> How many people do you know who went to a school
>like Hogwart's? My total count comes to zero.
>Just because it's a high school in an alternate
>universe doesn't mean that Harry Potter films are
>"high school movies." The major events and crises
>in Harry Potter films tend to revolve around, you
>know, magic and monsters and stuff, which is not
>a major feature in most people's high school
>careers.

That's as may be, but there's still plenty of comig-of-age and oh-my-gosh- teen-angst in the books and the movies (moreso the books). I distinctly remember Harry being a whiny awful teenage prick for most of the fourth and parts of the fifth book.

But I'm with Sam on this one. Why Goblet of Fire, and none one of the others? Goblet of Fire intentionally LEFT OUT a lot of the "high school" type stuff that was in the book, because the book was too long to film the whole story with all the subplots.


> Explain to me why Sinbad is great and Rocky
>Horror is terrible, please. Neither of them is
>exactly what anyone would call "great art," and
>yet they're both campy and awful and fun to
>watch. I suspect the reason why you hate Rocky
>Horror so much is somewhat because its more
>gratuitous nature offends you personally.

Oh, wait, I'm supposed to watch Rocky Horror the same way I watch Sinbad? Ok, that makes more sense. I didn't realize I was supposed to laugh at it and not with it. Maybe I'd like it more knowing that. For some reason I always thought people were actually finding the movie itself funny and engaging. Which it's freaking not. It's just WEIRD.

-- Dave