Thread: Harry Potter 5

The girly and I went to the 12:20 showing last night.

Two different approaches. I didn't read the book, she did.

I thought the movie was awesome. It was clear that they had a lot of material in the book to deal wit and crammed it in as best as possible.

The girls response was that she thought it was great but once again the book was better.

I am glad that I did not read it before going. I didn't have any expectations and found nyself loving it.

Note: They show this in imax 3d. If this is in your area, go to that show. We went to the one closest and might go again just so we can get the whole package.

took my daughter and some friends to the midnight show last night, not getting much done at work today-I thought they tried to cram too much stuff into it, so the movie was a little scattered-I guess if you've read the books you knew what was going on-definitely different than the rest of the series

Originally Posted by half-fast

I thought they tried to cram too much stuff into it,

I agree, but have you seen the size of the material they had to work with? I would say that the movie was very good but the adaptation of the book could have been a bit better.

I didn't have a problem with the jumping around, it was something to be done. I think this is a movie that gets progressivly better after you watch it a few times.

In talking over the book to the movie last night, I could see and rationalize to myself the changes that they made from the book to the movie. There was just alot to do. Thought the whole last 30 minutes was money though.

I enjoyed it-I'm going to have to see it again at a more reasonable hour

Originally Posted by Odin

There was just alot to do. Thought the whole last 30 minutes was money though.

That's kind a the way the book is, too. Lots and lots of set up and then the last few chapters whiz by.

So, a few people here unafraid to admit they're Harry Potter fans then?

Originally Posted by Schmear

So, a few people here unafraid to admit they're Harry Potter fans then?

!!!!!!!!!

I liked the Mime better without all the doodling.

Unabashed fan, but primarily of the books, not the movies. The only movie that I thought stood well on its own was Azkaban.

Went to see Transformers at Lloyd Center last night and witnessed the queue of wizards waiting to see the midnight premiere.

Yes, they were wearing wizard robes.

Originally Posted by alpinedad

I liked the Mime better without all the doodling.

*********

Originally Posted by bio-smear

Went as a wizard to see the midnight premiere.

Yes, wearing wizard robes.

Fixed it for you.

Never had a problem admitting to liking certain types of fantasy.

Seems like the series is getting darker though and that I like.

2 more movies left to go.

The books are great. Anyone who dismisses them as kids stuff is missing out. Only a couple weeks until the last one.

MY fiance did an event for her company to see the movie @ 7pm yesterday.
She has read all the books and seen all the movies and was really diappointed.
i guess they left a lot out.
&
FYI
much better books
I couldnt get thru the first Potter, and i love sci fi fantasy

EARTHSEA "TRILOGY"
by
URSULA K. LE GUIN
A Wizard of Earthsea
(1968)

The Tombs of Atuan
(1970)
The Farthest Shore
(1972)

The Earthsea books are classics of high fantasy. Originally marketed for teenagers, these books gained much wider appeal. Set on an archipelago on an ocean world, they involve the Wizard Ged, also called Sparrowhawk, at different points in his life.

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ged is a peasant boy from Gont with a gift of magic. He goes to the School of Wizards on Roke Island. Attempting to prove his superiority with magic he recklessly brings forth a shadow being from the realm of the dead that he must confront.

The Tombs of Atuan
Ged is encountered years later in an dark, underground labyrinth by the young High Priestess Arha, also called Tenar. She was taken from her family as a girl to become a priestess to the Nameless Ones. Ged is a powerful wizard seeking the missing half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe, on which is engraved the broken Rune of Peace. She makes him her prisoner, but sees that she is bound by meaningless ritual.

The Farthest Shore
Ged is the older experienced Archmage of Roke investigating with young prince Arren of Enlad a mysterious disappearing of magic. Mages can no longer do spells. They adventure far to the south, and are led to the dragons' islands in the west. Ged closes the wound in the world, but it takes all his power to do so.

Magic on Earthsea uses the power of true names. There is a balance between light and dark, male and female, and life and death.

As long as we're continuing the Great Tradition of Divergence, while Harry Potter is good fun and LeGuin excellent, who here has taken the time to read the really stupendous Cabell?
Figures Of Earth
The Silver Stallion
Jurgen
The High Place
The Cream of the Jest
Domnei
Chivalry
Something About Eve
The Rivet In Grandfather's Neck

among others.

I've droned on about him before. Truely one of America's great writers, now all but forgotten.

(edit, from Wiki)
Cabell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. When Twain died he was reading Cabell's Chivalry. And although now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein was greatly inspired by his boldness, and originally described his famous book Stranger in a Strange Land as "a Cabellesque satire", and a later work, Job, A Comedy of Justice (with the title derived from Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice), features, like Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei.

Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Jack Vance's Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cugel the Clever in those books bears a strong resemblance, not least in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen.

Cabell was also a major influence on Neil Gaiman,[1] acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and American Gods. This thematic and stylistic influence is highly evident in the multi-layered pantheons of Gaiman's most famous work,The Sandman, which have many parallels in Cabell's work, particularly Jurgen.

There are also references to Cabell himself in the works of many other fantasy and science fiction authors. For example, the Leshy Circuit stories by Larry Niven feature planets and places whose names are taken from Cabell, and his protagonist in A World Out of Time is named Jerome Branch Corbell. H. Beam Piper also used names from Cabell for some of his invented planets.

From 1969 through 1972, the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series returned six of Cabell's novels to print, and elevated his profile in the fantasy genre. Today, many more of his works are available from Wildside Press.

I aim to be the last person on the planet to have never seen the movies or read any of the books.

By my calculations it should happen sometime in the next week or so.

Originally Posted by Odin

Fixed it for you.

Never had a problem admitting to liking certain types of fantasy.

Seems like the series is getting darker though and that I like.

2 more movies left to go.

I may wear a wizard robe, but merely for sport. It has nothing to do with Harry Potter and everything to do with highly elastic vulva.

I truly enjoy hard sci fi like Niven, Asimov, and my favorite of late...Dan Simmons. I've always had a big boner for Star Wars too. I tried to read a Harry Potter book and failed...i just couldn't hack the writing.

That said, I do love Harry Potter movies, and will watch this one as soon as I catch up on the last 2.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

I guess I don't understand people who are disappointed because they left things out. The book is close to 800 pages long. Did they want a 4 hr movie, with scenery pieces and such?

They could have done a better job condensing yes, but I think they did an admirable job with what ended up onscreen.

Sometimes you just have to watch a movie as a movie and let go of the book for a sec.

With the lord of the rings trilogy, lots of things were left out, but the movies as a whole were utterly fantastic (to those that like those sorts of things)

Anyhoo.... If I had to pick one book to remake it would be Elric of Melnibone, by Michael Moorcock. That would be fucking faboo.....

Of course somehow it would get screwed up.

I'm a fan of the books and the movies. Not big enough to whip out the wizard robe and hat though. I'll buy the book when it comes out and hope to see the movie on the big screen.

Originally Posted by alpinedad

I liked the Mime better without all the doodling.

I laughed. I think the mime is stepping it up a notch.

The movie was good. It's been a while since I read the book, so some of the plot details were fresh. They've come a long way from the first movies in terms of quality.

Umbridge was played to perfection.

They're getting darker because the kids are getting older. I love the books, but find the movies a bit less rich, albeit very entertaining.

No Buster, I never even heard of Cabell. As far as "classic" Sci Fi/Fantasy I like Burroughs a lot. I do tend to read more modern "epic" fantasy, however.

Two ongoing series that are worth reading, IMHO:

Steven Erikson's "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series - not linear like Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" or other series, but all in a common setting and theme. Unbelievable character development, very very rich and despite being very long books that all stand alone (thus the length) very engrossing. The best out there currently, IMHO. Start out with "Gardens of the Moon."

George RR Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series, which is nearly as breathtaking as the above. Buy "A Game of Thrones" and get sucked in...

I would pay money for a Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone movie.

Is it too much to hope that it all ends with Harry and Ron turning against each other after Harry develops a severe paranoia and distrust concerning Hermione, and they have a duel to the death where neither dies, but Ron is forced to relieve Harry of his legs and arms, but Harry carries on with advanced technology prosthetics and in servitude of Valdamort?

Originally Posted by bio-smear

Is it too much to hope that it all ends with Harry and Ron turning against each other after Harry develops a severe paranoia and distrust concerning Hermione, and they have a duel to the death where neither dies, but Ron is forced to relieve Harry of his legs and arms, but Harry carries on with advanced technology prosthetics and in servitude of Valdamort?

Come to the Darkside, Luke...err Harry...D'oh!

/////////