The "Why I hate Harry Potter" thread

[Towelmaster]

For one; he looks like our primeminister.

[Harrdy]

I must admit: I don't HATE Harry Potter. I choose to ignore it and I wouldn't write anything if not for the happy go lucky world of To**ents and the Internet which provided me with a version of the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (which got translated to the german "Schrecken" which means "Horror"... so a strange translation from the beginning...).

I watched the movie, totally... I mean, up until the end. I didn't like it. Yes, there where some nice elements, but either I have seen them used in a better way or they just don't add up to a "Wow" movie. But I am sure kids like that film. When I was a hatchling (*g*) I digged "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", I watched it every free moment I had. I watched it as a teenager - just to remember the "good ol times" - and I couldn't understand WHAT I liked with that movie... I guess that is the same feeling that I got with Harry Potter (and the chamber of secrets). Nice, but slow, and soft, and too colorful (in a taste analogon I would say it tasted like sugar sirup with honey and a bit of lemon... and sugar!).

Now, I have not read the H.P. books (and I don't think I will, the movie proved my wildest fears to be true) and I have not seen any other H.P. movie. My impression is based on this one movie alone, and if anybody thinks it is biased and I should read this or that or watch that instead... just spill it out, I will give it another try. But until then I close the book on Harry Potter again and hope there will be another Terry Pratchet Novel soon *g*

(prays: "O god, if there is a (non comic) movie about Discworld ever, please don't let it suck...")

PeAcE

[DysfunctionalReality]

**This contains spoilers**

I never heard about Harry Potter until the series was already into the 4th book. Curious to see what all the fuss was about, I picked up copies of the first two books in the series and was somewhat impressed. Then I got blown completely away by the 3rd one, where they introduced Sirius Black, who immediately became my favorite character.

This is the main reason why the 3rd and the 4th books were my favorites in series. This is also the reason the 5th book definately wasn't : P

Since reading the ending to *that* horribly disfigured piece of fiction I gave up on the series altogether.

And what the **** were they thinking choosing that lunatic to play Sirius in the 3rd Harry Potter movie??? I mean, they had something brilliant, something utterly unique in that character, and then they had to **** all over it and flush it down the toilet like a disgusting, worm ridden pile of horse manure.

It's too much.

[Garibaldi's Hair]

I always just figured there was either something wrong with me ... or something wrong with the rest of the world. I just don't get what all the fuss is about. I read half of the first book, and then gave up on it because it just didn't engage me at all - granted it isn't aimed at cynical 36 year olds, but plenty of my friends seemed to really get into it.

I have seen all three movies to date and found them entertaining enough, although the first was far too episodic to really hang together as a movie without having read the book first, but nothing special.

As I say ... maybe it's just me.

[Towelmaster]

Can o' worms this...

I don't hate Potter and I liked the first movie(my girlfriend made me do it!).

I just don't understand the hype. 250.000 books sold per hour? I think people don't read much anymore unless the book is hyped beyond the extreme.

[SpooRancher]

My daughter has learned to enjoy reading. She basically TAUGHT herself to read, just so she could read Harry Potter. This summer alone, she read the first 5 books, and will read the sixth shortly.

Hate that if you will. But, folks, something has taught my daughter to LOVE reading. If that is a bad thing, then I am evil for loving it.

[David Panzer]

I don't hate Harry Potter, I just don't get it. I'm only 27 so I admit being out of the targeted age group. But if it helps kids read, it's not that bad I guess.

The thing that's hooking me more to read it, and I just might, are the claims that some christians are making about Harry Potter, that it's satanic and some other nonsense.

I wouldn't be surprised 20 years from now, another author comes out with a series of books that turns kids on to reading, and their parents who read Harry Potter then say "I don't get it, but my kids love it". These things come in cycles y'know.

[Towelmaster]

I hate it because too much of a good thing can be terrible. It's almost like that 'crazy grog, excuse me; frog' thing out there.

[Laiden]

my brother is 29 . . . and he obsesses over the goddamn books! lol . . . I apreciate the fact that Harry potter really encourages children to read and thats about as far as I'll acknowledge it. everyone says people dont read enough . . . what do you think we are doing right now on this forum? reading. lol, I only hope that when I am ready to publish my work, I can overhype it like harry potter (or as I call it . . . Harry Pooper )

[Kloreep]

Now, I have not read the H.P. books (and I don't think I will, the movie proved my wildest fears to be true) and I have not seen any other H.P. movie. My impression is based on this one movie alone, and if anybody thinks it is biased and I should read this or that or watch that instead... just spill it out, I will give it another try. But until then I close the book on Harry Potter again and hope there will be another Terry Pratchet Novel soon *g*

(prays: "O god, if there is a (non comic) movie about Discworld ever, please don't let it suck...")

PeAcE

All I'll say is this: you're judging books by their movie adaptions? While the first two, or possibly three, HP books might give you some of the same opinions, you haven't even tried. (I can definitely see how the first two books might be a stumbling point for someone who hasn't grown up with the books like me.) I think you're proving my point for me with the comment about the Discworld movie. How would you like it if I stomped on them without having read a single one? (Fun books, BTW. I've only read the first two so far.)

The thing that's hooking me more to read it, and I just might, are the claims that some christians are making about Harry Potter, that it's satanic and some other nonsense.

Mind if I use that in my sig?

[David Panzer]

Go right ahead. It'd be an honor

[AaronB]

The thing that's hooking me more to read it, and I just might, are the claims that some christians are making about Harry Potter, that it's satanic and some other nonsense.

That's exactly why I don't like the books.





Just kidding.

I wouldn't say that I hate them I just abhor anything that gets as much hype as the books have been getting.

[Radhil]

I don't hate Harry Potter, I just don't get it. I'm only 27 so I admit being out of the targeted age group. But if it helps kids read, it's not that bad I guess.

27 here. Read avidly. Age groups are for sheep herders.

*returns to ignoring the thread :P*

[Kloreep]

I wouldn't say that I hate them I just abhor anything that gets as much hype as the books have been getting.

Better hope Babylon 5 never gets its deserved popularity...

[Harrdy]

All I'll say is this: you're judging books by their movie adaptions?

Just for the record: I DID say that I am judging by viewing the film alone, and I also say that I would read one of the books, IF somebody would tell me they are different to that movie. I don't want to throw out money for a book I don't like, I hope you understand.

And then there are movies which can capture the flair of a book (the LotR movie for example) and then there are movies which cannot (like the - trust me - *really* bad Battlefield Earth movie (while I kind of enjoyed Travolta, still)). So yes, I shouldn't judge on a movie, but again my question: Are the books that much different? Are they less "cheesy" and "sweet"? I felt like my brain got caries from all the proverbial sweets...

PeAcE