upupup yep it was GREAT ...followed most of the story correctly and at last daniel radclif has learned to act but I still think the " RON " character stole the show ..he was hilarious ::frsnojo:: WELL WORTH seeing <<tmbup>> <<tmbup>>

appemote I can't wait! appemote

I love Ron too!

:D you are really going to love this one ..he stole the show completly as far as I am concerned ::frsnojo:: ::frsnojo:: ::frsnojo::

Vatican hails new Harry Potter film
15 July 2009 10:30am


The Vatican has praised the latest Harry Potter film, saying it made the age-old debate over good versus evil crystal clear.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano even gave two thumbs up to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince's treatment of adolescent love, saying it achieved the "correct balance" and made the stars more credible to the general audience.

The newspaper said the film was the best adaptation yet of the JK Rowling series about the adventures of the bespectacled child wizard and his Hogwarts chums as they battle Harry's nemesis, the evil sorcerer Voldemort.

While criticising Rowling for omitting any explicit "reference to the transcendent" in her books, L'Osservatore said the latest instalment nevertheless made clear that good should overcome evil "and that sometimes this requires costs and sacrifice".

The Vatican's praise follows the sharp criticism of the Harry Potter series by a conservative Austrian priest at the centre of a church crisis earlier this year.

The Reverend Gerhard Maria Wagner had characterised the Harry Potter novels as Satanism.

Pope Benedict XVI promoted Wagner to the post of auxiliary bishop in Linz, Austria's third largest city, in January.

But amid an outcry among Austrian Catholics over his comments, Wagner eventually gave up the promotion.

© The Press Association

Potter magic sets box office record
15 July 2009 09:42pm



The latest adventure of the teenage wizard, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, took in $22.2 million (£13 million) across the US from midnight screenings, distributor Warner Brothers has said.

That breaks the record set by another Warner blockbuster, The Dark Knight, which grossed $18.5 million (£11m) from midnight shows last summer.

The sixth instalment in the Harry Potter franchise also topped this year's biggest hit, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which pulled in $16 million (£9.7m) from midnight screenings on its first day in June.

There was pent-up demand for Harry Potter after the last movie. The two-year wait was the longest fans have had to endure for a new Harry Potter film since the first movie arrived in 2001.

Warner originally planned to release it last November but bumped it to 2009 to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood's busy summer schedule.

"We're sorry that it caused some angst with our fans, but they're troopers, and they came out and supported the movie," said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner.

The new movie has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) trying to pry loose a hidden memory from one of his teachers, who holds key information about the wizard world's darkest enemy, Lord Voldemort.

Earning some of the best reviews in the franchise's history, the new Harry Potter tale played to packed crowds in 3,003 cinemas for its midnight debut.

The seventh and final book in JK Rowling's fantasy series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is being split into two parts for the big screen, with the first movie due out in November 2010 and the second in July 2011. David Yates, who directed both Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix, also is making the final two films.

"We just wish there were another four books," added Mr Fellman.

Harry Potter and his friends are grown men and women now. They wait too long between movies and they have all grown up. Harry and pals are supposed to be kids. I think they made an error in trying to make a movie out of EACH book.

There is only one book left to make into a film now and in it the main characters are all supposed to be about 17 / 18 years old so it should work well <<tmbup>>

Well except that are going to make 2 movies out of the last book!

:D well the high school musical stars were in their 20's and were supposed to be still in school ::35::

Yeah, but do the books reflect the kids getting older and stuff?

Yes they do, each book is a new school year!

:D and they are very true to life in the emotions the portray ...none of the " erfect people " in these books

Yeah, about the ages. Daniel's age in the last movie was about the age he was in the last book of the series. It does change the tone a bit for him to be college age in his final confrontation than 17-18.

But yes, adults play teens all the time in the movies. It's annoying.

Oh well.


Haven't had the chance to see the new one yet.

I was wondering how Hermione was. In the last couple movies, I was annoyed by how different the actress' portrayal (and scripting) was different from Hermione in the book.

:D she was right on track .....the ending was a bit off from the book and people sat there waiting for " an ending " till the credits rolled but all in all it stuck to the book more than the others did <<tmbup>>

Good!

Oooo-kaaaaay

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I saw a blurb about her in the news; the actress that is. She says it is hard for her to watch her performances in the first couple of movies in the series. Sh called it "torture," actually. She seems to like how they are doing her character. I wonder if she had something to do with how they changed?

I just finished the last book! ::8h8::

What's the ::8h8:: for?

Have you read it? :ph43r:

::frsnojo:: yes ..the day it came out

I mean Nebula! :P

::03::

:P I guessed before I finished it! :P

well naturally though I did want other questions answered like what happened to some of the other characters...what jobs did they do ...what happened to the twin that survived etc etc etc

I was sooo disappointed with the epilogue of the last book....it all ended much too perfectly ::03::

fypan

let me help you fypan fypan fypan fypan

What's that for? :huh:

*hm* lets see ...how many characters got killed ? including little colin creevey, one of the twins ( the other was maimed for life ) loads and loads of the good guys like remus and nymphadora sirius, kingsley , moody, etc etc etc ..the bad guys got away with loads ...even malfoy was allowed to send his children to hogworts and obviously hadnt learned much from the experience.... I would have liked to have know things such as what jobs they had after all there would have been no need for aurors so that was harry's chosen occupation gone ...what did ron do for a living ? did the remaining twin carry on with the joke shop or did he lose it after his twin died ? what happened to malfoys parents ? and the other death eaters ? what became of luna? ...oh sooooo many unanswered questions *t*t

Yeah, but the relationships between the main characters were highly predictable and such a bore....honestly, I think it would have been a much better ending if Harry had died saving the world... :D

fypan fypan fypan fypan fypan fypan

::434::


fypan bite your tongue! fypan

:D anyway he did :P

Yes.

Your reaction could have been interpreted different ways. So I wanted to know your actual thoughts.

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Personally, I had likes and dislikes. But . . . dislikes happen in real life, so I can accept Rolin (sp?) writing in deaths I wish didn't happen.

But the epilogue, I agree was a mixture between a happy ending and a let-down.

I mean - I want a happy ending, so I won't complain about that. ( :P on you Red!)

But it was, I agree, incomplete.


I needed to read about the memorial service for those who died in the war.

I wanted to know how the other twin managed to carry on.

Who became head of Hogwarts?

And what professions did the characters get involved in?

appemote I agree Neb! I'm all for happy endings myself! appemote

I'm all for happy endings too, it was just too perfect! :P

^^wc^^

Meh :D

**yes/no**

Are you saying you're going to beat me in the head with a baseball bat? :huh: