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Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer Released
bryan8m writes "The teaser trailer for the next installment of the Harry Potter series has hit the web. The clip begins with a bit of a flashback but quickly turns to the triwizard tournament with some amazing visuals. And there is new director (again): Mike Newell."
I bought the books last summer and read all 5 of them in a matter of days (spread out over a few weekends). Since them I have reread them and I am most certainly looking forward to the next one in ~62 days.
Give them a change, most likely you wouldn't be disappointed.
They are funny, well written and at the end of each book, you hit yourself over the head, because you didn't see it coming. One really can't stop reading them. Rowling even makes a joke in one of her books about a magical book that you can never put down. Well, her books are certainly magical.
They are also kind of a mystery spread out over 7 books. Only two left to go.
But if you can't take the suspense, perhaps you should wait untill book 7 is out in a few years.
What is also surprisingly is that the writing style ages with the characters. While book one is more targeted at 11 year olds, the 5th one is more for young adolescentes. But any age can and does enjoy them.
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The editorials are usually good.
Before I read them I just discarded them as over hyped kids books. I was proven wrong, lucky me.
Gilliam: Eventually they went with another director, and since the film made over $300 million, that was obviously the right decision.
NPR: What did you think of the movie when it came out?
Gilliam: Crap.
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The kids grow at the usual rate of 1 year to a year, and the movies are coming out about 1 1/2 years apart. In the first one, some of them (at least Hermione) were younger than the part they were playing. The kids in the storys are also a year older with each story, so if you consider 7 movies at 1 1/2 years each, that's 10.5 years to finish, which means when the last one is DONE, they'll be about 3.5 years older, assuming they started when they were the same age as their characters. But, again, some actors are younger than their characters, and the first two came out only 1 year apart.
There's also the difference of their age when they start filming a movie and their age when it is released, about a year and a half later. For instance, when I mentioned Hermoine's age (I remember seeing it in the "What Happened Today" column in the newspaper), she was a year or so behind her movie age at the time of release. Even if you don't take that into account, assuming the kids ages matched when they started filming, at the end, they'll be 21 playing 18 year olds. That has happened quite often in TV and film.
So, yes, the actors are aging fast, but you have to remember the characters are aging, too. It is a bit hard to get used to, since we see the characters in "snapshots" spaced a year to year and a half apart, and if you're used to watching a kid grow up, it's so gradual you don't notice it as much. In the latest movie, they should be 14, and I don't think the characters look too far off.
Teens also tend to grow much more when they're 12-16. Often you don't see quite as much of a change from 16-18, so if they look okay for the next movie, I think they'd be fine in the last 2.
No, you're pretty on topic, I submitted a year ago the teaser/trailer of Prisoner of Azkaban and it was denied posting because it was noted as "Off topic/not relevant".
As a libertarian, I believe it's no business of the State to get involved with anything two people do consentually in private.
As a Libertarian, you probably also are not living in the real world. Here in the real world, laws concerning age-of-consent are entirely necessary. Sure, in the worldly sense, they are arbitrary... but I also like to think the west has advanced since the days of, oh, I don't know... people getting married at 12.
If you feel otherwise, I suggest you keep an open mind when your 13 year old daughter is being seduced by 39 year old named "Chevy". Hey, if she consents, is all good, right? Just as long as that nasty government doesn't tell your daughter how to live her life.
my religion lies somewhere between buddhism and super monkey ball - pamphlet?
I find this entire concept of "age of consent" somewhat tenuous, at best. It seems to imply that there is an age at which one magically is able to make intelligent, rational decisions about their own body and their sexuality, and below that they're just too stupid and/or immature to make any such decision. If that were actually the concern, I know plenty of 30 year olds who aren't able to make said intelligent, rational decisions... and plenty of 12 year olds who are. People mature at different ages. Get over it.
Ugh. You don't seem to understand anything about society engineering. I don't mean social engineering. I mean engineering societies so that they productive and not too screwed up.
Sure, some 12 year olds are more mature than some 30 year olds. That's not the point.
We can't have a society where everyone has to take long, drawn-out tests to allow them to do certain things. Think about applying for a driver's license (including the written and driving tests) for everything adults are allowed to do. Drinking alcohol, voting, signing legally binding contracts, entering the Army, getting a job, buying a firearm (*), owning a house, etc..
Geez, think of the cost. Think of how thick your wallet would be, carrying around all those different ID cards. Then, when you have to move, think about all the change-of-address forms.
So we don't do that kind of stuff. We don't have the time and money to implement comprehensive ability tests for all aspects of adulthood. So we pick a number (14, 18, 21, whatever) and hope for the best.
It is fine to question the rules of society. People don't do that enough. But to dismiss the rules without understanding the reasons for them is folly.
(*) Actually, I think a more comprehensive test for gun ownership is a good idea, but even that's probably not going to happen in the USA.