Harry Potter News

[andrewducker]

I don't tend to make lunchtime updates - but I can't resist spreading the word that the last Harry Potter movie will be _two movies_, released in November 2010 and May 2011.

From here.

I think this is a good thing.  There's just not enough stuff that can be cut out of the book to shorten it.

Comments

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

According to Daniel Radcliffe, "the seventh book doesn't really have any subplots. It's one driving, pounding story from the word go".

Driving and pounding? Not since bloat set in with the fourth in the series has a Harry Potter novel been other than a tedious slog. But others' mileage must presumably differ....

[drplokta]

If you found books five and six to be tedious slogs, then why on earth did you read number seven? I gave up after number four, and consequently have no idea whether or not number seven is a tedious slog.

[andrewducker]

I'm with you. Not on disliking the series (I enjoyed them all), but definitely on giving up on series I'm not enjoying. Life's too short.

Do you retain enough interest to be watching the films?

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I guess it is for the same reason I've never walked out of a film: even if it is rubbish I still want to see how it ends. Luckily the HP films are much better than the books.

[andrewducker]

Yup. I enjoyed them all. Didn't find them a log, or bloated.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Didn't find them a log

But logs are also good for burning.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm in two minds about this, because it's true that it's got less easily-removed subplots than book 5 or 6 and that would make it trickier to film, but I don't think it would be impossible to make one good, long film out of it, especially if you cut chunks out of the whole farting around in the woods with tents sequences.

[andrewducker]

Am I the only person who liked them being stuck for ages outside was actually good? Who thought that having them leap straight from A to B instantly would have been less satisfying?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yes. :)

I can see why it was necessary for some plotting reasons, but it dragged and I was bored.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

I'm totally baffled as to how this will make 2 movies, as to me they spent a lot of time pissing about because Joanne felt the plot had to fit into a school year, instead of just having the big showdown already....

[andrewducker]

See my response above :->

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

What, this one?

Am I the only person who liked them being stuck for ages outside was actually good? Who thought that having them leap straight from A to B instantly would have been less satisfying?

I have only read it the once, and quickly, but yes, TBH for me it felt like padding time to fit the school year, and all the more irritating for it.