gotta smile at that....

[Rachel Bray]

On IMDB, Harry is finally under the Opening This Week 
category....Been waiting a long time for that one!

It amazes me the difference of opinions on these lists.  
For example....the people who hate the soundtrack.  That 
blows my mind!  How can someone dislike the music?  John 
Williams is and always will be one of the top two composers 
in film.  Look at all he's done.  He is a truly remarkable 
person with an amazing talent that never ceases to blow 
away his peers' work.  Who would you have picked?  I guess 
if it couldn't have been John Williams, I'd would have 
picked Danny Elfman.  No one else could have done this 
movie.

Let's all be grateful that there isn't a potential Top 40 
hit, like....oh, I don't know....a sappy something by 
Celine Dion titled "The Boy Who Lived" or "Chocolate Frogs 
and Every Flavor Beans of My Heart" or "Our Souls Are Bound 
Together By More Than Spellotape".  

And all this nit-picking on the scenes left out.....there's 
going to be DVD of it, I'm sure.  We'll just have to wait 
and see what pops up on that.

And for all you purists who have seen (are going to see) 
the movie, what exactly were you wanting to see?  Has there 
ever been a true Hollywood adaption of a book?  I'm not 
being critical at all, I'm really wanting to know.  I've 
said it before, the movie version of Harriet the Spy was 
terrible.  But from what I've seen in clips and the such, 
it looks like Harry is as close to the book as they can 
get.  And seeing that Jo Rowling was there and she seems 
very happy with it, what more could we want?

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
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