The Trailer

[emmagrant01]

Went to see Happy Feet today, basically just to see The Trailer. MDH took great delight in telling the ticket-taker and the guy who sold us popcorn that we were basically just there so I could see it. They gave me appropriately odd looks, but I didn't care. ;-)

Everyone and their brother has now seen one of the bootlegs of it, I'm sure, but I still wanted to see it on the big screen for myself. And it was awesome! OMG occlumency! And Sirius! And the DA! And the kiss! And Bellatrix!! I can't wait!! :-D

Happy Feet was a lot better than I expected. I had heard it had an environmental message, and I loved the fact that it was so sneaky about it. The theater was full of families with little kids, and I love the fact that all of those Republican "family values" types are now going to have to deal with children who are concerned about the impact of over-fishing on the poor little penguins. Mwahaha! I like movies where animals are portrayed as being intelligent and as having something to tell us, though -- especially when someone, somewhere (usually a child, but that's how these movies go) listens.

But back to HP. You know, I've seen a couple of posts lately about how the HP fandom is apparently dying. To which I have to say, Bzuh? I look at all the fic and all the HP-related posts on my flist, and I can only wonder what the people who are saying that are looking at. But then, as Qui-Gon said, your focus determines your reality. ;-)

Comments

[tm-nicholas.livejournal.com]

I went to see it yesterday for the same reason you did, but loved Happy Feet.

I, of course, was excited to hear Kiss by Prince over and over... and thought about you and that YouTube video every time it came on.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes! I was thinking of that too! :-D

[le-negronomicon.livejournal.com]

I, of course, was excited to hear Kiss by Prince over and over...

Not to mention the original Prince tune on there, which is surprsingly good...

[nimroddess.livejournal.com]

Haha, I saw Happy Feet too, but I was there for the tap dancing penguins. I had no idea the HP trailer was going to play until it was playing and I sat up straight and paid it full attention. I loved what I saw of Bellatrix and I think the rest of it all flashed by too quickly.

I loved Happy Feet for the same reasons you did. And the tap dancing, of course :)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

That must have been a lovely surprise! :-)

[ktoth04.livejournal.com]

OMG THANK YOU!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Not exactly sure what I'm being thanked for, but you're welcome! :-)

[fluffenbax.livejournal.com]

I would go to see it just for HP, but i don't think it is out in the UK yet...Well, my imaginary brother and i hadn't seen the trailer and i just watched the crappy bootleg link provided like 5 times in a row...haha...i love HP!

and this fandom is most definitely not dying....maybe pornish pixies has died down a bit, but it will explode again during christmas. Sadly, we have lives outside of HP, but I still come online everyday just to immerse myself in a much preferable reality.

Qui-Gon is right!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I've actually been surprised that the amount of fic getting posted seems to have stayed pretty constant this month. I mean, isn't everyone working on their holiday exchange fics? Maybe not. ;-)

[charlotteschaos.livejournal.com]

Every time I see the Occlumency part of it I cringe at the Snarry that is likely to pour forth.

[oanja.livejournal.com]

OMG! Are they trying to kill me or what. A trailer out more than 6 months before the movie!

Thanks for the link to it btw. I had no idea it was out already. It looked really good and I can't wait to actually see it. *waits impatiently*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's been the big news on my flist for a couple of weeks now, for some reason. Hee! :-)

[remey.livejournal.com]

ya, i don't see the HP fandom dyeing, especially not in the near future.

and in regards to the movie comeing up: I'm a little nervous about going and seeing it in the theater. mostly cause of the Snape and harry bits, Umbrige and Sirius..

hmm.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Nervous in a bad way, like worried about what will happen?

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

I had a similar reaction to all the little kids in the theatre, although--being in Utah--I was mostly going, "Y'all are getting that your kids are being told that religion doesn't solve anything and often excludes people for being different and daring to question Ultimate Authority and should Learn To Be Tolerant, right?"

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Oh, YES. Absolutely! That was fantastic! :-D

[http://users.livejournal.com/__streetspirit/]

Happy Feet made me cry. And the HP trailer made me squee.

[tm-nicholas.livejournal.com]

Boyd makes me drool.
:-x

[letmypidgeonsgo.livejournal.com]

dying? our fandom?! hah! it may be a bit slow, but it's always that way when there's a big gap between new books and/or movies!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it's amazing it's not more slow, considering that everyone has been working on their exchange fics for the last month. ;-)

[dartmouthtongue.livejournal.com]

It better not be dying. I just got here!

WTF. And Amen to Snarry. xD

That "Prove it!" can be used in so many interesting ways.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Not dying -- not with two movies and the final book still to come! :-)

[eleal.livejournal.com]

Re HP fandom dying...

I've said this before. When I say it, I am referring to the fact that instead of WIPs that I follow there are maybe 2. Also, I've read all of the "classic" fics already. I think that my feeling this way is more my own fault than the fandom's. I feel like I've been reading HP fic for 2 years now and if I see an author I don't recognize I rarely read it. I should "know" the good authors by now. I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of good fics this way. The authors that wrote the now-complete WIPs aren't writing chaptered fics anymore (for the most part) or aren't writing as frequently. People are 2 years older and RL has a way of giving you less time.

I check recs quite often but I've already read the ones that jumped out and grabbed me. I wish someone would obliviate me so that I could enjoy all the best fics again for the first time.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Fandoms fluctuate, and what is popular in a fandom fluctuates. After the books come out, there seems to be a big wave of multichaptered WIPs that get started, and enthusiasm for those dies as time goes on (and as a percentage of people end up abandoning them). It seems that 10-20k-word fics are the popular length now and chaptered WIPs aren't so much the thing to write, but I'm not sure if that has something to do with LJ or if it's just something I'm seeing as an artifact of my flist. :-P

People are 2 years older and RL has a way of giving you less time.

That made me grin -- at my age, two years doesn't make a heck of a lot of difference in the relative busy-ness of my life. ;-)

[acromantular.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or did this trailer sound like anther Star Wars movie at the beginning? It made me giggle.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I've always thought of OOTP as the book that was very much like The Empire Strikes Back. Harry reminds me a lot of Luke in that story -- learning that he can be a good leader, facing his own demons and realizing others have them as well, facing great loss (Sirius, but also the loss of Dumbledore as a mentor for much of the story), and having to push past his own dark fears and emotions. And like Luke, he rushes to judgment and makes a mistake that leads to a chain of events that actually endangers those he loves. And at the end of the book, he's really become an adult. He starts HBP as "Dumbledore's man", and the journey he takes in OOTP prepares him for that.

IMO, of course. ;-)

[aluinnsearlait.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding -- they had the trailer before Happy Feet?

my little sister is so dead. I totally missed the trailers because of her.

must. find. bootleg.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's attached to the film too, so it's like the next to last trailer before the movie starts. You just missed it! :-P

Bootleg link is in the post above, btw...

[demonicsatirist.livejournal.com]

See...if I didn't have you on my flist I wouldn't have realized the trailer was out in theaters. Thank you so much! This may make my suicidal work schedule over Thanksgiving worth being trapped in Vermont.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was all over my flist last week, or I would never have known. I love LJ for stuff like this! ;-)

[awaywithpixie.livejournal.com]

Don't have any idea when it will be playing here in oz. We don't have the same movie/trailer deals you do, and Happy feet doesn't start until Boxing Day.

Eragon starts here on the 14th, and we might see it there.

But then again, we get different trailers depending on the movie and time of day (yes, having sat through 3 sessions in a row of POA, we got a different trailer each time)

So I'm guessing I'll see it some time then in the real cinema.

So TGFTI (Thank god for the internet) until then!

And no, the fandom isn't dying. We're just all over at stoatshead_hill.

*snicker*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

That is exactly what YouTube is for, absolutely! :-D And with any luck, sites like HPANA will start posting the trailers in a few weeks.

I don't know where the "fandom is dead" stuff is coming from. It sure doesn't look dead from where I stand!

[daisy-chan.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. The "OMG HP IS DYING LIEK WOAH" posts. I think this is becoming an annual thing now? I think it's because of a) winter depression b) everyone busy/frustrated/tired from holidays fests c) OVERREACTING! XD

I think it's funny that I STILL hear an odd comment now and then about how Prince of Tennis (and thus all anime by association) is evil because it's "killing the fandom" or "taking all the good people away". ::rolls eyes::

I smell the need for another round of wank free...

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It seems to happen before the holidays because everyone is so busy writing their exchange fics, and then again after the holidays because everyone is burnt out from reading all the exchange fics. It happens every year like clockwork. Oh, and there will be a big hate meme in mid-January after more than a month of fannish goodwill, and that will turn some people off too. :-P

I haven't heard any flack about POT, oddly. From where I stand, it looks like people are really into a bunch of TV shows like House, Heroes, Supernatural, and the like. I've see a bunch of fic posted for those fandoms lately. But people tend to go kind of multi-fandom during the big TV seasons anyway, IME. :-)

[shudaizi.livejournal.com]

The fandom is dying? How come no one ever tells me these things?! I just went to an HP meet up, it started out as 5 people, 20 attended. More stated they would have been there if they had heard in time/lived closer. Hell, Aucta Sinistra even flew in for the day to be there. I just think that the level of crap we're subjected to is lessened by the fact that LJ allows us to avoid it, so it only seems like it is dying. I dunno.

You should come to the next meet up!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Getting together with other fans is such great fun, isn't it? :-D

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Okay, WHO is saying the HP fandom is dying? We've still got one book and three movies to go!

It's true that in my little corner of fandom the fic has been slow. But that's because it's a) the fall, which is always slow, and b) two or three times as many people signed up for SNupin Santa this year as opposed to last year, so everybody is probably working on their fics.

Anyway, whatever. I wanna see the trailer. Can't wait for the good version to be released on the 'net.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

You know, I haven't seen any of those posts myself. I've only seen people commenting that they've seen such posts. Maybe it's all a big fandom urban legend?

[winnett.livejournal.com]

Yea for HP trailer. I cannot wait! It looks so dark, and I love Sirius in it and squee!

I only got into fandom when the Prisoner of Azkaban movie came out, so I am 'new'. Sirius/Remus was my first pairing and I moved on from there. I admit that I have finding less and less 'new plots', new ways to put our men together in their happy slashhood and when I do find something new (I remember when I read my first dark!Harry and I was amazined) it makes it all new to me again.

But I can see how some of the really old schoolers might be getting bored or be ready to move on.

It isn't dying to me, in fact I think it is peaking for me... But then as you said, focus determines reality.

Watched Trailer Online...And E! Report...And MTV's...

[rectpropagation.livejournal.com]

http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/flipbook/index.jhtml?fid=1546201&launchedFrom=/movies/news/articles/1546175/11202006/story.jhtml#/sitewide/flipbook/index.jhtml?fid=1546201&launchedFrom=/movies/news/articles/1546175/11202006/story.jhtml&photoID=2270198&view=thumb

I know I'm supposed to be squeeing over the trailer but what's up with the picture of the scar on that hand? Is that supposed to be Harry's hand? If so, why did they change what the scar says?

It may be a stupid thing to get angry about but I feel like it's one of "the" important lines from the books like, "Constant Vigilance" and "Remember Cedric Diggory". It's those little things we expect to be there because there's no reason to cut or change it. How is "I will not break rules" better than "I must not tell lies"? It's not even shorter!

*sigh*

But, yes occlumency = yea and DA = love! Can't wait do see Dumbledore and Voldemort fight.

[puppydifranco.livejournal.com]

so yea, I am responding to this really late, but I haven't really been online much in the past week....

I went and saw Happy Feet after reading in your LJ that the new HP trailer was going to be in front of it... which was the only reason I went to see the movie.

and I was very pleasently surprised by that movie... I found myself singing along, which kinda scared the friend I brought with me... and we were the only adults in the theatre that weren't their with large amounts of kids.