TV/Movies Megathread

[sbr]

Finished watching the Harry Potter series and I gotta say I'm utterly satisfied with it. It is a rare series where each new film is better than the last. I haven't read the books, but it seems like J.K.Rowling has created a story kids can grow up on.

I'm the opposite.  I have seen most of the movies but I haven't seen the last couple; but I'm not a movie guy so I'm not too worried about seeing them

I know the too-cool-for-school kids and literary snobs like to bash on the series but my oldest daughter and I both really enjoyed it (my youngest is really her mother's daughter and doesn't really read at all) and she really did grow up with the books.

I bought the first book for my oldest for Christmas when she was 5 1/2.  She was just starting to read, and I knew she wouldn't read it herself, but I read it to her.  It took a while to finish but we both really liked it.  We rolled straight into the next 2 books, with me reading them to her and enjoyed them as well.  We hit a bump with the 4th book, by then the books had started to get longer and more mature (not themes necessarily, but the writing) and complex and they were much harder to read out loud.  We quit reading that until she was old enough to do so herself.

After we had both finished the 4th book separately we had finally caught up and for the first time we were waiting for the release of the 5th book like everyone else.  She (she was 9 at this point) and I went to a midnight release party for the 5th book.  It was a madhouse and very poorly run but we had fun and got our book and 2 in the morning.  We went to midnight releases of the last 2 books as well.  By the last one she was 13 and I think she stayed up all night reading it and finished it the next afternoon.  I took me until the next day to finish, I was almost excited about getting to the end of the story as her but obviously had more to do and less stamina to pull an all-nighter to read.

The Harry Potter books were a common theme in our lives from the time she was 5 1/2 to 13 and I miss them.  One one hand I don't want Rowling to "sell-out" and starting throwing crap out with the name, but another part of me would really like to be able to share another new Harry Potter adventure with my daughter, even though she is 18 now (or maybe specifically because she is 18 now). 

They weren't masterpieces by any means but they  were very enjoyable to read, told a very good story that got darker and more serious as they went on and they encouraged a lot of kids to read that normally wouldn't have (except my youngest ).

[Josquius]

something which didn't really work when they were new but is rather cool about them now is the way they line up quite neatly one book to one school year.In terms of the age of the characters, the level of the writing, the plot,etc...
would be quite nice for a kid to read them that way.....though the wait between books would be agony

[Scipio]

Warner Premiere's Batman: Year One.  Amazing.  A great, true adaptation of the comic with a great voice cast, including Bryan Cranston as Gordon, and Eliza Dushku as Selina Kyle.

since you're on the DC animated movies binge right now I suggest Batman: Under the Red Hood

Watched that ages ago.  Pretty decent.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Men in Black III.  Not bad. Light years ahead of the second one.  That was teh sux. 

[Josephus]

it seems like J.K.Rowling has created a story kids can grow up on.

Fascinating insight.

OK. Never mind the sarcasm. But talk to most young adults today (at least in the civilized world) and most of them did indeed grow up on Harry Potter.

[Scipio]

it seems like J.K.Rowling has created a story kids can grow up on.

Fascinating insight.

OK. Never mind the sarcasm. But talk to most young adults today (at least in the civilized world) and most of them did indeed grow up on Harry Potter.

I weep for the world.

[Josephus]

Did you know there's actually organized quidditch games and...in typical American fashion...a World Cup featuring only American colleges?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywZK38UtKDw

[mongers]

Finished watching the Harry Potter series and I gotta say I'm utterly satisfied with it. It is a rare series where each new film is better than the last. I haven't read the books, but it seems like J.K.Rowling has created a story kids can grow up on.

I'm the opposite.  I have seen most of the movies but I haven't seen the last couple; but I'm not a movie guy so I'm not too worried about seeing them

I know the too-cool-for-school kids and literary snobs like to bash on the series but my oldest daughter and I both really enjoyed it (my youngest is really her mother's daughter and doesn't really read at all) and she really did grow up with the books.

I bought the first book for my oldest for Christmas when she was 5 1/2.  She was just starting to read, and I knew she wouldn't read it herself, but I read it to her.  It took a while to finish but we both really liked it.  We rolled straight into the next 2 books, with me reading them to her and enjoyed them as well.  We hit a bump with the 4th book, by then the books had started to get longer and more mature (not themes necessarily, but the writing) and complex and they were much harder to read out loud.  We quit reading that until she was old enough to do so herself.

After we had both finished the 4th book separately we had finally caught up and for the first time we were waiting for the release of the 5th book like everyone else.  She (she was 9 at this point) and I went to a midnight release party for the 5th book.  It was a madhouse and very poorly run but we had fun and got our book and 2 in the morning.  We went to midnight releases of the last 2 books as well.  By the last one she was 13 and I think she stayed up all night reading it and finished it the next afternoon.  I took me until the next day to finish, I was almost excited about getting to the end of the story as her but obviously had more to do and less stamina to pull an all-nighter to read.

The Harry Potter books were a common theme in our lives from the time she was 5 1/2 to 13 and I miss them.  One one hand I don't want Rowling to "sell-out" and starting throwing crap out with the name, but another part of me would really like to be able to share another new Harry Potter adventure with my daughter, even though she is 18 now (or maybe specifically because she is 18 now). 

They weren't masterpieces by any means but they  were very enjoyable to read, told a very good story that got darker and more serious as they went on and they encouraged a lot of kids to read that normally wouldn't have (except my youngest ).

Hey, excellent story Sbr, once of the nicest parenthood tales I've heard on Languish. 

[CountDeMoney]

I know the too-cool-for-school kids and literary snobs like to bash on the series but my oldest daughter and I both really enjoyed it (my youngest is really her mother's daughter and doesn't really read at all) and she really did grow up with the books.

I bought the first book for my oldest for Christmas when she was 5 1/2.  She was just starting to read, and I knew she wouldn't read it herself, but I read it to her.  It took a while to finish but we both really liked it.  We rolled straight into the next 2 books, with me reading them to her and enjoyed them as well.  We hit a bump with the 4th book, by then the books had started to get longer and more mature (not themes necessarily, but the writing) and complex and they were much harder to read out loud.  We quit reading that until she was old enough to do so herself.

My brother-in-law and my oldest niece have been doing that as well;  they started with him reading the books to her at bedtime, and now, at 9, she's reading them to Dad.  It's been their little Daddy-Daughter thing.

[Eddie Teach]

Now that I have cable again, I managed to catch up with this past season of Walking Dead. Good stuff.

[Jacob]

Watched Life of Pi, in 3D no less. It was very pretty at times, but it was trying too hard to be profound.

[Martinus]

Finished watching the Harry Potter series and I gotta say I'm utterly satisfied with it. It is a rare series where each new film is better than the last. I haven't read the books, but it seems like J.K.Rowling has created a story kids can grow up on.

I'm the opposite.  I have seen most of the movies but I haven't seen the last couple; but I'm not a movie guy so I'm not too worried about seeing them

I know the too-cool-for-school kids and literary snobs like to bash on the series but my oldest daughter and I both really enjoyed it (my youngest is really her mother's daughter and doesn't really read at all) and she really did grow up with the books.

I bought the first book for my oldest for Christmas when she was 5 1/2.  She was just starting to read, and I knew she wouldn't read it herself, but I read it to her.  It took a while to finish but we both really liked it.  We rolled straight into the next 2 books, with me reading them to her and enjoyed them as well.  We hit a bump with the 4th book, by then the books had started to get longer and more mature (not themes necessarily, but the writing) and complex and they were much harder to read out loud.  We quit reading that until she was old enough to do so herself.

After we had both finished the 4th book separately we had finally caught up and for the first time we were waiting for the release of the 5th book like everyone else.  She (she was 9 at this point) and I went to a midnight release party for the 5th book.  It was a madhouse and very poorly run but we had fun and got our book and 2 in the morning.  We went to midnight releases of the last 2 books as well.  By the last one she was 13 and I think she stayed up all night reading it and finished it the next afternoon.  I took me until the next day to finish, I was almost excited about getting to the end of the story as her but obviously had more to do and less stamina to pull an all-nighter to read.

The Harry Potter books were a common theme in our lives from the time she was 5 1/2 to 13 and I miss them.  One one hand I don't want Rowling to "sell-out" and starting throwing crap out with the name, but another part of me would really like to be able to share another new Harry Potter adventure with my daughter, even though she is 18 now (or maybe specifically because she is 18 now). 

They weren't masterpieces by any means but they  were very enjoyable to read, told a very good story that got darker and more serious as they went on and they encouraged a lot of kids to read that normally wouldn't have (except my youngest ).

That's a really cool story. I know how you mean about the series ending, too.

[Syt]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html

[Neil]

Saw the Hobbit, which was really good.  I feel bad for Martinus.

[Martinus]

So I saw the first episode of Downton Abbey.

Dame Maggie Smith and ghey sex in "Brideshead revisited" style environs = melikey. 

And the cherry on top is that the hottie from Stardust is kissing another guy in the first episode. What's not to like?