Why is it that we allow ourselves to be embarassed? Advanced tickets went on sale for the latest Harry Potter movie (opens Saturday) and I duly went early to get two for the Bloggs boys and one for a friend who is relieving me of the pain of having to sit through two and a half hours of dodgy child-acting and a story line which doesn't stray too far from a familiar pattern (and let's not even go into the fact that the humour - the only redeeming point of the books - just isn't translated on to screen at all!) Anyway, I thought getting to the cinema 20 minutes after opening time would mean I could breeze in an out and on to a haircut. Think again Mr. Bloggs. There was already a queue and it took me 1 hour to get to the front of it. Why was I embarassed being seen in such a lengthy line and why was I moritified when the girl at the counter asked if I wanted just one ticket? I wouldn't queue up for a movie I wanted to go and see, let alone this one. And yet I'm not embarassed to tell you that my head really isn't here at the moment. All thoughts lead to Lisbon and the England football team. Why aren't I embarassed about that?
Posted by Joe at June 24, 2004 03:43 PMI'd certainly be embarrassed. Spectator sports?
Posted by: DJ at June 25, 2004 12:13 PMTragic result, but there you go.
I recently read the first 4 Harry Potter books and felt justified in my disdain for the hype after reading the first, but they actually started to grow on me by the third one. JK is no Pullman, but the storylines were quite compelling, I thought.
Posted by: Lisa at June 25, 2004 06:52 PMSpectator sports: I know I should be embarassed, but I'm not in the least embarassed to say that I am emphatically NOT embarassed! :+)
Tragic but typical. :+(
Potter: my disdain is withering. I find I want to read on, when reading it to the boys, but all of it is so much of the same and so totally inconsequential that I forget what I've read 20 pages down the line. Like drinking water and pissing it out. Though I will forever be her biggest fan for getting children interested in reading again. It is just that she is not an adults' author ... in my _not so_ humble opinion.
Posted by: Joe at June 25, 2004 07:33 PM