The Order of the Phoenix

[pellucid]

So I skipped out early this afternoon to go see Order of the Phoenix--it was the first time I'd had the chance, and I figured things would be more crowded on the weekend. (Plus, I plan to spend my weekend reading The Deathly Hallows.)

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[pellucid]

The first movie I actually liked as well as the first book--which is really to say that I didn't love the first book so much. As the books have gotten longer (and better) and more has necessarily been cut out, I've enjoyed the films less. I did like the third film quite a lot--it's probably my favorite of the films--but it's my second-favorite book, and that film did a better job adapting the book than the OotP film did. Still, I can count on one finger the number of film adaptations that I liked better than the original book. (That one, incidentally, is The Hours; the film figures out what the novel was trying to do and actually does it better, imo. Though as a Virginia Woolf fan, I have some major issues with both, in general.)

Oh well. Book soon! Yay!!!

[pellucid]

I've actually never read that book, though I've seen the movie a couple of times.

[kernezelda]

*waves from overly sunny Florida* :)

My feelings about OotP and HP in general are much the same. I enjoyed the books, enjoyed them better than the films, and am quite looking forward to a Saturday of HP-reading.

[pellucid]

*waves back from not-so-sunny-at-all London* (though admittedly, there was some sun earlier; but now what there was has set)

[ladybeth]

This weekend is going to be interesting. I'm awaiting the spoilesr because I'm not going to buy the book (I never really liked her writing style, so I stick to detailed summeries and HPL). OoTP was probably my favorite if only because I'm a big fan of Sirius and onwards his family (For some reason, Regulus has become a favorite of mine even though he had about two sentences about him and that was it). From waht I have heard I'm going to be disappointed because alot of the Black Family history was taken out and the other scene I was looking forward to was Fred/George leaving and it's been cut down. I haven't had a chance to see the movie yet, but there seems to be mixed reviews on it.

[pellucid]

That's an interesting approach! I don't think I would get any enjoyment at all from reading spoilers but not the book itself--but for me it's as much the experience of settling in and reading what I hope will be a hefty page-turner from cover to cover as it is actually finding out what happens. I don't think Rowling is the greatest writer around, nor do I think she's of the caliber of some of the people with whom she's often compared (Tolkien, Lewis, LeGuin, L'Engle, etc.), but I do find the books thoroughly entertaining, and I'm looking forward to reading number 7.

[ladybeth]

Well, for some reason I never got into the books as much as others. I have read books 1 & 3 though. It was teh fanfiction that really got me into enjoy the whole fandom at large. I don't think I would have been as big of a fan if there hadn't been the fanfic. I think it is how I started into it...my friends talked about it and I was getting tired of not knowing what they were talking about, so I decided to read book 3 since that was the latest one out at the time but got told I had to read book 1, so I did. Then I skipped to three. I think the Mauraders captured me more and thats why I liked PoA

[pellucid]

Whereas I couldn't care less about the fandom. I enjoy the books, but for some reason the characters don't stick with me, making me want to know more about them, read and write more stories about them, etc. *shrugs* Different things appeal to different people, I guess.