Harry Potter

As most of you know I am an avid Harry Potter fan.  I have read the books so many times and yet still want to read them again.  So of course the release of the final film comes out after I have moved to Moscow.  So I went on a search to be able to see HP here.  When I first looked I saw that it released on the 14th here, but found out on the 13th that I was wrong and that it actually released on the 13th.  So two days ahead of the US.  Great, Luci and I will be ahead of the game.  Only problem is that the English theater here gets movies a couple of weeks after they have been released in the US.  So Luci and I decide "Why Not?" Let's go see it in Russian.  Sheri watches Owen for us and we jump on the metro to the mall.  The mall is only 3 stops from the hotel.  So about 10 to 15 minutes.  We eat in the food court have some ice cream and head to the theater.  It was a bit more troublesome to order tickets than I thought.  The guy understood Harry Potter.  Which in Russian looks like Frappen Notter.  But I did not understand the time.  He asks the girl beside him.  She tells him to write it down.  He does not have a pen.  Finally he starts to write the time and I try frantically to point and say yes that one.  Da!  Then we learned that they assign seats here, no first come first get like in the US.  So we pick our seat.  This is good to the fact that you don't have to stand in line and fight to save seats but on the downside people come in late to the movie because "Hey I know where I am sitting."  We also saw it in 3D.  That was the only option.  All the previews were in Russian.  Out of the 6 or 7 previews you could tell that 2 of the movies were original Russian films the rest dubbed over in Russian.  

The movie was great.  I have read the 7th book only twice so I am a little rusty on it but I did understand what was happening.  The only words we understood were Harry Potter and any other name in the book.  We missed all the jokes when the rest of the theater was laughing.  And we bust out laughing during a serious scene due to the accent.  I am anxious to see the film in English.  I will be watching the English theater for the release there.  Luci on the other hand gets to see it much sooner.  I am a bit jealous.  And the books are on the ship coming here so I will have to wait even longer for a refresh on HP.  

Now I will have to hope that I am in the states for the Hunger Games release.