How eager are you to see the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

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Are you just biting your nails until next summer, or can you wait for this movie to come out, with a great amount of patience?

Opening day, baby. Hopefully Heidi and I will see it with Sherry, Ron and the kids. I can't wait... it will be a good movie, I'm sure.

Is it time yet?
Is it time Yet?
IS IT TIME YET?

Have to see it right away.

You and me, Sherry... outside the theatre... just like in that Mervyn's commercial:

OPEN, OPEN, OPEN!!! :calvary: And if you don't, we will huff, and puff, and your theatre down!!!!

Day it comes out I'm there. Hopefully can get to the premier even here's hoping atleast

Next year's looking pretty good for monster sequels. I'm a Spider-man and Shrek fan so I'll be there for their next installments as well.

Yeah! Damon is a huge Spider-man fan, so Ron and I will have to go check it out to see if he can watch it when it comes on cable.

I REALLY CAN'T WAIT!!!!! WHOOOOO! sorry, total nutter here!
im praying on my life to be albe to get tickets to the premier but i still dont know anything about well... anything! if i dont get premier tickets ill scream my head off coz its out on my birthday wich is really kool!!!!!!!! Hope Ur All Great!!!

you can prob tell im a compleate nutter cant ya :P
Luvs,
TrickyTish

oooh fun

TrickyTish, I think that we're all hoping to get opening night tickets!!! We can all hope!

I can't wait to go and see it. I'll settle with going to see it that Sunday if I can't see it opening night. Last year the crowd was huge!!!! And everyone was waiting to run to get front row seats, I'll unshamely admitt I was one of those running!!!!! XD

I think that I waited, on the second film, until that weekend, and went to the first showing, so I got right in without a crowd ahead of time. I don't know if I will try to be there opening night. I tend to enjoy a movie when it's not filled with people who are amped up, pushy, rude, talkative, etc... and that is something that you find on films for the opener. Then again, I don't enjoy going to a movie and having children all over, talking, whinning, etc...

Ohhhhhhhh, to be rich and have my own theatre to watch films!

Through my numerous illegitimate connections (lol), it's come to my attention that certain people have access to certain copies of the near-finished (if not completely finished) film. Don't get me wrong, I'll be there on opening night ready to donate my money to the HP cause, but the idea of having the movie 6 months before its release is slightly appealing. I'll keep you guys posted.

.......ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh....

"slightly" appealing eh? who do I have to kill?

Just name 'em...

Oh yeah... lining up!!! Pass it on, dear brother Mike!!!

Slightly appealing? Go! Make friends with these people and see it!

Yes... follow what Sherry is telling you!! Make friends... GO!!! NOW!

And when you see it with your new friends, don't forget to report back to us EVERYTHING!!!

That's right... and, ummm... send a copy too!

Sorry to let you guys down, but it now looks like the early viewing isn't going to happen. Apologies for getting you excited. I shall now retire to my Room of Shame and cower there until I have cleared my conscience.

Nah, that's okay, Mike. You have never let us down!!! You're part of our family!

Don't run away Mike, it happens. Don't forget about us.

Thanks guys, your support helps alot (so did drowning my sorrows at a friend's party, but that had consequences...) Anyhoo, I've been making an effort to keep an eye out for other films directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Director of POA) but have so far only stumbled upon The Little Princess. It was a nice family film, but does anyone have any other experiences of his work?

I watched Great Expectations (that was his movie, right?)

Fantastically done, though I wish it had held true to the book (it was a "modern" version, for those that don't know), but the truth is that it was nicely directed... I heard someone say that Alfonso likes wide camera angles, and that's evident in this movie, and, I find, very effective.

I have no doubt that HP and the POA will turn out to be AOK.

There's another one of his movies called Y Tu Mama Tambien I think it is. I haven't seen it, but I know he directed that one.

Thanks gaboman, I've seen that adaptation and liked it but didn't realise it was Cuaron's work. My faith in POA (the movie) is reinforced. Lil' Washu, I've also heard of Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too) but have not seen it. Apparently it's a teen sex flick, which would differ from his other films. It would be interesting to see if his directing style is maintained across such diverse genres.

I'm rolling over in my coffin. The suspense is bringing me back to life. Basically, It needs to hurry up and get into the theaters.

Coffin? Hmm, well at least I am not the only one who is dying to see it.

Nope, you know that you're not, Sherry. I can't wait to see it!!!
I want to see the Dementors. From what I've seen... they look scary!

Oh, and even though I don't like chocolate... I might want to bring some with me, to the movie... just in case those Dementors work their evil ways on me!

I knew that you would! And Heidi will have chocolate covered almonds or peanuts!

So far, I've been able to get advanced tickets to see the other two in the theater. I'll probably do the same with this one too

Well, as anxious as I am to see it... I won't do that, Pulse. I just can't stand crowds that are like that. I prefer less people, less talking, etc....

The theater is surprisingly quiet when one of these movies is playing. It doesn't matter how many people are watching it. Shocking but also a good thing.

True... but the rush of people at the theatres on opening nights aren't my thing!

Yeah, you can stand in line for hours just to get your ticket. And that's if they don't sell out by the time your turn to buy comes up.

True... but I buy my tickets online... www.amctheatres.com
All I have to do is show up, go inside to a movie ticket machine (which few people use) and put my card in and out drops my tickets. Fast and painless.

I've gotten advanced tickets to the other two Harry Potter movies online. You buy them online and then go to the theater that you will be seeing the movie at and pick them up. That way, the night of the movie, you can go ahead and go inside and enjoy the show. There's no standing in line hoping that they don't sell out before you get a chance to buy a ticket. Works really well.

The store I work in had a fancy-dress day last weekend and I went as Harry. Apparently I was pretty convincing, so I'm gonna show up on opening night and try to pass myself off as Dan Radcliffe. Perhaps they'll reserve a seat for me. Plan B may be a bit simpler (book tickets).

Opening Day !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woooooo Hooooooo!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait... I loved the first two and i'm sure the next one will be just as fabulous.....

There was a guy in my Internet Programming class a couple of quarters ago that looked like Harry Potter. I kept telling him that all he needed was a little stick to wave around and a broom in the other hand

I'm not a Potter-freak, but the movies aren't bad. I'm itching to see it just so I can hear the music. Williams is completely rewriting most of the score, including some great choral work... can't wait.

The soundtracks for the first two movies probably sound pretty much the same. Maybe they should change the score around a bit for this third one.

The soundtracks for the first and second films sound almsot nothing alike, in my opinion. Obviously, the major motifs for the main characters are going to stay the same. However, being the genius of Williams, they did change around quite a bit. There was about 50% new material on the second movie...

I do agree with you, though... I'm ready for something fresh and unique.

Oh do share... what about John Williams makes him anything less than a musical genius?

*cough*He usually only writes about 4 bars of music himself. Then he's got a team of 8 music professors who do the rest.*cough*

But I didn't say that...

Gabby... John Williams writes every bar of music you hear in the film. The "team" you are refering to is a team of orchestrators. An orchestrator is someone who takes the score that the composer has written and expands it for the orchestra.

John Williams has built a long-standing relationship with Herbert Spencer, who orchestrates the majority of Williams' material along with a team of three to five others. Given Williams' training as a classical pianist, he usually composes on the piano. He'll come up with the two-staff composition, then expand it into what we call an orchestral sketch, which usually has eight to ten staves, detailing what each instrument or section should be doing and when.

He will then give his sketch to Mr. Spencer or whomever the orchestrator happens to be, and the "team" will build the score for the orchestra. They do not write music, change the music, or remove any music. They do stuff like noting which direction the bow of a string instruments should play a certain note, or where a brass player should stop to breathe. Some instruments can only play certain ranges at certain dynamic levels (the trumpet, for example, cannot play high notes at soft levels very well), so they make sure the score will be balanced. Through this process, they work very closely with Willaims (or whomever the composer is), who also does some of the orchestrating.

Basically, the orchestrators are there to aide the composer in making sure that his score will be realistic for musicians to play.

Williams is actually more famous for his orchestration technique than his composition... he was a concertmaster for several years, and his style of orchestraion is very full and sophisticated. Most of his team is actually learning from him just as much as they are helping him. On "smaller" films, Williams does all the orchestration himself.

Hope that clears everything up for y'all. Maybe we should start a thread about John Williams, since we seem to be getting a bit off topic - I'll leave that to KJ.

Even if Williams isn't responsible for every stage of the orchestration of his themes, the fact remains that the themes are the most memorable of any composer in the last 30 years, and are probably more significant than the combinations of instruments he uses. If not for him, we wouldn't have the famous two-note Jaws motif, any of the music from Star Wars, ET, Hook, Jurassic Park and of course Harry Potter. I don't know about you guys, but I find myself humming those all the time.

Mike James, you sound like someone who actually plays an instrument. I think John does do his own work and would have others to help out with the tedious process of scoring each instrument. NO offense Grant.

John Williams is a masterful composer and I love the fact that he is doing the Harry Potter series.

Mike James actual composes... to what extent, I do not know.
But, I know that it is something that he does... a talented guy he is.

I'm wicked scared (I don't fancy much of the new cast, though Emma Thompson's brilliant and some of the other stuff I've seen/heard), but I want to see it the minute it comes out. I'm too big of an HP fan to refuse to see this no matter how bad it is.