Grumpy!Neil/Q. about the movie

[Amy Z]

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