I think I understand...

[saintbacchus]

Oh, don't leave! Your posts are brilliant. It's to be
expected that the literalist/cinephile debate will recur
every time a new movie comes out, but it has to subside
eventually. Also, PoA is the favorite of a good chunk of
fans, so the debate about whether or not the movie lives
up to it is going to be particularly, er, lively. At the
moment, I'm finding it difficult to look at the film
objectively, because I'm ecstatic that they've decided
to make them into films and not glorified Viewmaster
slides - I kind of feel like I need to defend that point
no matter what I thought of the movie on its own.

Plus it takes some of us a little longer to see a movie
8 1/2 times while it's still in the theater. ^_~ I, for
one, will be able to contribute more substantive posts
once the movie comes out on DVD.

--Anna