Harry Potter movies

• Tobias Fünke

  

  iclfan2;830876 wrote:I cried and stuff.

  
  FIFY
• GoPens

  

  Just got back from seeing it. I'll probably be in the minority, but while it was good, it wasn't "great". For me it just didn't live up to the hype.
  
  I've read all the books, seen all the movies, and I don't know why, I just didn't think it was all that great. I was also surprised--expected it to be packed, but was less than 20% full and it was all older adults.
  
  Now the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises---that got me going.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Well I just finished the 2nd one and I have to say so far I like the movies but I need more villain. I have heard that it gets better from here on out but that hurts the franchise for me.
• Sonofanump

  Sonofanump;829961 wrote:3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 7, 1

  
  I think 8 falls between 4 & 6.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Sonofanump;831856 wrote:I think 8 falls between 4 & 6.

  
  So the one I am about to watch is the best one in your opinion? That is interesting. I see Gary Oldman is in it. I'm pretty pumped to watch it.
• OSH

  

  I Wear Pants;830276 wrote:What about Transformers seems plausible?
  
  Or are you talking about the film style?
  
  In any way, I'm curious to know why a film must be plausible for you to enjoy it.

  Transformers may have not been a good example...it has more sentimental value than anything else -- I grew up playing with the action figures and watching the cartoons (Optimus Prime would be amazing to listen to call sports games).
  
  I just like movies that seem like they could almost be real, or real-er. Something that seems like it could actually happen (even though it probably will never happen, but they just make it seem so real -- this is where Transformers may fit). Like No Country For Old Men, it didn't happen, but it could happen...odds are, it'll never happen that way. I'll throw American History X in there too, it seems so "real" that it could happen.
  
  I just like the realism to it. Just my preference. If I wanted to watch a cartoon or computer animations (as in, the WHOLE movie) I'd go watch my favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoons or old GI Joe cartoons. I am not a fan of those sci-fi-ish movies like LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Star Trek...etc. I am sure Star Wars could've been different if it had more sentimental value to it, like most of the superhero movies have (not saying that they are all good, mind you!).
• charliehustle14

  My fourth grade teacher read us the Sorcerer's Stone when it first came out and I was hooked on it since, like a lot of my classmates at the time. Read all the books and of course watched the movies. Never got hardcore into it to where I went to midnight showings and stuff. Then I started dating my girlfriend who is a Harry Potter fanatic so I've ended up going to 4 midnight showings. Even though I love Harry Potter, I do still quietly make fun of all the people who go all out and dress up in costumes and stuff for the midnight showings. I just find that a little much.
  
  The things that always fascinated me the most about Harry Potter is how Rowling literally created this whole new world, down to the tiniest of details. She doesn't just create characters, but she also creates a history to them all and creates a network of some pretty complex relationships between one and another. She just has an imagination and a creative writing talent that is just on a whole other stratosphere.
  
  Anyways, I thought it was a pretty damn good movie. The only bad part about it is that is signals the end of the Harry Potter series lol Like it or not, the end of the Harry Potter series is the end of a pretty significant era in both literature and cinema.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Which one does everyone think is the best? I'm about to watch Goblet of Fire.
• Laley23

  

  bigdaddy2003;832088 wrote:Which one does everyone think is the best? I'm about to watch Order of the Phoenix.

  
  3 and 4 are my favorite. But to be honest, I havent seen them in YEARS.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Laley23;832187 wrote:3 and 4 are my favorite. But to be honest, I havent seen them in YEARS.

  
  I'm watching 4 right now. 3 was better to me so far. I'm still awaiting Voledmort. I see a couple things that are keeping LOTR above this series for me still but I do like it so far.
• namod65

  

  I've seen the movies, but they don't do the books justice. A pet peeve of mine is defiantly the people who watched the movies, but didn't read the books, and say they are big HP fans. Like my friend who tells me he can't wait to see the seventh movie, but said he hasn't seen the 6th one yet and needs to watch it so he knows whats going on. This just makes me want to SMH. I almost wish they hadn't made them into movies just for this reason. And as far as LOTR vs HP, you can't really compare them because being a fantasy genre is about the only thing they have in common.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Finally Voldemort shows up with a half an hour left in the 4th flick.
  
  Namod65, yeah you are right. You can't compare the two series'. The only reason I lump them together is because they are both in the fantasy genre.
• Laley23

  

  bigdaddy2003;832420 wrote:Finally Voldemort shows up with a half an hour left in the 4th flick.
  
  Namod65, yeah you are right. You can't compare the two series'. The only reason I lump them together is because they are both in the fantasy genre.

  
  Yeah, LOTR and Harry Potter arent the same at all. I dont like when someone says "it isnt as good as the LOTR series" because it wasnt trying to be anything like the LOTR series.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Laley23;832515 wrote:Yeah, LOTR and Harry Potter arent the same at all. I dont like when someone says "it isnt as good as the LOTR series" because it wasnt trying to be anything like the LOTR series.

  
  Yeah I know they weren't trying to be anything like LOTR. I never meant to make it sound like that.
• GoPens

  

  Oddly enough, the Battle of Hogwarts reminded me of the Battle of Minas Tirith in the LOTR.
• Laley23

  

  Just watched 7.1 again tonight. Going to see 7.2 tomorrow at 1:15 after work.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Watching Half Blood Prince right now. 7.1 to follow then 7.2 tomorrow at 11 a.m.
• gut

  I've watched the first two, I think....thought they kind of sucked.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  I downloaded them all, I had not watched them before. I just finished the first one, it was alright for a beginning movie and one geared for kids. I would compare it more closely to Phantom Menace than I would Fellowship of the Ring. Weak child acting--specifically from Radcliffe (though I've heard he gets much better with age), a John Williams soundtrack, a rather useless game (podracing vs. quidditch), a wizard/jedi who turns to the dark side, a young prodigy with immense courage and talent and also misses his father and/or mother, overdoing the CGI, etc. Overall though it was enjoyable.
  
  If it's anything like Star Wars from here on out, it'll be fine. Most people hated the first three in general, I actually didn't mind the second one and thought the third one was great.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  HP does not = LOTR.
  
  LOTR is a historic piece of literature that Jackson did a fantastic job of translating to the screen. HP is a fun fantasy for children (I don't know what Laley watched but most 12 years olds I know would be bored by the "violence" in the HP films), with a great creative narrative, but little else.
• FatHobbit

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;832932 wrote:HP does not = LOTR.
  
  LOTR is a historic piece of literature that Jackson did a fantastic job of translating to the screen. HP is a fun fantasy for children (I don't know what Laley watched but most 12 years olds I know would be bored by the "violence" in the HP films), with a great creative narrative, but little else.

  
  I agree that HP <> LOTR, but at least main character wise I actually preferred Harry Potter. The big bad in LOTR was a giant fucking eye. At least Voldemorte eventually shows up to do his own fighting. By the end of the third movie I was ready to push Frodo and Sam into the fire (with the ring) myself. IMHO Harry/Ron/Hermione were much more likeable than Frodo/Sam and the cool thing about Harry Potter was that we actually got to watch the characters grow up during the movie.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Voldemort showing up ruined the series, he's a terrible character with little motivation and Fiennes plays him like a hammy B-actor. There is nothing scary about the books or the films, they are creative stories for kids, nothing more or less.
• FatHobbit

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;833034 wrote:he's a terrible character with little motivation

  He wants to live forever and be the most powerful wizard. On one level Harry Potter is "the boy who lived" which embarrasses him because he was beaten by a little boy. On a different level there is the prophecy that Harry is the one who will bring about his destruction. That's enough motivation I think.
  
  I will concede there is a completely different (much younger) audience for Harry Potter than LOTR, but I still think Sauron isn't very terrifying to anyone who wouldn't be scared by Voldemorte.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Just got back from the finale. My final take is that the movies are good but I will still take LOTR. And once again I'm not so much comparing them as I am simply saying if we are going by franchises in the fantasy genre then give me LOTR. I actually thought Voldemort was a bright side of the series Manhattan. As for the series as a whole I don't care much for the villain only being in a 1/3 or less of each movie.
• Sonofanump

  bigdaddy2003;833271 wrote:I don't care much for the villain only being in a 1/3 or less of each movie.

  
  Just curious, what are examples of movies where the villain is in more than 1/3 of the movie? I do not believe this to be true for any Star Wars, LOTR or any comic movie.
  
  I am assuming that you mean the villain himself and not a person representing the villain like Malfoy, Snape, Croutch, Lestrange, etc.