Actually, Becky and I won’t be seeing Goblet of Fire for a little over 48 hours. As mentioned earlier, we’ll be watching it Friday night, 10:30 PM PST (1:30 AM EST) at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
What are you, my wife? She watches those movies on DVD constantly. I like them too, but would it kill her to watch Shawshank Redemption once in a while?
PLEASE make sure everything you say about the movie has a spoiler alert! I’ve read the book, so I know the plot, but any special effects, differences from the book, etc. should have a spoiler on it! I’m waiting until I visit my parents over Thanksgiving to go see the movie!
i have my tickets for 12:05 tonight/ tomorrow morning. The movie is over 2 and half hours long so i think ill be sleepy on friday at work but it will be worth it!
Harry Potter rocks!!! OMG…….did a 36 year old woman just say that. I have loved sharing the experience of reading these books with my son and I think the movies have been great. I guess it just all depends on your taste. Fantasy isn’t for everyone just the young at heart.
Russel, Dane said that art is good if it makes you react, that doesn’t necessarilly mean that something that makes you react is art.
Of course I disagree, I think art can make you react by being bad as well. Not buying something because you don’t like it is technically a reaction after all :)
I’ll put the age of my heart against anyone’s in here. With a resting pulse in the low 50s, it will be ticking long after my mind is gone.
I understand what The Dane (there is a movie reference there) meant to say. If the artist’s goal is to shock, offend, terrorize, create wonder, sadness, excitement, etc. and that is how you feel after experiencing the art, then the artist was successful.
Therefore, I may be wrong, Dan Brown may have been thinking, “I want to place two steaming piles of dung on Russell’s bookshelf”. If this is the case, he is a brilliant artist, because that is what he has done.
Y’all obviously don’t visit museums all that often.
saying art is “good” or “bad” is a tricky subject. The only way “art” can be TRULY bad is if one doesn’t have a reaction at all.
Ask any artist if he/she would rather someone have a TERRIBLE reaction to their work or no reaction at all, and I’m sure they would much prefer the former.
Art is about getting the reaction. (Even if the reaction is negative.) So I guess instead of calling it “good” or “bad” it should be called “successful” or “unsuccessful.”
Like Oh My God, are serious? Like no way! Like I haven’t read ANY of the Harry Potter books? Like no Way! Like he’s the best thing since that guy, what’s his name? Shake…Shakes…Shakespeare, like WAY! How can people be so oblivious to the awesome Harry Potter?!? Like how?
To be completely honest, I made fun of the books before I read them. Now I make fun of myself for being a big fan of them. And at this particular moment, I’m off to catch a ride to go see the movie, despite knowing that I’ll be annoyed by the differences between it and the book, even though I don’t know exactly what they’ll be yet and haven’t read the book in quite some time. This book series is really quite addictive when you think about it…
November 17th, 2005 at 2:48:40 am
OMG OMG OMG 1 day till Harry Potter!!!
What are you, my wife? She watches those movies on DVD constantly. I like them too, but would it kill her to watch Shawshank Redemption once in a while?
November 17th, 2005 at 5:45:47 am
Grown adults getting worked up over little kids…
November 17th, 2005 at 7:04:24 am
PLEASE make sure everything you say about the movie has a spoiler alert! I’ve read the book, so I know the plot, but any special effects, differences from the book, etc. should have a spoiler on it! I’m waiting until I visit my parents over Thanksgiving to go see the movie!
November 17th, 2005 at 9:11:12 am
SPOILER ALERT: It’s Dungeons and Dragons except it’s with little kids.
November 17th, 2005 at 9:14:37 am
Obviously nun hasnt really read the books. They are awesome and such great writing. I will be seeing it tomorrow.
Oh and for the boys…http://www.wtsp.com/weird/weird_article.aspx?storyid=21282
*sighs*
November 17th, 2005 at 9:22:03 am
I dont know how to link
November 17th, 2005 at 9:45:45 am
i have my tickets for 12:05 tonight/ tomorrow morning. The movie is over 2 and half hours long so i think ill be sleepy on friday at work but it will be worth it!
November 17th, 2005 at 1:55:51 pm
Dungeons & Dragons? Thought it was more like Peter Pan
November 17th, 2005 at 2:04:51 pm
“such great writing” no. Fun to read and entertaining, yes. Which is really the measure of a thing anyway. Art is good if it makes you react.
November 17th, 2005 at 2:25:19 pm
So if my reaction to a book, say Angels and Demons is “This is Crap”, that makes it good art? I think it makes it crap art (in my eyes).
November 17th, 2005 at 2:37:58 pm
No, but if it made you want to vomit, the yes, good art.
November 17th, 2005 at 2:38:35 pm
You don’t have to like it for a thing to be art. Just don’t buy it if you don’t like it.
November 17th, 2005 at 3:18:50 pm
Harry Potter rocks!!! OMG…….did a 36 year old woman just say that. I have loved sharing the experience of reading these books with my son and I think the movies have been great. I guess it just all depends on your taste. Fantasy isn’t for everyone just the young at heart.
November 17th, 2005 at 3:24:37 pm
Russel, Dane said that art is good if it makes you react, that doesn’t necessarilly mean that something that makes you react is art.
Of course I disagree, I think art can make you react by being bad as well. Not buying something because you don’t like it is technically a reaction after all :)
November 17th, 2005 at 3:59:18 pm
I’ll put the age of my heart against anyone’s in here. With a resting pulse in the low 50s, it will be ticking long after my mind is gone.
I understand what The Dane (there is a movie reference there) meant to say. If the artist’s goal is to shock, offend, terrorize, create wonder, sadness, excitement, etc. and that is how you feel after experiencing the art, then the artist was successful.
Therefore, I may be wrong, Dan Brown may have been thinking, “I want to place two steaming piles of dung on Russell’s bookshelf”. If this is the case, he is a brilliant artist, because that is what he has done.
November 17th, 2005 at 4:44:47 pm
Y’all obviously don’t visit museums all that often.
saying art is “good” or “bad” is a tricky subject. The only way “art” can be TRULY bad is if one doesn’t have a reaction at all.
Ask any artist if he/she would rather someone have a TERRIBLE reaction to their work or no reaction at all, and I’m sure they would much prefer the former.
Art is about getting the reaction. (Even if the reaction is negative.) So I guess instead of calling it “good” or “bad” it should be called “successful” or “unsuccessful.”
November 17th, 2005 at 4:50:51 pm
Just finished re-reading the Goblet of Fire. Harry is great even for old folk!
November 17th, 2005 at 5:48:08 pm
if a thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters could do better…
November 17th, 2005 at 7:11:13 pm
oh wait, it’s called the blogospher, they still can’t write Shakespeare.
November 17th, 2005 at 7:12:01 pm
(Well of course not, he is dead, and left no forwarding address…)
November 18th, 2005 at 10:52:57 am
Brenda,
Like Oh My God, are serious? Like no way! Like I haven’t read ANY of the Harry Potter books? Like no Way! Like he’s the best thing since that guy, what’s his name? Shake…Shakes…Shakespeare, like WAY! How can people be so oblivious to the awesome Harry Potter?!? Like how?
WAY!!
.
November 18th, 2005 at 2:57:49 pm
Such vitriol.
It’s like hating the Backstreet Boys without ever listening to one of their songs.
They suck, but I can say that because I’ve heard ‘em.
Trying to belittle people’s enjoyment & excitement over a literary work of which you’ve no qualified opinion is just bein’ a dick.
November 18th, 2005 at 3:22:38 pm
I think we can all agree that the Backstreet Boys cause your ears to bleed even at low volumes.
November 18th, 2005 at 10:21:34 pm
To be completely honest, I made fun of the books before I read them. Now I make fun of myself for being a big fan of them. And at this particular moment, I’m off to catch a ride to go see the movie, despite knowing that I’ll be annoyed by the differences between it and the book, even though I don’t know exactly what they’ll be yet and haven’t read the book in quite some time. This book series is really quite addictive when you think about it…
November 19th, 2005 at 8:51:07 am
Actually, it’s “just being a dick” to not have the balls to sign your name to a personal attack.
:-)