Are you a true Muggle or do you have a bit of wizard or witch in you?

Have you read the books?

Have you seen the movie?

Share love for everyone's favorite little wizard.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

Answers

I'm a witch, baby.

Have them all so far in hardback. Love them. Am sad that the new one won't be out in March as previously announced.

Saw the movie 3 weeks ago and it kicked ass. Going to see it again Monday night with adults only and alcoholic beverages. Which only makes it better. I'll probably see it Thanksgiving weekend again when I'm home.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

I like to think I have a little bit of witch running through the ol' veins over here. I was Prof. McGonnagal for halloween, I read all the books (within a week of reading the first one...I am an addict, alright?) I have been going crazy waiting for book 5, and the movie. I am planning on seeing the movie tonight at midnight...hopefully the little kids will be thinned out a little at that hour. It is playing in SIX theaters here, every half hour from nine a.m. to midnight. Whoo! I just hope that the movie sticks with the book. The only thing that is bothering me is the commercialization of it...I hate seeing little kids carrying around horrible looking plastic wands. I hoped that people would just use their imagination a little and make that stuff for their kids. Oh well, right? Someone is making some money, anyway.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

Yeah, as much as I'd like to see it tonight I don't want to get stuck sitting behind some kid in a huge witch's hat.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2001

So Al and I saw the movie last night.

It was great. Fantastic. Wonderful. I want to see it again.

Of course it lacked the complexity of the book, but that was to be expected. But they stuck very close to the book and didn't add anything that wasn't already there. I was very pleased.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Yo, I saw it tonight. I took notes throughout the entire movie, much to the chagrin of my friends who were dragged along with me. I'll have to review the notes and get back to you.

In sappy news, I actually cried every time I saw the Great Hall, and when HP saw his parents in the mirror. Wept in the movie theatre, ya'll. I'm such a dork.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 2001

Hmmph...

I loved the book, but hated the movie. I thought the acting was atrocious and that they tried to cover way too much in 2 1/2 hours. While the bricks going to Diagon Alley were slick as can be, the invisibility cloak was lame.

I really didn't expect the reviews I've read. I was really just hoping that the movie would end, while the self-made critic says he wished it was longer. I just don't understand.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001

Fred, I am with you. I mean, I didn't hate it, but I thought they could have given us more.

Actually, I think all problems could have been solved if we'd just had a little more DIALOGUE, for God's sake. I know the current trend in film making is to just make a two hour music video, and I hate that.

If they had written the screeplay to include more dialogue from the book, it may have made the story make more sense. Some of the actors were onscreen for like, three seconds. Alan Rickman was not used nearly enough - Snape is huge in the book. And the other professors might as well not have even been included, as they were hardly seen.

I question whether or not people who haven't read the book will be able to really get the idea. I mean, they may be able to follow it, but they're being robbed of a great story.

All that being said, I did enjoy the movie. They flew! And I liked Harry and Ron, a lot.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001

Al, I think you hit the nail on the head.

I couldn't help but feel like I was missing out on something as I watched the movie last night. It felt like a ton was left unsaid and while the overall premise was there, I couldn't help but wonder what I was really missing out on.

R and I both want to read the books now, if only to catch up on all we missed.

-- Anonymous, November 23, 2001

First off, I JUST saw it (like, 10 minutes ago) and I'd been avoiding this thread until I'd seen it.

I thought it was amazing. Every time I saw Hogwart's or Hagrid or anything magical I too got weepy. It was just MAGIC. So much of it looked exactly as I'd imagined it and Ron was just fantastic.

That said, I didn't even consider what it might be like to see the movie without having read the books, and yes, I can see how you'd be like, who? what? I don't. You? They're going where? Hagrid has a what?

I did want more dialogue, more story, and I think that's where people who've said they stuck TOO close to the book are right on. I'm glad that we got the entire school year and saw Harry at the zoo, at with the Dursleys, but yeah, some of that could've been cut out so that we could've focused more on the school and the fantastic things that happened there.

But the Quidditch game? That was SO cool. (What am I, 8?)

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001

I love the books, but I didn't love the movie. It's not that it was bad, it was just so much less than it could have been. I did love Alan Rickman, but I thought that Dumbledore and Hagrid were too 1-dimensional and that Harry's family was more funny than scary.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2001