Hey, Things Must Be Looking Up- I'm Talking About Harry Potter!

[poliphilo]

We watched Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets last night- Ailz on her nine-inch bed-side TV and me on the wide screen at home. Afterwards we discussed it on the phone.

What did you think?

It was fun.

Yes- fun.

I like the Harry Potter films. Like not love. I don't find myself getting drawn into that world- enjoyable as it is- and I don't identify with any of the characters. As I've said before, I actually spent my teenage years at a faux-gothic boarding school in the middle of nowhere and- well- I find Rowling's vision a little starry-eyed.

God, but I bet all the other kids really resent and hate Harry and his chums for repeatedly saving the world and being feted and feasted at the end of the day!

Bloody, little, do-gooding teachers' pets!

And all the stories are exactly the same- and all the villains far too easy to defeat and that wimpy little Malfoy kid must be the least threatening (and worst-acted) screen villain in the history of the movies. All you have to do is look at him funny and he falls over.

Comments

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

I remember watching the first HP movie on DVD and thinking "I bet that I would have really been into these movies if I'd been a kid when they came out."

As it is, I find the movies passable entertainment, but I don't rush out to see them. I started reading the books with my daughter, and ho-hummed through the first three. However, we ended up rushing through three and four chapters at a time (way too much for a sensible bedtime!) when we got to the climaxes of books four and five.

I'm not going to be standing in line at midnight at the bookstore for book six, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing how Rowlings brings it to a conclusion.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think the films deliver value for money. They're entertaining, inventive and very pretty to look at. I'm not going to rush out to catch any of them in the cinema, but I look forward to seeing them on DVD.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

No, you're certainly not. The midnight stand-up for Book Six occurred last summer, and I was there -- but only because we went to the opening night of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, saw all the little Gryffindor wannabees in the audience, shrugged and said, what the heck. I won't do it for Book Seven, but I'm glad to have been part of the hoopla once.

As an aside, most of us wound up sitting down in the travel section until our numbers were called. Prior to that, we ate and drank in the coffee shop.