Potter
Today was my birthday and my wife got us tickets to see harry potter tonight. We thought that the line would be sick, so got there early and we were almost the first ones -- felt kinda dorky (but got great seats!!). Line was much worse for the movie after ours -- it reminded me of the star wars opening weekend. Anyway. If you like potter, see it. It's good. It's dark, but I think they toned parts of it down. My memories of the book are a little more evil. The movie makes assumptions that everyone pretty much knows all of the characters, so I imagine that somebody new to the series would be pretty confused. For a book that really featured more quidditch (sp?) than any of the others, this movie had not a single game -- only a short scene at the beginning of people gathering for the world cup. Even with dropping the games and glossing over parts of the book and the characters, the movie weighs in at around 2 hours and 15 minutes while focusing primarily on the events surrounding the tri-wizard tournament and Harry's, Ron's and Hermione's adolescent spats.