So yeah, I saw Harry Potter today.

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Please note that it's Shakespeare with an 'e'. I've never really dug the guy either-- I can appreciate some of the poetry, but all his plays are completely outmoded and irrelevant to what anyone thinks about today.
The fact that it can sometimes being boring and a tedious thing to read is the complaint I get the most, but the fact is that's how he meant the books to be.
Well shit, man, he wanted us all to be bored to freaking fuck? That explains everything-- he must be the best damned author in the world, 'cause he really achieved his aim.
And how can you not like the movies? That's like a sin or something... I mean, I'm sitting here still trying to think of anything wrong with the movies... I can't. I'm stumped.
Well, they did a great job of remaining true to the original books, which means they're pretentious, fanciful, too fucking long and completely incapable of saying anything interesting about anything at all.

And the last Potter book was kinda rubbish, yeah. I think it's 'cause she doesn't get edited anymore. My main issue with Harry Potter is its characters: they all seem to occupy this sort of Enid Blyton universe full of lashings of ginger beer and steak and kidney puddings; a world where peoples' arms can get chopped off but you can't swear about it. Of the three kids, Hermione's the only one with more than two dimensions to her character. Plus she's pretty hot, yeah.

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Pedo!

Anyhow, enough arguing about all these British authors and the movie series that followed. Let's discuss the upcoming movie translation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy instead!

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Shakespeare was brilliant for his time; unfortunately his time has long passed, his work has been regurgitated a hundred times, and no one really wants to make the effort to understand him anymore. *shrug*

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I want to see the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy movie (presumably one that doesn't have zaphod played by a guy with a papier mache blob on his shoulder... It's not fair on the late president's dress sense to have a cracked plaster abomination drawing attention from it!)...

...Ahem.

Where was I? Oh, yes. I like douglas adams. He's groovy.

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Sorry. I'll leave now.

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He's one hoopy frood.

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Well shit, man, he wanted us all to be bored to freaking fuck? That explains everything-- he must be the best damned author in the world, 'cause he really achieved his aim.
I guess I worded that wrong. I didn't mean that he meant it too be boring and tedious read through, but rather that he meant it to be sort of written like a history book, which either can or cannot be boring. Personally, I like history, so the LOTR really appealed to me. Plus, the movies draw a very close parallel to life with a lot of the realism taken away. Yet, it still feels like it's its own little world that can easily sustain itself. I mean, the guy wrote his own languages, for petesake.

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Did anybody else think book five of Hitchhikers' Guide ended incredibly lamely? I mean, what happened to Fenchurch? She was the best character.

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It was terrible. I'm pretty sure we aren't the only two who noticed, either. I usually pretend that one just doesn't exist.

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I pretend 4 and 5 don't exist. It's called a trilogy for a reason.

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Actually, I thought the fifth one was great, just unecessary... and (the adorable) Fenchurch's disappearance was inexcusable.

Fenchurch is a great name for a girl.

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Delphine wrote:The problem with the movies is that they take about 1/6th of the books and expect people who haven't read them to have any idea what's going on.

And the chick who plays Hermione is pretty hot.
Yes she is indeed.

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Segaholic2 wrote:Hey, I never said I thought she was hot. I was just confirming her extreme young age.

<A HREF="http://jasonkill.com/hermione/about.htm">This guy</A>, on the other hand....
*pukes* Ultra save us all!

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Back then I thought Harry Potter sucked, but after I saw the second movie Harry Potter turned out to be this shit! How good is the 3rd movie compared to the secod movie?

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Biby128 wrote: How good is the 3rd movie compared to the secod movie?
Much better. Although, if you didn't read the book, there's a big chance you'll wind up confused, as HP3 didn't copy and paste the story as much as the first two films did.

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I'd agree that not copying it word for word was the best. I finally had a chance to see it (been busy on deadlines) and was pleased by it. Darker settings, better direction, and the CG was awesome.

I just wish that certain things had been made more prominent. I was shocked to see that Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs was never expanded upon.

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That was a weird but good series. A little girl, her manifested soul, a boy, a scientist, and two gay angels set out to kill God and allow the power of love and sex to flow freely.
What the fuck. :shock:

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I just finished reading the first Harry Potter again last night, and started on the seceond book.

I forgot how much fun these were to read.

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That was a weird but good series. A little girl, her manifested soul, a boy, a scientist, and two gay angels set out to kill God and allow the power of love and sex to flow freely.
... really?

I actually recieved a little paperback boxset of the series as a gift a couple of years ago, but I've yet to read it. Is that really what it's about?

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I guess that would be a good way to describe the plot of the third book.

Either way, Segata, you really should read them.

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WB wrote:I'd agree that not copying it word for word was the best. I finally had a chance to see it (been busy on deadlines) and was pleased by it. Darker settings, better direction, and the CG was awesome.

I just wish that certain things had been made more prominent. I was shocked to see that Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs was never expanded upon.
Yeah. They really didn't explain enough in the movie, and that's the single major problem with it. It's still a good movie (which is a bit odd considering what they <i>didn't</i> explain), but man... There was just an assload of stuff that should've been mentioned that wasn't.

Well, I guess the first half of the movie was too short and should've had some longer/more scenes, but that's just being picky.



Oh, and let me say something about LotR... the Fellowship of the Ring (the book) <i>is</i> boring. Really boring. The other two books are absolutely brilliant. (From my standpoint, this is inarguable. Or unarguable. Whatever.)

...and this is my first post here, unless I posted on the old board forever ago.

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