I hope it all end just like that Pokemon craze.
Is not harry potter for pre teens/teens audience and a lot of people who have never read the books have seen some of the movies which are most very well made or just o.k.
In all fainess i think J.K. Rowling is a hack i mean I read some of the first book and the writing was fairly juvenile and derivative and ripped off of tolkien very badly in some obvious places. I think it's funny because I saw an interview with her on t.v. where she does even try to disguise that she ripped off tolkien heck she said she read those when she was a kid. the fact that she intirely plagiarised one of my favorite moments in the hobbit the one between bilbo and smaug the dragon in the first potter book told me this book belonged thrown in the trash.
Sure she's been forgiven because in the later books her writing got better and she actually wrote up some original material and plots. But I also heard a lot of the later potter books she had help writing possibly even a ghost writer and slaps her name on the cover.
As much as I dislike harry potter I must admit I like JOHN Williams Music for the movies he actually scored. Whomever had him replaced should be shitcanned.
Who ever wanted to ride a broomstick as a kid? does'nt that come off slighty gay too any of you or the fact the hero is slight of build and wears glasses and is a bookish nerd?
When I was a kid of about six or seven years old I wanted to have a green lighsaber and be a jedi knight and take on Darth vader. or Fly the millenium falcon with chewie as my co-pilot. that was cool back in those days but I guess i'm too old for this kid's stuff anyway, my excuse for not getting the potter craze. I laughed out loud when cartman in an episode of south park made fun of the potter dressed up kids when he was playing as lord of the rings chracters with his friends.
No I never played d&D OR magic the gathering but having played the legend of zelda or having read lord of the rings was like a secret handskake it made you cool. That pretty much dates me though As I was born in 1978 and grew up in the eighties . So yeah Transformers were cool, Thundercats were cool, he man was cool, star wars was cool etc,etc.
even though all or most of those things have gone by the wayside the original star wars trilogy is still king in my book even for someone a couple years away from being 30 years old.
And yes lord of the rings is the best book ever written never mind fantasy and will never ever be topped by anything, at least for me.
You can leave all the hack work to rowling and dan brown i'll keep my tolkien. peace.
Any how at least adm's versions of the movies make them at least tolerable to somewhat good.
To be fair I shoud have said "phonomenon" not "fad" but I still don't get it's popularity here in the unites states or abroad.
I do like how It incorreges listeracy in the young people of the world though especially children even though I find it to be lacking in most points as a piece of fiction. It incorreges young peope to dream and teaches them values myths etc yada, yada yada.
I also like the fact that a woman can finally be sucessfull at what in previous centuries was a man's job, the Job of fantasy storyteller or bard. Especially since she was poor and destitute and homeless living at the train depot and Is most likely the richest author ever to have lived, impressive.
the harry potter series does help bridge generations though I can talk to kid's who like and read the books and have them discuss the themes motives and myths and I can talk about the silmilarities to star wars and lord of the rings and were all happy!
My nieces and nephew are still too young to read the books hopefully when there old enough they will.
I don't know though my sister who is a strict christian mother might think they will be taught withcraft by the books. I have a feeling they will be forced to read the narnian books and not be allowed to read harry.
I will most likely get my nephew into lord of the rings and the hobbit though because he is very like minded. he love's transformers now and lego.