And yet...I don't think that would stop me.

If it ever happened to come up...

Why are you all looking at me funny?

Truer words have never been spoke...

and oh, yeah the rest of what you said was pretty good too.

I'll admit it has been a while since I've seen them all, but one of the most striking things about the entire series that I remember has been the over glamorization of the magic...or rather maybe it's not so much the magic itself, but the world itself that has been glamorized or exagerted in such a way that ticked me off.

I've been meaning to go back and rewatch them all (Hell since I'm rereeading the entire series on audiobook right now, why not?), this would be a good excuse.

Although even if I am misremembering, nothing will ever forgive the story aspect of my arguement. ever.

I'll report back.

As much as my love for the series runs deep deep in my veins, I have long been an advocate for the anti-HP movies brigade.

I just don't think an adaptation to film should have even been attempted, to achieve an even roughly accurate translation of the books to screen is while I don't think impossible, it would definitly be a huge risk, intensly difficult and I doubt any would have even touched it. So instead we get: a story that has been hacked and diced into so many tiny pieces and spit on by so many different people that it only barely recognizes the books in the broadest strokes and even then it's barely a fading echo of the books
and an over glamorized, sparkly universe that treats magic like the sort of spectacle that begs to be oggled at and not simply a day to day reality of these characters lives.

That being said, i have had absolutely zero desire to see these movies. I will...eventually. But they have screwed up to much, to often and I'm not prepared to give them my money for a first run viewing.

Well...we just lost Matt.

Finally got around to watching this one and I gotta say. I likey, I likey a lot. They got me.

So I see you're taking this theme of movies almost no one will be able to see to a weekly level.

Don't really listen to a lot of audiobooks, but I just started the Harry potter series (Narrated by Stephen Fry! Eeeeee!!) and so far they are freaking awesome. (I'm about halfway through Prisoner of Azkaban right now)

That's all I have t say on the matter.

I'm definitly incredibly interested but it seems that the people in charge don't feel like letting me see it. So I think I'm gonna take matters into my own hands when I get home. <Insert evil laugh here>

But seriously I'm sick of this...helloooo torrents.

It was at the VIFF?!?! Dammit it all.

I'm in exactly the same boat...with the addition of the fact that I don't have 8 bucks to spare right now.