h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Saw the final Harry Potter film at five past midnight this morning. The best of the series - death and mayhem throughout.

They changed the plot around slightly, as well, to make it more believable and easier to follow.

A great night's entertainment - I was home and in bed by 2:30, and then up again at 6:30 for work.

Could you follow it if you didn't see part 1 of part 7?

I'm heading for a rather more do-able 5pm show today!

Could you follow it if you hadn't seen Part 1? I don't think so, although if you were familiar with the book you might get away with it. It didn't start with a summary of the story so far, it just launched straight into it.

Our cinema was showing the first 7 films over the last week so that people who had forgotten them could get back into the story before watching the final film.

It was showing in four separate screens in the cinema last night, two in 3-D and two in 2-D. Thankfully we went to the 2-D version.

For no particular reason, I have never met the books and we so rarely go to a theatre. I'm thinking that perhaps in a year or so, a boxed set of DVDs might be manageable

I have yet to watch HP7.1
For some reason, I never made it. Do you think 3D would be too scary?
I really loved the films I've seen in 3D so far.

>>Do you think 3D would be too scary?

I don't think so. But it might be too dark - much of the film takes place at night, and 3-D goggles do tend to make things darker.

Oh, good to know. I hate films that play mainly in the dark. I'll give it a miss then.

*giggles*

I've just picked this up from facebook!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

I'm pretty sure I've seen that before, but it still made me giggle.

Ooooh, that was great!

Yes I think you really need to know what's happened before, it doesn't stand alone. But works much better as a movie than it did as a book - I felt it dragged as a novel, but there's some superb moments of cinema there.

Will be going next week.
Don't tell me how it ends...

I went yesterday. Good way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon, but I'm annoyed that it was in 3D. I didn't have any choice if I wanted to see it in the original English though.

Watching it without having seen all of the other films may be rather bewildering, as it ties up all the ends of strands that have been running right through the series.

I thought my glasses were not working properly because everything was so dark. If I looked over the top of the glasses the screen was showing pictures considerably brighter than what I was seeing. Never again with the 3D glasses!

OK, I'll tell you how it ends. It turns out everything that happened, the wizards, dragons, quidditch, Snape... everything were just the imaginings of a young boy's mind as he starved to death under the stairs of an abusive family in a quiet little suburban neighborhood.

OH, you said "DON'T" tell you.

BTW... running through my head on endless loop this morning is "SNAPE, Snape, SEVerIS SnapeDUMBLEDORE! SNAPE, Snape, SEVerIS SnapeDUMBLEDORE! SNAPE, Snape, SEVerIS SnapeDUMBLEDORE!"

I think we've all had that for the last week or so...

Ron... Ron... Ron... Weasley!

TC - we wanted to see it in English and could only get 2D (yaayyy - but the 3D glasses were round Harry Potter stylee specs which I thought was pretty )

although 3D technology is getting better (we have a load of 3D tvs in our showroom showing Pirates and Dispicable Me in 3D which are pretty good, not as dark as the cinema) I still can't imagine buying one though