We're watching all the Harry Potter films again in anticipation of the next release. Just saw Chamber of Secrets, four more to go in the next week, lol.

It's so nice finally hearing them in full 5.1 again for the first time since seeing them in the theatres; there is some impressive use of the surround channels and LFE that I'd really been missing before. And of course I love the John Williams scores (damn disappointing that he didn't do any of the others, and won't be doing the last one as had been rumoured).

I used to be rather active in Harry Potter fandom, going over the books in a lot of detail, and it has to be said that there are numerous places where the movies destroy various aspects of characterisation through unfortunate screenwriting and directing choices, particularly in giving a lot of Ron's best moments to Hermione so that Emma Watson can badly overact them (ironically, her performance in the first film was actually the most convincing). Still, it's not nearly as bad as stuff that was changed in Lord of the Rings, so I don't usually fret about it too much, and the later ones have been much better in that regard.