HP deaths Re: Harry Potter Ending

[potioncat]

 Stephen Vandecasteele  

> 
> I have stated this in a very respectful manner so I suppose 
> its time to be frank. Your correct, I have not read the 
> books, I could care less about the books, and care even less 
> regarding anyones opinion of that. I do love the movies as I 
> have watched them at least ten times each. Perhaps I will 
> submit should I be requested my review of the OOTP, that's 
> what I do by the way I review movies.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> PS If you will notice the title of this particular group it
> is the Harry Potter "MOVIE" group.


Potioncat:
Yes, but while we rarely mention the movies on the main site, we do 
mention the books on this site. We often compare book to movie. OR 
anticipate how the book will be portrayed in the movie. Having 
enjoyed the books so much, it's difficult to not encourage someone to 
read them.

Spoiler space is a convention of ours, out of courtesy to those who 
haven't read the most recent book or seen the most recent movie. We 
generally only use it for a specified length of time, but many of us 
were using it because there were 2 new members who had not read the 
books. We didn't know how much you knew about the HP plot already.

I started reading the HP series just before the first movie came out. 
I was in the dentist's office with the book in hand. My chatty 
dentist started talking about how the book would convert to a movie 
and gave away a very important plot detail...and I don't think the 
dolt had any idea. It changed how I viewed an important character and 
changed how I reacted to the ending.

We were just trying not to ruin the future movies if you didn't 
already know the plots. So, speaking only for myself, no more urging 
you to read the books, and no more spoiler space or avoiding spoilers.

It is always interesting to me to read a movie review by someone who 
didn't read the book. (Any movie, not just HP.)(and assuming I have 
read the book.) For example, I saw "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" not 
too long ago. Almost all of the negative reviews wanted something 
from the movie that was not in the book. The reviewers had an 
expectation for what a Hollocaust movie should be, not what a movie 
version of the book should be.

It's not always a bad thing for a reviewer to have not read the book. 
It gives a different perspective on the movie and those of us have 
read the book get another view point.

And it could make for intersting discussion, comparing what a pure-
movie fan expects to what a canon-fan expects.

Potioncat, who knows it is late, and her eyes are tired, and believes 
she has more than the usual number of typos and mispelled words in 
this post. (not to mention the run-on sentences.)