Is WB desperate?

[Cat]

Hey Kat!!!!

Great to hear from you! I hope all is going well for you and yours!
The Gold Clasic Cinema ... only 40 seats ... no children ... sounds fantastic! An almost private showing for adults ... WoW! I am jealous! :-) 

The best theatre showing experience I have had was when 4 friends and I were the only ones at a mid-day showing of GoF and it was closed captioned. It was great to be able to read faint dialogue and the words to "Dance Like A Hippogriff"...great fun!

I did see "Twilight"... I was curious. A friend recommended the book and I was wondering how they would translate it to screen. Luckily it was when school was in session so I didn't have to deal with screaming, giggling and squealing teens. All-in-all it was okay, BUT definitely NOT anywhere in the same league with Harry Potter movies nor is the original literary source as compelling and addictive as JKR's work. 

I am looking forward to HBP BUT I'm just not as silly-excited as I have been in the past. After the long wait it better be terrific! I guess I'm still resentful of WB's manipulation and broken promises, all for the sake of $. 

8 Days to Go!
Cat

 



--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Aryn Culbertson <Englishlady at ...> wrote:
>
> Hallo Cat,
>    Remember this ole English Kat? So you have seen Twilight? And still
> excited to see HP6? I have a ticket to see the 10am showing of the film @
> this posh new Gold Classic Cinema (cost me a fortune, but they highly doubt
> anyone else will be in the theatre so hey may be my own private viewing).
> The Cinema is one of only two of it's kind in the Country, at least that's
> what they say. The seats are this new type & the Theatres are only 40 per
> Theatre. So am rather excited, but the BEST part, NO CHILDREN!!! YEAH!!!
> 
> Chat soon.. Hopefully you remember that you & I have chatted before.. quite
> a while ago, but it was nice..
> 
> Cheeres, Aryn (aka Kat)
> 
> On 06/07/2009, Cat <CatMcNulty at ...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it my imagination or does anyone smell the reek of WB desperation? The
> > Publicity department is working overtime (more than previous HP movies?) ...
> > there have been an avalanche of interviews, contests, and promos (print &
> > TV)lately ... LOTS of promotional activity meant to rejuvinate interest in
> > HBP.
> >
> > I know that I am still going to see HBP but I'm just not as excited as I
> > usually am a week before a new HP movie opens.
> > Shoot, I drove 10 hours just to take my nephew to the midnight opening of
> > GoF!
> >
> > Could WB be trying to make-up for having made that horrible decision to
> > delay the opening of the movie? And now they they are in a flop sweat
> > because of that decision? (I am still ticked because of it)
> >
> > I know that Summit productions is VERY happy that they(WB) did it because
> > "Twilight" really benefited from that decision! Now, don't get me wrong, I
> > think that Twilight would have been a tremendous success anyway. I just
> > wonder how many Harry fans went to see Twilight to soften the blow of being
> > HP-deprived? ... I did and I'm not a hormonal teenaged girl.
> >
> > Just Wondering,
> > Cat
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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