Poll: How much Harry didya watch or read until you were done?
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Read all except the 1st one and saw all except the 6th one. Originally I wasn't interested in the books despite my parents trying to get me into reading them. But after I saw the 1st movie I was hooked though I decided to read the second book instead of starting with the "Sorcerer's Stone" since I wanted to know what happened next.
Overall i enjoyed all the books and movies I read and saw.
Overall i enjoyed all the books and movies I read and saw.
I've read the first five books like a maniac, I think each one of them 5+ times. When new books where released I got them as soon as possible. I also read those weird extra books about Quidditch and the monsters living in the Harry Potter universe. I was a complete Harry Potter freak.
I loved the first few movies. They weren't as good as the books, though. But good enough. I really liked them
When the last two books came along my interested suddenly melted down. If I remember correctly, I somehow forced myself to read them, simply because I didn't want to stop in the middle of the series. Also, it helped that the books where a little bit more mature in the last few entries. I've read them in English instead of my native tongue German with the thought 'at least I'm gonna learn a little bit of English while reading them'.
My interest in the movies faded away around the same time. I didn't even watch the last 3 or 4 movies.
I had my fun with the series when I was younger, but at one point my interest in storytelling changed completely. Away from leight weighted fantasy to more mature stuff. I appreciate the Potter series for becoming more mature with the later books, but somehow that wasn't enough for me.
I loved the first few movies. They weren't as good as the books, though. But good enough. I really liked them
When the last two books came along my interested suddenly melted down. If I remember correctly, I somehow forced myself to read them, simply because I didn't want to stop in the middle of the series. Also, it helped that the books where a little bit more mature in the last few entries. I've read them in English instead of my native tongue German with the thought 'at least I'm gonna learn a little bit of English while reading them'.
My interest in the movies faded away around the same time. I didn't even watch the last 3 or 4 movies.
I had my fun with the series when I was younger, but at one point my interest in storytelling changed completely. Away from leight weighted fantasy to more mature stuff. I appreciate the Potter series for becoming more mature with the later books, but somehow that wasn't enough for me.
I'm British and I grew up when they were being released.
What I mean is, I'm fairly certain that 99% of children who grew up at that time in the U.K. have watched every single film and read every single book, and had finished the books more or less within a week of their release (ability to read changing the time accordingly).
However, I never got into Pottermore, and I'm not excited by the prospect of more Potter. It's over, let it finish. Poor Rowling, she keeps trying to write under different names to get away from Potter and it sucks until someone leaks "Oh, she's actually Rowling" and suddenly the book sells out so she has to pick a new name to write under.
I think she is just returning because 1) Money and lots of it and 2) She gets about a billion emails, tweets and letters to write more.
What I mean is, I'm fairly certain that 99% of children who grew up at that time in the U.K. have watched every single film and read every single book, and had finished the books more or less within a week of their release (ability to read changing the time accordingly).
However, I never got into Pottermore, and I'm not excited by the prospect of more Potter. It's over, let it finish. Poor Rowling, she keeps trying to write under different names to get away from Potter and it sucks until someone leaks "Oh, she's actually Rowling" and suddenly the book sells out so she has to pick a new name to write under.
I think she is just returning because 1) Money and lots of it and 2) She gets about a billion emails, tweets and letters to write more.
I so wish I had said this in my post. You are awesome and yes the tv show can fuck right off. Being a Dresden Files fan I don't understand why people keep hating on the Constantine show for not being enough like Hellblazer. They don't know how good they have it!Objectable said:
I read all the books and watched all the films. I enjoyed them up until Order of the Phoenix, which is where my enthusiasm for the series decreased. Introducing the aurors, order of the phoenix, the whole political bullshit that is just basically Rowling shoving her ideology down our throats and god awful Cho Chan romantic sub plot really made reading through that book a chore. Half Blood Prince was better, but the later books of the HP series really lacked the magic (no pun intend) of the first half. Philosopher's stone was a great introduction into the world of Harry Potter and I've read the book twice and seen the film multiple times. Chamber of Secrets maybe my favourite book of the series, while the film is a close second to the Prizoner of Azkaban adaptation (which was a far better film than the first two since it has a competent and visionary director behind the helm).
Goblet of Fire I also immensely enjoyed, both the book and film. Triwizard tournament was a great setting and seeing...
was pretty awesome. After came Order of the Phoenix, which was meh both as a book and film (I swear, you wouldn't even understand properly who half of the aurors are in the Order without having read the book, and even I had hard trouble remembering due to reading the book long before watching the film). The later films do suffer from a lot Twilight bullshit romance that someone previously mentioned, but there are some technically impressive visuals in them. Overall, I enjoyed the series when it focused on Harry, Ron and Hermoine's adventure in Hogwarts and all the secrets the castle contained, and less all the bullshit political allegories that Rowling threw in our faces later on.
Goblet of Fire I also immensely enjoyed, both the book and film. Triwizard tournament was a great setting and seeing...
you know who ressurected at the end
wasn't really into it, but had familly who wanted to see all the movies, so pretty much it for me.
Read them all as I was growing up (not by choice, parents wanted me to read and I enjoyed the I guess so why not. Where never my favourite books though, especially not that god awful fith one). As for the films, I grew up reading harry potter. Kinda had to watch them I guess. I felt obliged to.
I watched every single movie and read every single book, but I did quit the last book about halfway through. Life just got in the way, and I was young, so I gave up easily. I just never went back, even though I've been told I should. I absolutely love the whole series, though. I've been meaning to go back and re-watch the series (because watching doesn't take as long as reading), but that will take some serious chunks of time, which I mostly don't have. 
You realize that the poll has an option for "Read none watched all" and one for "Watched all read none" but no option for "Read all watched none" right? Just checking.
I fit most closely to "Read all watched none" (having read all the books multiple times and having seen only one of the movies *years* after the books, and that mostly by accident).
While I love the series I have my problems with it.
I fit most closely to "Read all watched none" (having read all the books multiple times and having seen only one of the movies *years* after the books, and that mostly by accident).
While I love the series I have my problems with it.
I think that JK Rowling took a *lot* of inspiration (especially early in the series) from DC comics Books of Magic and I wish that HP fans wouldn't get so rabid when I bring up the similarities.
Marathoned all the movies in one day.
I then have sporadically rewatched those that have a Rifftrax for them (still waiting for that to finish).
Stopped reading after book 5... I think.
I specifically remember the ending with the crystal balls and that one guy dying. That's the fifth one right?
I then have sporadically rewatched those that have a Rifftrax for them (still waiting for that to finish).
Stopped reading after book 5... I think.
I specifically remember the ending with the crystal balls and that one guy dying. That's the fifth one right?
Saw all of the movies in a marathon over new years with my GF, who had seen them when they came out. She's also read the books, while I've read none of the books. Someday I will read the books, but it's gonna be a while because my reading list is almost as bad as my game backlog.
Read all, watched all, although with the caveat that by book 7 I was mostly just reading it to see it through rather than out of full interest.
I disliked the first one, but the next two made me more interested. However as the series went on it kinda went in a weird way: the books were getting better but I was liking them less, and I think it's because this was while I was getting better at understanding story structure and literary devices and its flaws became more visible to me. My overall opinion of it is that it's actually very weak from a technical perspective (ie. the numerous deus ex machina like the Priori Incantatem, Harry frequently randomly stumbling upon a solution luckily instead of 'earning' it) but it compensates a large amount with how immersive and piquing its world-building and(for lack of a better word) grand 'imagination' is. Like distracting from a poorly-made structure with a beautiful eye-catching mural.
I disliked the first one, but the next two made me more interested. However as the series went on it kinda went in a weird way: the books were getting better but I was liking them less, and I think it's because this was while I was getting better at understanding story structure and literary devices and its flaws became more visible to me. My overall opinion of it is that it's actually very weak from a technical perspective (ie. the numerous deus ex machina like the Priori Incantatem, Harry frequently randomly stumbling upon a solution luckily instead of 'earning' it) but it compensates a large amount with how immersive and piquing its world-building and(for lack of a better word) grand 'imagination' is. Like distracting from a poorly-made structure with a beautiful eye-catching mural.
Read them all. Seen them all.
I won a sorting hat at the release of the Deathly Hallows.
I just wanna do magic. ;-;
I won a sorting hat at the release of the Deathly Hallows.
I just wanna do magic. ;-;
I've read Books of Magic start to finish, and I honestly don't get what the similarities are supposed to be. That the young magician has glasses and short hair? That's not really an "idea" as much as it's "a very common look." That he's got an owl is something that's been common in magic for ages.Little Woodsman said:
And the reason I didn't include a "read all, watched none" option is that it didn't seem likely anybody would choose it.
I've watched all of the movies, though some of them quite a long time ago so I don't quite remember the 5th or 6th ones very well. I've read up through most of the 5th, but I was in the sixth grade when I read that book and it was just too long for me. I got bored and went on to other things, and never went back.
Though a while back I acquired the fourth book on audiobook and I absolutely loved it, and at work I listen to things while I work. So I'm thinking of picking up the rest on audiobook as well, to get through the first five again then eventually get through the others I never read.
Though a while back I acquired the fourth book on audiobook and I absolutely loved it, and at work I listen to things while I work. So I'm thinking of picking up the rest on audiobook as well, to get through the first five again then eventually get through the others I never read.