Talk Elections

Just thought I would bring this out of the Cartoons thread at StatesRights request, it really was off topic there.

My wife saw the third movie yesterday. I really have little interest in that stuff but it seems ok.

Better than the first two, children can't act still but Daniel Radcliffe is improving.

The Books were WAY better then the movies. But that is how it always is. The kids did ok, could have done better. But hey they are kids.

Hmmmm, Malfoy is the worst, whoever the hell that boy is and I dislike Ron and Hermione intensely in it, they are really terrible in my opinion. Radcliffe isn't great but slightly better than the others in my opinion.

Maggie Smith was terrible in it surprisingly, she is an excellent actress but was appalling in that film.

I thought David Thewlis, Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman were rather good and Michael Gambon did well too.

They are all about 16, the one who plays Malfoy is almost 17 in fact.

They did good for teens, kids what ever they are. I would like to see you in a movie acting :P

Yes, he is better than Harris. I did not try out for the films nor did I express a desire to do so, a few of my friends did and I know a few of the kids in it.

I don't personally hate the kids, I just don't think they are good actors and aggravate me at times.

I know a few people who would be far better than them, a friend of mine is a fantastic actor who starred in a play at the Chelsea Theatre in London for a theatre company in his first tryout where everyone else had been doing their plays for several years.

My ideas on Harry Potter are not insane ones like Pat Robertson's. Robertson says that the Harry Potter books are "inspired by the Devil." I think that's rediculous.

As for me Harry Potter is making J.K. Rowling a lot of money, and that's great. You can be into Harry Potter, but I won't.

ok why do you not like harry potter?

I find Harry Potter as just another fad and media hype.

How? Harry Potter is the only books some kids read. And Kids need to read book. I look at it like this. Yes I know witches and crap are not good. But it is all in fun and games. Thats all.

It pretty much is just a fad. Remember Cabbage patch kids, troll kids, garbage pail kids? Oh yeah you're to young.

She is a sell-out. I dislike Rowling herself.

She said she would not let it get all commercial and have stupid Harry Potter products or movies. Now you can effectively buy Harry Potter everything.

If kids are only reading Harry Potter as you say Josh, then, in my opinion, that is not a good thing, the Harry Potter novels should be used as a stepping stone to finer literature.

Rowling didn't sell out to the merchandizers, the makers of the moies did.  The author only sold out tot he movie company.  Notice that all the merchandice uses the actors fromthe movies and the graphics created by the movie makers.

Some came before the movies though. She owns the copyright to Harry Potter doesn't she? If so she should be able to control what they do and do not do with it.

I think kids need to read things that will help them grow intelectually, and reading Harry Potter books are in many ways like playing a video game.

I would disagree, I think they are good for children when used as a stepping stone, they effectively started me reading when I was 10 really, I read books but very rarely and after those I did start to read a lot more heavily. I used them as a stepping stone onto bigger and better books, now I read the works of Fitzgerald, Heller, Steinbeck, Highsmith etc.

G.I. Joe?

I am only 16, but I remember the Garbage Pail Kids from books on the 1980's I have read. How could something that gross and distrubing become a fad?

:o You are 16? I thought you were an adult!

Catch-22? :)

Reading it now.

Yeah, but the difference is, the GI Joe TV show and stuff were GOOD.

It's good that kids are reading now, but I've seen ADULT who say that this is all they read. And this is also the case for too many kids.

If anything, it's a message that we aren't pushing kids to read stuff besides harry potter enough, and aren't making them read good literature.

Heck, I'd read Hemingway over Potter anyday, and I don't like Hemingway that much.

I just got back from seeing the third movie.  I found it very choppy.  Ok movie, not the best.

My wife reads over 10 books a month. I read at least three. She can read a book in day if she wants. She like I were raised to read since we were little.

How long a book are we talking about when we say a day? I can read books of up to say at least 600 pages in a day.

About 300 pages, and usually it only takes half a day for her. I'm not that good. She speaks fluent german and took college level classes all through highschool. :)

Impressive. I cannot speak any language other than English fluently but am reasonably proficient in French and Latin. My sister on the other hand is trilingual, English, French and German and she knows a reasonable amount of latin also I believe.

I am trying to decide which language her baby will learn first when he/she is born as she is English, her husband is French and they live in Germany.

Swedish :) lol