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by **Athena Appleton** » Wednesday 17 March 2004 8:11:23pm

well, since chamber of secrets came out, I've gotton A LOT more into Harry Potter, and I've been able to go to the movies A LOT less (it's fairly easy to go to a movie when you have one kid, but another one's shown up since then and I get out about twice a year), so my husband is being especially nice and making sure we have a babysitter so I can see it opening day (yippedy skippedy! :lol:

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by **Alice I** » Saturday 27 March 2004 4:22:52pm

Amon Rê wrote:HAAHAA...yeah, my mom wouldn't let me skip school so I had to make sure to get tickets to the first showing as soon as school was out for the day It's been worth it to go opening day both times, and I WILL be going for PoA too, I already know I'm out of school

Why is it better to go on opening day?
I don't think I have ever done that with a movie at the theater.

by **Athena Appleton** » Saturday 27 March 2004 5:45:59pm

On opening day, you get an auditorium packed with people who are REALLY into the movie... it's a lot of fun to go see movies like Harry Potter, LOTR, stuff like that on opening day... Star Wars is a little much for me (I had to sit by "Han Solo")

by **Nobby** » Sunday 28 March 2004 7:37:35pm

Yeah i saw previews of CoS about a week before it came out. it much more exciting when a film first comes out

by **Amon Rê** » Sunday 28 March 2004 9:04:52pm

For me, it's just the CLIMAX, like I've been watching my calander for months and it's finally THE day. To be in the crowds of people that are just as passionate as you are about something, it's a feeling you can't really explain. It's also the bragging rights among your friends, that "I went to see HP on opening day :-D

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**Agree w/ the Star Wars thing...I LOVE the novels, I have all of them(more than 100), but I'm not as passionate about the movies as I am about the books...

by **fierce** » Monday 29 March 2004 1:50:13pm

I totally know what you mean about opening night movies... a few of my friends and I went to see CoS a couple of days after the initial premiere at Gold Class cinema, and you know you're amongst people who love the movie when they're willing to spend that much on it. but since there aren't as many seats in gold class (cos the reclining armchairs are so big!) there wasn't that amazing atmosphere that comes from the hundred people lined up down the street dressed in hp garb and going totally nuts over the prospect of seeing their fave books transformed into real-life!

by **Alice I** » Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:29:23am

Well I would go to opening day if it were not a school night.
My little boobalas will want to go but mommy is kind of strict about bedtime Sunday thru Thrusday.

by **sea-plunder** » Tuesday 30 March 2004 4:43:53pm

i don't think i have ever went to the open night of any film

lol ... but going back to the actors i have to say i really don't like daniel who plays harry...he just dosen't make it seem real for me.. hope they do get someone else

by **Athena Appleton** » Tuesday 30 March 2004 8:35:25pm

Alice: your kids are in luck, then. June 4 (opening day) is on a Friday. :grin:

sea-plunder: I will give Daniel Radcliffe this... he's getting better. There was a big improvement, I thought, between his performance in P/SS and CoS... hopefully he'll only get better...

however, in so many pictures, he's got that same face (with his teeth together and his lips pursed... he does that through the whole CoS movie. :lol:

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by **evereven** » Sunday 9 May 2004 2:39:29am

Athena Appleton wrote:I personally think that they could have picked up anyone off the street and he would have done a better job of acting than Daniel Radcliffe did, so I'm not too worried about him not being able to do all the films...

Isnt Danielle Radcliffe the son of the one of the producers, though? So maybe that's why he got the job. I was watching the credits of COS today and it had a list of producers and the first one's last name was Radcliffe. I'm not really sure if that's a popular last name, but the odds of having two Radcliffes and them being unrelated in one movie is small. I dont know though. *shrugs*
He looks just like Harry would to me, though, even if he isnt the <i>greatest</i> actor, he's still pretty good in my opinion.

Woo first post!

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by **pallas artemis** » Monday 10 May 2004 9:52:22pm

I think that the improvement in Daniel's performance from P/SS to CoS was very promising. If he impoves that much for PoA it would be a shame to change actors and put a wrench in the series!

by **Athena Appleton** » Sunday 23 May 2004 8:23:17am

I will agree with that.

I forgot who wrote:Isnt Danielle Radcliffe the son of the one of the producers, though? So maybe that's why he got the job.

I think the Radcliffe/Radcliffe thing is a coincidence. In all the stuff I've read about the casting of the movie (and I'm weird, I look up all kinds of stuff), I've never heard anything about Daniel Radcliffe being related to a producer. I did notice the producer with the Radcliffe surname, but unless you've actually seen where there is a connection, it's probably just a coincidence.

by **harrylover** » Tuesday 1 June 2004 9:21:20pm

But his dad has to do something with movies or sort of that...i think i read it somewhere but i can´t remember. I thought just the same about his look in CoS...but he´s young and he hasn´t done lots of films before, has he?

by **Augusta Longbottom** » Sunday 6 June 2004 2:04:44am

not to bring up an old topic once again...but the age thing really shouldn't matter so much...30-somethings play 20-somethings in the movies all the time so I don't see any reason why a 20-something couldn't play a teenager if they should decide to keep the original cast. In the 1980's Olivia Newton John played a teenager in Grease and she was in her 30's -- and today they have so much modern makeup techniques to better pull it off.

Just been meaning to say this and never got around to it.

by **choki** » Monday 7 June 2004 6:28:54pm

Lol, that's true...but 30+ acting as 20 is still possible because one doesn't change that much after puberty. However, the trio (Daniel, Rupert and Emma) are sort of entering that phrase and going to linger around there until they are at least 20? A couple of my old friends who haven't seen me for about 4-5 years, said I look a lot different now than I was 16.

And if you have watched PoA, you'll see how different Neville (Matthews) look, he is less chubby...it seems a lot have changed since CoS.

Still, I would prefer the original cast for all the 7 movies. I am so used to seeing them as who they are now. I mean...I don't see Harry being a 13 year old in PoA, a 14 year old in GoF and so on...I see Harry as a young wizard who is growing year after year. It doesn't matter if Daniel is too old playing a 14 yr old when he is 17 or so because it just doesn't matter :lol:

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