Like Deborrah, I was another crazy person in a theater at 12:01 am Friday
morning to see the Harry Potter film with my wife and two sons (age 7 &
13). I agree the film was great fun and I also enjoyed seeing all the
owls but had one bone to pick....they dubbed wing flapping noises in to
some of the owl flying scenes. I would have liked it better and I think
the owls would have seemed even more magical with their natural silent
wings.....Mike McCloud, Bainbridge Island


On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:

>
> hello tweets,
>
> if you like owls, then you will enjoy watching the harry potter film.
>
> there are four species of owls in this film (and you can guess what
> they all are if you've read the first book). there are some really amazing
> close-up shorts of these owls, which are impressive when you see them
> on a big screen, and you can see the detail of each feather and each
> eye is as big as you are tall. the owls kept their own species-specific
> calls (a big plus) although some flying scenes were computer generated
> so the flight pattern was a little ... wrong. however, there are some
> "real" flight scenes, too, and distinguishing which is which provides
> some fun for birders.
>
> i saw the movie on opening morning, at midnight-oh-one on the 16th,
> with a birder colleague of mine. we sat in the cinerama almost all
> night, watching this film and my attention never once strayed nor
> waned. it was a treat to sit in a theatre watching a film with bunches
> of other crazy people, all of whom had seen the film as often as i had;
> never. i'd never had this experience before.
>
> the music, characters, sets, dialogue and scenes were rich and detailed
> and wonderful. this is the movie to see this, or any other, year. it
> simply MUST be seen, at least once, on the big screen.
>
> regards,
>
> Deborah Wisti-Peterson, PhD Candidate nyneve at u.washington.edu
> Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
> Visit me on the web: http://students.washington.edu/~nyneve/
> Love the creator? Then protect the creation.
>

Mike McCloud -- Amnesty International Group 396