Harry Porter 5 great movie or just some cash cow for the film industry?

The Harry Potter films are a fantasy series based on the series of seven Harry Potter novels by British writer J. K. Rowling. At the time of release, the first five films currently released had become the highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipts, but this has since been overtaken by the James Bond series. The series consists to date (2008) of five motion pictures with the latest instalment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, released in cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 12 July 2007, and in Canada, Asia, Australia and the United States on 11 July 2007. In the United States, the revenue from the midnight opening was $12 million and first day revenues overtook Spider-Man 2's record ($40.4 million) for the highest Thursday opening at $44.2 million. Warner Brothers holds the rights to produce adaptations of the two remaining novels, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The first of these entered production in the autumn of 2007 and has a projected release date of 15 July 2009, and will be directed by David Yates. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be split into two films, part one (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) is due out on 19 November 2010; the second part (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2) is due out on 15 July 2011. dont forget to mark me as a best response bye happy mylotting.............

Stephen you are obviously not a great fan of either the books or the films, otherwise you would at least have spelt his name right. HARRY POTTER, please. I watched the first film with my son when he was about 5 and started reading the books afterwards, using different voices for all the different characters etc. I think the first film was the best mainly because we had never seen anything quite like it before. J K Rowling has to be congratulated for helping children - and maybe a few adults even - get into reading again. I have enjoyed all the films as has my son, he is now 15 and can't wait for the final parts to be shown. As for age being anything to do with you enjoying the films, as other writers have said here - I am 44 years old and not ashamed to say I still love Harry Potter. But yes, to answer your question, of course we need to have the books all shown in film. There would be far too many disappointed children - and adults - around the world not to show the end result. It is about a lot more than a 'kid on a brromstick waving wands at peoples face' The books are definitely better than the films, but aren't they always and you could never show all the detail of the book in a film, you'd be watching it for a week! lol

I really can see why people would think that the series is just a way to make money for Rowling and Warner Bros, but it is based on a series of books which do have a climax, and the underlying theme and questions within the films should also come to a conclusion. My opinion is that books are always better than films, take the Crichton books compared to the films or the Tom Clancy ones, but the films are entertaining as well, just as the Harry Potter series is.

I am one of the biggest fan of Harry potter series and its more than a movie to me!!!Most of us already read the books and I totally agree that HP movies are nothing compared to them but everytime you read the book you simply imagine the characters and make a plot of the situation and what movies do is they capture our imagination.Watching our imagination is so much fun.

This is actually the 6th movie and there are two more after it. And yes they absolutely need to finish out the series. You (and by "you" I mean the grand, collective you, not you specifically) can't start making movies based on a book series like Harry Potter and not finish it. You will have very angry people if you do. If you didn't like the first three then don't bother with the rest, that is your prerogative, but don't ask ridiculous questions about whether or not the studio needs to finish out the series. Any series, for that matter. I'm actually very annoyed with Disney for chopping up the Narnia series and only scripting what they think is necessary. There are seven books in that series as well but they are only making movies based on the books that have the Pevensies (to be fair, I'm usually annoyed with Disney for one reason or another, so this really isn't anything new).

well, it probably is a cash cow, but... I'd like to see them finish what they started. Same reason I was glad the made Star Wars episodes one through three (no matter how silly they were) - and I hope that someday they get around to episodes seven through nine. I have many friends how have all the books, all the movies, and even little wands and movie props - all adults. The franchise is huge, pretty much blown out of proportion, and is going to continue anyways - might as well enjoy it. And as a diehard fan of Tolkien, the books are always better...

I saw all the book and movies, but as you said, it seems not so exciting for me at the moment. maybe I grow old,and the actors grow up, harry porter seems no longer the image in my mind. and books are getting longer and longer.

here what i think ,i think book is better than movie(5th).producers canot shrink the whole book in to a two hour movie so movie sucks,there is a rumor that the 7th book will be divide in to two movies.bythe way triler of the 6th movie looks promising but who can say.