Sunday, July 15, 2007

Harry Potter

I went to Charleston with Alice and Bee Jay yesterday to catch Harry Potter on the 3-D Imax screen. I was disappointed. The movie was good, but not all I thought it should be. Out of the three of us, Bee Jay was the only one whose 3d glasses worked properly. I just saw a regular screen with one or two moments that maybe, kinda, sorta looked like they were in 3d. Poor Alice saw three of everything and could hardly tell what was going on.

Here are my words of wisdom regarding this movie. If you want to see this movie, but have not seen the previous HP movies or read the books, you must, must, must at the very least watch the previous movies before going to this one. This movie will not make sense to you at all otherwise. Reading the book before seeing the movie will help you get alot more of the movie. Movies always leave out stuff from the book. This move left out tons of stuff and made references to stuff that happened in the book, but didn't go into full explanation of that reference. So you get alot more if you have read the book(s).

2 comments:

patrick | steed said...

granted, the book was ALMOST a thousand pages.

and i just heard it was the shortest of all the movies, but i don't believe that.

Anonymous said...

It was the shortest of all the movies.... The director made it a point to not "bore" the movie-goers with a long movie. Bah Humbug. I agree with Dottie - it did not live up to my expectations.

sigh... at least we have the books!