Twiggyish | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 07:19 am   Harry fans UNITE! I bought the first book for my daughter and decided to read it first. From page one, I was transported to another world. It was pure fantasy and fun! My daughter and husband are also fans now. My husband enjoys the audio books in the car. He would never admit it to his coworkers, though. We cannot wait for the movie! |
Spygirl | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 08:07 am   I guess I'm gonna have to break down and find these books...I can't stand being left out of the hype  |
Moondance | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 08:09 am   My Mom teaches 2nd grade and LOVES these books and cannot wait to see the movie... her class loves the books too! |
Highlander | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 08:25 am   Some great pics from the movie: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/harrypotter/gallery_portrait.shtml |
Highlander | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 08:28 am   More pics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/harrypotter/gallery_landscape_1.shtml |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:08 am   Thanks Highlander. The pictures and trailer look very true to the book. In any case, it will be an enjoyable movie. I'm thinking of going on Friday, as my daughter has a half day of school. It will probably be a zoo there! |
Highlander | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:13 am   I ordered my tickets online so I have my tickets for the 4:20 show on Friday. I am ready!!! |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:15 am   You know that is a heck of a good idea! |
Highlander | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:22 am   Well Twig, I just didnt relish the idea of dealing with a ten year old who has been waiting a year for this movie to find it sold out. I heard online sales are soaring for this movie. |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:26 am   Good point. I would hate to go there and fight the traffic, etc.. only to find them sold out. My daughter would be very disappointed! |
Abbynormal | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 03:20 pm   I have read all the books to my 9 yr old. After I would stop reading to him and he went to sleep I would keep on reading! They are fantastic. We can not wait for the movie. I heard on the Today show this morning that the movie is 2 and half hours and most kids said it was not long enough! I'm buying my tickets online also, it will be a madhouse, I'm sure. |
Wargod | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 03:32 pm   I'll admit it.....I'm a Potter fan too! Bought the first book for my then 4 year old son last year, and read it first to see if he would enjoy it. I was pretty much hooked. Any book that gets 10 year old kids lined up outside bookstores in the computer/tv/video game age deserves to be called great! And by the way, I am now half way through the book with my son. After I read it, every adult in my family had to read it before I could read it to him, lol. I am really looking forward to seeing the movie, but am going to wait a week or so in the hope that the crowds will not be so bad! |
Egbok | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:47 pm   Okay, I've been looking for a good book to read. Which Harry Potter title do I start with first? Thanks in advance for your help. |
Maire | Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 11:13 pm   I believe it's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I'm so excited to see the movie, I think I'll see it 2 or 3 times. |
Honey51 | Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 05:10 am   There is a group from work going tomorrow at 9:00 am. Our theater started selling tickets last Wed. So we all went that afternoon and bought them. We're hoping that most kids will be in school that early although a lot of parents are allowing their kids to checkout early. I'm so excited. If you liked reading the book, try checking it out on audiotape at your local library. (I work at the public library in Baton Rouge, LA) Listening to it is better than reading it. The narrator is British, so you get the full effect of the accents. I read them before we received the tapes and I enjoyed them even better on tape. |
Twiggyish | Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 06:39 am   Honey51, I so agree about the audio. Jim Dale makes each person seem real. He completely changes his voice for each character. We have the first book on audio, but we have checked out the others. The last book is 12 tapes long and takes a while, but it "spellbinding". |
Honey51 | Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 09:02 am   Working at the library let's me put the books on "hold" once we order so I have an advantage. I hope they don't change "actors". They changed for Stephanie Plum and I really like the first person better. |
Highlander | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 05:53 pm   Run don't walk to this movie, you will love it. The quiddich scene is great. The characters are true to the movie. I am ready to see it again. |
Misslibra | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 06:14 pm   So the movie is as good as I have been hearing. It's good to hear from someone other then a movie critic. I think I just might have to go check it out. |
Highlander | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 06:24 pm   It is great. My son felt it was a gyp because it was so short, when I told him it was 2 1/2 hours he couldnt believe it. He said it seemed like 40 minutes. We went to the four o'clock show and they were sold out through tomorrow. So buy your tickets online. All the characters were great, and it was beautifully photographed. As i said the quiddich scene was great, really fast paced. So many other scenes were so true to the book and exactly as you would imagine it. I cant wait for the second book to come out on film. |
Twiggyish | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 07:11 pm   We have our tickets for tomorrow (Sat.). I bought for the whole family. It was so funny. When I got to the movies, there were 8 school buses out front. I told my daughter there had to be several hundred children there today. I bought our advanced tickets and the clerk told us there were 400 children in two theaters. Our school system featured Harry Potter books as an incentive to get the kids to read. As a treat, they got a trip to the movie. Pretty cool! But, we were glad to choose the next day to go..LOL |
Moondance | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 07:13 pm   Mom called tonight just to tell me how excited she is to see HP... she has tickets for tomorrow morning! |
Mahrajah | Friday, November 16, 2001 - 09:39 pm   my sis and cousins are at the theater right now watchin it.. everyone was so excited.. i was like calm down but noooo.. lol.. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 06:02 pm   Oh it was good. There was a full theater with a large amount of kids. It was quiet throughout the movie, except in the gross (goblin snot) places. Then, we would hear all these ewwwwww's..LOL And in some places when the kids would applaud. It is a fun adventure movie. I give it 5 stars! |
Oregonfire | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 10:17 pm   It was okay. (BOOOO to the Muggle!) |
Soeur | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 03:01 am   I really liked the bathroom scene with the troll and the snot was an excellent detail. The casting was really apt and I liked the way they did Harry's scar. It would have been nice to have more scenes with the muggles. That one in the zoo was terrific. It would be great to have a movie all about muggles/wizard interaction. (Bewitched was one of my fave shows when I was a kid) While I did doze off at one point and my rump was pretty sore by the end, we all enjoyed it. Very likeable movie and sure to be a round as a classic for a long time. |
Maire | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 12:17 pm   I'm going to see the movie today at 3:45pm Pacific time. Yippeeeee! <I feel like such a kid when it comes to Harry Potter.> |
Juju2bigdog | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 02:48 pm   We saw the movie in West Palm Beach, FL on Sunday. I thought it was great. I have heard people say they are almost afraid to go see the movie because they already know what all the characters look like, and they don't want their perception altered. Well, I thought everybody in the movie looked exactly like the book, except for Hermione Granger, who was way too cute and vampish looking. And Dudley Dursley was just a trifle on the thin side, and the Weasley twins were taller than I thought they were, but otherwise, it was just perfect. Allen Rickman was a marvelous Serverus Snape. |
Snee | Tuesday, November 20, 2001 - 04:55 pm   i haven't seen the movie yet, but in the trailers hermione looks too cute, i think. actually, what really bugged me was listening to the actress who plays hermione say that she 'can't stand' her character! i hope that was just nerves talking. |