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I guess all the boycotting worked...
1 posted on 07/17/2011 9:06:36 AM PDT by null and void
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2 posted on 07/17/2011 9:07:11 AM PDT by null and void (Day 908. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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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.


3 posted on 07/17/2011 9:09:43 AM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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"Harry?? That's HENRY F. Potter to you!"
5 posted on 07/17/2011 9:23:56 AM PDT by mikrofon (IAWL 1946)
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A win for the dark side.


7 posted on 07/17/2011 9:28:54 AM PDT by hiho hiho
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Radcliffe is damn good on Broadway in “How To Succeed”. He’s a very talented young man.


12 posted on 07/17/2011 10:11:12 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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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.
13 posted on 07/17/2011 10:32:37 AM PDT by apillar
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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.
14 posted on 07/17/2011 10:32:54 AM PDT by apillar
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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.


15 posted on 07/17/2011 10:42:03 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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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.

18 posted on 07/17/2011 11:06:31 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (U.S. Out of My Doctor's Office!!)
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