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to never be sure if I've seen all the Harry Potter films

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squoosh · 03/08/2013 17:10

......as they're all the same.

Hammy acting, evil forces, battling evil forces, resolution. And the odd British acting heavyweight along the way.

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squoosh · 03/08/2013 17:11

Oh and lots of snazzy magic.

Obviously.

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chanie44 · 03/08/2013 17:53

I'm so glad you said this. Other than the first one, I never know which one I'm watching, not could I tell you what happens In any of them.

LindyHemming · 03/08/2013 17:55

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ForgetfulNameChanger · 03/08/2013 18:08

YABUUUUUUUU.

GoldiChops · 03/08/2013 18:10
Honestly, well worth the watch and far better acting than the films. Also songs. Also two sequels!
eragon · 03/08/2013 19:43

I was given the box set from my son for christmas, but we have seen all of them when they came out and read all the books.

I went through a phase of watching them non stop for while.

also been to the studio tour once and want to go again.

love the books as well.

my older sons grew up with the films as they come out, as are same age as the main cast members, so i feel nostagic for my kids childhood.

Lj8893 · 03/08/2013 19:58

YABU!!!

They are amazing! (Although the books are better of course)

My dp used to rip it out of me for loving Harry potter and use to say the films were shit.

I've converted him and he is now a fan!

HilariousLotus · 03/08/2013 20:03
is amazing to watch after you have seen the films
FrenchRuby · 03/08/2013 20:06

I love them all. But then again I'm possibly THE biggest Harry Potter fan ever. The books got me through my childhood and the films I put on when I'm feeling crap and they always make me feel better. I went to the studio and cried (don't even care if that's pathetic haha). YABU.

KirjavaTheCat · 03/08/2013 20:09

Yabu! Angry

wickedwitchNE · 03/08/2013 20:12

YANBU and this made me laugh a lot.
I loved Harry Potter and have read the books many times over. For some reason always have trouble recalling the different films though. DP had just this conversation the other night!

llittleyello · 03/08/2013 20:14

never managed to watch a whole one.
rubbishy pseudo-latiney rubbish.
might've liked them when i was six- kindof like the Worst Witch books?
also walked out of spice girls the movie although that was slightly better.

SupermansBigRedPants · 03/08/2013 20:16

Always avoided HP but I've seen the first 2 and the last 1 definitely, the third and second to last maybe and positive no to the others.

Df loves them as does dd Hmm

thebody · 03/08/2013 20:17

huge potter fans here. have wonderful memories of dh reading goblet of fire to my older sons on a family holiday in Cyprus.

I listened while bf dd3.. just lovely.

what's wrong with a bit if fantasy. love the films too.

Bogeyface · 03/08/2013 20:24

I was snobby and anti HP for a long while purely on the principle that I detested grown adults banging on about kids books.

But DS got into them and ma bought him the first 2 on video, so I ended up watching bits of them when he had them on. It pissed me off that I didnt know what was happening so I ended up watching the first 2 just before he got the 3rd for his birthday. End of the third one I started reading the fourth book as I wanted to know what happened next and by the last book I was in Tesco just after midnight to buy it :o

LaGuardia · 03/08/2013 20:46

HP is the biggest load of bollocks this side of the Eastern Seaboard. My kids have/had no interest in boys flying about on broomsticks, and I am delighted about that. I cannot believe so many people need that crap in their lives.

Nirvana79 · 03/08/2013 21:02

I've never watched any of them. They just don't appeal to me. Same with Pirates of the Caribbean, LOTR, the Bourne movies.

MadeOfStarDust · 03/08/2013 21:11

The third one - Prisoner of Azkhaban was definitely the best - Gary Oldman out-acts the lot of them.... my kids loved the films, me... hmmmm not so much....

FrenchRuby · 03/08/2013 21:14

HP is the biggest load of bollocks this side of the Eastern Seaboard. My kids have/had no interest in boys flying about on broomsticks, and I am delighted about that. I cannot believe so many people need that crap in their lives

Well for me they got me through a shitty childhood in fostercare by giving me a distraction so they kind of have sentimental value to me. I love that my kids are getting into Harry Potter now too :)

FrenchRuby · 03/08/2013 21:14

The books that is, I do love the films as well though.

IneedAyoniNickname · 03/08/2013 21:17

Love the films here, actually watching number 3 right now, and am half way through number 3 as our bedtime book.
The books are far better though.
Planning a trip to studio tours this summer :)

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squoosh · 03/08/2013 21:17

That was the one that was on today, the Gary Oldman one.

I'm not snobby about Harry Potter and the devotion he inspires in people. I've never read the books, the only kids books I read are favourites from my own childhood, so I don't have a proper grasp on who all the peripheral characters are.

The films do feel very samey to me though and some of the acting, especially Hermione's, is pretty poor.

FrenchRuby love the idea of you being moved to tears at Harry Potter land! Grin

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FrenchRuby · 03/08/2013 21:18

Dh was very embarrassed haha! I didn't care.

PissesGlitter · 03/08/2013 21:20

I have never seen any of them and that's the way I intend to keep it

wanderings · 03/08/2013 21:23

I used to growl at those 6ft cardboard cutouts which were everywhere when the first film was out on video. (How very quaint, video!) When I tried to read the first book, I found the beginning with the Dursleys so tedious I never got as far as Hogwarts.

I was eventually sold on HP when the programme "The Big Read" told of how HP is full of school politics, and the parallels between the Wizarding world and the Muggle world. I liked most of the later films; Luna was by far my favourite character.

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