Goblet of Fire trailer !!!!

Post by **FlamingTP** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:28 am

Harry Potter is a new term for gay people, it works on so many levels.

Post by **mjrpes** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:33 am

saturn wrote:read a real book instead of some children's story

Why do you consider it out of the norm for an adult to read a children's book? Maybe if someone reads children's books exclusively, that's one thing. But you should get past the idea that an adult who enjoys a children's book is in some way commiting a grave faux pas. Because that's what is really is, an unwritten rule of society that has no real justification. There are lots of children's books out there that are fun reads. And I think it's perfectly fine and, in fact, healthy, to read these types of books.

Post by **sliver** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:54 am

the only good thing about harry potter is that john williams is composing the score.

the kids suck, the sfx suck, the direction is boring, and the plots are just what you'd expect from a welfare mom who's never read Terry Brooks let alone Louise Cooper or JRR Tolkien.

if the millions of blasted old codgers who picked up the novels actually continued on reading and picked up quality literature, at least harry potter would have done some good. no such luck...

Post by **saturn** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:46 am

mjrpes wrote:
saturn wrote:read a real book instead of some children's story
Why do you consider it out of the norm for an adult to read a children's book? Maybe if someone reads children's books exclusively, that's one thing. But you should get past the idea that an adult who enjoys a children's book is in some way commiting a grave faux pas. Because that's what is really is, an unwritten rule of society that has no real justification. There are lots of children's books out there that are fun reads. And I think it's perfectly fine and, in fact, healthy, to read these types of books.

I was pulling his leg majorpes

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:58 am

Gyah.

...

That was all I was going to post but I changed my mind, I've not got much inclination to watch these films or anything, but I'll definitely have read one of these fucking books that people keep rattling on about, out of curiosity rather than genuinely wanting to know about Harry and his fab adventures wih his chums.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:59 am

sliver wrote:JRR Tolkien.

JRR Tolkein was a boring faggot. My parents went to see him lecture in Oxford (he was a don at Exeter college, which is where both my dad and I went to uni), and they said it was the most boring piece of crap they ever experienced. To quote my mum - "he started going on and on about elves, and we left"

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:04 am

Oxford? you clever bastard. Had a friend who went to Mansfield college I think, some info you'll never use right there.

Post by **Grudge** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:34 am

The films are pretty meh, and the books are not that great. In general I don't like books about kids and growing up, wizards or not. Haven't read them all though.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:52 pm

mik0rs wrote:Oxford? you clever bastard. Had a friend who went to Mansfield college I think, some info you'll never use right there.

AFAIK, they didn't have any medical students there. Or at least I can't remember anyone who went there. Then again, a lot of the medical students were such nonentities that I can't remember them as anything other than a long list of names of people who got much better marks than me

Post by **seremtan** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:06 pm

mik0rs wrote:Oxford? you clever bastard. Had a friend who went to Mansfield college I think, some info you'll never use right there.

I used to walk past Mansfield on my way to tutes at the Zoology dept.

More priceless trivia :icon31:

Post by **sliver** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:06 pm

Geebs wrote:JRR Tolkein was a boring faggot. My parents went to see him lecture in Oxford (he was a don at Exeter college, which is where both my dad and I went to uni), and they said it was the most boring piece of crap they ever experienced. To quote my mum - "he started going on and on about elves, and we left"

Excellent logic. He was a terrible lecturer, so he must have been unimaginitive and a poor writer.

You absolute twit.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:07 pm

its Twat sliver...

Post by **sirstrongbad** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:21 pm

i've never seen any of the Harry Potter movies or read any of the books. how does this compare to J.R.R. Tolkien's work?

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:24 pm

Geebs wrote:
mik0rs wrote:Oxford? you clever bastard. Had a friend who went to Mansfield college I think, some info you'll never use right there.
AFAIK, they didn't have any medical students there. Or at least I can't remember anyone who went there. Then again, a lot of the medical students were such nonentities that I can't remember them as anything other than a long list of names of people who got much better marks than me

He was doing maths, forgot to mention

Post by **4days** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:27 pm

o'dium wrote:Is it wrong to thin kthe female lead is getting hotter by the movie

lol
http://www.jonnydigital.com/hermione.php

Post by **Grudge** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:49 pm

sirstrongbad wrote:i've never seen any of the Harry Potter movies or read any of the books. how does this compare to J.R.R. Tolkien's work?

It doesn't.

Post by **sirstrongbad** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:50 pm

so you're saying that one of them is far superior than the other or that they just belong to completely different genres and thusly cannot be compared to one another?

Post by **Grudge** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:58 pm

Well, perhaps a little bit of both.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:26 pm

sliver wrote:so he must have been unimaginitive and a poor writer.

I think you'll find I actually called him a "boring faggot".

Post by **sliver** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:15 pm

Geebs wrote:
sliver wrote:so he must have been unimaginitive and a poor writer.
I think you'll find I actually called him a "boring faggot".

I think if you stretch that little mind of yours, you will realize that his lackluster public speaking skills are irrelevant to any discussion of the merits of his writing.

Post by **Geebs** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:44 pm

Yeah, Duke's total ineptitude with the english language is apparently one of the things that makes him a "professional writer"

Post by **Geebs** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:47 pm

Memphis wrote:
sirstrongbad wrote:i've never seen any of the Harry Potter movies or read any of the books. how does this compare to J.R.R. Tolkien's work?
One is good.

One's for children.

That's pretty ironic considering Tolkein's best *written* book is The Hobbit

Post by **sliver** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:13 am

Geebs wrote:Yeah, Duke's total ineptitude with the english language is apparently one of the things that makes him a "professional writer"

I hope you aren't calling me Duke. I have no retarded brother, sir.

Post by **Shmee** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:20 pm

sirstrongbad wrote:so you're saying that one of them is far superior than the other or that they just belong to completely different genres and thusly cannot be compared to one another?

It doesn't in the sense that one is a fantasy-type world populated with elves and orcs and hobbits and such, and the other is a modern brit-pop sort of story who's main characters are children.

That's not a slam on either of them, but they really don't compare. I happened to like the Harry Potter books because they're just good fun

Post by **Fender** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:22 pm

Shmee wrote:I happened to like the Harry Potter books because they're just good fun