POA - Book vrs movie

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 100306

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...> 
wrote:

Neri:
 
> I avoided watching the first movie for a whole year for fear of 
> contamination. Then I was visiting a friend who just got the DVD so 
I 
> couldn't avoid watching it, and besides, curiosity won :-) . To my 
> relief it wasn't a problem at all. I mean, the movie was horrible 
as 
> expected, but I find it doesn't affect me. I still see most 
> characters and places as I imagined them when first reading the 
book. 
> JKR's power of description is mightier than W&B's. I saw the second 
> movie also in somebody else's DVD and I thought that as a movie it 
> was much better than the first, but still only average. Maybe I'll 
> see the third movie just out of curiosity.

Geoff:
Interestingly, my experience is rather the reverse. As I have said 
previously, I stupidly allowed my judgment to be dictated by members 
of my church who were anti-Potter so I didn't read the books. Then, 
at the end of 2002, when COS appeared in the cinemas, I was staying 
with my wife in Cardiff at a friend's house. Often, if we are at a 
loose end in an evening, the question is put "What's on in Barry at 
the cinema?" Answer - HP2. Did I want to go and see it? Shrug of 
shoulders - why not? So I went and enjoyed it and, a day or so later, 
watched PS on Sky Box Office at our friend's place. I was hooked. I 
returned to my rural retreat, purchased the books and rapidly bought 
the other two (this is pre-OOTP of course) and the rest is history. 
That is how a pedantic, canon-obsessed, retired Computer teacher 
arrived on HPFGU. Blame the films!