nerrrd
I have a confession.
Until this weekend, I hadn't seen the last two Harry Potter movies.
This is probably a surprise to several of you, but there you are. It wasn't from lack of interest; when the movies came to the theatres, I was keen to go. However, our local theatre isn't fantastic (I did brave it to see the final PotC, of course, but not since then) and I lack friends to accompany me. I'm not adverse to seeing something on my own, but those are my main excuses.
The other is that we've lacked a DVD player at home for a very long time, so I almost never see movies unless they're on TV. There's a long explanation for this (I think cookieman is waiting for the Ideal DVD player, whereas I'd be happy to buy whatever as long as I could watch something.) We have a media PC next to the TV to record TV programs etc, so we aren't completely in the dark ages, but for whatever reason we lack the DVD player.
So, anyway, when GoF and OoTP came on TV this weekend, I jumped at the chance to finally see them. And they were great! I was feeling nerdy enough to see what other people thought of them, but when I looked up the release date of OoTP and trawled through a few of your LJ archives *stalk* I ran into the small problem that that release date coincided with the release of the final HP book. (probably another reason I didn't feel badly about not seeing the movie, tbh, as I did always get the books on their dates of release.)
I then checked Cleolinda's 15 Minute Movies, and even SHE didn't do one on OoTP. Why the hate? Or was it just ambivalence? I should probably check her actual LJ; no doubt she'll have some kind of commentary for it.
It does feel weird to be mentally squeeing over something 3 years+ after everyone else has already been there and done that, though. I might have to re-read the books, now.
Until this weekend, I hadn't seen the last two Harry Potter movies.
This is probably a surprise to several of you, but there you are. It wasn't from lack of interest; when the movies came to the theatres, I was keen to go. However, our local theatre isn't fantastic (I did brave it to see the final PotC, of course, but not since then) and I lack friends to accompany me. I'm not adverse to seeing something on my own, but those are my main excuses.
The other is that we've lacked a DVD player at home for a very long time, so I almost never see movies unless they're on TV. There's a long explanation for this (I think cookieman is waiting for the Ideal DVD player, whereas I'd be happy to buy whatever as long as I could watch something.) We have a media PC next to the TV to record TV programs etc, so we aren't completely in the dark ages, but for whatever reason we lack the DVD player.
So, anyway, when GoF and OoTP came on TV this weekend, I jumped at the chance to finally see them. And they were great! I was feeling nerdy enough to see what other people thought of them, but when I looked up the release date of OoTP and trawled through a few of your LJ archives *stalk* I ran into the small problem that that release date coincided with the release of the final HP book. (probably another reason I didn't feel badly about not seeing the movie, tbh, as I did always get the books on their dates of release.)
I then checked Cleolinda's 15 Minute Movies, and even SHE didn't do one on OoTP. Why the hate? Or was it just ambivalence? I should probably check her actual LJ; no doubt she'll have some kind of commentary for it.
It does feel weird to be mentally squeeing over something 3 years+ after everyone else has already been there and done that, though. I might have to re-read the books, now.