<p>Yes, that would be about 8-9 hours sooner (not sure about the DST change!)</p>
<p>A friend is planning a pre-party for HS kids and parents before the late showing on Friday night. We are all going in costume.
Re-read the 6th and 7th book before the Half-Blood movie came out. I wished I had not read it again so close to seeing the movie. Loved the book, loved the movie but the differences were distracting. Personally, the movies are more enjoyable when the book is familiar but not at the top of my memory. Make sense?</p>
<p>If anybody goes to the movie tonight, make sure you come back with a review! :)</p>
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<p>Cool! How long did it take them to train the owls? :)</p>
<p>My sister was given tickets for the premiere tonight I guess. I am awaiting her review. :)</p>
<p>Got IMAX tickets for 9:30am Saturday. Wouldn’t let the kids go at midnight tonight & D1 has community theater show on Friday night. The positive is I got matinee prices!</p>
<p>Regarding training the owls: they left the parchment invitations with an owl beanie baby on them (with separate instructions for the parents to return the beanie baby) so the owls weren’t too hard to train; now the parents - that’s a different story!</p>
<p>We have 5 tickets for our son (birthday boy) for the 10 pm showing Friday night. His best friends he invited have a debate tournament so they can’t go until later.</p>
<p>DD will see it before most of her friends - advantage of being in Israel! </p>
<p>DW and I will see it probably in a couple of weeks. First time I will see a HP movie without DD. hmmm.</p>
<p>Will probably wait to see it–maybe over the winter holidays? My kiddos had no interest and by the time I tried to get the tickets, the credit union had sold out. Prefer to see it with my kiddos, tho D likes to go with her buddies. Oh well, may wait for it to get to DVD.</p>
<p>D is going with a friend to a 12:01 show in NJ; show gets out at, wait for it…2:46 am and they have to go to school tomorrow; ahhhh, to be young…</p>
<p>anyway, gonna be interesting in these parts tonight; curfew for driving for 17 yr olds is 11:00 PM…I told my daughter that SHE and her friend are paying the fine if she is pulled over…although from what I hear, there are going to have to be alot of cops put on OT with all the kids going to this movie…</p>
<p>My town cinema closed out 14 of the 15 theatres solely for harry potter and no other movies will be playing for the next 3 weeks!</p>
<p>I just bought tickets for the Sunday matinee. I had no idea if it will still be crowded on Sunday but, didn’t want to risk getting closed out. My D2 is seeing the midnite showing tonite with her college friends in Orlando. I am sure that she will give me a full report (which are usually very critical of the HP movies). She hates when they deviate from the book in the slightest.</p>
<p>I just read two positive reviews of the movie, so now I am psyched to see it. I have tickets with some girlfriends tomorrow night; my daughter is seeing it at college, midnight showing. I’ll be going again with my husband over Thanksgiving. </p>
<p>For those of us who have kids in the college class of 2011 – it just dawned on me how this franchise continues to follow their lives. Our kids read almost all the books at the exact age Harry was. The last book came out when they graduated high school. And now the last movie is coming out when they graduate college. There’s something poignant about that timing.</p>
<p>My 16 year D is obsessed. Went to school dressed is Hermoine today. I’m the mean mom not letting her go at midnight but she has a debate tournament tomorrow/Saturday and dance with an additional audition on Sunday. Hopefully she’ll go Friday or Saturday night. But she has to find the time…</p>
<p>I don’t have this huge desire like almost everyone else, mostly because I worry that I can’t follow it as I only read the first book. </p>
<p>My oldest is living in France right now and so I am not sure she’ll get to see it. My husband asked my 22 year old if she’d like to see it when she comes home for Thanksgiving and she indicated that there was a good chance she’d be seeing it in NYC Friday (she lives in NYC but we live in VT).</p>
<p>This all conjured up a flashback for me. I recall when the very first HP movie came out and the opening night was the same night in November of 2001 that my younger D (who had just turned 13 at the time) was performing with the Toronto Symphony in Toronto and was beside herself that she’d have to miss the HP opening. She was wretched about it. We saw it the next night in Toronto though and she lived. Then, she wrote a letter to our hometown editor about being thankful (it was around Thanksgiving) and that she should not complain from the posh (it was soooo posh) hotel she was being put up at in Toronto and that she should not complain about missing the opening to Harry Potter (she went beyond complaining!!) when there were so many less fortunate children!!! It was published!</p>
<p>It’s less than 4 hours awayyyyy. I am soooooo excited!</p>
<p>Where are the reviews from the midnight showings???</p>
<p>review from this neck of the woods (after the two girls slept about 3 hours tops)…</p>
<p>"amazing!!'…“wanna see it again this weekend!!”</p>
<p>Yeah, I assumed the midnite viewers were still sleeping.</p>
<p>Some of us are wide awake and heading off to work. Now, how I’ll be doing four or five hours from now …</p>
<p>Movie was fantastic. It was funny, scary, sad, beautiful, intense (not always at the places intended) but overall satisfying. They took out some funny scenes from the book and tried creating their own humor at times, and that didn’t always work, but they were faithful to the essence of the book, and I appreciate that.</p>
<p>The acting was much better for the trio. They grew into their roles very well. Can’t wait for Part 2.</p>