HP7, Part 1

[seawolf17]

Just bought our tickets for Saturday night. Very excited. Was tempted to just make all the options *****, but I'll be good.

[Ceetar]

I'm going 9:30 in IMAX Saturday morning. going to go buy the tix tonight after work.

I assume it'll suck, like all the others. but maybe not.

[seawolf17]

They told me most of the Friday night showings -- and both of the midnights tonight -- were already sold out. Glad I ran down there today. They already have big signs and arrows and barriers up to control the crowd tonight.

[Ceetar]

seawolf17 wrote: They told me most of the Friday night showings -- and both of the midnights tonight -- were already sold out. Glad I ran down there today. They already have big signs and arrows and barriers up to control the crowd tonight.

That doesn't surprise me. Glad i'm going in the morning, usually weeds out some of the crazies.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm waiting to read these books with the 'Pail before I see any more HP films. I think I saw the first.

How old should a kid be before I start? He's 4 and a half.

[seawolf17]

MiniWolf is the same age, and I think it's still over his head. The books are way too dense for him right now. My wife started reading HP1 with him -- a few pages a night -- but we fell off and moved onto something else. He'll get there eventually.

[Ceetar]

I think the books go quickly from really young adult, to much older young adult as they move along. Books 5 and 6 for example, with all the kissing and crushing and girls and snogging and whatever.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm waiting to read these books with the 'Pail before I see any more HP films. I think I saw the first. How old should a kid be before I start? He's 4 and a half.

My son started reading them when he was six or seven, I think. I know he was eight when he was reading the fifth book because I remember him getting carsick and puking all over his copy when we were in Italy.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm waiting to read these books with the 'Pail before I see any more HP films. I think I saw the first. How old should a kid be before I start? He's 4 and a half. My son started reading them when he was six or seven, I think. I know he was eight when he was reading the fifth book because I remember him getting carsick and puking all over his copy when we were in Italy.

Not something you'd likely forget

[dgwphotography]

My oldest saw HP at last night's midnight show, and said it was the best movie of the series.

[Ceetar]

dgwphotography wrote: My oldest saw HP at last night's midnight show, and said it was the best movie of the series.

I bought my tickets yesterday after work. People waiting online already (despite there being a midnight showing in every single theatre, therefore not sold out in the least bit. There was also a 3:30am showing and a 6am showing. yikes) lots of Hermoines in short skirts and wizarding robes. among other crazies.

I hope it's better than the others. I always felt like they were basically clip shows masquerading as movies.

[metirish]

What's the Part 1 about?

I like others am waiting for the baba to get older so we can read it together....

[Benjamin Grimm]

In order to make even more money, they split the seventh book into two movies, so that there would be eight Harry movies instead of seven.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: In order to make even more money, they split the seventh book into two movies, so that there would be eight Harry movies instead of seven.

Of course

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Passed on the books the first time around; may pick them up once YP hits elementary school.

Has anyone else gone the movies-then-books route with the HPs?

[Benjamin Grimm]

My kids are now old enough to go to the movies by themselves! We gave them money, dropped them off, and picked them up when it was over! That means that neither my wife nor I were forced to sit through a two-and-a-half-hour movie that neither of us cared to see!

WOOOOOOO!!!!

[Ceetar]

I actually enjoyed this one, surprisingly. I thought most of the others were pretty much clip-show format, where they basically animate the scenes everyone wants to see, but did a poor job with continuity and plot. But maybe this book just has more of that, there's a lot less non-plot stuff in the book for sure.

I saw it in IMAX at 9:30 AM on a Saturday. cheaper, and less squeeling teenagers.

[TransMonk]

My special lady friend saw this last night with one of her girlfriends. They went to one of the Sundance theaters where you can drink wine while you watch the movie. When she got home she said she LOVED it.

Harry Potter doesn't do it for me, but I'm glad she had fun.

[Valadius]

Eh, due to the fact that they split the book in two, it doesn't have any kind of satisfying ending. I'm glad they split it, because it would be impossible to cram all the important plot points into two and a half hours, but they could have chosen a better spot to make the split.

[Ceetar]

Valadius wrote: Eh, due to the fact that they split the book in two, it doesn't have any kind of satisfying ending. I'm glad they split it, because it would be impossible to cram all the important plot points into two and a half hours, but they could have chosen a better spot to make the split.

I actually thought it was a fairly decent place to make the split. But I haven't read the book in a while either, so maybe I'm forgetting how much still has to be done. It's certainly a stereotypical place to split a movie.

[seawolf17]

I thought they could have cut it ten minutes sooner, actually, but I guess they needed to introduce what the Deathly Hallows are.