Harry Potter in 3Don't

I love Harry Potter, but I'm not in love with him. Usually I don't like to wait too long before seeing the latest Harry Potter movie, but this time I was delayed as my boyfriend wouldn't go see it until we saw Transformers 2 first (that's another blog for another day). Being the amazing girlfriend that I am, we saw Transformers 2 first and while there I noticed that on July 29th Harry Potter was going to be on the IMAX screen in 3D. I was sold and so was he, pretty much because IMAX and 3D was the only way to get him to sit through ANOTHER Harry Potter movie.

Today comes and we purchase tickets for the 10am show and of course we're 15 minutes late. He thought we'd be fine because there's always at least 15-20 minutes of previews before any movie, but I just knew there wouldn't be previews for a 3D IMAX showing. I was right. We walked in 15 minutes late (5 of those were spent waiting in line for white cherry ICEEs, which we never got) and the movie had already started...in 3D.

So we sat down and put on our nifty 3D glasses and enjoyed the LAST 5 MINUTES of 3D. Needless to say we were both waiting the entire movie for something else 3D to pop up with no such luck. At $9 a ticket you think that you'd get more than 20 minutes of 3D, but noooooo. You're paying for the nice big IMAX screen and that's it. Whatever boner I had about seeing Harry Potter in 3D quickly went away. And yes, I get boners.

I'll spare giving you all the details on the movie because if you want to know what happens you'll go see it yourself, unless you've read EVERY book like I did. However, there was one funny moment throughout the experience...well, maybe me and my boyfriend thought it was funny.

As you may or may not know, this is the movie where Dumbledore dies. Tragic, kinda. Sad, a little, unless you were the chick sitting a few seats away from us. After they show the scene where Harry cries over Dumbledore's dead body, there would normally be about 2-3 seconds of silence, but not in our theatre. The chick sitting down from us was sniffling like someone just stole her puppy. We started laughing and trying to stifle it, but I'm sure to everyone around us it looked and sounded like we were crying hysterically. We both thought that everyone was thinking that. It took us a few minutes to finally calm down and when we did, the movie was over and we were both disappointed over our 3D-less experience.

In the end, the movie was good, but don't spend the money thinking you're going to get a great 3D experience because you're not.