Harry Potter film shatters more box office records

AFP ^ | 16 July 2011 - 22H25  

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I guess all the boycotting worked...

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HP ping

[Williams]

Saw it at midnight, all 16 theaters were sold out, even for 130 AM showings. Sadly, I was disappointed by the movie. It was just ok, didn’t make the key scenes memorable.

[reflecting]

All of the adult fans in our home were all disappointed. They did not like the deviation from the books.

[mikrofon]

"Harry?? That's HENRY F. Potter to you!"

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[hiho hiho]

A win for the dark side.

[netmilsmom]

We had 28 theaters sold out for 12:01 and 3am.
Tickets were sold out through the weekend. We had tickets for 4pm Friday to join our friends who couldn’t come with us to the Midnight showing. The party was starting all over again Friday night.

We just resolved that there is a “movieverse” and a “novelverse” so we enjoyed the flick.

[netmilsmom]

>>A win for the dark side.<<

I really hope you’re not serious.

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We just resolved that there is a “movieverse” and a “novelverse” so we enjoyed the flick.

Probably the only way to watch any favorite book translated to the silver screen.

IMHO, the books should have been made into a miniseries each, not 2 hr movies.

[netmilsmom]

Every book after 4 should have been two three-hour-movies.

[NativeNewYorker]

Radcliffe is damn good on Broadway in “How To Succeed”. He’s a very talented young man.

[apillar]

I liked the first few Harry Potter movies, but after around number 4, they started to leave out more and more from the books. Much of it was due to fact that the last few books in the series were much longer than the first few. They really needed to split books 5 and 6 into two parts like they did 7, they were so trimmed down to fit into one movie the played more like a “Compilation of Important Scenes” from the book than a movie based on it. Number 5 was the worst, it jumped from scene to scene, and cut so much out I didn't even know what was going on half the time and I had read the book.

[apillar]

I liked the first few Harry Potter movies, but after around number 4, they started to leave out more and more from the books. Much of it was due to fact that the last few books in the series were much longer than the first few. They really needed to split books 5 and 6 into two parts like they did 7, they were so trimmed down to fit into one movie the played more like a “Compilation of Important Scenes” from the book than a movie based on it. Number 5 was the worst, it jumped from scene to scene, and cut so much out I didn't even know what was going on half the time and I had read the book.

[penelopesire]

I am rather proud of the fact that I have never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter movie. Just not that into the whole Potter phenom...lol. Now CS Lewis is a different thing...loved all of those books.

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Should you ever decide to read/listen to the books, please let me know what you think of them.

[Ransomed]

The good thing about them is it got a lot of kids reading for pleasure, so they might be more likely to pick up something else. The bad thing is that it might lower expectations, making more challenging books less likely to be attempted.

They aren’t as good as CS Lewis. Especially the sci-fi trilogy. They are fairly entertaining, though.

Freegards

[Dems_R_Losers]

My wonderful teenage children agreed to go see this with their parents. We figure it will likely be the last movie we see together as a family, and we all wanted this one to be it. At the end my son, who just graduated high school, looked at me and said, "my childhood is officially over." Choked me up! I still remember reading the first book to him at bedtime. In 2007 we were among the first in line to buy the last book, at the end of our family vacation. My son read the entire book on the plane home from Chicago

We all thought the movie was wonderful. My son is quite the movie critic, and wants to be a film composer someday, and he pronounced it "nearly perfect." As a parent, I thought it was fantastic - many of the best scenes involve very moving interactions of children and parents. It reminds you that this was not a world created only for children, and that every child needs his/her parents to guide them and protect them. And the scenes involving Snape moved me to tears, which I did not think was possible with this series. Very well directed and movingly acted. Excellent scoring too.

We will probably see it again next weekend.

[penelopesire]

Getting kids to read for pleasure is a ‘magic trick’ in and of itself...lol. When my son was a preteen, I bought him the SE swimsuit edition on the condition that he would read all of the articles (just to get him reading for fun). I was desperate...lol. It worked somewhat..he reads alot now, but not much sci fi or fantasy. He is more into biographies,history,politics and other such stuff. Still loves sports and the swimsuit edition though...lol.

[penelopesire]

Will do.