tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post7549374720648796918..comments2024-03-17T08:20:52.638-07:00Comments on Review Maze: Harry Potter Movies - Why Are They So Successful?John Moscowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768354960142491753noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-54870687685085890992010-12-22T03:15:56.509-08:002010-12-22T03:15:56.509-08:00"You're out of touch. I am bored to tears..."You're out of touch. I am bored to tears whenever I sit down and try and watch a Star Wars movie, but I love Harry Potter and could write you pages on what I think the books and movies do effectively."<br /><br />You're welcome to write pages about Harry Potter. It will also help to stop crying about Star Wars so often - it seems you try and watch them quite too often.John Moscowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233461212946132582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-37181807580612650842010-12-20T22:46:57.523-08:002010-12-20T22:46:57.523-08:00You're out of touch. I am bored to tears whene...You're out of touch. I am bored to tears whenever I sit down and try and watch a Star Wars movie, but I love Harry Potter and could write you pages on what I think the books and movies do effectively.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-748713523207633692010-12-17T14:39:05.221-08:002010-12-17T14:39:05.221-08:00While I can't answer this question from every ...While I can't answer this question from every Harry Potter fans point of view, I think I can give some insight in to why the series has the following it does. As someone already mentioned, the books do have a huge following that continue to see the films when they're released. Although there are other book series that are popular, I don't think any of them of them have garnered the hype or sales of the Harry Potter series which has broken countless records upon midnight book releases and has sold over 400 million copies. That alone gives Potter a leg up on the competition.<br /><br />One reason why I enjoy this series is because of all the planning and detail that went into the world and characters. Granted this is more obvious while reading the books, but you can get a sense of it while watching the movies. Characters and objects that are briefly mentioned or referred to in the first couple of books start to pop up later in the series. This makes rereading the books a lot of fun. Sirius Black is mentioned in the 1st chapter of Philosophers Stone because Hagrid borrowed his flying motor bike. Gellert Grindelwald is mentioned in the 1st book as well as the wizard Dumbledore defeated. It's not until Deathly Hallows that we learn the history between the 2. Horcruxes were mentioned as throwaway objects in Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood Prince to return later in Deathly Hallows. I could go on and on, but then I'd be here all day. lol<br /><br />Another draw to the series is the characters and the fact that they grow up in the series. Each book contains 1 year of their lives. Children who read or watched the series as they were released got to grow up with the characters as they related to certain aspects of their lives like school, bullies and frustration with the opposite sex. Also with the growth of the characters, the series itself progressed and started to become darker. This helped keep the fan base interested in these fantasy tales as they were growing up. <br /><br />It also helps to have a wide variety of interesting characters to progress the story. You have the twins who are witty, Dumbledore who is old and wise (yet flawed), Snape who is mysterous, Ron who is amusing yet insecure, Luna who believes things on faith alone and disregards others opinions of her, Neville who we see grow from this clumsy insecure boy to this incredibly brave and noble young man, and Draco (a bully thorugh out the majority of the series) who was raised by a cold hard Death Eater destined to follow his fathers path yet has a change of heart once confronted with the actuality of the situations. <br /><br />These I feel are many draws to the series and might be what appeals to other viewers of the movies as well. <br /><br />I feel thAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-50576454164832129032010-12-17T14:21:53.793-08:002010-12-17T14:21:53.793-08:00"i find the exact opposite to be true. harry ..."i find the exact opposite to be true. harry Potter is Superior to the Star Wars Trilogy."<br /><br />I suppose, you're not alone. Probably, there are 8 more people thinking like you. :)John Moscowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233461212946132582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-84820948944382866052010-12-17T14:08:08.780-08:002010-12-17T14:08:08.780-08:00i find the exact opposite to be true. harry Potter...i find the exact opposite to be true. harry Potter is Superior to the Star Wars Trilogy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-55239866054123183782010-12-17T12:45:39.812-08:002010-12-17T12:45:39.812-08:00Thanks for your comment!
I haven't read the bo...Thanks for your comment!<br />I haven't read the books that's why I cannot speak for them... I liked the 3rd and the 4th Harry Potter movies more than the others based just on the films themselves.John Moscowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233461212946132582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5799710659609822294.post-35833126027710882292010-12-17T11:20:58.948-08:002010-12-17T11:20:58.948-08:00Its because 99 percent of those seeing the movies ...Its because 99 percent of those seeing the movies read the books before hand and so know what is supposed to happen in the segments that are missing from the films.<br /><br />I disliked the 3rd and 4th films as they murdered some of the essential scenes. The scene in the Shrieking Shack is somewhere around three or four lengthy chapters in the book, and they whittled it down to five minutes.<br /><br />In spite of that, I do enjoy the films.<br /><br />Flynn 24Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com