harry potter.

yeah i've heard that too about the books. but one of my favourite books is angela's ashes, and they made that into a film, and the film didn't do it justice.. and as fantastic as the twilight films are, with the exception to the last one that isn't out yet, the movies didn't do the books any justice. so as good as the books are, i still cannot fathom such hype about the films!

see!! that is crazyness!! lol!

I went to see the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on the first session too. It only started at midnight, but my friend arrived in the movie theatre at 8PM and already had a line of people. The persons started to arrive to the movie theatre at 5PM to get the best place.

i think its over rated. i think if there wasn't so much hype etc it would just be a good read, and an excellent film.. but its made into such a big huge fantastic deal, that when you actually then watch it, its like.. ok, story lines similar to this have been done before, and i've seen special effects like that before.. it takes away from it slightly i think!

I don't really like the term overrated because I don't think any one person should dictate what the masses like. Sure, I may not be a Harry Potter fan and I don't think the series is all that, but I don't think it's right to say that the people who do think it's all that just don't know what good entertainment is. I know that I hate it when people call my favorite series' overrated, so I imagine that they do too. I've read the books and seen the films and didn't like them. There are loads of people who did the same and loved them. It's just how the world works... not everybody is going to be thrilled with every book written and every movie released, and we really shouldn't act like there are universal laws that dictate what people should and shouldn't like. People who love Harry Potter are not deluded and people who hate it are not ill-informed.

no no, you seem to have misunderstood me. i am not saying harry potter ie, the story, the characters, the author, the books, etc are over-rated. i'm saying the films are over-rated on the basis, that if they had originally been films without all the hype of the books being turned into films, i doubt they would have reached the status they have. i mean, i adore the twilight books, people have told me the films are over-rated and entirely agree. I think if the films had been made, as a story, without books being involved, they would have been like any other film. yes harry potter and twilight would have been adored, loved even, and grossed millions for the production companies, but i strongly believe if they were not books to begin with, to increase the hype, they would not have been such majorly successful and sought after films! .. thats what i meant by over-rated!

a lot of people have said to me that even for not being harry potter fans in anyway the last film is actually just a pretty good film allover, so i may still watch it.. the hype about the special effects annoys me though, because we've seen all these special effects in other films, yet harry potter is made out to be the only film with these in it!

as much as it pains me to say it, i quite liked part 1 too.. dobby dying completely broke my heart, even though i hadn't seen any of the rest of them, so hadn't grew an affection for him until that movie, people actually told me to them it was heart breaking from knowing him from other films!

Ah, well. The first part was sorta crappy, but Part 2 completely blew me away. The special effects, the drama, and just the conclusion of something that influenced me my whole life just made my day. I recommend you watch the movie.

Just saw some pics of my colleagues watching harry potter and the deathly hollows part two in 3D. But I'm still thankful that I did not have my money go to waste. I'll just save them for a laptop with 3D glasses.

haha good idea!! :)

i think 3d is terrible! those glasses pinch your head and give you a headache and you end up fed up with them on half way through the film, yet you can't even watch the film without them on because it's blurred. i think it's really silly! and you have to pay for them! so you are right.. waaaay too expensive!

yeah, i do agree with you there, there is a huge fan base, so despite me not being particularily keen, there obvious is something that keeps everyone going back!