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Tashakinz
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11-13-2002

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tashakinz a private message Print Post    
I got a peek at Buckbeak in an article this morning. I can't wait for Friday!!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I have to wait a few weeks. I am going to visit my sister the week after father's day and I promised my niece and nephew I would not go see it until I went with them. I have seen the other two with them so now it's become a kind of tradition.

Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 12:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Djgirl a private message Print Post    
Tonight on A&E at 9:00PM they're having a one hour special on POA - an Insider's Look if you will...

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Having just re-read PoA for the...fifth time, is it (yikes)?...I already know the story like an old song. But no matter, I can scarcely wait to see this movie! That won't be 'til next week though - want to avoid the opening weekend crowd crush.

Lyra
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10-07-2002

Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyra a private message Print Post    
I can't wait until Friday. Unforunately, I'll have to contend with the night crowds since I'm working (not working is good for catching the matinee on opening day and avoiding the major crowds - the way I was able to see the first two, sigh).

Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
Is it Friday Yet??? IS it Friday yet???

I have a standing date on Friday. My nephew and I have been planning for this day since the LAST Harry Potter movie came out. We saw it together on day 2 (Sat) and he said to me, "Next one we have to go opening day. I was glad they pushed it back to a "summer opening" so I wouldn't have to tread on that, "you've got school" issue!

Anyway... about 2 months ago he asked me if I remembered what we said. I told him that I did and would see what I could do. 6 weeks ago I put in for a vacation day so I could take him. And tomorrow we are seeing the movie at 10:00 am and then going for lunch afterwards. I am SO excited!

Is it Friday??? Is it Friday???

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
For the first two movies, I went to see both of them on the very first day they were released -- the second while on vacation in New Zealand!

But alas -- my partners' older cousins are coming today from England to stay with us through the weekend, and we have a family dinner scheduled for tomorrow with them. So I will have to break tradition and see the movie next week sometime... sigh...

I just re-read PoA as well...

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
I deliberately haven't read any PoA reviews yet but just wanted to mention that for those planning to see the movie this weekend, you may want to stay for the (very long) end credits. Word is that while there's no extra scene, there are still some fun things to watch while the names scroll.

Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 11:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hippyt a private message Print Post    
My son is bugging the heck outta me to take him tomorrow. Not sure if it's gonna be the same without Richard Harris.

Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Djgirl a private message Print Post    
It is going to be different without Richard Harris, but from the info I saw last night on A&E, Dumbledore is now more as I had imagined him from just reading the books...

Can I also say how tiny the three kids were for Sorceror's Stone? My goodness!! :-)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL DJ, I just noticed that! The kids spent the weekend watching the first two movies (first time Dakota has set through either one of them) and then I saw an ad for POA and couldn't believe how much they've grown.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I'm just kind of flying through to say I can't wait for POA! I saw the special last night and it looks phenomenal! And yeah, I was struck by how much the kids have grown also! I worked with middle school kids for 6 years, though, and growth can happen SO quickly at that age. Often they walk out the doors at the end of the school year looking like completely different people than they did when they walked in 9 months earlier!

I thought the new director was kind of a hottie with that crazy hair and passionate demeanor! I'm a sucker for men who look like they would be right at home flinging paint on a canvas <coughViggocough> or something equally creative.

This is going to be so goooood! I have a date for opening night for the late showing at a theater up the road from where I live! It's going to be a good weekend all around.

Faerygdds
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08-29-2000

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Faerygdds a private message Print Post    
I get to see it twice tomorrow... once with my nephew and once at the IMAX with my hubby...

And even knowing that... I am tempted to sneak out for the 12:01am showing! lol

Rupertbear
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09-19-2003

Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rupertbear a private message Print Post    
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_a
rticle_id=305195&in_page_id=1773

Potter breaks box office records
08:35am 3rd June 2004

Harry Potter has worked his magic on cinema sales by smashing box office
records.
The Prisoner of Azkaban is the first film to take more than £5 million on a
single day in the UK.

The film, the third in the boy wizard series, took a staggering £5.03
million, according to the Screen International website.

The movie, which sees Harry as a teenager enter his junior year at Hogwarts,
opened in 535 locations in the UK on bank holiday Monday.

Teenage angst runs through the plot as convicted murderer Sirius Black (Gary
Oldman) escapes the wizards' prison and seems to be coming after Harry.

The last Potter film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, made £2.18m
on its first day of release, eventually grossing £55 million at the UK box
office.

The UK release of The Prisoner of Azkaban was brought forward to coincide
with a bank holiday and the first day of the school half-term holidays.

Odeon cinemas, which accounts for one in four cinema tickets sold in the UK,
said the film generated £1.2 million at its box office on the first day of
release.

The figure is more than twice that for the first day of release of the first
Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and nearly three
times as much as the second instalment.

Odeon cinemas said it had record-breaking ticket sales of nearly £4 million
for the bank holiday weekend, the most successful for this millennium,
thanks to Potter.

Odeon Marketing Manager Richard Storton said: "We're glad to see Potter
mania is still very much alive."



Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Friday, June 04, 2004 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Djgirl a private message Print Post    
WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH I don't get to see this for a couple of weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, June 04, 2004 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Faerygdds: Oh that's so cool, I didn't even know PoA was showing on IMAX screens! Lucky you!

Djgirl: That's too bad you have to wait! I'm also anxious to see how Michael Gambon portrays Dumbledore. No disrespect intended to Richard Harris but he never quite fit my image of the character. I think that was more due to his poor health at the time than anything though. But even so I bet it will take awhile to get used to someone else playing his role.


Must admit my resolve to wait 'til next week to see this movie is weakening. I'm sure I could talk the person I'm going with into seeing it this weekend but am concerned that the theater will be so crowded and noisy it'll distract me from the film. Does this mean I'm officially old now, lol?

Oh, and I really liked the new director too! I've seen a couple of his movies and loved both of them.

****Not spoilers but if you haven't read the book yet you may want to skip this part****



I'm most looking forward to: the stormy Quidditch match; when the Dementors board the Hogwarts Express; the confrontation in the Shrieking Shack; Harry casting the Patronus Charm at the lake; Buckbeak; Hogsmeade; the Marauders Map; and, of course, Lupin & Sirius!!

Oh gosh, why don't I just say I'm looking forward to all of it :-).



Djgirl
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07-17-2002

Friday, June 04, 2004 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Djgirl a private message Print Post    
LOL Calamity - I feel the exact same way! Did you get to see the A&E special the other night? Michael Gambon seems to be portraying Dumbledore a little more "hippiesh", more of an "off his rocker" kind of wizard, which is more in line with how I imagined Dumbledore. I did love Richard Harris, and it was odd to see a different Dumbledore, but it's not going to take long to get used to him, I don't think anyway!!!

Enjoy the movie everyone! I'll be avoiding this thread until I see it. :-)

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Friday, June 04, 2004 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
OK - just came back from seeing POA at the IMAX - I wasnt sure if it was worth the extra $3 to do the IMAX, last time they showed a Harry Potter on the IMAX, they just make the movie bigger - well I saw the director interviewed after he saw his movie IMAXed, and HE reccommended it - so I went for it...

AWESOME!! WOW!!!

I forgot how Book 3 ended, and after rereading 5 over again, DS's and I kept trying to compare the foreshadowing, so in that respect, I hope after you watch it you too can discuss it with others, it leaves you wanting so much more, then to realize only 2 more books... I am ready to spend hours at the computer looking thru the fan sites, JK Rowlings site, and of course the Lexicon site, there is just so much imagination here...

You couldnt help but fall in love with the Hippgriff Buckbeak, the boys had a different image of the Dementors, but I thought the did a wonderful job, and I'll have to reread the book like DS because he thought the petronis' were shaped better in the book than the movie...

The night bus was hysterical... but again, you felt like they left stuff out of the movie, and yet kept very true to the book... it was 1hour and 21 minute movie... and you wanted more!! :-)

Harry seemed to be portrayed more in the dark, angry way in this movie, but I was fine with it because of reading book 5....

I dont think I've ever seen a movie on the day of release it before... maybe one other time, dh took the boys day of release for Lord of the Rings, it was my turn here!!}}

Weinermr
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08-18-2001

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Weinermr a private message Print Post    
I can't wait to see this one. I hope I get to go soon.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed the movie too. There were a few little kids in the movie (4yr olds that found it scary and parents had to take them out).

Crystalfire
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07-09-2001

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Crystalfire a private message Print Post    
I went to the first showing in my area. There were a few kids there who had skipped school to go see it. A few of them dressed up.

I enjoyed it. I wish there was some way to have more of the story in there, but it is difficult to translate a large book into a movie, even if you allow more than 2 hours for it. Maybe on the DVD...

"You tell those spiders Ron"

Allietex
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08-16-2002

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 5:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Allietex a private message Print Post    
http://www.hollywood.com/sites/harrypotter/toc/id/1096676


great site.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
I tried going to that link allie, and it locked my dh's computer....

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I loved the movie! I agree, Crystalfire, it's too bad so much always has to be left out of the story, but Cuaron still did a good job. The dementors were spooky, the Boggart lesson by Lupin was one of my favorite scenes, the Marauder's Map was so cool (wouldn't you love to have one?!) and the while time turner thing was phenomenally done!

For me, the only drawback, which will NOT be a drawback when I can see the film in caption or on DVD, is that there was more dialogue between the characters than in the first two films and I missed a lot of that because of my hearing. I still knew what was going on as far as where they were in the story, but I just didn't know exactly what was being said. My attention wandered a couple of times during the dialogue moments, and I can't wait to see it in caption where I will be riveted from start to finish!

Harry is growing into a handsome young man, wow! Hermione is darling. Ron still makes the most priceless faces! The character that looked the most different to me was Neville. Was that even the same actor? The casting is so superb. I wasn't so sure about Oldman as Black when I first heard he was cast, but he was compelling. Emma Thompson was a perfect Trelawney and Thewlis was a good Lupin!

I liked Gambon's hippy Dumbledore; it was quite different from Harris's portrayal and that was a bit disconcerting at first, but if I am honest, Gambon portrayed him more the way I picture him in the books.

I'm happy! I hope it comes to my city in open caption. LOTR 3 never did and that made me so sad, so I hope POA makes it here.


Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Saturday, June 05, 2004 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I just checked. The same actor did play Neville as in the first two films. Boy, he's changed. He still has those teeth and the same perpetual "What's going on?" look, but that is so easily faked, I wasn't sure it was him. The whole shape of his face seemed longer to me and he seemed to have aged even more than the rest of them. I just kept looking at him trying to see the round-faced kid from the first two films in his face and it wasn't matching quite right to me! I guess that's what happens to kids at that age!