Potter film breaks record in US

[wolfeskins]

my family and i saw the movie last night, it's very good. imo, it's better than GoF and tied with PoA as the best movie so far.

[70Chip]

She has great imagination and her style very readable for all ages and intellects without being dopey. She's far superior to a lot of big selling "adult" authors like Dan Brown or John Grisham or Tom Clancy. Dan Brown is just terrible.

You want to read some good fiction try John LeCarre or Fredrick Forsythe. I like Tom Wolfe as well, although I would get a lot of disagreement from some quarters there. Philip Roth is good. "Portnoy's Complaint" is some top notch filth. "London Fields" by Martin Amis is fantastic.

Then you've got Saul Bellow in a class by himself. "THe Adventures of Auggie March" is the greatest American novel, IMHO.

I also like Steinbeck. "Cannery Row" is a must read.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

She has great imagination and her style very readable for all ages and intellects without being dopey. She's far superior to a lot of big selling "adult" authors like Dan Brown or John Grisham or Tom Clancy. Dan Brown is just terrible.

Dan Brown is pretty bad, I agree, but she's not superior to Clancy or Grisham. I'm not trying to disparage her either because of what she's done for making such a great series for children and adults alike to want to read. I'm just saying she's not superior to Clancy IMO.

[Lady Brave]

I saw the movie yesterday and I was really disappointed. It felt like the movie was on fast forward from the opening scene. Very little time was spent on the Order. Barely any conversations that took place in the house were shown. It was the same with the prophecy storyline. Most of the focus was on Umbridge. The scene transitions were poorly done. Worst of all there was too little time spent on the battle in the ministry of magic and the conversation between Dumbledore and Harry. For those who are fans of the movies only, if you haven't read book 5, you will be thoroughly confused.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Lady Brave

I saw the movie yesterday and I was really disappointed. It felt like the movie was on fast forward from the opening scene. Very little time was spent on the Order. Barely any conversations that took place in the house were shown. It was the same with the prophecy storyline. Most of the focus was on Umbridge. The scene transitions were poorly done. Worst of all there was too little time spent on the battle in the ministry of magic and the conversation between Dumbledore and Harry. For those who are fans of the movies only, if you haven't read book 5, you will be thoroughly confused.

I haven't read the book but I did see the movie. It seemed to go by pretty quickly and the first thing I said to my girlfriend after the movie was "They didn't really talk much about the Order of the Phoenix did they?"

It wasn't a bad movie per se, but I think Goblet of Fire was significantly better