TCP #9: Harry Potter

Welcome to the October 6th edition of Tuesday Couch Potatoes, where we post about a movie each week. This week’s theme is Fantasy Adventure. If you love elves, orcs, talking animals, and Middle Earth, never before seen worlds, heroes that only come alive in your dreams, and of course, happy endings, then come join us this Tuesday! It’s fun!

I love Fantasy movies and I could name at least twenty on top of my head. There’s LOTR, Chronicles of Narnia, Stardust to name a few. However, since we only need to choose one, I’d say nothing can beat the Harry Potter series. I’ve never really liked the movie until my daughter started showing interest. To think she was only two and a half years old that time. She enjoys watching The Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets but can also stand the scarier ones like Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire. She knows all the characters, scenes, dialogues and musical score.

If I have to pick one from the series, it would be Goblet of Fire. I love how Voldemort finally appeared and that you can feel that the battle is about to start. What I also like about HP is that the hero is very good at what he does. The main character is usually weak at first and always had to be saved by his friends / protectors. But not Harry, from the first book to 7th, he was always the one who ends up killing the villain.

Too bad the next two movies – Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince were half-baked for me.