harry

[magid]

So, I finally went to see the HarryPotter flick. And it looks good, but there are pieces I missed from the book. The people I'd asked had liked it; maybe I just really prefer the complexities a book can delve into that a movie (even a 2.5-hour one) just can't. Still, lots of the effects were wonderful, and they did get so many of the characters as they should be (well, _almost_ as I imagined some of them. And now it's harder to remember the things I imagined differently, since they weren't large differences...).
It was also nice to be out with a group of friends (some of whom ran into yet other people they knew. Small world.), at an actual movie theater (though the sticky stairs back down to the mezzanine was less than wonderful).

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I really enjoyed it, but I haven't read the books yet. I think I'll read them now, though, since I enjoyed the movie. I had a really bad experience once watching a movie of a book that I had read (The Dark Half), and I had a particularly good experience seeing a movie first and then reading a book (Running Man). So, I think I will always have a preference for, if I have the option, watching the movie first and then reading the book. We'll see how Lord of the Rings turns out, since I'm definitely planning on seeing that movie, although it has been quite a while since I've read the book (something like 15 years).