"You may not like him, Minister, but you can't deny... Dumbledore's got style."

[swashbuckler332]

Running 138 minutes, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the shortest film in the ongoing series yet. The irony that it was adapted from the longest book - running nearly 800 pages - is no doubt going to be the central complaint of the HP fandom community. I guess this is only natural, but as I suspected, but screenwriter Michael

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[marinshellstone]

Thank you for this amazing review.

Something has shifted in my life that I didn't get midnight showing tickets for this. Just a year and a half ago for "Goblet of Fire" I was waiting in line for eight hours in cold New York November weather. Things in life have gotten sufficiently complicated that I couldn't make it happen, but Jeff and I saw Transformers last night and I had many chats with the excited costumed people in line. I'm sure I will break down and take myself to see it tomorrow while Jeff is at work, and your review has made me more excited.

Now...Book 7...hurry!!!!

[swashbuckler332]

I have to admit that I sort of stumbled into the midnight showing. I had just gotten today off because I'm working Saturday instead, and I happened to come across the midnight showings last night. This was shocking to me as the release dates on all the posters (including the one at the theater I saw it in last night) list the release date as being the 13th... I bought the tickets and ended up going to see it by myself (which is something I always find strange). I found myself getting pretty wrapped up in the whole affair, and I was assisted by a very enthusiastic audience. I don't give a fuck how good your home theater is (and mine is very nice), nothing can ever beat seeing a movie with a bunch of people that are really into it... hell, seeing the first two Star Wars prequels at the Ziegfield opening night managed to convince me that I had seen a good film for a few days afterward