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Well, my 81 year old grandmother smoked a pack a day for 50 years.  She now has emphazema, a hacking cough, a deep growling voice, has to be on a respirator at night, and can't walk more than five minutes without having to sit down and use an inhaler.

She quit smoking 7 years ago, and that is the only reason she is still alive.

That's enough to make me NEVER smoke.

Ah, well, sorry to drudge up an old thread, but I FINALLY got see the new movie.  I thought it was great!  I thought Johnny Depp was hilairious, of course, I don't think I've ever seen Johnny Depp put on a bad performance.  I liked the fact that the story was much closer to the book.  I love that kid who plays Charlie.  He's a great little actor.  I thought the original Veruca was better.  but, as someone else said, you really can't compare the two movies.  They went in two totally different directions.  After watching the new, we went home and watched the old one.  I love both of them for different reasons.

All and all, it was a pretty good theater-going experience.  We saw it at the Egyptian Theater in Boise, which is this old, restored theater with sphinxes and egyptian paintings and stuff... it's really cool.  Seeing a whimsical movie like that at that particular theater was fun.  And I had my "yay" moment when I saw the Goblet of Fire trailer.   

Thanks.  There's some really great info in there.  Being a singer, I'm always looking for better ways to protect myself.     And actually, I have a call back for a musical tonight, so this should help!

Hey, maybe the government just wants you to THINK that he doesn't work for them.   

Maybe it's because I'm a girl, but I liked the romance quadrangles and all in this book.  I mean, these kids are 16, it makes sense for them to be going through this stuff.  I mean, when you're 16, love and dating tends to be one of the most important things in your life.   You feel like you're going to DIE if so and so doesn't want to go out with you or whatever. 

I don't know.  I found it all amusing.... especially Ron and the love potion.  That reallymade me laugh.

I'm not surprised at all that this discovery was kept from us.  Maybe I think too much on the Mulder side of things, but there is no doubt in my mind that Nasa and the government have a lot more secrets that they keep from us.  I suppose they don't want to create mass hysteria and whatnot.  Not that an new planet would create that, but I'm sure they know other things that would freak us out.

Ok, because this is kind of funny, I'll share this with  you guys.... My boyfriend is a bit of an extremist, and he's got a theory that is ReALLY out there... I think he's watched a little too much sci-fi, but he thinks that the government purposely places science fiction movies, books, etc out there to make people think that aliens and whatnot are fake, in order to cover up the fact that it's all actually real.....   He's big into government conspiracies.

Anyway, I think it's cool that they are finally telling us about this new planet.  It just goes to show that there really is so much out there that we don't know about. 

That walkthrough isn't for Belusebius.

Jane, I honestly can't remember where I found it!

Well, Babar, maybe you and I missed something, because I didn't see that either!

Yeah, while I thought the shrunken head thing was funny, it was one of those things that was added, when something more important to the story could have been left in.

Really nice game.  I enjoyed the humor in it.  I was especially pleased to see the few Mikado references in it.  I was in that show once, and it's really rare to see references to it.

And I don't think Les Mis sucked!  I've seen it twice and it was incredible!

The only thing that I had an issue with playing wise was that it was often difficult to find just where to click to go through a door.  Other than that, great job!

Hi.  anyone playing this game?  I found a bunch of things, and now I don't know what to do.  I have:

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  Empty bottle, rope, screwdriver, and lighter.  i've talked to everyone, and threw the meat at the zombie.   Now what?

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No hissy fits have been thrown by anyone.  We were simply discussing which movies we liked better and why.  You don't have to get so defensive.

I agree.Ã,  When a movie is made from a book, things need to be taken out.Ã,  But, I also believe that the film should have the same story and emotion as the book.Ã,  When I watch a movie based on a book, I don't want to see a different story.Ã,  I like to see how they portray things from the page to the screen.Ã,  Of COURSE things will be taken out.Ã,  It would be impossible to put everything in.Ã,  But, there was a lot of very important back story that was omitted from the script, that is vital to the plot and understanding the characters.Ã,  In my opinion, the more of a good book that they put into the film adaptation, the better.

That's funny.  I liked the first two movies better than the third, BECAUSE they stuck more to the story.  The third movie left out so much history that it really took away from some of the emotional parts of the story.

Thanks.  I re-downloaded it and am currently playing... so far it's great!

I can't get through the introduction.   An error keeps popping up, and kicks me out.  I've tried it 3 times.  This is what it says:


An error has occured.  Please contact the game author for support, as this is likely to be a scripting error and not a bug in AGS.
(ACI version 2.61.747)

(room 48 script line 73)
Error: Set characterspeed: cannot change speed while walking.

My question is this....  those of you that have been bashing the books, and bashing those of use who read them... in some cases on the verge of calling us unintelligent, because we don't read what you read.... why bother?  If you dislike the books so much and think that the author is so horribly bad, then why even enter a thread about Harry Potter?  We are here to have a discussion about something that we love, and you guys come in here and make things unpleasant.  I've seen this in other places as well, and I just don't understand. 

I personally think that Rowling is a wonderful writer.  She has created this fantasy world that is loved by young and old alike.  Billions of people love her stories.  Billions of people that don't read anything else, will pick up an 800 page book and read it all the way though.  I think anyone that can cause that kind of reaction in a world of movies and video games is amazing.  When I see kids that would rather read Harry Potter than play Xbox, that is a GOOD thing.  In many cases, it gets them reading other books as well.  Reading is such an important thing to do, especially for kids.  I would never shun anything that encourages them to read like this.

And yes, we theorize and we come up with all kinds of twists that could be in the book.  And sure, most of us with theories KNOW that they're probably way out there and there isn't a twist, but we are just having FUN.  There is nothing wrong with that. 

Somebody ought to make a Harry Potter AGS fan game.     If i was in any way talented, I'd do it myself, but as I suck at drawing and programming.....

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  I'm inclined to think that Harry and Ginny will end up together... unless Rowling goes the Joss Whedon way of thinking, in which no one will end up together and happy endings don't exist.... Ginny will probably end up tagging along with the rest of the gang while they search for the Horcruxes.  She's a pretty headstrong girl, and I doubt she'll sit by while the rest of them goes off.  I'm hoping that Neville and Luna tag along as well, because I really like those characters, and I thought there wasn't enough of them in HBP.  Incidentaly, anything with Luna cracks me up.

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I don't know, there are places in the HP books that make me laugh at loud.  Peeves the Poltergeist always makes me laugh.  There isn't a laugh on every page or anything, but there are funny moments.... for example in Prisoner of Azkaban, when Malfoy and his cronies dressed up as dementors and tried to scare Harry at the Quidditch tournament, and Harry sent a patronous after them, knocking all three of them unconscious. But you're right, her writing style isn't funny, but there are humorous events.