Comments | boozymatic: Damned PotterHeads

boozymatic

Damned PotterHeads

Jul 21, 2007 01:18

First, apologies to those of you on my f-list who enjoy the writings of that Rowling babe. Hope you get yer new book and enjoy reading it, and avoid seeing the spoilers.

Now, if you're still reading this post, be prepared for foul language and grousing about hype.
( Don't say I didn't warn you. )

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acelightning July 21 2007, 06:38:45 UTC

and the boat sank ;-)

boozymatic July 21 2007, 09:14:30 UTC

... it did? Whoah, didn't see that one coming. Iceberg, that is!
Now I really don't have to see it. Yay!

acelightning July 21 2007, 10:07:07 UTC

a couple of weeks after the movie Titanic came out, i saw one of my friends wearing a t-shirt that said, "The boat sinks. Deal."

heh regatomic July 21 2007, 07:40:44 UTC

like i have said to several others i'll be glad to she the whining about spoilers end, these are the same people who buy a movie and watch it till the laser cuts through the disk,.. do they forget between viewings or do they whine about it being spoiled all the time,..o.o

Re: heh lynedd July 21 2007, 12:34:29 UTC

Finding out for yourself the first time is different from replaying a well loved, known, story.

Finding out for yourself regatomic July 21 2007, 12:57:22 UTC

i guess that's what marks me, for me the stories are all the same, the difference is in the telling, i read hobbit/LOTR in three days, never needed to read it again, the story was great inspiration and was a great concept, but it could have been done better, HP?, i read the first book and knew it was just more Nancy Drew with flourishes,. haven't been that disappointed in a story in ages,..(it's a steal from a 70's comic book)predictable to say the least,.. but everyone finds their own value in these things,..:)

Re: Finding out for yourself lynedd July 21 2007, 13:03:35 UTC

"Predictable" and "cliche" only occurs after experience. As an author for children, Rowlings is very good - it takes a certain cast of mind to read a child-targetted book as an adult and still enjoy the twists given to a well-known plot.

eniastoa July 21 2007, 07:46:59 UTC

Y'know, I find this expression of this 'tude of yours amusing considering the conversation about the policies of that "hoooooorible person" we were involved in an hour earlier.

lynedd July 21 2007, 12:33:48 UTC

...so, did you see Mouse and H down there? They'll be out at the river camp by now, reading. Vilmos'll probably pick up a copy this weekend - more importantly, he'll be scanning the net for the audio version. He listens to the stories while driving to work.

Personally, I stopped reading at the fifth book. Not because it was no longer interesting, but because Rowling, being the mother of two boys, wrote Teen Boy Angst so well that I could no longer stand Harry. I had a kid who was behaving like that already, and really didn't want/need to read about it, too.

You've missed some brilliant cinema, y'know. And I say that as a person who really hates to walk into a movie theatre.

boozymatic July 21 2007, 20:23:59 UTC

Nope, didn't see them. Although I did suspect that H would be grabbing a copy downtown in time to catch the last bus home.

Yeah, I know. I guess I just really need to watch things when and if I want to. No amount of hype will make me become interested in something... just makes me dig in these heels a bit more. I guess I'm stubborn?

I hear you on the angst thing - my guess is that more people feel the same way but just fear being singled out/laughed at if they admit it. "Shun the disbeliever!! Shunnnnnn..." oops, sorry, too much You-Tube. Heh.

I'll eventually watch a lot of the stuff I've missed, I suppose. Never Forrest Gump though - I have this thing against revisionism in any form.