like the other movies. I was also not happy about the firebolt part. I also think that they could have made the movie longer by explaining more of the background. They never explained how Lupin knew how to work the map. Anyone who had read the book would know that him, Sirius, Pettigrew, and Harry's dad made the map. It doesn't really bother me though because I know the story. It was a great movie.

*spoilers*