with possibly the best casting in a summer blockbuster franchise
You still coming up to Richmond? We are going to the 12:03.
You still coming up to Richmond? We are going to the 12:03.
Yes. I have no idea what showing. I didn't buy the tickets. I'm driving a couple of friends, and they got the tickets.
My brothers are going to see it tonight at midnight. I kinda want to go, but I got a WoW raid at 9:15
I guess I'm making this thread for me and PD to talk about the movie since the rest of the forum will ridicule us for our Potter love, but whatever.
My brothers are going to see it tonight at midnight. I kinda want to go, but I got a WoW raid at 9:15
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My brothers are going to see it tonight at midnight. I kinda want to go, but I got a WoW raid at 9:15
"get" he says.
I saw a commercial for this on TV and it looked like Lord of the Rings 4 or something. I saw a bunch of gollums, and Gandolf was there.
I saw a commercial for this on TV and it looked like Lord of the Rings 4 or something. I saw a bunch of gollums, and Gandolf was there.
These movies are bland fantasy adventures for Kentucky manchildren that have emotional issues.
Reviewers will be wrong. PoA wont be topped.
Since taking my 2 daughters to see it would cost more than the blu-ray, I'll wait for it on blu-ray.
Watching Prisoner of Ass Cabin tonight on DVD with my wife. I've seen it before a few years ago, but barely remember anything. :-[
Not going to see Half Blood Prince in the theaters until I can go without having to deal with hordes of the Great Enemy of Mankind, i.e., children and their parents.
I didn't even know there was a new Harry Potter movie coming out until tonight. What the fuck, am I living under a rock or something?
:lolI didn't even know there was a new Harry Potter movie coming out until tonight. What the fuck, am I living under a rock or something?
Nobody cares about Harry Potter anymore, this isn't 2001.
I have on good authority that the movie was boring, nowhere near as good as Cuaron's installment and that the ending came off pretty badly.
Do they really need to divide the last book into two separate movies? I mean really.
Do they really need to divide the last book into two separate movies? I mean really.
None of these films are particularly interesting and will hopefully be forgotten in a decade, so I don't spend money to see them. I'll catch it when its on Blu-ray or something.
Why not just download them then, that way you can have constructive conversation rather than "Well I haven't seen it but my friend thought it sucked"
I've seen the other ones (although, I did not finish Goblet of Fire - it was that boring), but I don't advocate piracy. That's just dumb. And my acquaintance who has seen the film is not just "some friend", he is a connoisseur of the medium. His cutting remarks would smash your face into a jelly.
I have on good authority that the movie was boring, nowhere near as good as Cuaron's installment and that the ending came off pretty badly.
It wasn't boring, by any means. I enjoyed everything but the last five minutes or so. But, when it came to the ending,^ srs spoilerzzz ^spoiler (click to show/hide)I expected to actually see the fight that was in the book with the death eaters against the Order. But they skipped that, and made it into "Oh well, Dumbledore and Snape landed on the tower and then Draco pops out! Then other death eaters come up! Then Snape shushes Harry, which lets him kill Dumbledore. Ugh. Okay, first things first, death eaters and the Order/DA fought under the tower. Draco ran up and confronted Dumbledore, with Harry up there under the Invis cloak bound by the Petrificus Totalus charm Dumbledore had just put on him. Then more death eaters came up, blah blah, but they were still fighting below. Then Snape comes out of nowhere, and kills Dumbledore. That didn't happen. Goddamnit. Also, they didn't show Dumbledore's funeral, which was something I was really looking forward to seeing. Instead, the movie is ended with Ron, Harry, and Hermione talking for five minutes about the same stuff they were SUPPOSED to say at the funeral. It lost part of it's impact to me.
Also, another thing. Ginny and Harry were supposed to be dating for most of the movie, not just happening to kiss towards the end. Half of the heartbreak was supposed to be from Harry telling Ginny at the funeral that they couldn't be together because he had to go find the horcruxes.[close]
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Transformers 2 > Goblet of Fire
The first two Potter movies kind of suck too.
50% change of suckage.
Transformers 2 > Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
78%
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
82%
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
89%
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
88%
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
77%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
92%
Transformers (2007)
57%
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
19%
Harry Potter was Twilight, Twilight is Harry Potter.
I bet willco's esteemed film friend is a twilight fan. When he's not watching Juno like Drinky's kid watches Stuart Little , that is.
Transformers 2 > Goblet of Fire
Did your connoisseur friend tell you that too? I mean, I'm sorry that the high school newspaper he writes for is your bible and all, but face up to some more important figures than he.
Rottentomatoes.com scores:QuoteHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
78%
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
82%
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
89%
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
88%
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
77%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
92%QuoteTransformers (2007)
57%
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
19%
Not a single HP movie ranked under those pieces of Baygasm shit. Just because some tool that thinks he's hot shit watched it and felt SUPER COMPELLED TO TELL EVERYONE wasn't really all that interested in the franchise, got bored doesn't make it a bad movie. I'd rather watch ten "boring" HP movies than one Bay "OMG TRANSFORMARS!".
Twilight is not at all like Harry Potter, jesus fuck
But, you know, you like Transformers...so, yeah.
I don't think the problem is the intersection of the two, but rather the problem is LIKING TRANSFORMERS to begin with.
Edit: Man I remember buying a copy of Deathly Hallows at midnight right when it came out for my wife as a surprise gift. Scary grown women running around with their kids having marks on their foreheads and stuff. I think we can put the Potter crazies and the Twilight crazies in the same boat.
Well christ, I certainly wasn't one of those people, and neither were my friends. From what I've experienced working at Borders, the Twilight chicks are much creepier and fanatic.
ASTOUNDINGLY UNIMAGINATIVE, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ruins the idea of popular entertainment. It’s the sixth tie-in with J.K. Rowling’s lucrative series of children’s books. All of the film versions have been pedestrian and overlong, as if trying to literally retell the book stories merely by adding up-to-date special effects—yet using them without creativity. This is the opposite of Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight book series, which was wondrously re-imagined for the big screen by Catherine Hardwicke. The Potter film industry has never employed a good director. As a result: one bad movie in a series is unfortunate, six amounts to a catastrophe.
Speaking of Twilight:QuoteASTOUNDINGLY UNIMAGINATIVE, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ruins the idea of popular entertainment. It’s the sixth tie-in with J.K. Rowling’s lucrative series of children’s books. All of the film versions have been pedestrian and overlong, as if trying to literally retell the book stories merely by adding up-to-date special effects—yet using them without creativity. This is the opposite of Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight book series, which was wondrously re-imagined for the big screen by Catherine Hardwicke. The Potter film industry has never employed a good director. As a result: one bad movie in a series is unfortunate, six amounts to a catastrophe.
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I disagree. A person can like/love Potter while living a normal life. Can't be said of Twilight!
Reviewers will be wrong. PoA wont be topped.
Wow, that movie sucked.
I also had the privilege of enjoying this film while surrounded by a pack of harry potter fans. They consistently laughed, gasped, and/or murmured approximately 10 seconds before anything of interest occurred. It was like I was sitting in a room filled with mentally distinguished mentally-challenged clairvoyants.
I'm kinda shocked. They were so hyped for the movie, as were many folks - perhaps due to the ending. You'd think the thrill of a midnight showing would inflate your opinion on a movie, only for it to deflate a few hours later; I thought the last Star Wars was fuck awesome after seeing it at midnight. But shit, they said they walked out utterly disappointed, as were many of the older people/teens in the audience.
Ouch
Just talk to my brothers who saw it; both said it was utterly terrible :lol
I AM VINDICATED I AM STRONG YES I KNEW IT ALL ALONG
I'm kinda shocked. They were so hyped for the movie, as were many folks - perhaps due to the ending. You'd think the thrill of a midnight showing would inflate your opinion on a movie, only for it to deflate a few hours later; I thought the last Star Wars was fuck awesome after seeing it at midnight. But shit, they said they walked out utterly disappointed, as were many of the older people/teens in the audience.
Ouch
I'm kinda shocked. They were so hyped for the movie, as were many folks - perhaps due to the ending. You'd think the thrill of a midnight showing would inflate your opinion on a movie, only for it to deflate a few hours later; I thought the last Star Wars was fuck awesome after seeing it at midnight. But shit, they said they walked out utterly disappointed, as were many of the older people/teens in the audience.
Ouch
I'm kinda shocked. They were so hyped for the movie, as were many folks - perhaps due to the ending. You'd think the thrill of a midnight showing would inflate your opinion on a movie, only for it to deflate a few hours later; I thought the last Star Wars was fuck awesome after seeing it at midnight. But shit, they said they walked out utterly disappointed, as were many of the older people/teens in the audience.
Ouch
You're brothers also hated OoTP. Which was, uh, good.
Just a bunch of people trolling in here. Movie is good. I honestly don't understand people's conmplaints. They're complaining just to complain.
I bought Mulholland Drive on DVD and I am going to watch it later tonight
It was pretty good. Its certainly the funniest of the movies, and I felt they nailed the awkward teen moment stuff really well. The actors are all pretty confortable in their roles now, and the chemistry is there, so that all works (and Jim Broadbent is a great addition) quite well. It also looks and sounds real pretty. But the whole thing seemed to lack any clear direction, and it was never really clear what the movie was "about". Its most definitely inferior to PoA, and not as good as OotP, but Id say its better than PS, CoS, and GoF by a hefty margin. The comedic sensibilites really raised the whole thing for me.
First there's this quidditch thing. Yeah, that's quidditch. Princeton, McGill, and Boston universities have official teams. They don't use magic though.
It was pretty good. Its certainly the funniest of the movies, and I felt they nailed the awkward teen moment stuff really well. The actors are all pretty confortable in their roles now, and the chemistry is there, so that all works (and Jim Broadbent is a great addition) quite well. It also looks and sounds real pretty. But the whole thing seemed to lack any clear direction, and it was never really clear what the movie was "about". Its most definitely inferior to PoA, and not as good as OotP, but Id say its better than PS, CoS, and GoF by a hefty margin. The comedic sensibilites really raised the whole thing for me.
The movie was about the end of innocence for the Hogwarts crew. There were multiple clues in the dialogue and the cinematography that helped to add to that.
They've been losing their innocence for 3 movies now, and i still haven't seen any fuckin
It was pretty good. Its certainly the funniest of the movies, and I felt they nailed the awkward teen moment stuff really well. The actors are all pretty confortable in their roles now, and the chemistry is there, so that all works (and Jim Broadbent is a great addition) quite well. It also looks and sounds real pretty. But the whole thing seemed to lack any clear direction, and it was never really clear what the movie was "about". Its most definitely inferior to PoA, and not as good as OotP, but Id say its better than PS, CoS, and GoF by a hefty margin. The comedic sensibilites really raised the whole thing for me.
The movie was about the end of innocence for the Hogwarts crew. There were multiple clues in the dialogue and the cinematography that helped to add to that.
Funny, I could have sworn thats what OotP was about.
If your defense of an adaptation falls back on the source material, then it fails as an adaptation. A good adaptation makes a good movie from the source material, not a Cliff Notes or companion piece, and the source material should never be a liability. The filmmakers failed their job if that's the case.
It's a movie, not a book.
I don't understand what everyone liked about Prisoner of Azkaban. I haven't read any of the books so as a stand alone movie I preferred Goblet of Fire over any of the other films. The general consensus here is opposite of that. Why?
'Potter' falls to 'G-Force' and 'Ugly Truth'
3-D guinea pigs nab top spot at the box office
Guinea pigs and the sexy chemistry of Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler lured moviegoers away from the second Friday of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” as Disney’s family 3-D actioner “G-Force” and Sony’s R-rated romantic comedy “The Ugly Truth” respectively slotted the top two spots at the Friday box office with $11.5 million and $10.8 million.
Playing at 3,697 engagements, “G-Force” about a unit of animal government spies wound up ranking as the second highest opening day for a PG-rated Jerry Bruckheimer production behind 2007’s “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” which made $16.7 million. A PG-rated Bruckheimer pic in the summer is an anomaly –his last title being 1986’s “Top Gun”—as the producer’s actioners are typically PG-13 or R-rated. “G-Force” is the first 3-D title to be produced by Bruckheimer and 1,603 of its theaters are 3-D locales. The film features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Sam Rockwell and Tracy Morgan.
Meanwhile, “The Ugly Truth,” earned opening day records all around for headliner Heigl and director Robert Luketic whose previous respective highs were $9.8 million for 2007’s “Knocked Up” and $8.7 million for last spring’s “21.” “The Ugly Truth” is Luketic’s fifth feature and his second collaboration with “Legally Blonde” scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. “The Ugly Truth” was also penned by Nicole Eastman.
Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” succeeded in becoming the sixth title in the franchise to cross the $200 million threshold yesterday. “Half-Blood Prince” earned $9.3 million off 4,325, repping a 65% decline, for a domestic cume to date of $201.1 million.
Behind “Half Blood Prince” was another Warner Bros.’ title, the horror pic “Orphan” starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga which bowed to $4.9 million on 2,750.
In fifth, Fox’s “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” nabbed $2.6 million on 3,300, down 53% for a running cume in its fourth Friday of $165.7 million. The arthouse scene posted a number of hearty per theaters yesterday; led by Fox Searchlight’s romantic comedy “500 Days of Summer” which expanded its theater count from 27 to 85, repping a 91% spike and an average of $5,910 or $502,000. Pic’s cume in its second Friday stands at $1.9 million.
Roadside Attractions’ opener “Shrink” starring Kevin Spacey earned a theater average of $2,605 at two theaters or $5,210.
Magnolia Pictures’ “The Answer Man” chalked up a theater average of $1,130 or $3,000 at three theaters.