It's Over

I blame The Man for my love of Harry Potter.  I had managed to escape the insanity until after we were married.  Then, as a newlywed couple (of two or three weeks) The Man tells me he really wants to see the movie The Half Blood Prince in the theater.  Being the good wife that I am, I agreed even though I didn't care to see it.  I was a little confused during it and he had to explain things.  But I wanted to know what came next and what happened before.  The Man owned all the Harry Potter movies before this one so that week we had a Harry Potter marathon.  Everything made so much more sense!  I enjoyed the movies a lot.  So much so that I figured the books HAD to be better (they always are!)  I asked for them for Christmas 2009 and got them.  My parents where here and I finished them all in about two weeks.  I then reread them. And reread them. Again and again and again.  I LOVE them. 

Movie watching in the car

I've been looking forward to this weekend since before part one came out.  I figured we wouldn't see it on opening day but I was OK with seeing it sometime this weekend.  Then The Man called and said that he found out that the local drive in was showing parts one and two and did I want to go?  YES! We were going to eat dinner at home and it was in the oven but I looked that their Facebook page and saw that at 6pm they were already open and there were 4 lanes of traffic back tot he highway.  YIKES!  Now that I was all excited to see it tonight I would not have been happy if we couldn't get in.  So we through a bunch a stuff together and headed over. (It turns out that we could have waited to later to get in.  Oh well...it was fun anyway!)

There were a bunch of cars in line when we got there and we were able to listen to the 1812 Overture in it's entirety, plus a few other songs before getting in.  But we got in and got a spot we were happy with.  We got dinner from the snack bar (never had pickles and tomatoes on a Philly cheese steak before though!)  The Man had grabbed his computer before we left and so in the 2.5 hours we had to wait to for the movie to start we watched The 1/2 Blood Prince.  It was also fun to people watch.  There were some people in costume and that was fun.  Seriously though, some people did not look in the mirror after they were dressed...but that's a rant for a different blog post!

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Part Two was excellent.  I'm know that there are lots of posts out there about it, so I'll let you go read them. Overall I was happy with the film.  Since it wasn't exactly like the book, there are parts that I would have like done differently but it was still a great movie.  We are still going to see it in 3-D.  We might even go with friends to go see it in the IMAX theater.  I can't wait till it comes out on video...I've already told The Man that we'll be having a Harry Potter movie marathon when it does!

Are you a Harry Potter fan?

What did you think of Deathly Hallows part 2?