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activetopics 
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 Topic: Harry potter overrated.
Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:08 |
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Am I the only one who sees the Harry Potter series as overrated and blown out of proportion? I'm not necessarily saying it's a poor book because it isn't. It is good. But I think it gets a bit too much credit.
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Leningrad
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:09 |
 activetopics wrote:
Am I the only one who sees the Harry Potter series as overrated and blown out of proportion? I'm not necessarily saying it's a poor book because it isn't. It is good. But I think it gets a bit too much credit. |
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In all seriousness, I agree 100%. I just don't see what's so special.
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:14 |
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Harry Potter is just a bunch of quotes from books and films assembled to form a narration.
I saw the latest movie (not out of my own free will) and it was all just a bunch of other peoples ideas, such as "the dark side" - star wars
the black cloked people -nine riders from, lord of the rings.
Edited by Cheesecakemouse - September 22 2007 at 00:23
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1800iareyay
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:22 |
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No. Eragon is a collection of quotes and films.
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Harry Hood
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:25 |
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When I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher asked the class to recommended books for us to read that semester. When one of my classmates mentioned Harry Potter, my teacher replied "that's candy, not literature".
Pretty much sums up how I feel about the series as well
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Shakespeare
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:26 |
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Wow. I was about to come here shouting "HARRY POTTER SHOULD DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH!!!!!" but then I heard Eragon mentioned and decided to commit suicide. (I never thought that John Malcovich and Jeremy Irons would both sell out at the same time.)
Farewell.
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Leningrad
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:42 |
Shakespeare wrote:
Wow. I was about to come here shouting "HARRY POTTER SHOULD DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH!!!!!" but then I heard Eragon mentioned and decided to commit suicide. (I never thought that John Malcovich and Jeremy Irons would both sell out at the same time.)
Farewell.
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by the time you read this i will be dead
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The Doctor
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:45 |
1800iareyay wrote:
No. Eragon is a collection of quotes and films. |
The parallels to Star Wars were uncanny. If I were Lucas I would have sued for copyright infringement.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 00:51 |
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The book has a great story. The writing isn't fantastic, but you can
overlook that. It's a very important book for our generation.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 01:00 |
Equality 7-2521 wrote:
The book has a great story. The writing isn't fantastic, but you can
overlook that. It's a very important book for our generation.
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What just like the Sex Pistols are important for our generation 
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KoS
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 01:11 |
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Well it did get kids to read, and anything that get kids to read is a good thing.
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Bastille Dude
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 01:36 |
king of Siam wrote:
Well it did get kids to read, and anything that get kids to read is a good thing.
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DEATH TO FALSE PROG!
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Harry Hood
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 01:36 |
The Doctor wrote:
1800iareyay wrote:
No. Eragon is a collection of quotes and films. |
The parallels to Star Wars were uncanny. If I were Lucas I would have sued for copyright infringement. |
The estate of Akira Kurosawa should first sue Lucas for ripping -him- off blind. Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress" and get back to me.
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The Doctor
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 02:02 |
I would watch that, but I've seen bits of it and it looks incredibly boring. So even if Lucas did rip off some of that, at least he made it more interesting. 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Neil
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 03:02 |
Here we go with this "over rated" stuff again. Something cannot be over rated; it is rated as it is by the general public. Just because you and others may not agree with that rating doesn't mean that it's incorrect. You may, as I do, find the mass hysteria over what is only a book or film distasteful but then the human gene pool does have a lot of shallows.
I've seen the Harry Potter films (I confess that I haven't read the books) and they seem well made and set a reasonable example for today's children. The books have also got a lot of children back into reading which must be a good thing.
I'd compare Harry Potter to the Famous Five and Secret Seven books of Enid Blyton; except that with the huge media market that now exists there is of course world wide hysteria every time a new book/film comes out.
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 04:31 |
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In the case of Harry Potter I say "overrated" - and I mean it. I can understand that kids fall for it, but I can't believe that people who enjoy clever fantasy/science fiction/comedy stuff like Lord of the Rings or Hitchhiker's Guide honestly enjoy reading these books ... let alone watching the movies.
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 04:41 |
Hitchhiker's... is a clever sci-fi? I just saw the movie and I would doubt that, but I never read anything (and I think there also were some TV series). Myself I'm rather a Terry Gilliam man 
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 04:45 |
andu wrote:
Hitchhiker's... is a clever sci-fi? I just saw the movie and I would doubt that, but I never read anything (and I think there also were some TV series). Myself I'm rather a Terry Gilliam man
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Try the books, Douglas Adams was a man of great wit, he also mentions a palnet called Kobaia, who have countless words for war but none for fluffy pillows. - he must of known Magma. I see Douglas Adams as the Sci fi equivalent of Terry Pratchett.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 05:04 |
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Posted: September 22 2007 at 05:16 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
In the case of Harry Potter I say "overrated" - and I mean it. I can understand that kids fall for it, but I can't believe that people who enjoy clever fantasy/science fiction/comedy stuff like Lord of the Rings or Hitchhiker's Guide honestly enjoy reading these books ... let alone watching the movies.
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Well, I did enjoy reading HP... And I wouldn't call The Lord of the Rings just "clever fantasy stuff", but of course that's just my opinion. As a matter of fact, it saddens me when I see Tolkien books lumped in with Z-grade fantasy stuff, because they have much more depth of content. I have read other fantasy authors, and, even if I found them enjoyable, there is just no comparison with Tolkien IMHO.
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Harry potter overrated.
