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Post by Ex on Feb 9, 2018 16:34:40 GMT -5
I was never interested in Harry Potter. I think I saw one HP movie or something I don't even remember. Just not my thing at all. I'd much rather watch LotR movies or read D&D novels personally. They sure did make a lot of Harry Potter games though!
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Post by Sarge on Feb 9, 2018 16:38:36 GMT -5
Interestingly, even though the books were latched on to by kids, they were never actually written to be children's books. Kinda like Ender's Game, I guess.
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Post by Ex on Feb 9, 2018 17:41:36 GMT -5
I think because most of the main characters were kids, that was a draw for actual kids.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 21:01:31 GMT -5
Interestingly, even though the books were latched on to by kids, they were never actually written to be children's books. Kinda like Ender's Game, I guess. Well they're published by Scholastic in the US and were sold in those elementary school mail order book clubs. So at least here they were pushed as children's books.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 9, 2018 22:31:29 GMT -5
Oh, right, I forgot about that. Still thought J.K. Rowling said something to that effect somewhere else... or maybe that was Orson Scott Card with Ender's Game.
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Post by toei on Feb 10, 2018 2:02:37 GMT -5
One thing she's often said is that she meant for the characters to age along with the audience, so the later books are longer and more "mature". Of course, the best Harry Potter is still this.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 10, 2018 13:09:33 GMT -5
Guess I'm derping hard, then. Sorry 'bout that!
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Post by Ex on Feb 10, 2018 23:42:53 GMT -5
One thing she's often said is that she meant for the characters to age along with the audience, so the later books are longer and more "mature". Of course, the best Harry Potter is still this.We are all falling down our own spiral staircases, each of us, daily.
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Post by dunpeal2064 on Feb 14, 2018 10:29:08 GMT -5
I had never seen a Harry Potter movie until last year. A friend of mine said they were his favorite movies ever, so I agreed to watch them with him, and went through all 8 movies. As a whole I was unimpressed, but not bored to tears or anything. I think maybe 2 of the movies were actually interesting, but it just never really hooked me.
I then tried to show him my favorite movie, Akira, and he fell asleep about 15 minutes in, which confirmed that we just have wildly different tastes.
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Post by Ex on Feb 14, 2018 10:39:15 GMT -5
Nice. Akira is my all time favorite anime film, you have fantastic taste. I only have one framed movie poster in my dork cave, and it's Akira. (Although it's a super rare original print from the India release of the film, not the standard movie poster.) I saw half of a Potter film once, I think. I've seen bits and pieces of the other films on TV randomly. I don't care to watch them at all. I think my issue is the movies star child protagonists. I'm just not into child protagonists. Writers tend to portray children as smarter, more mature, or more capable then they actually are (projecting adult qualities onto them), and that ruins my suspension of disbelief every time. Maybe the Potter movies don't do that, but I don't care much for the subject matter either. - I've been trying to remember the very first game I ever rented. The oldest memory I have was renting Adventures of Lolo for NES. Or rather, my aunt rented it for me upon my bequest. I distinctly remember her making a big deal out of not losing the manual. The store charged like $20 or something if you lost the manual.
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