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The "I don't care about Harry Potter" Support Group Thread

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I have seen about 1.75 Harry Potter movies (all of 1, parts of others). As a family we watched Deathly Hallows Part 1, I made it through the first 15 minutes of it before pulling out a book and reading. I just plain dislike the series. Friends and family try to explain what I am missing and tell me I should just watch from the beginning. You don't see me try to force people to watch movies. I gave them a shot, I just don't like them.
 
Hi, I too am angry at things other people like and enjoy.

The other day, there was a man eating ice cream with his family. I LOVE ice cream. And, I noticed the entire family had various flavors with toppings on a cone or small plastic bowl.

It turns out, one of them had raisins on their ice cream. I then doused the family the gasoline and set them on fire. How dare they enjoy something I do not?? It's people like this that are destroying America.
 
Ah, the standard "Everyone likes 'X', but I don't like 'X', therefore I must organize others that feel the way I do to stand against those that do like 'X'" thread.
 
I was given movie passes for this latest Harry Potter movie last week. I have not read the book(s) or seen any other Harry Potter movie. Here is what I gathered by watching this last movie. All the teenage boys in the movie were concerned about the size and power of their 'wand'. They were dicussing the power of their wand and how much control it had. Hmmmm...... If Freud was alive, would he claim that these wands were extensions of their penis? Oddly, some of the wands were straight, some were bent slightly, etc. Most of the wands appeared to be about 10 or 12 inches in length. Are their wands supposed to be a sexual image?
 
I read all the books and I saw one of the movies in 2007 or 2008. I went to see the finale last night with my girlfriend and I was actually quite surprised at how much it didn't suck. It wasn't a great movie, but it was entertaining. I thought some of the special effects were gorgeous.


Raizinman said:
I was given movie passes for this latest Harry Potter movie last week. I have not read the book(s) or seen any other Harry Potter movie. Here is what I gathered by watching this last movie. All the teenage boys in the movie were concerned about the size and power of their 'wand'. They were dicussing the power of their wand and how much control it had. Hmmmm...... If Freud was alive, would he claim that these wands were extensions of their penis? Oddly, some of the wands were straight, some were bent slightly, etc. Most of the wands appeared to be about 10 or 12 inches in length. Are their wands supposed to be a sexual image?
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Joke has been done.

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...

<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
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Source: http://bash.org/?111338
 
I've never seen/read anything by Harry Potter and don't care to.

I'm not gonna support anything Herrie Potter including this thread. 🙂
 
HAL9000 said:
Those who haven't seen them, this is all you need to know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4
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LOL, everything I knew about Harry Potter (before meeting my wife) I learned from Potter Puppet Pals.

Snape is the potions master. The kids like to bother Snape. Voldemort is the bad guy. And Dumbledore likes to get naked and doesn't know how to use the word "alas."

I saw the last three movies with my wife and really didn't like them much at all. They weren't horrible but they weren't that good either. I especially didn't like the sixth one.

In general I prefer sci-fi stuff to fantasy, even if they're practically similar (pseudoscience vs. magic).
 
AstroManLuca said:
LOL, everything I knew about Harry Potter (before meeting my wife) I learned from Potter Puppet Pals.

Snape is the potions master. The kids like to bother Snape. Voldemort is the bad guy. And Dumbledore likes to get naked and doesn't know how to use the word "alas."

I saw the last three movies with my wife and really didn't like them much at all. They weren't horrible but they weren't that good either. I especially didn't like the sixth one.

In general I prefer sci-fi stuff to fantasy, even if they're practically similar (pseudoscience vs. magic).
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I'm the same with regards to sci-fi vs fantasy 100%
 
I haven ot read a single word of the books nor watched a second of the movies. It does not appeal to me for some reason, even though I generally like fantasy stuff. :hmm:

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
I haven ot read a single word of the books nor watched a second of the movies. It does not appeal to me for some reason, even though I generally like fantasy stuff. :hmm:

KT
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The books are great for kids and a fun read for adults. They're really really useful for picking up another language.
 
Never read the books, never willingly sat and watched a movie, but was forced to watch one on a plane. It was boring.

I am just happy that it is OVER. Its fricken OVER. I dont have to hear about it anymore because it is OVER.

These movies rate down there with the rest of the lame Superhero, Vampire, Zombie bullshit that hollywood has been pumping out for the last ten years. Maybe now that its done we can go back to making great movies... like Gladiator, Braveheart, The Matrix, Snatch, Fight Club, etc. Inception was a step in the right direction.
 
I'm with you, MM. I've seen some of the movies. They are entertaining, I guess, but I could give two shits.

The books are complete crud, though. written for kids. Well, it is a great thing for kids, I suppose, but there is nothing wonderful or unique plot wise, and the writing is completely boring and rather...amateurish.

Great for kids, but I don't get the regressive obsession that so-called adults have put into these things. :\
 
Hi I'm FDF12389 and unfortunately I saw a few minutes of one of the movies, not sure which one. I quickly realized I don't give a shit about the potter.
 
Also I'm glad the movies are over because while I can stomach watching them, the previews they run beforehand are always for shitty kids movies.
 
I enjoyed the movies, but I won't ever bother with the books, and I have no emotional attachment to any of the characters. I could have gone without seeing the movie in theaters, but the gf likes them so we went.

The people cheering and clapping when specific stuff happened was super annoying.
 
Fritzo said:
Ah, the standard "Everyone likes 'X', but I don't like 'X', therefore I must organize others that feel the way I do to stand against those that do like 'X'" thread.
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Well your proclamation of "everyone likes x" is false, therefore the rest of your statement is invalid.
 
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