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i can't really remember the first two movies, so my view is slightly obscured here. i'm only half way through the second book (listening to them while i play eq2.) but damn. i remember enough to know what wasn't in the movies. i was also quite stunned at how much everyone dislike hermione at first and how much of a little militant bitch she was for nearly the entire first book. i need to find something else to do while i listen to them. i can't be doing anything that requires i use my brain, otherwise i block out the book.  if i don't, i think i'll just start reading them after 2 is over.
whoever said jim dale was the man was very correct. he rules at reading and doing voices w/o being obnoxious and irriating. maybe it's because all the voices totally match the way the actors in the movies spoke. i dunno. either way, it's badass. so dale and spike are now the only 2 audio book readers i truly love to listen to. i'll add claudia black to that list when she gets signed up to read a GOOD book series. maybe we can start a petition to get patrick rothfuss to demand her for at least the voices of the women in his kingkiller series.
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the first two movies were good. then they changed directors and it went to crap.
book is 99% of the time better than a movie though regardless. very rarely i find an exception. the shawshank redemption is a good example of where the movie was a little better.
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I guarantee the final movie will be better than the book.
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i started listening to them because i knew the books were better but i didn't realize how much better they were. i'm blown away by how well she writes for that age level.
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Harry Potter stories are right there with WoT books imo. First few are fantastic, period. Then they just get bogged down with detail and plot. The final book was just....meh.
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biggest understatement on this forum, ever. 
I agree with whomever, the first 2 movies were actually worth a flip and did a great job with the transfer.
Edit: I SAID JIM DALE WAS THE MAN! HAHAHAHAHA! yay, finally someone agrees <3
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GrimTempest posted:
the first two movies were good. then they changed directors and it went to crap.
book is 99% of the time better than a movie though regardless. very rarely i find an exception. the shawshank redemption is a good example of where the movie was a little better.
I enjoyed the first two much better than the rest. I don't think the rest are crap, but certainly not as good.
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the last one was crap. 
edit: length aside, i think the reason the lotr movies did so well is because the exact same people worked on all 3. harry potter is suffering heavily from a total change outside of the cast with every movie. that's really ruining it, imo. if chris columbus had stayed on for all 7 well 8 now that deathly hollows is 2 movies, it would have been better imo.
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jesus christ i want everyone in order of the phoenix to die. EVERYONE.
edit: not everyone. i will always love luna.
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I've always wondered if she wanted every adult in the series to be dull, unrelatable and ultimately unlikable in some stoke of children's literature genius or if she just can't write interesting characters without the crutch of adolescence.
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harry is a whiney little bitch in this book. i hate him. i hate him so much.
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It goes without saying the children are unlikable, they are children.
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i still love luna though. 
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well. 8 hours after starting the last book, i finally fully appreciate why everyone said name of the wind was an adult harry potter. even though i know how potter ends, that bitch is still managing to swing my emotions around. when harry connects the dots on the deathly hallows i swear i got as excited as he did. it's a little embarrassing.
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I almost gave myself a lobotomy so I wouldn't feel such strong loathing when I was plodding through the last book. God only knows why she thought it needed to be so long considering how empty it was.
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yeah. i mean i get why she wanted to convey how hopeless and lonely they were. but that isht didn't need to be half the book. it was like order of the phoenix all over again.
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Caoilin posted:
harry is a whiney little bitch in this book. i hate him. i hate him so much.
That book was the one that made my wife quit reading them.
I figured it was this....
Rowlings doesn't know what a guy going through puberty is like, so she wrote Harry as a girl going through puberty.... Hence, a whiny little bitch that everyone wants to slap.
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