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Which of you is waiting anxiously for the new Harry Potter film? I liked the first two and will go see this one (wife will kill me if I don't take her), but man, not for a week at least, lineups are going to be crazy tomorrow and all weekend
PostPosted:Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:48 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Which of you is waiting anxiously for the new Harry Potter film? I liked the first two and will go see this one (wife will kill me if I don't take her), but man, not for a week at least, lineups are going to be crazy tomorrow and all weekend</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:04 am
by Flip
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>I'll go see it, it is a new director for this one and it is supposed to be much darker, which is good since the books got much more serious about this time.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:06 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>My wife and her sister saw the 12:01 show last night. She's read the books and she says this movie is the best one so far but the first will always remain more "magical".</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:27 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, hells yeah. I read all of them in three weeks time last summer. Gary Oldman as Sirius Black? Sign me up.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:44 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Once my condo is finished with the renovations, I'm gonna have a nice stack of Harry Potters under the reading lamp. I heard it's a far easier read than Tolkiens.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:03 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They're like the literary equivalent of a Long Island iced tea. You can effortlessly have three, by which time you're hopelessly tanked.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:18 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Exactly. Oldman is maybe the best actor around. He's just another great addition to an already great cast (I'm a big fan of Harris - rest his soul - and Rickman)</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:19 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, one writer was a single mom the other was a linguist.....not hard to tell which stories are a little easier to read</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:20 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>New director but still Columbus as producer, so it's not going to lose what was built in the first two films (unlike Burton, he was actually involved in the series after he was done)</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:35 pm
by Agent 57
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I've had tickets for tonight's 7 o'clock showing since Tuesday. Started rereading Sorcereror's Stone this past weekend and I was a good portion through Goblet of Fire by this morning. =)</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:28 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I never saw the first two, or read either of the books.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:00 pm
by Flip
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>yup yup, Potter is mind candy while Tolkien took some effort with all the floury speech.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:48 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>That's because they're written for children. Tolkien wrote for many different audiences; while the Hobbit was written for children, the Lord of the Rings was written for an older audience, and most of his other work for an intellectual audience.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:06 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Harry Potter is an adult story, it has children as the main characters though. The author said this many times, and she's caught some flak for how dark the story had gotten around books 4&5.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:14 pm
by Derithian
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Amazingly enough, I actually agree with you. I used to bne adament on how they were kiddie books but the more recent ones have been far more sophisticated and dark</div>
Just because it is dark doesn't necessarilly mean it was not written for children. Most fantasy books are written for children and some are incredibly dark. An example is the Forgotten Realms series which stars a Dark Elf who lives in an underworld which
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:24 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>That doesn't mean that adults can't enjoy them either, I still enjoy reading the Hobbit from time to time, which is most certainly a book written for children, but also recommended reading for before reading Lord of the Rings which is the most popular non-religious text in the history of humankind.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:50 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That would be the Dark Elf series. Forgotten Realms was a bunch of different series.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:52 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Just because you're a linguist doesn't mean you know how to write in normal terms.</div>
PostPosted:Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:54 pm
by M'k'n'zy
<div style='font: 9pt "copperplate gothic light"; text-align: left; '>I have tickets for 4:30 on Saturday</div>
PostPosted:Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:08 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Which is exactly why it's a harder read</div>
PostPosted:Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:09 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's one thing I utterly refuse to do: buy tickets ahead of time for a movie. Either I get in or I don't, it's not like I won't have a chance to see it in a week or so</div>
PostPosted:Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:22 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Uh, why? It's nice to know you have tickets before you leave. Ever made reservations at a restraunt?</div>
PostPosted:Sat Jun 05, 2004 6:21 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It's just something I can do anytime. And I don't wait in line for an hour at a restaurant just so I can get decent seats to eat. Have you ever showed up at a restaurant just before you reservation and hurt your neck eating?</div>
PostPosted:Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:48 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think you're making a big deal out of nothing. You decide you want to go to the movies. You buy the tickets ahead of time to make sure you can. No principles sacrificed.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:23 am
by Derithian
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Yeah seats are definitely delicious. My favorite kind are Leather dipped in a nice glaze of ass sweat. yum yum. that's good seat eatin</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:09 pm
by Lox
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I for one hate getting to the theater, ready to see a certain movie, only to find out it's sold out and I have to either drive home or see something else I wasn't in the mood for. Therefore, I buy early when possible.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:07 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Uh...no. Read the Hobbit. It's for a younger audience. Read Seeker's reply. A linguist can write to any audience they want.</div>