Yes, LOTR is definitely more metal. Just ask Blind Guardian.

Haha I watched the film last night, it was pretty cool, ended really fucking quickly though and Sirius Black's death was really shit.... spent too long building up to too little!!!

ribbons69 wrote:Just finished the book.


Blimey.

Just finished it myself.................

BLIMEY!!!!

Can someone tell me the ending please? I can't be bothered to ever read the books.

Wikipedia..

jonny_boy34 wrote:Can someone tell me the ending please? I can't be bothered to ever read the books.

nahhhh

i did just post it but that might annoy some poeple

Finished it last night. Everybody dies except for Harry and Voldemort who get married and play with each others wands for eternity.

Thats a bit of a surprise ending! Wasn't expecting that!

I finished it last night. BLIMEY

Just watched Order of the Phoenix.
Before I venture my opinion, here's where I stand on the HP films so far:

Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone - Annoying, hideous, badly acted drivel.
Chamber of Secrets - Equally as ghastly but with more plot holes.
Prisoner of Azkaban - Predictable and obvious, but still better than the previous two.
Goblet of Fire - A massive improvement. God help me, I actually enjoyed this one.

So now to Order of the Phoenix...
Started well, faltered in the middle and lost my interest completely by the end. It does absolutely nothing but retread old ground and set things up for another film.
Hagrid was crowbarred into the last film for no real reason but even more so this time. He served only as a contrived plot device to show off some pointless cgi (Hagrid's half-brother - Shrek, anybody?) and help dispatch one of the "baddie" characters
Harry training the other kids how to use spells? What exactly have they been doing at Hogwarts for the past five years then?
Harry's scar - Oops, we totally forgot to mention it in the last film so if we keep repeating the words "scar" and "secret" enough times, people will queue like morons for the next film which probably still won't clear anything up.

Overall, although not as good as the last one, it was still better than the first two and about the same as the third.
5/10


Oh, and whichever retarded orangutan thought Ruper Grint could act deserves to have a particularly large, savagely pointed wand shoved up his hairy arse.

Books are always better than films!!!!!! The acting is just crap in all the HP films. The annoying thing is that for the last 2 books, i have visualized that nob who plays harry all the way through reading them

Darkweasel wrote:Hagrid was crowbarred into the last film for no real reason but even more so this time. He served only as a contrived plot device to show off some pointless cgi (Hagrid's half-brother - Shrek, anybody?) and help dispatch one of the "baddie" characters


Harry training the other kids how to use spells? What exactly have they been doing at Hogwarts for the past five years then?

Good write up! Two very good points which I agree with - having not read the book and just watching it as a stand alone film.

Mort - I guess it's inevitable that you would picture the film cast when reading - must be irritating though. It's one of the things that puts me off going back and finally reading the damn things!

the films must be terrible if you haven't read the books, if you've read them you can fill in the stupid plot ommisions and actually understand whats happening.

Harry Potter is strangely addictive but nothing outstanding in a literary sense. It's good that it gets kids reading though!.

Five pages of a Harry Potter thread?

You should all be thoroughly ashamed and go an watch Raw Deal to knock some straightness back into you!

Metal Iain wrote:Five pages of a Harry Potter thread?

You should all be thoroughly ashamed and go an watch Raw Deal to knock some straightness back into you!

and listen to Poison?