Leonis, that is one sweet signature you have there! Very, very nice!

There were many parts in the movie that made me laugh. Especially when Harry is trying his wand. It was a very good movie, though they changed parts around. oh well, wealthies woman? My lord, I thought King was the wealthiest.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by SecretMaster:
There were many parts in the movie that made me laugh. Especially when Harry is trying his wand. It was a very good movie, though they changed parts around. oh well, wealthies woman? My lord, I thought King was the wealthiest.<hr></blockquote>

well, part of that may be that the king is a man and J.K. Rowling is a woman...

seen it to boring movie books are kinda cool

i want to see Fairy-Potter go up against MY sorceror, or Elminster for that matter. then we'll see who the REAL wizard is, heh heh!!

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
Leonis, that is one sweet signature you have there! Very, very nice!<hr></blockquote>

Thanks Ronn, yours is cool too - but what does the name mean?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Lavindathar:
<font color="cyan">In the world????

I knew she was the wealthiest in Britain, but surely not the world.

What about Tolkien, Grisham, King???

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Um, well, since Tolkien is dead, he obviously cannot be the wealthiest... [img]smile.gif[/img]
Also, writing for a living is not as profitable as you think. I think the main source of Rowling's income isn't the books themselves (though if she's smart she'll get enough income from them too) but the Harry Potter merchandise.
Hyped-up writers will probably make a decent enough living, but try and find out how many Booker Prize winners/Nobel prize for literature winners are actually millionaires. I think you'd find there are precious little of them.

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Thanks Ronn, yours is cool too - but what does the name mean?<hr></blockquote>


Just a shortened version of my name, which is Ronn Brigman. I'm so clever..lol.

Actually, it's a name I started using on MSN gamezone, and have continued using it because it's easy to remember. Sazerak gave me the cool axe look.

I for one liked the movie, almost as much as I liked the books. When I heard they were going to be making a Potter movie, I was so afraid it was going to be some cheesy Hollywood hack-writer thing. Happily, it was an almost exact copy. SOME stuff was dumbed down, of course, but only a little, and Hermione was too pretty. She's supposed to be plain, or a little bit homely, in the books (big teeth). But the movie omitted VERY little. If the upcoming Potter films follow the same pattern, it looks like Movie #4 is gonna be at least 5 hours long. [img]smile.gif[/img]
The Philosopher's Stone-alchemy connection is quite correct. Why hasn't Harry had an Alchemy class yet? And I want to see him measuring things in units of 'smithereens,' possibly in Potions class.
I for one DETEST mechandising, of any sort. Go ahead and sell MASS copies of the books, fine. But don't shove cheesy collectible shit in my face. (I guess Harry Potter coloring books would be OK, though.) I wonder if George Lucas thinks he's going to make any money from Episode II itself, or if he expects all the profit to come from the marketed crap?

WHAT I HATE ABOUT HARRY POTTER: The mirror of Erised proves that what Harry wants, more than anything in the world, is his parents. Harry knows damn well that it was Voldemort who destroyed what Harry most loved. Thanks to the Dementors, Harry now has nightmares where he re-lives the night of his parents' death, complete with the screaming. And every year, Voldemort (or some shadow of him) comes back to kill Harry, and Harry should be well aware that the attacks are NOT going to stop until one of them is dead. THE CLINCHER: Harry has yet to express any desire to hurt Voldemort. A boy that should be seething with vengeance is sitting there passive, dumbly waiting to parry the next attack. This is not the way humans behave. Harry has no malice, no guile whatsoever. Whatever happened to Inigo Montoya's "I want my father back, you son of a bitch?"

P.S. I hate Anakin Skywalker too, for the same reasons.

you are right there

harry potter seems to mature, too wise (beyond his age) even for a chosen one. I mean, where is the process of growth? where is the trials and errors? he understood everything the day he was born? I dont think so. he doesn't seem real

and the adults in wizard schools seemed so freaking immature and resourceless. they don't seem to know what is going on around them. (except the head master, maybe) I mean, they are wizards/witchs, they are SUPPOSED to be resourceful and knowing. in the movie, they are just school teachers. (the potion class teacher is good, very inspirational, and very impressive. in comparison to others)

the school itself is portraited very well. a nice work of fantasy, and added a lot of mysterious atmosphere in it.

Veldmore himself looks like an idiot instead of some bad asskicking villian. I do not get a feeling that this guy has any power to destroy the world whatsoever. (failure)

the movie is one of a kind [img]smile.gif[/img]