All your butts are belong to me!

[42Bonzo88]

   Sorry Barm, I'm a little on edge with having two days off in the last 3 weeks and working both jobs most days. I guess I'm a little cranky. *Bows to all* My apologies to one and all.

[Barmacral]

Even from an adaptation point they aren't that impressive, the first three do ok, but by the fourth one they cut out every single side plot in there because the core story takes up so much of the film.

[Barmacral]

And Bonzo, thats cool, don't worry about it, just keep in mind to keep in check in the future.

[reyler]

Well, I was initially only watching it while Smackdown was at commercial, so I can only account for the adaptation from the forest on, which, while more or less accurate, was still sort of paint-by-numbers and boring.

[Barmacral]

The only thing that movie really has going for it is when you look a the actors now, then look at them then, its kind of a "Holy crap they're young!" thing...

[42Bonzo88]

    I think some of the adults did pretty good acting for instance the dudes who play Snape, Lupin, Weasley, and Black. Mrs. Weasley gets better and I always liked Magonagal.

[reyler]

How is a time capsule a plus?

[Barmacral]

Heh, ask my mother, sister, aunts and female cousins who can never get over how young they were in that movie when they watch it...

[reyler]

That only ever happens to me if I'm only familiar with the older version of an actor. I've been passively observing the Harry Potter actors age for years.

[Barmacral]

Fair enough, the Harry Potter movies have been in the making for so many years that we almost half grew up with them... I know I saw Harry Potter 4 with some friends in first year Uni, and that was a while back...

[reyler]

I'm not so into Potter that I'd go see it in theatres versus waiting for the home release. I'm not much for theatres. And book seven was kind of weak anyway, what with trying to milk epicness out of killing off characters I didn't care about.

[Barmacral]

I enjoyed the end of the 7th book, and I went more because my roommate and 3 of my friends all wanted to go, so I figured what the hell. Then I dropped my wallet in the theatre and had to wait for the absolutely full show to empty so I could go back up and get it, and I was practically dying from the desperate need to use the bathroom... its a good thing I did though, because a friend of mine dropped his cell phone in there too.

[reyler]

I'm sorry, why do I care if Crabbe goes and nukes himself? Prior to that scene he was a complete nonentity.

[Barmacral]

Eh, because its fun to read about idiots killing themselves with fire.

 

And this spamming thing is getting harder now that others are flooding posts to the top, making me ahve to search for the ones I've been participating in...

[42Bonzo88]

    Sorry, Barm, but for awhile we were getting nobody spamming, so it is better!  I liked the 7th book to, I thought the part where they rode the Dragon out of Gringotts stretched it a bit though.

[Barmacral]

Eh, its a little easier now, things have slowed down a bit.

[reyler]

If I have to sit back and say wait a second who's this guy again wasn't he just a guy that followed Malfoy around and never had any lines or development, then it takes me right out of the story.

[Barmacral]

My biggest peeve with the story was killing one of the twins. That was just something that wasn't really needed, she very easily could have killed another Weasely, killing Percy would have been perfect, since he'd just made up with his family.

[reyler]

Yeah, but then it would have seemed like she thought he had it coming. If she had killed off Lupin in book 3 when I actually cared about him, it might have affected me, but as it is the only deaths in book 7 that were worth reading were Dobby and Snape.

[Barmacral]

The point of the Lupin / Tonks deaths were to bring the godfather thing to a full circle. It worked, but was kinda anti-climactic. I don't actually even remember reading about either of them dying. As far as I recall, I only know they were dead because their bodies were found after the fact.

[reyler]

Their deaths weren't shown because Harry didn't see them. And from what Rowling said, they died because she wanted someone's parents to kick off, and she wussed out on axing Arthur Weasley in book 5.

[Barmacral]

Ahh, that makes sense then. And I could see that. Thats one thing I love about Sanderson and GRRM, they have no hesitation to knock out their characters.

[reyler]

I really ought to get around to reading their work. I haven't been to the library in so, so long. And I always hesitate to pick up a fantasy series because I can almost never find the first book to start from.

[Barmacral]

Ahh, I tend to buy books because when I go to the library I'll make it through about 4 trips before I get busy and forget to return a book, then I go back a year later, pay the 20 dollar fine and do it over again.

[mcs0083]

If you all need some fantasy series recommended to you I'd be happy to oblige.