The Harry Potter Septimology!

This is where we could talk about the 7 Harry Potter novels, within the site, as that way, we could all begin to discuss the series, together.

yay! When i finished my over whelming amount of homework i have been neglecting all weekend i'll write a lengthy response... but for now

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Fair enough, in that case.

Did you watch the Harry Potter Movies?

If i do, it's enough to make me realize that after the 1st two movies, for some reason or another, the movies began to change for the worse, overally speaking!

Hmm....I agree that the movies did indeed get worse as it progressed but I thought the special effects for the 6th movie improved greatly. It just seemed a whole load better for me.

I guess we can agree that movie 6 was remotely decent, to say the least, but then again, that has alot to do with the realized importance of Some of the removed stuff, along with the fact that they kept the photo of Regulus Black, in the movie...too bad i couldn't tell which guy was meant to be Regulus in that photo, as they all looked alike, to me!>_>[And i like Regulus, too!]

That said, please let's just hope that the frakkage pattern ends for good with movie 6, and restore the prophecy and everything else right, in the final 2 movies!And even then, do them right, for that matter, or we will not let W.B forget it, if they mess up!

That said, i got a poll for Clarisse La Rue V.S Mia Rinaldi to run, in the meantime!^_^

O.o...totally did not comprehend that. English please?

i asked because i re-watch The Half Blood Prince last night and was annoyed at how much stuff was left out and i didnt realize the first time. I think the movies in general were good in capturing the world- displaying the actions, character development and even type casting. I think they just reached a point in the movies where all that little stuff they left out is finally catching up to them...

They're going to have a hard time dealing with all the horcruxes since they didn't really deal with in 6. Haven't seen it in ages I could be wrong.

Even the Prophecy ends up mutilated, to the point it has no meaning!>_>

Or even the hints in which Ginny is getting increasingly paranoid, by the year, even?And Ginny had ample reason and justification to be Paranoid, too!!!!

Let us hope to the stars that Percy Jackson And The Olympians and The Mortal Instruments, along with Cirque Du Freak, get better treatment and reception, with just cause and good reason, too!

Tonystark616 wrote:

Or even the hints in which Ginny is getting increasingly paranoid, by the year, even?And Ginny had ample reason and justification to be Paranoid, too!!!!

and what's that reason again? I can't seem to remember.. i desperately need to re-read this series. :-(

It started from meeting with Voldemort and nearly dying from being his sacrifice for Voldemort to regain a body[if you were meant to be sacrificed, you'd feel the same kind of way, too!]and it made matters worse that Voldemort tricked her, to boot, and used her to kill Harry.

It's made worse when everyone heard Lestrange's laugh after Sirius got killed from dropping his guard, so her Paranoia got even worse, since Lestrange was once alluring, so it must have traumatized Ginny further!

[The novels hint she was getting Paranoid, so the movies should have built on that instead of shooting themselves at their legs!>_>]

What bothered me about the last movie is the horcruxes ( did i spell that right?) . Also the reason why those memories are so important. The ring wasnt explained. Even the diary wasn't explained. And destroying them wasn't explained. I think people were so happy with the action they didnt notice all the little important things. I know the first time i watched i was just like "omg awesome"...the second time i was like "yeah nice work but what about all this stuff"...u know what i mean?

Peace love n VA wrote:

What bothered me about the last movie is the horcruxes ( did i spell that right?) . Also the reason why those memories are so important. The ring wasnt explained. Even the diary wasn't explained. And destroying them wasn't explained. I think people were so happy with the action they didnt notice all the little important things. I know the first time i watched i was just like "omg awesome"...the second time i was like "yeah nice work but what about all this stuff"...u know what i mean?

You should check this out: http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/20930.html
they share your view on the horcrux things, only it's hilarious!

Of all of the HP movies, the only one I actually like is POA. Which is strange because anyone who has read the book hates it. Even people who haven’t read the book hate it. It’s been forever since I’ve read the book, so I sort of don’t even remember what *actually* happens anymore, but I still like watching the movie.

The HBP movie really sort of pissed me off though. The ending was incredibly flat and unemotional unlike the ending in the book, and they left out tons of important information. I don't really see how anyone who hasn't read the book(s) would understand what the F happens in DH. My siblings (who haven't read any of the HP books) barely get what happens in the previous movies.

dimkaluv wrote:

Of all of the HP movies, the only one I actually like is POA. Which is strange because anyone who has read the book hates it. Even people who haven’t read the book hate it. It’s been forever since I’ve read the book, so I sort of don’t even remember what *actually* happens anymore, but I still like watching the movie.

ugh, how could you like POA? It's crap!

I just like it!!

I don't know. There's just something about Gary Oldman... But actually, I don't know. In the movie you feel the urgency of Sirius' and Buckbeak's situation. I'm not saying you don't feel it while reading the book, because I'm sure you do. And I really like the time turner part. It's completely different from the book, but I think it's pretty cool. And I like the way Emma and Dan interact. I think you mentioned to me before that you don't like Emma because in the movies it's like Hermione and Harry have a thing. But I don't really see that. To me it seems more like a genuine friendship.

And I guess it's because this is the last movie/book where things are still looking up. You know, they save Sirius and Buckbeak and happy ending right? No. Because Sirius dies in OOTP and... do we ever find out what happens to Buckbeak after that? Anyway. The series just gets increasingly darker as it continues. Do you get what I'm saying? Nobody we like dies until after POA. There is still that hope that everything will be okay.

Also, the soundtrack is pretty sweet.

dimkaluv wrote:

I just like it!!

I don't know. There's just something about Gary Oldman... But actually, I don't know. In the movie you feel the urgency of Sirius' and Buckbeak's situation. I'm not saying you don't feel it while reading the book, because I'm sure you do. And I really like the time turner part. It's completely different from the book, but I think it's pretty cool. And I like the way Emma and Dan interact. I think you mentioned to me before that you don't like Emma because in the movies it's like Hermione and Harry have a thing. But I don't really see that. To me it seems more like a genuine friendship.

And I guess it's because this is the last movie/book where things are still looking up. You know, they save Sirius and Buckbeak and happy ending right? No. Because Sirius dies in OOTP and... do we ever find out what happens to Buckbeak after that? Anyway. The series just gets increasingly darker as it continues. Do you get what I'm saying? Nobody we like dies until after POA. There is still that hope that everything will be okay.

Also, the soundtrack is pretty sweet.

I get it, it's the last happy storyline (sort of)...but since it was my fave book I judge a lot.

OMG Kim, that was super funny. I choked on my soda reading the "you shalllllll nottttttt passsssssssss " part. tehehe

SecretMagic wrote:

Peace love n VA wrote:

What bothered me about the last movie is the horcruxes ( did i spell that right?) . Also the reason why those memories are so important. The ring wasnt explained. Even the diary wasn't explained. And destroying them wasn't explained. I think people were so happy with the action they didnt notice all the little important things. I know the first time i watched i was just like "omg awesome"...the second time i was like "yeah nice work but what about all this stuff"...u know what i mean?

You should check this out: http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/20930.html
they share your view on the horcrux things, only it's hilarious!

I think even during movie 6, even though it's finally where the Post-Columbus movies in general stopped sucking drivel-fests, it still doesn't change the fact that W.B has a newfound love for shooting themselves[and the fans!] at their feet!>_>

Seriously, it's why i'd stick with Universal Studios movies, because at least they're less bound to be feet-shooting, for the most part!

Peace love n VA wrote:

OMG Kim, that was super funny. I choked on my soda reading the "you shalllllll nottttttt passsssssssss " part. tehehe

Even though I've read it hundreds of times, I still find it all funny. If you scrolled down the comments section you'd also find a moving picture of the "pincers" part

It still doesn't change my mind that W.B shoot themselves at their feet too many times to count!>_>

To make matters more agonizing, even if the Big 3 series of this decade's Urban Literature[P.J.O/V.A/T.M.I] plus Cirque Du Freak, end up getting far better reception than the twilight craze, some of the problems would still remain, like the outright excess of morons, for one thing, flooding the fan-bases, the twi-trolls out making war on all the other fan-bases as the True Twilighters failed to stop them...seriously, it's worse than the Star Trek V.S Star Wars days, because at least both series have bad-@ssery and logic to back up their science or mysticism, respectively!Not to mention that both managed to pass the test of time, something i can only see the Potter-World doing, as opposed to twilight, for that matter, and both S.T and S.W stuck with the real meaning of saga, hence the countless exploits against otherwise impossible odds![Something the Potter-World does, all the time, while the only heroic exploit i recall twilight doing, is having to face Victoria in a war to the death, and even that felt like wasted potential, right there!]

As Juliet had it easy, as she never had to kill Romeo, as Rose adequately worded it, the fans of either massive epic at that time had it easy, in the sense that it's mostly just private confrontations and matters of sheer bad-@ssery on both sides!Something that's admirable, as opposed to the one-side fests that were the Potter-World against twilight,in which only one of them had sheer bad-@ssery and at least somewhat correct statements, as opposed to constant formulatic Climax Censor-ships and not even alot of personality, either!>_>

Not to mention both of them are often well-managed, for the most part, when admittably, the Potter-World movies, on the other hand..sadly, they felt so wimpified, for the most part it horrifies me that such mysticism felt wasted..at least the fact the Potter-World could take on Mortal Kombat!

^Was kept, since the Potter-world as a whole was supposed to at least be capable of fighting either the Middle-Earth sorcerers or the Mortal Kombatants to a stand-still, or at least until either ends up tiring out..twilight in general, on the other hand...with plausable exceptions being Carlisle, Emmett, and Jacob[the ones with 3-dimensional personalities, plus fighting talent and craft!] wouldn't last 10 seconds against the bulk of either of the two listed, or the Street Fighters, or even the fighters of the Dragonball trilogy, for that matter, since their capabilities are too limited, for people with limitless life-spans!Edward could barely be capable of fighting Perseus Jackson to a stand-still, but that's mainly because Percy is a child of the Olympian Sea God, not the Olympian God of the Underworld, plus Percy fought more foes than just mere mortals, i might add!It's another story if he has to fight a child of Hades, let alone the ancient Titans of the ancient Olympian Tales, for that matter!

I could go on, but i might needlessly drag it on without leaving anyone room to add more to all that, if i do!

Lol