HP and LOTR

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Beck, Jim" <beckj at p...> wrote:
Third, and probably most important, from the LOTR
> preview that I saw before HP, that movie seems a lot more violent 
and
> warlike than HP.  That will turn off a lot of the HP audience -- my
> 10-year-old daughter remarked that she did not want to see it --
> particularly on the younger end of the spectrum.  While LOTR 
probably makes
> up some of that in appeal to adolescent males, that's not the 
same.  When a
> young child wants to see a movie, that means that parents come 
along for
> each child -- increasing the box office by a factor of two or more.
> Adolescents OTOH go by themselves.
>  
> -- Bexis


Although, ironically, my 5 year old son is much more interested in 
seeing LOTR and the new Star Wars for precisely those reason -- than 
he is in seeing Harry Potter.  Then again, maybe I've been a bit more 
successful than I planned in "masculinizing" him away from the 
influence of too much time with his mother and sister!  :p  I've even 
got him interested in Jet Li and Jackie Chan movies already!

Joshua Dyal