[JohnBovenmyer]

Some subjects can be adequately handled in short presentations and in those cases I agree with Rush, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” However complicated, multifaceted presentations require more time and repeated examples to be learned. Otherwise our education could be completed by the end of kindergarten. Even the Old Testament has a sequel and IMHO the better movie adaptations of even parts of it are longer than 90-120 min. Like most other good books Harry Potter works better as a book than as movies although its movies try harder to stay with the spirit of the books than most movie adaptations, while not being the 4-6 hour movies that precise adaptations would require. As books they can be put down and resumed more conveniently than movies and you can easily flip back to check on points you’ve forgotten. Or at least they can be put down after the first couple frenetic readings.

[Triggerhippie]

I was fairly sure, upon waking up from my second nap, a scant five hours before the final credits rolled, that I was in the Harry Potter movie (one was *plenty* for me, thanks.) for a week and a half.

If going to the movies is going to be in an endurance event, I’d like to know ahead of time. That’s all I’m saying.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

I agree with Rush, “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Rush? Wrong. You agree with Shakespeare.