Harry Potter

Sorry for the late start this morning, but I am getting way too old for a midnight showing of a movie. It did start on time, but it was close to 4am by the time I got home and another hour to cook up some bacon sandwiches so did not get to sleep until about 5 or so.

As for the movie. I went and saw it at Arclight and I believe they had 13 screens all starting after midnight in two or three minute intervals. Everyone of the showings was sold out. I would say about 40% of the people there had some kind of Harry Potter stuff on. It ranged from a scarf to a tie, to full on robes and school outfits.

I have come to a theory about why the first movies were so similar to the books and that is because the first books were significantly shorter than the latter books. Prior to going out last night, I watched Half Blood Prince again. I admit it was not exactly on point with the book, but it is tough to cram everything into two and half hours when you are working from like a 600 page book.

Because Deathly Hallows is being broken into two parts which will run about 5 hours total, the movie is much more true to the book. Is it exact? No. But, one thing I really enjoyed was they hit every main action point. In the book, long, long stretches are spent doing nothing except moving from night to night and then staying at Sirius' house for ages. The movie shortens those things up.

Every action sequence was intense and I don't think anyone was ever bored. It looks like it was filmed with the possibility of making it 3D because there is a lot of stuff that comes right at you. Everyone who left the theatre was already counting down to July.

Definitely worth going to see.