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Title: Harry Potter - Book vs. Movie
Post by: babypigggy on November 22 2005, 08:46 am: Which is better? I swear, the book is better..espeically for the third one...
but Daniel Radcliffe is hot O_O
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Post by: Fai on November 22 2005, 11:18 am: Hmm..I prefer the book to the movies, but you read my mind babypiggy :sweatdrop:
I just adore Daniel Radcliffe...
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Post by: Shadeslayer on November 22 2005, 11:43 am: Yep! Dan Radcliffe rocks! :keke:

I think the movies are great! But the books have more detail and information in them...so I'll say books for now. :wink:
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Post by: Moon on November 22 2005, 12:19 pm: I'd say the books. Although I do like the movies, the books are just.. better as I've discovered from reading four of them. I'll start to read the fifth one eventually. :heh:
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Post by: Star on November 22 2005, 01:39 pm: I love the books!Â They are so much better than the movie,Â Â
There are soo many more details and the imagination has to be one of the best things there is!Â Â And the book is true to the author.Â (because she wrote it of course)
I think the movies just ruin it although I will watch them when they come out on DVD...Â Because who want's to miss out in seeing Ronnie in action??

But that's just me!
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Post by: moezychan on November 22 2005, 02:19 pm: I've read all 6 books so far, and I've seen only the 3 movies, but I'm going to join the hype and say the books. They explain more and allow you to understand the characters on a more personal level. The movies basically let you view the characters, but the books allow you to be the characters! A truly good book can help you to travel all over the world and you never have to leave your chair!
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Post by: LSD on November 22 2005, 02:26 pm: I'm agree with u moezy chan, the movies just help you to imagine the character while you are readingÂ :greengrin:

The movies always cut the best part of the book, I totally dislike the 3rd movie because of thatÂ :angry: it could be better
And i can't wait fot the next bookÂ :XD:
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Post by: moezychan on November 22 2005, 02:29 pm: Quote from: pretty on November 22 2005, 02:26 pm
And i can't wait fot the next bookÂ :XD:

Same here, but at the same time, I almost don't want the 7th book to come out, because once it does, the books are finished. There won't be anything after that. Much like when I was watching the last episode of CCS. I was happy to finally see the whole series, but it's all over now.
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Post by: D.J.P on November 22 2005, 02:29 pm: I'll say this just once:

Movies and Books are two different mediums, because of that fact they can never be identical (due to time and money constraints)

Movies are only *based*, remember that, based on the book, they use the characters and some (but not all) of the plot line.

Base point: Book turned into movie can never been totally the same.

My two cents.
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Post by: Fai on November 22 2005, 03:29 pm: Go SLi! ^^

I have mixed feelings for the 7th book too just like moezy-chan. I don't want to it come out because the series is going to end. Hence, the movies will end.
Yet I want it to come out because this is the book that will wrap everything up, and all the mysteries become clear to us.
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Post by: SasukeRocks on November 24 2005, 09:42 am: I like the movies better then the books because the movies I want to see more then once, but the books I read once and then their packed away.
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Post by: Sabrina on November 25 2005, 03:53 am: I like books better than movies...When I saw first movie - It's was so awfull.....I didn't like it, so I haven't see or I don't see other movies...you can imagine yourself when you read books but when you go to movies someone else have imagine his own image about Potter-story.
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Post by: LSD on November 25 2005, 11:56 am: For me the 3rd one was totally a lost of money, they cut the best parts!!!! T_T#
but i think this movie is going to be a little better, hope so. The commercials are pretty good, i must wait until tuesday.
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Post by: babypigggy on November 26 2005, 08:24 am: Quote from: pretty on November 25 2005, 11:56 am
For me the 3rd one was totally a lost of money, they cut the best parts!!!! T_T#
but i think this movie is going to be a little better, hope so. The commercials are pretty good, i must wait until tuesday.
AGREED
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Post by: Ralea on November 26 2005, 11:02 am: I love the book better but I agree that Daniel Radcliffe is sooooo d**n handsome! *fangirlish scream* The books give us the freedom to imagine our own Hogwarts and characters...
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Post by: Okamirei on November 26 2005, 01:35 pm: Quote from: Ralea on November 26 2005, 11:02 am
The books give us the freedom to imagine our own Hogwarts and characters...
I agree, I prefer the books more.

Yes, the 3rd movie sort of died... :sweatdrop:
but the 5th book wasn't as good also. I wonder what parts they're going to cut out in this movie...
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Post by: FrontMission on November 26 2005, 01:47 pm: I perfer the book cause there are much more details that the movie left out.
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Post by: Zeldi on November 30 2005, 12:36 am: I think the movies are Great! ^^ But the books have more detail and information in them! so i i'll go with books! ^^
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Post by: LSD on November 30 2005, 09:05 am: Yeah!! BOOZ RULEZ!!!!!!! : :rotfl:
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Post by: sugahcat on December 03 2005, 08:39 am: I have to say the books because I prefer what my imagination does than what Hollywood came up with ;) Though Alan Rickman rocks the world.

I do still like the movies - I just prefer the books :)
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Post by: cloud on December 04 2005, 01:29 am: the books are somemoch bitter than the movies
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Post by: babypigggy on December 07 2005, 08:35 am: nobody thinks the movies are THAT good, well, they are if you don't read the books LOL
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Post by: monkey on December 07 2005, 08:57 am: i hate books, i hate harry potter and lord of the rings books especially.
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Post by: Chang on February 11 2006, 01:40 pm: lol, nice to know your opinion. not everyone likes these books.

to me, the HP books are better are better than the movies.
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Post by: Ashlee on February 16 2006, 11:16 am: I love the books more. I also love the movies. I love the 3rd book, but then they wreak the movie. I hated that. My favorite book.Â I cried so much on the six book.Â I can't wait until the 7 book. I think I know what is going to happen.
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harry is going have to kill Lord V, but he will have to kill themself though. I can't wait ^_^
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Post by: moezychan on February 16 2006, 12:36 pm: Book 3 is also my favorite. I loved that book, but I also loved book 6, even if it was a tearjerker. I'm crying just thinking about it. I truly wonder what will happen in book 7. I want to find out, and at the same time I don't. Once it's done I'll have my finality, but then I'll wish for more. I hate that!
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Post by: Ashlee on February 16 2006, 10:45 pm: I don't want it to end. I hate it when books ends. I agree with you moezy-chan
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Post by: augustserenade on February 17 2006, 12:42 pm: The books are better I think, but the movies have lots of good parts in themselves too. My friend was debating whether she should read the 7th book after the 6th movie comes out. That way you would still be wondering what's gonna happen next and you wouldn't say in your head that you know how it all ends...
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Post by: Ruby Chan on February 20 2006, 07:11 am: The books are better, not just because of the overall stupidity in some director's cases (*ahem* Movie 3), but because no amount of special effects and CGI will ever come close to someone's imagination. Nothing can compare to your own ideas and images of a story.
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Post by: moezychan on February 20 2006, 07:15 am: Quote from: Ruby Chan on February 20 2006, 07:11 am
The books are better, not just because of the overall stupidity in some director's cases (*ahem* Movie 3), but because no amount of special effects and CGI will ever come close to someone's imagination. Nothing can compare to your own ideas and images of a story.

That is so true Ruby Chan! Imagination is far better than seeing it one screen. And it gives you the impression that you are the character and are fighting the villian or monster or whatever evil incarnate it is.
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Post by: Emiko on February 20 2006, 10:54 am: Personally I prefer the books, although movies 3 and 4 both brought forth certain elements that I really liked.

Though I think after book 4, Harry Potter kind of lost it's charm for me. Somehow, after 4, it started getting more melodramatic and dark. I thought I'd like it if HP was a little darker, but it turns out "dark" storytelling really wasn't why I started reading HP in the first place. -_-

I still read them, of course, but I haven't been very happy with the books that have come out after Goblet of Fire. They're better-written, but they somehow have less heart.

Ehm... to me, anyway, I'm sure a lot of people out there loved them. Just not me.
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Post by: Jeannette on February 20 2006, 11:09 am: I think pretty much everyone loves the books a lot more than the movies. (sweatdrop)

And... the third movie... I have a love/hate relationship with it. I hate that they cut out so many important parts of the books, like over half the backstory. The ENTIRE point of the third book, taken in the perspective of the series, is to give the backstory. And the movie cut it to the bare bones. Also,
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it really annoys me that they have Harry see Peter Pettigrew on the Marauder's Map halfway through the movie. It's a big hint to the truth of the situation.
Even still, it was really good.

And I think the fourth movie was all but perfect. It's the best one yet, to me.