2nd viewing is so much better

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-I just came back from the 2nd viewing of the movie, and the 
> experience was WAY better than the first one! I really really enjoy 
> the movie MUCH more the 2nd time viewing and totally see it 
> independently from the book! It was great, I can truly enjoy it for 
> what it is (a movie itself) and feeling wanting to go see again ^^;;
>

I also found the 2nd viewing alot better than the first, mainly 
because the first time I went I couldn't relax into it being a film 
at all, I could only worry about what was and wasn't there, and how 
little bits should have been different. I also found it easier the 
second time not to, if you will, "read the bok whilst watching the 
film", that is, filling in words sotto voce that should have been 
there and weren't! 

There was a hilarious moment the first time I went: when Fred and 
George are explaining the Quidditch rules (a strange situation in 
itself) they say that referees are liable to vanish and turn up 
months later but never fill in the punch line "in the Sahara Desert". 
Where that line should have been, my friend Emma and I both, at 
exactly the same time, said "in the Sahara Desert". It was quite a 
true reflection, I think, of how well we all know the book, and 
therefore what we expected of the film. The second time I was a lot 
tempted to do this, and watched it for what it was, rather than a 
tense couple of hours in which I hoped they weren't going to ruin my 
favourite book.

Anyone else had moments like this??

 RavenSinger :-)