<p>One hour to go before I bask in the bliss of fantasy entertainment/escape!</p>
<p>D and I just got back! Loved it!</p>
<p>Nice to hear. My kids are going tonight. They managed to get tickets after school for tonight. I was surprised that they were not sold out! I guess it might be b/c it is a late showing.</p>
<p>S is going tomorrow. Seems, some kid in the dorm knows how to use public transportation to go to the theater.</p>
<p>Am waiting for D to come home for Thanksgiving and she and I will go see it together, as we have done all the previous ones.</p>
<p>My wife and I will be meeting our son in LA on Thanksgiving Day. He’ll spend the weekend with us in Palm Desert and then he and I will go to to see it. </p>
<p>As much as I like HP, I miss the December showings of LOTR.</p>
<p>I’m surprised my daughter hasn’t yet said anything about seeing the new HP movie, but maybe that’s because she’s totally spun up about the opening of the movie version of Rent next week. Over 100 kids from her [performing arts] high school have reserved a block of seats; I sure hope the adults in the audience are prepared for a huge group of Rent-head teens dancing in the aisles!</p>
<p>Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Ya-hooo, best one ever! 
:D</p>
<p>My S and about half his school are currently at the local 14-plex, having (literally) bought out one entire theatre for the 8:30pm show tonight. Waiting to hear his report… yulsie and momof2, you’re giving me a good feeling about this one.</p>
<p>my 15 yr old and 3 of her friends just saw this at the IMAX- it was great fun.
We made an evening of it- went to the center house- got something to eat- they got their pics taken in a photo booth- heard some great musicians from the grrlsrock tour- nice fairly warm night ( for november) It was fun and relaxing and I throughly enjoyed it.</p>
<p>( some of their friends saw the midnight show last night- then came to school- but I imagine they were pretty tired- as it was I think I fell asleep in the middle someplace for a few minutes at the 4:30 show 
)</p>
<p>My senior D went to the midnite show with 3 girlfriends last nite, came home to our house at 3 am, up at 6 am for school. I cooked bkft and packed lunches for all of them. Some loved the movie, others didn’t. How I will hate my empty nest next year when my last of four leaves.
After school, D had 2 hours of volleyball practice followed by Duke interview–surprised she didn’t fall asleep in the middle.</p>
<p>I went to the midnight showing, got back at 3:30am, got up at 5:30 for work. This is grueling for me; I’m one of those people that generally needs 8+ hours to properly function. This held true.</p>
<p>To me, the movie was totally worth it. I loved it! (This may, in part, be due at least in part to the delirium of being awake so much later than I usually am Thursday nights, but I’ll be optimistic!)</p>
<p>Methinks purists will be upset, but if you go to enjoy a good movie in the Harry Potter universe, you’ll love it.</p>
<p>OK, d. and I saw the movie last night and we loved it. Obviously a lot was trimmed from the book, but from a cinematic standpoint I think it was a wise idea to cut out the whole house-elves subplot. As a whole the movie stood on its own very well - and it didn’t seem over long and certainly did not drag anywhere … but I certainly wouldn’t have wanted it to be more than 2.5 hours. From the eyes of my 17-year-old d… the actors playing Cedric & Viktor Krum were hot, and she cried at the end even though Cedric’s fate obviously was no surprise to a die-hard Harry Potter fan. I do think that anyone who had not read the book might be left puzzled as to the reasons behind certain turns of the plot – you would understand what was going on but not necessarily why or how it fit in with the rest. But I personally was glad that the filmmakers did not waste time on long winded explanations - it allowed the movie to keep flowing.</p>
<p>Calmom,
I also cried over Cedric! D2 saw it with friends on Friday evening after 3 days of final exams. I couldn’t stand it…convinced H that we HAD to attend the 1st show on Sat morning. It was well worth it…couldn’t wait for D2’s return from a robotics competition to exchange opinions.</p>
<p>Curious. I too saw HP with mate, and we were probably oldest people in cinema without children. Most of the teens I know think HP made for little kids. Any connection betwe why many of us go?</p>
<p>What time did you go? We went to a late night showing - 11:00 pm (we got home at 2 am) and the theater was full of teens & adults, including many who clearly qualify for AARP membership - very few small kids. The older teens are the HP generation - these are the kids who have grown up with Harry Potter, aging slightly past HP only because of the fact that it has taken JK Rowling well over 7 years to chronicle 6 years of HP’s life.</p>
<p>mezzomom, that sounds really fun. I was going to see Rent at midnight but nobody seems to be playing it – so I’m going in the afternoon after I get home.
HP was awesome!</p>
<p>the first hardback book my 15 yr old read was Harry Potter- she is about the age of the main characters- and is invested in the series.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would necessarily go if I didn’t have kids- hoping to see RENT for our family Thanksgiving movie instead of HP again-
perhaps D1 can talk D2 into it and they can see HP by themselves.
( D1 hasn’t seen it yet)</p>