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TV Watchers Cool to Harry Potter
October 30, 2006
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No matter that he's the hottest, most amazing thing to happen to book publishing, and supposedly for kids since the invention of peanut butter and jelly. TV Watchers on Saturday tuned out the "Harry Potter" movie.
Had everyone already seen it?
It seemed Harry fans were insatiable. Remember when the last book came out? Folks kept their kids up -- or was it kids keeping their parents up -- in order to get buy a copy of the weighty tome at midnight?
And Hollywood has had a successful run with the movies dling one out every two years or so.
Which is why it’s all the stranger that the network airing of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on ABC Saturday night was a relative dud.
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Comments
Edgeoforever wrote:
No one cooled to Harry Potter. The movies were in the theaters, on pay per view, on HBO, on
DVD. My daughter has them all, we watch them all (when not reading the books, navigating J.K
Rowling's website &others for news of the
future.
ABC schedules the movies late, and
with so many commercials, it amounts to
3 hours. We adore Harry, but why bother?
posted at October 30, 2006 10:54 AM
ICG wrote:
How about the mere facts that 1.) Almost every kid in the world has not only READ all the books, but they SAW the movie in the theatres. 2.) Though they READ all the books, and SAW the movies in the theatres, BUT they also OWN the DVD... Duh!! No, they would MUCH RATHER watch the EDITED version WITH commercials!!!! GET A CLUE!!!!
posted at October 30, 2006 04:32 PM
Tweak wrote:
I have to agree. I LOVE the Harry Potter series, but since I own all the books and movies and read/watch them over agin fairly often, I'm not going to bother watching it on TV with all the commercials and edited for time crap. Just not worth it, especially for a movie that was so far from accurate on top of it. Keep in mind, this movie isn't Potter fan's fav anyways.
~Tweak
posted at October 30, 2006 04:55 PM
Joann wrote:
This movie was in the top 10 at the box office last year; of course everyone's seen it. Harry Potter is one of the few movie series(?) audiences will pay $9 per ticket for in the opening week. Also, it aired almost daily on HBO in the Spring and Summer months. Viewers are worn out!
posted at October 30, 2006 05:15 PM
Kristen wrote:
1) Harry Potter is always on HBO and 2)most kids already own it and 3) it was the saturday b/4 halloween...kids have better things to do than watch t.v.
posted at October 30, 2006 07:09 PM
Kevin wrote:
The third book was a lot of peoples favorite, so it's understandable that they don't want to rewatch the movie since it's the worst one yet. Why would people want to (re)see a god-awful version of a good book?
posted at October 30, 2006 08:12 PM
Melanie wrote:
Everyone seems to forget that the reason the Harry Potter books are so popular (with children and adults) is because they are interesting and well written, with compelling plot and character development. All these attributes, notably, were absent from the latest Potter film. Yes, everyone has already seen it - and we have no desire to see it again!
posted at October 31, 2006 07:25 AM
Jason wrote:
I think it's simply that this is not the most current film... it's 2 movies back. I could understand a showing of the latest, but as everyone has mentioned this one has been overplayed everywhere possible in the last year.
posted at November 1, 2006 05:47 AM
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