One day, six hours, and forty-five minutes until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...
...and meanwhile the movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a big hit at the Wellfleet Drive-in.
At the end of the show the other night, just as the credits were beginning to roll, a teenaged male voice cried out from one of the cars a few rows down from ours:
"I LOVE HARRY POTTER!"
And immediately cars all over the lot began to honk their horns in agreement. A beeping ovation. The teenager and the eleven year old took turns adding our horn to the cacaphony.
Don't know if I'll write my own review. Not sure I have much to add to what's been said in the thread led by merciless in last week's Potter post. Good stuff there. Check it out.
I give it four honks myself.
I can't wait! The bookstore downstairs from my apartment is having a party Friday night and ya know that I am going!
Posted by: catherine | Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 03:32 PM
I'm getting all super excited. I predict I will sleep very poorly tonight.
And, for any other die hards like me, Bloomsbury will be streaming Rowling's midnight reading tomorrow. 4:00P.M. on the West Coast.
Posted by: shayera | Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Oh, dear. Even though I pre-bought the book at my local bookstore a couple of days ago, I'd forgotten that midnight tomorrow was the witching hour.
Saw the movie this weekend and thought it was the best of the lot, although I'm sick of every scene in the last three movies being so relentlessly dark, and I use the word literally. My heart leaped with pleasure when the opening scene of the latest movie started off with an overhead shot of a sunny English field, but the Dementors arrived minutes later, and that was the last time we saw the sun for the entire movie.
Love the Wellfleet drive-in horn ovation story.
Posted by: sfmike | Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 07:05 PM
Sounds like a lot of fun, Lance. Wish I could say I were jealous, but as it happens my boss is in Cape Cod tonight so I'm very glad I'm not there as well.
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 07:32 PM
iirc, didn't edmund wilson summer in wellfleet?
i'd love to know his reaction to harry potter, drive-in movie theaters, or both.
is anyone else with me?
Posted by: harry near indy | Friday, July 20, 2007 at 06:47 AM
Finally saw OOP film -- but it was at the IMax at Lincoln Square, complete with 3D glasses for the scenes at the end in the MoM.
Best film of the lot, mainly because Kloves was NOT the screenwriter and they had a Real Director. (Which they've have since the third film.)
But it is a film, not a filming of the book.
Shira has DH, but my office building won't be open until at least Thursday, so I suspect the time saved commuting will be Committed. (Though there is nothing more fun than carrying a 750 page book on the NYC subway--and noticing that you're Not The Only One.)
Posted by: Ken Houghton | Saturday, July 21, 2007 at 12:59 PM