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It's finally ending, Harry
Lupercal:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 15 Jul 2011, 02:41 ---Going tomorrow. The tickets available today were not at times we liked, and waiting one more day won't kill us; selected an over-18s only showing. We watched part 1 a couple of days ago to get back up to speed, of course.
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You can go to over 18 showings? I'll have to give that a look, although I doubt Cineworld does that, at all.
I'm looking forward to it mainly because the Part 1 was probably the best film in the series. I remember walking out of 4,5 & 6 thinking "Well, I guess it was alright, but didn't really stay true the books" and I also have the added factor of not having read them for 5+ years so sort of forgot what happened. But I thought Part 1 was just really, really well done. It was more of an actual film, a story, with emotional consequences, than a re-run of a book. Will wait a week or so to see about going to the cinema.
StaedlerMars:
We saw all 8 movies yesterday.
I weeped like a babe during the last one. Full on tears streaming down my face.
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: IMMANotListening on 12 Jul 2011, 17:32 ---10 years; 8 movies; 7 books.
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The first book was released in 1997, so technically that's 14 years.
I'll be going to see it, but I'm not all that bothered that it's finished, nor am I relieved it's finally over. Neither the books nor the films were masterpieces, but they were good stories that gripped the audience and captured the mind of a generation. I suppose in one way I'm a little glad it's over, because hopefully the fandom will die down a little now and people will appreciate the series for what it was without obsessing over it. That's probably a distant hope.
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 15 Jul 2011, 04:23 ---I'm looking forward to it mainly because the Part 1 was probably the best film in the series. I remember walking out of 4,5 & 6 thinking "Well, I guess it was alright, but didn't really stay true the books" and I also have the added factor of not having read them for 5+ years so sort of forgot what happened. But I thought Part 1 was just really, really well done. It was more of an actual film, a story, with emotional consequences, than a re-run of a book. Will wait a week or so to see about going to the cinema.
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Bear in mind that the first book is tiny and a lot easier to make into a film. You try taking a book as thick as Order of the Phoenix and making it into a film that doesn't skim over most of the finer details. Even Rowling said: "It is simply impossible to incorporate every one of my storylines into a film that has to be kept under four hours long."
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Lupercal on 15 Jul 2011, 04:23 ---You can go to over 18 showings?
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That's at Vue (Oxford, but presumably elsewhere also); just one a day each for 2D and 3D. I'm going to 2D; while I'd be interested to see what the current 3D technology is like, I know it has a very high chance of making my wife feel unwell (she has inner ear problems), so this isn't the occasion.
Barmymoo:
I'm hoping to go in a couple of weeks, when it won't be so crowded and my brother will be here to visit. The first book came out when I was six, and one of my most vivid memories of being younger than about 11 was bounding along next to my mum all excited about this book which someone had brought into school - it was the second book, so I must have been about eight at the time. I was asking her if we could get it, not knowing that she had already bought it for me. I think I read it on holiday and then went back to read the first one.
It is very odd to have grown up with a series in this way. I feel like I'm exactly the right age - I was old enough at the beginning to enjoy the books, and I'm young enough now to still enjoy the films and books in a very similar way without all kinds of adult life getting in the way. It amazes me when my peers say that they have never read the books or seen the films; how on earth did they grow up at the same time as me, in the same country, and miss something that big?
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