Perry Haughter

yuss man!!

Harry Potter is like England's version of Captain America.



Don't ask me for an explanation I just thought of it and it seemed funny.

in the first two films it was some what hammy and devoid of emotion, they were kind of just saying the lines

I find them still like that now, the three leads I mean. Weasley is the best but the girl and Potter are fucking terrible. I'll still go watch the last one though, just cos I've seen the others and read the books. Can't see me ever rewatching or re-reading any of them though.

I want an explanation.

Seriously though Harry Potter is very British (it has pretty much every british actor of note that are active today) but it does only reflect a very select element of british society so its a bit of a stereotype.

Captain America is probably the same.

I am so, so, so excited! I have been marathon re-watching the movies and doing this.

I read the first book, thought it was original and well-written. Then I read the 2nd book and realized it was almost identical to the 1st book. I saw films 1-3.

That was enough. I'm done.

Out of the leads Rupert Grint is by far the best I'd agree but I think Emma Watson really upped her game, I'm still early on in the series with the films so my memory of their acting abilities in the later films is a bit weak so I cant really argue that she's an amazing actress but I think the leads suffer from the fact, (atleast in the films) their characters are some what one demisional.

Weasely is the side kick who usually gets hurt and annoyed at Harry, Granger is the book worm who's main job is to provide exposition, anything they need to know Granger just read it in a book.

Harry, well he's depressed, then angry, then depressed.

The supporting cast are far stronger, Luna Lovegood may well be my favourite character and Evana lynch's rendition is spot on because if she is luna lovegood, if you've ever seen an interview or read her twitter feed she is some what bizzare.

I thought the first book was dull and couldn't understand all the hype but I gave them a chance by continuing with the series. I remember enjoying a couple of the books but don't remember which ones. One of them had time travel in it though. They're all pretty entertaining for what they are - great kid's books, but for me, instantly forgettable. Most of the main characters are pretty dull.

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Yeah, some of the casting is really spot on. Alan Rickman as Snape for example. The best in my opinion is that baddie woman who likes cats and dresses in pink - she's a great minor villain.

Yeah that's exactly what they are: great kid's books. Formulaic, simple, characters who lack depth.

Do any of the characters ever drop an S-bomb or F-bomb?

Expecto mutha-fuckin patronum, biiiiiiiitch!!

Alan Rickman is amazing as Snape and I agree that Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange was a case of casting genius, I feel like in many ways they knew (especially in the early films) that the leads werent going to be amazingly strong because they were amateurs, (tom felton who plays draco malfoy even said that they were picked because they look like their characters not because they could) so they counter balanced it with amazing adult actors.

The guy who plays hagrid got the role spot on to the point where I cant imagine Hagrid as looking like anybody else.

As for the suggestion that the books were formulaic and simple I'd be willing to say that for the first two books but from book three they start growing up, remember that the books were released over a long period of time and the audience has grown up with the franchise, the later books moved into teenage fiction as their readers became teenagers.

They deal with all sorts of issues such as racism and totalitarian ideology, the death eaters are if anything magical nazi's, they even infiltrate the government and later take it over forcing the good guys to become a sort of resistance.

'Mud bloods' those with non magical parents are accused of stealing magic, are required to register themselves and are systematically hunted down and arrested.

All the while the leads are trying to work out who they are and finally sort their relationships out under this imense pressure, Granger is of course being persecuted and harry and ron are hiding her.

So I dont think its fair to just say that their simple.

Oh and Ryan, not in the films but in the books (I dont know about the later ones) they come close, the commentator for the Quidditch almost calls the Slytherin cheating bastards before a professor pulls the microphone away and censors him.

They do a lot of stuff like that, were they infer things but leave it up to the imagination of the reader.

Bramish on Jul 09 '11 at 11:47am
I thought the first book was dull and couldn't understand all the hype but I gave them a chance by continuing with the series. I remember enjoying a couple of the books but don't remember which ones. One of them had time travel in it though. They're all pretty entertaining for what they are - great kid's books, but for me, instantly forgettable. Most of the main characters are pretty dull.

P.s your talking about the 3rd book, the prisoner of azkaban, its my favourite so far, though I think the film did some scenes better, the relationship between Ron and Hermoine is a little more developed in the film.

Hermonie also gets her crowning moment of awesome were she punches malfoy straight in the face, forcing him to run away crying. To Harry he was just kind of annoying but for Hermonie, he was a racist prick who hated her because she wasnt pure blood so it meant far more for her to get her punch in.

In the book its dealt with far quicker, and she only slaps him, it just doesnt work as well.

I wasn't talking about Helena B-C - she just played the same role as she does in every other film. I meant the older, auntie looking woman. Dunno the character's name though.

I'm excited like a big kid. I think that's why I like the series so much. I, fortunately, had a good childhood, and the books and films take me back to that same wonder I had as a kid. My nephew got me into it, so I think that has something to do with it. When he was about 6, he looked up at me, seeing my dark hair and glasses and asked, "Are you a wizard?".
I'm probably easily impressed!

Oh, Bram I think the woman you mean is Dolores Umbridge, played by Imelda Staunton. She was in that Mike Leigh film that won all those awards.

I didn't like Imelda Staunton as Umbridge at first. Mostly because she looks so different from the book's description: "broad, flabby face, a wide mouth, and bulging pouchy eyes and mousy hair where she often wears a black velvet bow"

gosh i loved the books. am keen to see the last movie- it is the end of an era!

i just re-read the books backwards- it was wicked fun!

The last one I watched was where Sirius Black came in but I keep seeing the end of the one where Cedric Diggory dies and then the guy with the goggly eye is in that big chest and he turns into Doctor Who and keeps licking the side of his face. I've never read one of the books. I hate that guy with the luscious blonde hair, I'm betting he turns out to be bad.

Oh man I'm going to the premiere, can't wait. I been watching the marathon as well on ABC haha. Soo sick.

Bramish on Jul 11 '11 at 5:35am
I wasn't talking about Helena B-C - she just played the same role as she does in every other film. I meant the older, auntie looking woman. Dunno the character's name though.

Its a fair comment, but that character was always mad, and evil and she played it well. Dolores Umbridge was amazing because she pretends to be this nice warm loving person, her language is soft and you cant imagine her ever swearing but its a very thin act, underneath she's an evil spiteful hateful woman and the actress got that perfectly.

quickbrown fox, thats an awesome/adorable story! I was about 12 or 13 when the books came out so I spent my teenaged years reading them, I lost interest because I couldnt cope with the bigger books and I feel like I kind of missed out on the fandom.

I love the fact that theres a whole genre of music devoted the harry potter called wizard rock (doctor who also has its own music called trock time lord rock), the bands arent the best in the entire world but it looked like it was fun.

Its ultra geeky (but you know what I am) but I really want to go to a harry potter convention, this year their doing one called leakycon, its outside of the harry potter theme park, they have the actors coming to talk and then they get a special screening of the film.

Ohhhh so that's what Leakycon is... I thought it was a convention for leaked stuff... :D

So I saw Harry potter and the deathly hallows and I have to say wow, it dd not disapoint in the slightest.

I wish I'd had been able to go to the midnight showing but I didnt feel like sleeping in a train station so I went to a 2pm showing the next day.

I watched it on the Imax in 3D and it was defiently worth paying a little extra for the great tickets.

First, the staff made a real effort to turn it into an event, the line was massive for the film (people were dressed up) and it was completely sold out so they let us into the cinema 20 minutes early.

They had people walking around the cinema selling us food (because you couldnt pick where you were sitting no one wanted to be the last person in line and get a crappy seat), they had a guy on a speaker system talking to us, to get the audience pumped, asking us if we'd seen the deathly hallows part 1 before we'd left the house, then asking us if we'd seen the, all before we'd left the house. He even got us to do a mexian wave.

They also did a Harry potter raffle full of prizes (e.g harry potter lego) with the money going to charity.

Then they went straight into the film.

Where as Deathly hallows part 1 had been mainly slow and dealt with drama, part 2 is action, action, action and its done amazingly well, it looks visually stunning and it was an amazing end to an amazing series of films that could have been done so badly.

The only problem I had with it is a problem all the films share is that it doesn't always make sense, well maybe that's too strong of a phrase, the film is logical and you can see the A to B but at times they mention things that are clearly important but are skimmed over because they literally don't have time to deal with it.

For example, certain characters story lines are never properly resolved within the film, but its a problem the series suffers from because they have too much material to pick from. Given the constraints they did well but it has only strengthened my resolve to finish the series.

About the actual film, finally two characters are given their chance to shine after 7 films of being looked down upon and laughed at for their failures, its amazingly powerful and makes you cheer a long with them as they finally get their heroic moments!