Grumpy!Neil/Q. about the movie

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Grumpy!Neil wrote,
> 
> > I had a funny week this week.  On Monday, at work, I bent over to 
> > pick up a letter from the floor and split my suit trousers 
straight 
> > up the back.  My best suit, too.  
> 
> Sounds like you've been binging on more than metaphorical 
> biscuits.  ;-)
> 
> > Question:  To those of you planning to see the HP movie.  Would 
you 
> > rather go:
> > 
> > (b) with other HP fans, because you can share the experience and 
> show 
> > off your humungous knowledge to the appreciative people sitting 
in 
> > the seats around you?;
> 
> Oh my, we could make ourselves very unpopular, couldn't we?  Why 
> don't we all just charter a theater or three or thirty?  That way 
we 
> could hoot, comment, and guffaw to our hearts' content, and maybe 
> even take over the projection booth so as to run back the good bits.
> 
> Would that I had a true fan (read: at least as obsessed as I am) to 
> go with.  If anyone on this list lives within a 20-mile radius of 
> Hanover, NH, which is where I assume I will see it, write me!  
Serial 
> killers need not respond.
> 
> > 
> > (c) with friends or relatives who will have to be bribed with a 
> large 
> > pizza and several pints and dragged into the cinema by their hair?
> 
> Nope, mainly because the prime candidate for such a relative will 
be 
> working until 9 the night the movie opens and there is no chance 
I'm 
> waiting that long to see it, even if it were worth it to put up 
with 
> his bellyaching.  (Bellyaching in more ways than one, if he's had a 
> large pizza and several pints, by which I assume you mean Ben & 
> Jerry's. <g>)
> 
> So I will be going
> 
> > (a) alone, 
> 
> even though I don't have a copy of the film script.  (Only $378 on 
> ebay, huh?  Hmmm....)
> 
> I'll drag the dh there the next day if I can, having had my 
blissful 
> experience alone at least once, possibly twice, possibly three 
times 
> by then.  If the experience wasn't blissful, o' course, I'll tell 
him 
> to skip it.  But I'm not letting him go at all unless he's read the 
> book first.  I see this as my main chance to apply some leverage to 
> get him to read it.  I've already told him I like the books way too 
> much to allow my loved ones to have the movie create their inner 
> pictures for them.
> 
> If by some miracle he turns into a fan before November 16, I will 
> nobly wait 'til the next day to go to the movie so that we can 
share 
> the experience (he will in that case have watched the trailers 30x 
> each by then, so we'll be on equal footing).  I might have to be 
> chained to the kitchen wall to carry out this plan, but it seems 
only 
> fair reward for his capitulation.
> 
> Z!Amy


I empathize, Amy, because my ex husband might have stubbornly refused 
to read the books -- I think I'll email him and ensure that he in 
fact HAS read them...

I am SO happy that my current partner is as obsessed as I am..we 
ordered TWO copies of the Goblet of Fire, they arrived at noon and by 
1 a.m. we had finished the first reading....it was finally 
established that I read about 10% faster...(reading had to be 
interrupted by child care, but one of us was always reading)...

So we plan to go together to see the movie, but I am really thinking 
of organizing a group to go together in southeastern Michigan....as 
well...so, first viewing, Neil, will be the two of us, second viewing 
we're taking our son (who saw his first movie on the big screen -- 
the Adventures of Robin Hood, but no way am I taking him for the 
first time--- Mommy, why Snape so mean? why that dog have three heads?
why Harry not know he was a wizard?..real examples of incessant 
questions, then third viewing en masse..maybe we can all wear black 
pointed hats........and carry little red books, and chant Mao! Mao! 
Mao Tse Tung..revolution for the young (whooops, sorry, a flashback)

Susan