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[filkertom]

Expecto Patronum!

Who's looking forward to the new movie? I admit I'm not. The whole Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione thing, not to mention the UTTER CRAP of the last two books, has just sucked the fun out of it for me. I'm gonna see it so I can keep up, but meh.

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[allisona]

Me, I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to go see it tomorrow.

[chaosdancer]

I've read several reviews that say this is the best of all the movies...maybe judged by movie criteria it won't be as bad as the books were? I hope not, anyway.

[jenrose1]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Whining was much improved by the movie, frankly.

[dan_ad_nauseam]

At last. Someone else who had the same reaction that book as me.

[jenrose1]

lol, I know. People are like "Oh, what a good book!"

And I'm like, "Yeah, it would have been great without all the whiny crap."

Evidently the movie people agreed.

[bryanp]

I'll see it, but probably not soon. I started re-watching the old movies on DVD. By the time I get caught up I may be burnt out and ready to wait for the DVD release of this one.

I have to admit that I liked the Harry/Ginny Ron/Hermione pairing. *ducks*

I did read a cute interview recently. Rupert Grint was talking about filming the kissing scenes with Emma Watson. He said that it was weird. He's known her since she was 9 years old, so it was almost like kissing his sister.

Damn movies are making me feel old now.

[filkertom]

I have to admit that I liked the Harry/Ginny Ron/Hermione pairing. *ducks*

Lots of people do. Heck, my dad does. It's canon and all that. It just doesn't make sense to me -- Hermione's two passions (besides helping another boy, which makes things a little tricky) are books and learning, both of which Ron mocks. Ginny thinks Harry likes chasing after Voldemort.

[bryanp]

Valid points, but attraction and romance don't always follow rules of logic.

I always viewed Ron's mocking to be him writing off something he wasn't very good at doing himself. "Aw, who wants to do that anyway?" People grow up, and apparently she sees something else in him you don't.

As for utter crap, I guess I'm just easier to please than you are. :)

[bryanp]

Hermione's two passions (besides helping another boy, which makes things a little tricky) are books and learning, both of which Ron mocks. Ginny thinks Harry likes chasing after Voldemort.

One more thing on this: these are kids. Teenagers. Salt of the earth. You know ... morons.

When I think of some of the outrageous and stupid things I said and did as a teenager ... bleah. If I had a time machine and just went back smacking myself around I'd get carpal tunnel from all the dope slaps I'd have to give out. With luck you grow up and get over it. I liked the fact that the characters made stupid mistakes like every other teenager in history.

One of those (whether you view it as a mistake or not) is the idea of "What the hell does he see in her? Well, apparently he loves her. Go figure.

[mimiheart]

I'm looking forward to it, if only for Snape. This is not one of my favorite books at all, though. I'm really trying to figure out why Harry Potter and the Long Camping Trip is being made into two movies.

[admnaismith]

Maybe they learned something from the fiasco of Scenes from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (With Spoilers). That final book is just too long to squash into one movie without removing several vital organs. Heck, even as long as the book is, its biggest flaw is squashing so much action compactly. Given that movies will want to draw out the action scenes (be prepared for long epic depictions of the escape from Privet Drive, the escape from the wedding, the escape from the Ministry, the escape from Malfoy Mansion, the escape from Gringotts, and the most pyrotechnical Battle of Hogwarts this side of nuclear winter), I'm glad they're breaking it up.

Either that, or the producers saw no reason to settle for seven guaranteed blockbusters when they could have eight.

[mimiheart]

I suppose.

As much as I love the actors, though, I've never been impressed with the movies after the first one. They're great as supplements, but I wouldn't want to watch them for the actual storyline.

[morpheus0013]

I don't know. You could take out the interminable and pointless camping sections and have a pretty decent sized source for a single movie.

[ladystarblade]

Snape. Rickman.

I'm there. :-)

And they did a pretty good job of making Phoenix coherent, so maybe this won't be so bad.