Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows *SPOILERS THREAD*

[Mako Mark]

I'm with Dr Bill on this one, I just dont get what all the fuss is about. Not that I have read any of them, I guess I am just not into tha fantasy stuff. I did see LOTR part one and that was three and a half hours I wont ever get back. Even my five year old isnt interested.

 

[ClayJar]

I did see LOTR part one and that was three and a half hours I wont ever get back.

Well, the theatrical version was 2:58. It was only the (much better) extended version that added in a lot of the character pieces and turned itself in at 3:28.

I was there for Trilogy Tuesday, when we got to see the extended Fellowship (3:28) followed by the extended Two Towers (3:43) followed by Return of the King starting an hour before the release date (3:21, as it was the theatrical version, of course). We were there for over 13 hours.

(I wonder... does anyone want to do a mega-marathon the day before HP7: The Movie comes out? )

 

[rhadamantus]

oh no, il take the LOTR movie trilogy over the books this time. (its always the other way around). there were like two chapters allotted for those trees to finish their meeting on whether or not they will join the war!!!

 

[Wayward Son]

well, if you haven't read any of it, then you wouldn't know what it's all about. just the way it works.

and it's nothing like LOTR.

 

[Wayward Son]

it's a really funny thing about people, yanno:

"Well, I haven't read it & don't know anything about it, but I just don't get it"

What I don't get is why people who admit utter ignorance about something then go on to complain that they don't get what other people who do know about it get out of it. That just puzzles the living **** right outa me.

 

[almitywife]

LOVED LOTR... have read the book a number of times (and im a huge stephen king fan so re-reading his books all the time also)

and the LOTR movies were great - i thought they did justice to Tolkens words

i quite like the HP movies - escapism isnt a bad thing and to know that good can overcome evil... its good to have hope

i brought the book to work, was hoping to read during lunchtime

 

[rhadamantus]

i finished book 1 and half of book 2 (LOTR), mrs.A. after that, the trees just killed me.

actually, with the case of HP, the fuss made it even more popular. curiosity is a mean, gigantic marketing machine.

 

[almitywife]

yes - thats what happened to me... i wasnt in the store for the book but got swept up by the crowd into it

helps that it was so reasonably priced also....... i would have baulked at $50 (like at the airport on sunday)

 

[ClayJar]

...like two chapters allotted for those trees to finish their meeting on whether or not they will join the war!!!

TREE?!?

(Sorry, I had to.)

Incidentally, that the Entmoot was quite long and deliberate was directly the result of who the Ents were. That it took some time in the books is quite logical to me.

(Did anyone else get whiplash from the beginning of the HP5 movie? That was, what, 300 pages in 15 minutes? )

 

[Wayward Son]

I didn't know what the story was at all until the 1st movie came out. Worked with a guy who had read the books to that point who saw the movie & said you didn't need to have read the book before seeing it, so we went. I enjoyed the movie & picked up a copy of the 1st book. That did it, at the end of that I had to know what happened next, so off I went to pick up more books. Wasn't long & I'd read all 4 & was waiting for 5.

The 1st movie was the most true to the book with the least stuff lost of any of them, but even so the rest have been quite enjoyable to us to watch.

And now the story is told & brought to what IMO is a quite satisfactory end.