You know, Alan Rickman didn’t read the books before he made the movies. Madeline: That’s when he finally got good hair. In number four I thought, whoa: Ron’s beefed up.ĭad: I feel like Harry took a little longer to pop. The next day Madeline (age 13), Lila (age 10) and I debriefed.ĭad: So what’s the verdict? Was that fun?ĭad: Let’s talk about the way we did this – stringing them all together. After 17 ½ hours of watching wizards point wands at each other and bend the laws of the universe, I pointed the remote at the TV and was unsuccessful at turning it off. The two of us remaining were feeling we’d been through the wars ourselves. By this point one kid had bailed (not entirely her choice – it’s PG 14 and contains a lot to trouble a 10-year-old mind already weakened by sleep deprivation). The final war scene lasts longer than some actual wars. But it is really two films in one – close to five hours in total. The last film in the series is spectacular. The breaks pushed back the finish line, and broke the spell of the vivid and continuous dream, but such are the accommodations of binge-watching en famille. One kid had a snooze between films five and six. Granted, we did take a couple of breaks - to walk the dog, make meals, stretch. By the time the credits rolled on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, it was 1:30 am. But given that we’d already seen the first two, and that one of us was 10 years old (it is ill-advised, if not actually illegal, to keep a 10-year-old awake for 24 hours) we decided to start at number three - Harry Potter and the The Prisoner of Azkaban.Īt 8am on a Thursday morning over the Christmas holidays, we pushed play. It is theoretically possible to watch all seven of the Harry Potter films in 24 hours - just. Binge-watching a whole movie franchise had the potential to turn a treat into a torture. This seemed to be what the girls and I were setting ourselves up for. You’re just trying to keep the thing down. Trouble is, at that point you can’t appreciate the subtleties of the crust. Visit Shawn Lealos' website to learn more about his novel writing and follow him on Twitter More From Shawn S.Imagine you entered a pie-eating contest where each pie is richer and more delicious than the previous one. Shawn is also a published author, with a non-fiction book about the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers and has begun work on a new fiction series as well. His work on the Internet has been featured on websites like The Huffington Post, Yahoo Movies, Chud, Renegade Cinema, 411mania, and Sporting News. He has work published in newspapers such as Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma Gazette and magazines such as Vox Magazine, Loud Magazine, and Inside Sports Magazine. Shawn is a former member of the Society of Professional Journalists and current member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. He has worked as a journalist for over 25 years, first in the world of print journalism before moving to online media as the world changed. Shawn received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies. Lealos is a senior writer on ScreenRant who fell in love with movies in 1989 after going to the theater to see Tim Burton's Batman as his first big screen experience.
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