Poll: Harry Potter, "You'll be missed?" or "Good Riddance"
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JK Rowling has made so much money from the franchise we can be fairly certain she's not going to pull a George 'Franchisicide' Lucas and make a full expanded universe of it.
What are you on about? Have you ever seen Wild Target? As far as I'm aware, the guy who played Ron (Rupert Grint) has been in more thing than the othersrutger5000 said:
Neither really, never read any of the books and the movies were always good fun when i watched them, but i never became a Potter fanatic. So, yea
Like others, I missed it after I finished the last book. Every so often I wonder about an expanded universe, but I think most of the questions or issues I have are so minor that Rowling could have, and possibly has already, answered them in an interview somewhere and I'd be happy with that. Plus the ending was worthwhile enough that I don't think it needs to be milked. Things didn't finish out QUITE the way I expected, but it came close and I liked that.
All in all, though...it definitely doesn't need to be milked. People can speculate and fanrage or whatever all the want for all I care. It doesn't need anything else. We can only hope that everyone leaves it. Although I do fear that if anything, in about a decade, we'll get a prequel phenomenon like we did with Star Wars. Which....yeah. Really hoping that doesn't happen.
All in all, though...it definitely doesn't need to be milked. People can speculate and fanrage or whatever all the want for all I care. It doesn't need anything else. We can only hope that everyone leaves it. Although I do fear that if anything, in about a decade, we'll get a prequel phenomenon like we did with Star Wars. Which....yeah. Really hoping that doesn't happen.
Eh, I enjoyed the books and movies, but they're not my favorite thing ever, so like many others, my vote is neither. I won't even be likely to see the last movie until it's out on DVD because there aren't any movie theaters anywhere even remotely near me. I haven't seen a movie in the theater since Tron: Legacy, and that was during a vacation in Osaka.
(Seriously, for a country with such a strong cinematic industry and such an obsession with entertainment media in general, how can there be such a dearth of actual places to see movies?)
(Seriously, for a country with such a strong cinematic industry and such an obsession with entertainment media in general, how can there be such a dearth of actual places to see movies?)
I don't have any feelings one way or the other. I have read the books and the only film I haven't seen is the second part of the 7th film, but I never got really into the series to be quite honest with you. I would have stopped reading the books after the third one if I didn't keep getting the books as gifts from relatives, and I only watched the films when I got them cheap and that is because I thought Alan Rickman was great as Severus Snape. Most of the people that were upset that the series ended got upset 3-4 years ago.
I haven't watched the 3 last movies, but I was happy when the book series ended since the quality really plummeted with the last 2 books in my opinion. The fifth book being so damn good also might have had something to do with my dissapointment, but that's just how I felt.
I haven't seen the last film yet but I know I'll miss it. You can't deny it was good. Seven+ books, eight films and god knows how much merchandise and it still has fans. I rest my case. Although it's popularity may be part of the problem. It's so popular that the franchise is going to keep going one way or another.
Whatever it takes to draw in the crowds, right?Mr.Numbers said:
Anyway, after the third film, the movies became a rather soulless production line assembly lacking any real creative spark. That and Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were becoming gawky teenagers which made it hard for me to look at them in their respective roles.
