[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

HD has seen the light of Potter. It's good stuff.

[Slum]

I've never read a page of Potter... just never felt I really needed to. They make the movies; that's good enough for me.

[HoosierDaddy]

Illuyankas;364191 said:

I read 4-7. I read the whole series. I've read them, and the Quidditch and monster appendix-style books as well. And I STILL find them poor. Not just as books, but books I'd give to kids to read.

As for the films, I saw the entirety of 1 and 2, parts of 3 and 5 and most of the end of 4. 1 and 2 SUCKED. 3 looked alright, 4 and 5 seemed pretty silly (death by curtain? Really?) but might be good, I can't say outright either way.

Oh, and you like My Chemical Romance and were defending Goodkind earlier, so your taste is slightly suspect, I'm afraid.

You've read them all, you have every right in the world to criticize and not like it. But judging it without having read them is ignorant.

I don't defend Goodkind, I pick fun and play Devil's Advocate. I'm not the only person in the world who likes MCR. And, people have a right not to like them and critique their music as well.

I'm just saying that having not read Harry Potter and judging it would be as ignorant as not having listened to a very popular band, say the Beatles for example, and then judging them. Hell, the first few Beatles albums are full of cheesy love-songs. They probably progressed exactly like that for the rest of their musical career. Their style probably didn't evolve at all.

My initial point remains: don't judge unless you've read them. At least give them a chance. If you have, then judge away and tell me to shut my fat mouth!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

THat's always how I've felt. I'm perfectly willing to discuss the books with someone who read but did not like them. Too often though people who don't like them haven't ever read them, which makes it a pointless conversation.

[Slum]

Huh, I guess they decided to release this in Summer '09 rather than this Fall....

Bastards.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I hate the beatles.

[HoosierDaddy]

Fail to both hating the Beatles and to moving the flick to 09.

[McLovin]

wtf is the point of moving it to summer??? do they seriously think they're not going to make money in November??? jeez...

[QuickTidal]

McLovin;371106 said:

wtf is the point of moving it to summer??? do they seriously think they're not going to make money in November??? jeez...

As a summer tentpole flick it stands to make 3 times the money it would in November...and that's the only reason WB is doing it, and I think it is abhorred of the suits at the WB to piss fans off by moving it almost a full year away...which will push the first of the two Deathly Hallows flicks further into the future as well. What a bunch of ham-fisted, money grubbing whores Warner Brothers are.

Arg.

[caladanbrood]

I can't even remember what happens in the sixth one They just wander around and

Spoiler

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE

right?

[HoosierDaddy]

@Quick Tidal: They've said that the push-back won't affect Hallows I's release at all.

At Brood:

Spoiler

No, that's not it. Harry makes out with Hermoine and then Ginny jumps in and its a adolescent three-some. Rowling went with the M rating for this one.

[caladanbrood]

HD - You know what the worrying thing is... Rule 34 tells us that somewhere on the internet, that happened. In all its illegal perverted glory.

[HoosierDaddy]

Rule 34. Is that if it's possible it's out there?

[caladanbrood]

If it exists, somewhere on the internet there's porn of it.

[QuickTidal]

caladanbrood;371252 said:

I can't even remember what happens in the sixth one They just wander around and

Spoiler

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE

right?

To me, HBP was an opening salvo to The Deathly Hallows...it's the dark overture where the bad guys keep scoring goals and the good guys keep suffering losses.

It's The Empire Strikes Back.

That whole book is about how Harry and Co. start to see Voldy permeate their world and infect it with his evil. You also have the young antagonist of Malfoy going through a lot of crap to be an evil apprentice, and sucking at it. Oh, and though the battle at the end is no Battle of Hogwarts, it still adds up to one of the best in the series.

Which is why the 6th is one of my faves.

[QuickTidal]

Okay, so Horn has made another statement about this, and this one makes WB come off a bit nicer. I can't say I am any happier with the move, but two things I can point out. His silver lining makes sense....and he released The Dark Knight....so he gets some more slack to play with from me for that. See below for his latest statement:

.........

Many of you have written to me to express your disappointment in our moving "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to Summer 2009.

Please be assured that we share your love for Harry Potter and would certainly never do anything to hurt any of the films. Over the past 10 years, we have nurtured and protected each film, and the integrity of the books upon which they are based, to the best of our ability.

The decision to move "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was not taken lightly, and was never intended to upset our Harry Potter fans. We know you have built this series into what it is, and we thank you for your ongoing enthusiasm and support.

If I may offer a silver lining: there would have been a two-year gap between "Half-Blood Prince" and the much-anticipated first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which opens in November 2010.

So although we have to wait a little longer for "Half-Blood Prince," the wait from that film until "Deathly Hallows" will be less than 18 months. I am sorry to have disappointed you now, but if you hold on a little longer, I believe it will be worth the wait.

Alan Horn President, Chief Operating Officer Warner Bros.

.............

[HoosierDaddy]

HoosierDaddy;371261 said:

@Quick Tidal: They've said that the push-back won't affect Hallows I's release at all.

Quick: See?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Those kids are going to be middle aged before the movies are all done.

[DarkGothicGirl]

Yea, I hate the idea of having to wait longer to see this movie.

[HoosierDaddy]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;372386 said:

Those kids are going to be middle aged before the movies are all done.

Well, Hermione's 18.

If they can pull of the kids in Beverly Hills 90210 then I'm sure they can pull off this. Neither 3 have actually really changed in appearance since Potter 5, so they should be fine.