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Film / Nerd Harry Potter Fans Excited About the New Harry Potter Movie
Posted by Lindy West on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM
I forwarded a friend some information about the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and received a prompt reply:
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Replace "harry potter" in the title with any new movie, it's more than likely more than one person who liked the series are going to be excited. Put this is the "no shit Sherlock" category.
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so i've successfully avoided anything harry potterish - books, movies, keychains - having felt no interest whatsoever in it. unfortunately, i caught about 5 minutes of it the other night as it was being aired on KOMO (something about a dead troll thing and a slightly gay hans gruber) and it looked alright. maybe i'll break down and watch it sometime.
sincerely,
diggum
sincerely,
diggum
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diggum, I'd recommend reading the books before you see the movies. The first three are pretty simple, but starting with book four it gets incredibly good.
sincerely,
UNPAID COMMENTER
sincerely,
UNPAID COMMENTER
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@4, I second @6's sentiments. Read the books first. Then watch the movies if you want. And then buy the keychains and calendars.
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diggum @4, are you ten years old? if not, there are actual books (and movies) written for adults to be read
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@12:
Or you know, it's not so bad to read Children's lit - and the later books are not ones to be given to young kids with the violence.
Honestly, you must have a really boring life you think that Adults must put all their toys away as soon as they turn 18. :P
Or you know, it's not so bad to read Children's lit - and the later books are not ones to be given to young kids with the violence.
Honestly, you must have a really boring life you think that Adults must put all their toys away as soon as they turn 18. :P
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@12
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
--C.S. Lewis
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
--C.S. Lewis
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@14 - Awesome.
Yeah, my wife and I just got done reading the Harry Potter books aloud to one another, incrementally, just before bed. We've moved on the Sookie Stackhouse books. Maybe not the finest literature, but it's a nice switch from watching TV, and provides some relief from my ongoing slog (ahem) through the Nag Hammadi Library, the Lotus Sutra, and Moby Dick.
As for the movie, I'm just excited that Jim Broadbent is playing Horace Slughorn. When it comes to something like this, casting is everything.
Yeah, my wife and I just got done reading the Harry Potter books aloud to one another, incrementally, just before bed. We've moved on the Sookie Stackhouse books. Maybe not the finest literature, but it's a nice switch from watching TV, and provides some relief from my ongoing slog (ahem) through the Nag Hammadi Library, the Lotus Sutra, and Moby Dick.
As for the movie, I'm just excited that Jim Broadbent is playing Horace Slughorn. When it comes to something like this, casting is everything.
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14-- great quote, love the sentiment. it makes me feel a little icky once i realized it was c.s. lewis, though.. have you ever seen his photography of (and love letters to) little girls? he was a total pedo.
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