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GOOD GOD...!

I've been reading this book every day at my job during my lunch hour....the damn thing is OVER 800 PAGES LONG!
I'm not a "book reader"........but DAMN....I had to keep my eye on the clock to get back to work!

I'm down to the last 20 pages, or so......this movie, if done correctly IN TWO PARTS (which it NEEDS!) should KILL the competition!

Any of you-all read this?

Thoughts?

Here's the official Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EC2tmFVNNE

Love the ending and the trailer. But it will not be small child friendly. Oops said too much! The trailer looks spectacular. November is my daughter's birthday month. We saw almost every movie together. It will be awesome to see the last with her and her husband.

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artist4perry wrote:Love the ending and the trailer. But it will not be small child friendly. Oops said too much! The trailer looks spectacular.

...as if the last film was very kid friendly either. Kinda strange how it went from kids film (1st book/movie) to something that would give most kids nightmares.

of course, speaking of kid friendly

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:Love the ending and the trailer. But it will not be small child friendly. Oops said too much! The trailer looks spectacular.

...as if the last film was very kid friendly either. Kinda strange how it went from kids film (1st book/movie) to something that would give most kids nightmares.

of course, speaking of kid friendly

Have you ever read the original Grimms fairy tales? Many traditional children's stories would scare the crap out of a kid in their original form. My daughter will be 21 in November. I think the two of us can hack it. I can't wait! The wait from Nov. to July will be brutal.

I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

artist4perry wrote:

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:Love the ending and the trailer. But it will not be small child friendly. Oops said too much! The trailer looks spectacular.

...as if the last film was very kid friendly either. Kinda strange how it went from kids film (1st book/movie) to something that would give most kids nightmares.

of course, speaking of kid friendly

Have you ever read the original Grimms fairy tales? Many traditional children's stories would scare the crap out of a kid in their original form. My daughter will be 21 in November. I think the two of us can hack it. I can't wait! The wait from Nov. to July will be brutal.

nope, haven't read them...but it doesn't surprise me. Most stories that were adapted for kids lost a lot of the darker elements when they got the big screen treatment--compare the fairly-recent Peter Pan (which was based on the originals) to the Disney version. Hard to tell it's the same story.

I still think the Harry Potter stories got a lot darker over time. The first one might have been lightened up a little, but it was very faithful to the novel and pretty much qualified as kids movie. Sure didn't take long for that to change--not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

the early films, the later films, or all the above? The last movie released was pretty dark, and hard to believe it's the same series as the first film. They seem to get darker and darker each film.

Twilight does nothing for me either, for what it's worth.

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing. But my daughter and I read Harry Potter together since it was first published. She grew up sharing the book and movies with me. It is not for everyone. But I just love fantasy, you know me. I was into Beauty and the Beast as a child, and Alice in wonderland, Lord of the rings, the hobbit...........I may someday write stories to accompany my art.

I also loved the books Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath. Where the reader becomes part of the book. Neverending story.........part 1. My children love to read, my son wants to be a writer. Books are our movies. They fuel imagination and other worlds.

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing.

Twilight isn't a vampire movie....it's a teen romance soap opera that happens to have vampires in it. Not the same thing.

Vampires, if done well (ie Dracula) can be pretty darn scary and impressive. Someday, someone is going to have an original idea and do a serious vampire film again that will scare people to death and make them forget the boys going after the pretty girl element that has been popular recently. That day can't come soon enough.

kgdjpubs wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

the early films, the later films, or all the above? The last movie released was pretty dark, and hard to believe it's the same series as the first film. They seem to get darker and darker each film.

Twilight does nothing for me either, for what it's worth.

I tried to read the Harry Potter books with my kids but none of us liked them-we got through the first and part of the second. I saw the first movie and hated it, saw the second and hated it and gave up on all things HP.

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing. But my daughter and I read Harry Potter together since it was first published. She grew up sharing the book and movies with me. It is not for everyone. But I just love fantasy, you know me. I was into Beauty and the Beast as a child, and Alice in wonderland, Lord of the rings, the hobbit...........I may someday write stories to accompany my art.

I also loved the books Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath. Where the reader becomes part of the book. Neverending story.........part 1. My children love to read, my son wants to be a writer. Books are our movies. They fuel imagination and other worlds.

I LOVE to read, and I read A LOT! I'd much rather read than watch movies or TV most of the time, but fantasy is just not my thing. BUT it takes different types to make the world go 'round!

Angel wrote:

kgdjpubs wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

the early films, the later films, or all the above? The last movie released was pretty dark, and hard to believe it's the same series as the first film. They seem to get darker and darker each film.

Twilight does nothing for me either, for what it's worth.

I tried to read the Harry Potter books with my kids but none of us liked them-we got through the first and part of the second. I saw the first movie and hated it, saw the second and hated it and gave up on all things HP.

if you ever see it on tv, try Half-Blood Prince--you'd be amazed how dark it is (much closer to Lord of the Rings than Peter Pan in tone). Might as well be a different series, and it's a world away from the lighthearted first couple of films. The movies changed quite a bit after the first two when they started changing directors.

kgdjpubs wrote:

Angel wrote:

kgdjpubs wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

the early films, the later films, or all the above? The last movie released was pretty dark, and hard to believe it's the same series as the first film. They seem to get darker and darker each film.

Twilight does nothing for me either, for what it's worth.

I tried to read the Harry Potter books with my kids but none of us liked them-we got through the first and part of the second. I saw the first movie and hated it, saw the second and hated it and gave up on all things HP.

if you ever see it on tv, try Half-Blood Prince--you'd be amazed how dark it is (much closer to Lord of the Rings than Peter Pan in tone). Might as well be a different series, and it's a world away from the lighthearted first couple of films. The movies changed quite a bit after the first two when they started changing directors.

I agree, but the books took that tone as well. My stuff is far from dark. I am not into death, dispare, distruction. Gnomes, fairies, woodland folk, trees with faces, that is all over my work. Frogs too. And tons of animals. I love stories like this one and LOR. Avatar was great because of the streatch in cinimatics. We are going to see great things due to the advances in film.

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing.

Twilight isn't a vampire movie....it's a teen romance soap opera that happens to have vampires in it. Not the same thing.

Vampires, if done well (ie Dracula) can be pretty darn scary and impressive. Someday, someone is going to have an original idea and do a serious vampire film again that will scare people to death and make them forget the boys going after the pretty girl element that has been popular recently. That day can't come soon enough.

Considering it came from a comic strip, I thought 30 Days Of Night was done well. The ending was hokey but the rest of it was pretty good.

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing.

Twilight isn't a vampire movie....it's a teen romance soap opera that happens to have vampires in it. Not the same thing.

Vampires, if done well (ie Dracula) can be pretty darn scary and impressive. Someday, someone is going to have an original idea and do a serious vampire film again that will scare people to death and make them forget the boys going after the pretty girl element that has been popular recently. That day can't come soon enough.

I remember one that was pretty scary for me as a kid was The Night Stalker with Darin McGavin.

steveo777 wrote:

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing.

Twilight isn't a vampire movie....it's a teen romance soap opera that happens to have vampires in it. Not the same thing.

Vampires, if done well (ie Dracula) can be pretty darn scary and impressive. Someday, someone is going to have an original idea and do a serious vampire film again that will scare people to death and make them forget the boys going after the pretty girl element that has been popular recently. That day can't come soon enough.

I remember one that was pretty scary for me as a kid was The Night Stalker with Darin McGavin.

Fright Night was on TV after midnight and I was 13 and babysitting - holy crap, that movie scared me!

I love the Harry Potter series, but I didn't get into them when they first came out. I had just started working for Chapters and the third book was out that August - I thought it sounded interesting, but it was a children's series and I didn't want to jump on the bandwagon anyway. All of the hype actually put me off.

Fast forward about 4 years and I was staying at my best friend's house who had just bought the DVD of The Chamber of Secrets and being a good guest, I was going to watch it with her and her husband, but thought I should watch The Philosospher's Stone first so I wasn't lost. I was hooked from that point - what a brilliant story! Luckily she also had the books, but I read the first one that night and went to the bookstore the next day to buy the rest that were out.

The series began rather darkly, with Harry Potter orphaned when his parents are murdered, but it wasn't dwelled upon or shown graphically in the movie. As the characters grow up, so do the readers so they're at an age where they can handle the developments. Reading the books is one thing - it's safer for a younger child to process, but parents have to be careful about whether they are old enough to watch the later movies. Some of the imagery is dark and too scary for kids. I was not thrilled to watch dead bodies float up and crawl out of the water in The Half-Blood Prince either, but I prefer the books to the movies. The first one gave me a great sense of things, but I didn't like how the stories were changed and edited for film.

SherriBerry wrote:
Fright Night was on TV after midnight and I was 13 and babysitting - holy crap, that movie scared me!

To add to this, Sherry, there will be a remake of Fright Night. It will be filmed in Albuquerue, NM, and I think Las Vegas later this summer.

Clasicrockldy wrote:

SherriBerry wrote:
Fright Night was on TV after midnight and I was 13 and babysitting - holy crap, that movie scared me!

To add to this, Sherry, there will be a remake of Fright Night. It will be filmed in Albuquerue, NM, and I think Las Vegas later this summer.

I'll have to watch it when it comes out, but only on DVD at home where I can hide behind my pillow!

I'm disappointed with the movies overall. They left out a bunch of important parts and put more focus on unimportant parts (imo) like the teen relationship drama in HBP. I don't know how someone who never read the books would be able to follow the movies because of what they gloss over... even I was lost during the Order of the Phoenix movie because I hadn't read the book for years. I think that Goblet of Fire and beyond should have ALL been two-parters.

That being said, I always do get excited about the movies when they come out, and I can't wait for DH.


And don't compare Harry Potter to Twilight! They're only similar in that they're young adult fantasies, I guess...

Don wrote:

kgdjpubs wrote:

artist4perry wrote:

Angel wrote:I just CANNOT get into Harry Potter...or the Twilight series. I must have issues.

I don't care for the whole vampire thing.

Twilight isn't a vampire movie....it's a teen romance soap opera that happens to have vampires in it. Not the same thing.

Vampires, if done well (ie Dracula) can be pretty darn scary and impressive. Someday, someone is going to have an original idea and do a serious vampire film again that will scare people to death and make them forget the boys going after the pretty girl element that has been popular recently. That day can't come soon enough.

Considering it came from a comic strip, I thought 30 Days Of Night was done well. The ending was hokey but the rest of it was pretty good.

You mean comic book, right? Not a newspaper strip. 30 Days Of Night was a really cool concept, but it should have been 7 Days Of Night, because a) the entire 30-day period didn't have to be exploited to tell an effective story, and b) I don't think humans would have survived an entire month in that scenario. Also, the two head vampires looked cool (especially the chick), but some of the others elicited laughs from the audience, especially the token "Asian vampire dude."

Read and loved all the Harry Potter books and have seen all movies to date. The last movie was a disappointment because the parts that were left out of the movie were essential to tell the back story that will be needed to really understand the depth of the next movie if you haven't read the books.

I'm hoping that maybe there will be a way to bring that stuff out in the last movie to make the story complete.

ohsherrie wrote:Read and loved all the Harry Potter books and have seen all movies to date.

The last movie was a disappointment because the parts that were left out of the movie were essential to tell the back story that will be needed to really understand the depth of the next movie if you haven't read the books.

Which is PRECISELY WHY I took on reading HP & TDH.....SO glad I did. I was so FREAKING LOST at the HBP movie.

I'm hoping that maybe there will be a way to bring that stuff out in the last movie to make the story complete.

That's my hope, too...I mean, it IS in 2 parts....y'know....?