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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 8:28 am
I can't believe a thread hasn't been started for this yet! Midnight people!!!! Anyone going at midnight? I won't be because I have to work in the morning and I can't stay up that late anyway, but I'm sure I'll see it this weekend!
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 8:32 am
dh & i will catch the saturday afternoon matinee since it's cheaper and less attended here. go figure.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 8:33 am
we're going at midnight!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 8:42 am
I can't wait to hear all about it. I prefer less crowds too, but one of our theaters has the "Ultrascreen" (it's a lot bigger than a normal screen) and I don't go to movies much so when I do, I want to see them on THAT screen and that one will most likely always be crowded. They charge a little more to see it on that screen but it's worth it.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 8:44 am
i usually wait it out a week or two because I can't stand crowds either. My brother (who is nearly 30) never completed reading a book in his life until I got him into Harry Potter. He always had a hard time reading. He bought tickets to the midnight showing for us-so cute.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 10:16 pm
We're going to be waiting a week or two so we can at least get in the door. None of us likes crowds at all.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 8:36 am
we're waiting a week also (hate the kiddie crowds). probably try for Zathura this weekend. 'squeek'
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 1:15 pm
Last night was great. I was so tired from my awful day. I didn't think I would be able to make it through the movie! It got out at 2:30am! Yikes! Loved it of course....its Harry Potter...How could I not. BUT....yes, there were actually buts with this one. The kids were of course only supposed to be 14 in this one...boy did they look very old for 14. And there just seemed to be something adrift with this one. I think for once I actually liked the book FAR more than the movie...that has never happened before. I have always been thrilled with the way the movie has turned out. That could just be because I have read the entire series at this point though..and before they were hand in hand anyway, its Harry Potter....I loved it
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 9:06 pm
Just got home, Loved the movie. For those who have read the book there are changes, but its a great ride. Alot of LOL moments and a few very sad ones. There were actually people crying in the theater near the end and cheers and applause at the very end. Scary scenes are involved. I would view it first before taking a younger child. But all in all... AWESOME
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:20 pm
(((sillycalimomma))) 
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, November 18, 2005 - 10:57 pm
DH and I went to matinee this afternoon. Great movie...I think the best yet. But it is scary for little ones. Some pretty intense scenes.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 6:49 am
i don't read the books so i had no expectations. there were very small children around me crying, saying they were scared and wanted to go home which was very distracting and not at all appreciated. it is not a movie for the under 10 age set at all.
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | loved the movie overall - it's harry potter. things i did not like: 1. they made filch into the comic relief, a bumbling baffoon; 2. you could obviously tell the giant woman was walking on stilts; 3. i have no idea why the minister running the tournament was killed (sorry, i'm not good with names); 4. after seeing the deatheaters mark on the male headmaster from the other school (don't know his name either) and the one on the dead minister's son, harry doesn't mention it to anyone; 5. i did't have any idea why ron and harry were fighting until the made up; 6. when lord vortamore(?) comes back to life he does't transform back into a human but a snake creature. is his transformation incomplete?; 7. the revealing the malfoy's dad was a deatheater was dramatized but i felt it to be anticlimatic. |
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 10:18 am
One piece of advice I read in a review is -- "If the child is too young to have read the book on his/her own, they're likely too young to attend this movie."
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 10:24 am
yeah, my daughter is only 8 but she read the book. She had no issues with this movie at all.
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Dlkuhn4
Member
07-14-2002
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 11:22 am
We seen the movie after school yesterday and it was good but the book was so much better. My 8 year old son wasn't scared at all but then again he loves Harry Potter. They watch the other ones all the time and we have even had to replce one because it was wore out. He said it wasn't scary at all just creepy sometimes. The one that scared him was the one with the spiders. We had to get up 8 times and leave, said he had to go to the bathroom but we knew the truth. I think just didn't want his older brother who is 10 to know. We never said anything about it and he watches it all the time now. Of course he's a few years old to. The movie was good but the teenagers behind us were the worse. They would'nd shut up!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 11:03 pm
Saw it today. It was ... good. But I didn't love love love it. Just a like.
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 12:34 am
OK. Been gone from the board for a while, and I can't promise I'll visit like I used to (busy busy busy)... but.......... I got to go to a private premiere on Thurs. Night (7 pm). I loved it! I am a huge HP freak. My Nephew has not read the books because he "doesn't want to taint the movies" LOL! He has the set (I know, I bought them for him), but he's waiting until after the last movie to read them all. (sure) I thought they did a good job on the book continuity. My nephew understood most things, but had questions about others. I can see how some things will take 2 watches for the "non book" viewers. I missed SPEW, but all in all one of the best HP book to movie adaptations we've seen. That actually shocked me considering how LONG the book is! No spoiling for now. we'll talk later! FaeryGdds
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 6:03 am
Went and seen it last night. The line was a mile long. We bought our tickets Friday for the Saturday show, we got there about 30 minutes early...everybody else seemed to have waited till Saturday to see the 7:30pm show as well. Theater was packed! I was so prepared to be blown away by this movie that I walked out feeling disappointed. There were to many holes in the plot and Belatrix Lestrange tortured the Longbottom's...not Barty Crouch, Jr. You never really got to feel the nastiness of Rita Skeeter. I liked the book much better...the movie, for me, left a lot to be desired.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 6:55 am
I saw the movie Friday afternoon. (I always see afternoon movies, because I cannot stand the crowds, either.) I loved it because it was Harry Potter, but kind of walked away with the feeling that it was more a movie to move the plot along than anything else. I haven't read the books and I did feel that having read them might have helped me to better understand some of the things going on. I've never been so worried for Harry as I was in the graveyard scenes. Just didn't know what was going to happen to him. I did very much enjoy the movie...I don't want it to sound like I didn't, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed the past 3. I will probably go see it again in a couple of weeks (in IMAX). CNdeariso, I can answer some of your questions, but am not sure if I should here...don't want to ruin anything for anyone who hasn't seen it. I'm not sure what the "spoiler" rules on movies are...and I don't know how to do that spoiler box thing.
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 7:25 am
For those interested, A&E is running a Harry Potter special Monday 11/21 at 8pm. From the A&E website: "Harry Potter is an international phenomenon. Since J.K. Rowling published her first book in 1990, tens of millions of copies have been sold and the movies have all been hugely successful. Now, the ever-growing Potter buzz is focused on the upcoming release of the fourth film, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. This one-hour special features clips from the new film and interviews with the stars. We'll also tell the story of the film's young characters -- Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, paying special attention to how they've grown and developed over the course of the anthology."
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 7:34 am
thanks, cdbga, but my DH has read all the books and answered my questions. i just wanted to show the things the movie troubled me about. to create a spoiler you need to do the following: \spoiler then open parenthesis {type your information and close the parenthesis.} i can't type it all on one line or it will do it. LOL
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 7:51 am
Thanks for the info CN! I finally "mastered" posting links (meaning I don't have to look up the instructions every single time I want to post one!), now I can try something else! I'm glad you had someone to answer the HP questions. I had watched the 15-min featurette that HBO is showing this month that answered a few for me. I'm getting ready to start reading the books now, too.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 9:35 am
Cnd, actually when you're just demonstating something like that you can get it on one line without leaving spaces. You need to use double \ slashes. \spoiler{spoiler info here} Hehe, I'm being techie all over the board today (no one laugh, it's exciting when I can give a techie answer, lol.) Darren's bugging me about going to see this but I'm not sure I'm ready to deal with the crowds and theater full of kids too young to be watching it. Schools tomorrow and since he's off we might try to catch it if we have time.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Monday, November 21, 2005 - 6:46 am
The joy of wonder was missing from this movie. Just lots of dangers that you knew HP had to successfully complete (of course). The kids mumbled the dialog. Are there really that many wizards & schools? Disappointing.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 9:27 am
Thanks, Vsmart, I thought I was losing my hearing. I could not make out a great deal of the dialogue. I read the book, so the movie paled in comparison. Though I did enjoy seeing how the kids are maturing.
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