Can’t seem to get away from this Evil lad!!
Man, i hate Harry Poter.
Whew… I thought that I was alone on my crusade against Harry Potter! This d@mn movie has taken almost all theaters of town 
– Kiasyd
You guys are just jealous 'cause you know he’d beat Bruce Lee like a rug.
Chang Style Novice
You guys are just jealous 'cause you know he’d beat Bruce Lee like a rug.
Oh, that depends… Broomsticks are allowed?? :rolleyes:
– Kiasyd
Forget Bruce… Harry vs Yip Man 
Who would take it?
Skard1
The movie was actually pretty good. I took my oldest to see it this weekend. I was entertained, but he loved it!!
Harry Potter isn’t anything more than Willy Wonka with magic.
The movie and the books (which are badly written by the way from an adult professional level) are all geared towards kids. If you take them in that light then they become more more palatable.
But I still won’t go see the d*mn thing.
every other adult i’ve heard from LOVED them. including a couple of writer friends.
but opinions vary, i guess. in any event, i’m pretty indifferent.
stuart b.
I just finished reading all 4 harry potter books. They start good and get better. I read them back to back and saw the film about 10 days ago. That was good, too though I decided i hate cinemas - too loud and it’s weird seeing people’s heads so big. Altogether unnatural.
Badly written? I don’t agree at all.
I saw the movie and didn’t like it… too childish…
No violence, no blood, only “cute” little children running
around, eating candy and opening presents…
Can’t wait to see some REAL fantasy… LOTR !!
BTW, isn’t Harry supposed to be a magician?
How come he didn’t use ANY magic in the whole
friggin movie? Instead he let a girl fight for him…
Magic, not your Johnson
Magic not used by Harry Potter in the Harry Potter movie? Theoretically, there is some aspect of magic that only requires a gesture and a thought. With that the broom to the hand was magic used by Harry Potter in the Harry Potter movie.~
POTTER IS SATAN!!!
Harry Potter wasn’t a magician— he is a wizard. you know, “You’re a wizard Harry!” I don’t know the difference, I havn’t read the books but maybe he doesn’t do magic, he might just be magical. I mean he can fly on a broomstick… I can’t do that. And the movie was probably childish because it was a child’s movie. I went and got a kick out of it but them some would say i’m a child so…i dunno.
I saw it.
before I saw it I was wondering what the hype was with all of these adults that are behaving like children to go read these books and see this movie.
personally before experiencing it myself I thought that it was just Pokemon, or Power Rangers or Spice Girls, or New Kids on the Block on a grander and scarie scale only because grown adults were on harrys jock.
well now that ive seen it , i enjoyed it but i still wonder whats so special about harrys jock? , i mean it was a real cool show and i enjoyed it thoroughly…but i just dont get the hype still, maybe if i read the book…
But what was really cool was in Kiss of the dragon the fight scene with jet and the twins… that was cool …
but ahm back to harry.
harry potter (didn’t capitalize because his name doesn’t diserve that respect) is a total and utter jive.
Finally! A place on the forum where we can talk about Harry Potter!!:eek:
Not a magician, a wizard
Good mention. Not a citizen of the United States, the President of the United States. A wizard is a class or sub category of one who uses Magic. A wizrad does not do wiz they too do magic. They do it way better than perhaps a lower level magic user.
Not do magic but is magical, good thinking halfling.
Well, I can tell you why the books are so popular here in England.
For a start, they are intelligently written, but done so from a childs perspective, without the need to condescend or patronize.
But the main reason for the popularity, in my opinion, is largely independent of the magic and wizardry aspects.
At the end of the day, they are school stories. True, a different type of school from the one the average kid will attend, but still recognizable.
They are not so very different from the Enid Blyton school stories from the 30s/40s, which are still popular today. They also deal with boarding schools, friends, favourite/hated teachers, and other things which kids can relate to.
Those books hark back to a more innocent time, when drugs and violence, teenage pregnancy, hell, even sex before marriage were not part of the popular conciousness, and didn’t exist in the popular writing of the time.
I suspect a large proportion of adults enjoy them for the same reason they enjoyed the Blyton era books.
you know I usually hear that intelligently written comment in reference to the harry potter books and nobody until now has really clarified what intelligently written means or get into the psychology of what it is people are looking for, and why this satisfies that need.
I mean the Stand by King was intelligently written and I remember X-Men comics being intelligently written back in the day when I was a teen reading that stuff , Yeah both King and Marvels X-men have thier fans but this Harry Potter stuff not only does it sell well and have the merchandice thing going as well, but this insane contraversy about it being devil worship.
mmnkay. I never heard anyone create such a havok about comics which involve fantasy before. never heard anyone say" boy that jean grey or boy that wolverine is the devil !"
who knows maybe they have.
but what about mickey mouse in fantasia he was a wizard in that. and there was magic in cinderella and sleeping beauty how come nobody lashes out against these stories. or quotes bible passages that denounce these fairy (faerie) tales?
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/fantasia2000/flash/interface.html