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I've already bought them! 58 21.09%
I'm going to buy them, very soon. 50 18.18%
I think I'll wait. (Maybe when the price comes down?) 45 16.36%
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Old 04-09-2012, 11:57 AM   #76
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There was just not enough time to be able to tell the story properly. You lose too much of the secondary and tertiary characters in the collapsed time you have in a movie over the books.
You're right of course, but with respect to the final battle, it wasn't even an issue of time. They totally changed the story from everyone at Hogwarts watching Harry strike fear into Voldemart to a scene where they were fighting a solitary battle of raging equals, which they most definitely were not at that point. I don't know why the filmmakers chose to do that, but they ruined it.
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Old 04-09-2012, 12:02 PM   #77
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The final battle was awful. They over dramatized it, took it totaly out of context, and managed to completly remove the whole discussion of Voldemort's lost souls and redemption with how they handeled it. It was awful.
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Old 04-09-2012, 02:02 PM   #78
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I started reading the series in 1999 and never read them more than once although I've seen the movies many times. It is fun to go back and re-read the books again and realize all the clues for things to come and remember the things that I forgot because they were removed from the movie plots. The only thing I regret is that now when I read the books I have the movie characters envisioned in my head. Too bad you can't recapture your imagination of the characters from the very first reading.
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Old 04-09-2012, 02:41 PM   #79
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The only thing I regret is that now when I read the books I have the movie characters envisioned in my head. Too bad you can't recapture your imagination of the characters from the very first reading.
That's something I struggle with when it comes to watching movies first or reading the books. I tend to end up watching the movie first anyway knowing that even though I'll now picture some things as they were in the films, I'll get much more out of the books in terms of depth. Whilst the other way around, I find I don't enjoy a film as much because they cut out too much from the book or changed too much.

Wonder if most book readers prefer to read book first then film or vice-versa.
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Old 04-09-2012, 02:42 PM   #80
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The final battle was awful. They over dramatized it, took it totaly out of context, and managed to completly remove the whole discussion of Voldemort's lost souls and redemption with how they handeled it. It was awful.
Lol, I actually still haven't watched the Deathly Hallows Part 2 movie although I've had the Blu-ray sitting in the shelf since its release.
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Old 04-10-2012, 03:34 PM   #81
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I've already read them but I want a legal copy for my kindle. I'll probably buy them one at a time.
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Old 04-13-2012, 03:55 PM   #82
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I got the first one, and I'm happy with it, including the price. It's cool that I can legally put it on my boys' Kindles, too, even though they are on a different Amazon account (one without credit cards on the account!). I think they did well with it, so I'll probably slowly get the whole set.
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Old 04-14-2012, 07:02 PM   #83
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I already got the series "free" version, if you got my French.
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Old 04-14-2012, 07:10 PM   #84
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Old 04-15-2012, 02:42 AM   #85
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Old 04-15-2012, 10:28 PM   #86
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That's something I struggle with when it comes to watching movies first or reading the books. I tend to end up watching the movie first anyway knowing that even though I'll now picture some things as they were in the films, I'll get much more out of the books in terms of depth. Whilst the other way around, I find I don't enjoy a film as much because they cut out too much from the book or changed too much.

Wonder if most book readers prefer to read book first then film or vice-versa.
I always try to read books firsts and (sometimes) watch the movies much later (on free TV or library). In many good books then movies pairs: Harry Potter, Dan Brown, Lord of the Ring ... I found that that the movies are really confusing (trying to squeeze too much into the short movie, but not enough to link the story together). Moreover, I find that putting moving pictures and sound effects to magical creatures and spells actually limit one's imagination and ruin the magical theme.
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I don't plan on ever buying them in ebook format. Reading them once was enough for me!
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Old 04-27-2012, 04:35 PM   #88
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Voted "Don't plan on buying them".

I downloaded the last 4 from my library soon after they became available.

I read them, enjoyed them more than I expected and returned them prior to them expiring.
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Already have them and don't plan on reading them again (maybe Azkaban though) very soon.
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I don't find the film of anything really spoils the book, but I like to read the book first, but if it's on locally I'll see it.
Most of the time I find the two are so different, the book is always more character-driven, leisurely, and intricate, so I don't have any big problem confusing my mind's eye image.
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