It should come as no surprise that Harry Potter has become the UK's top selling game this past week. Despite being a poorly written children's book, and later a rather boring movie, JK Rowling's tale of a bespectacled little magic sh*thead has become an icon among fully-grown adults and the original target audience alike, for reasons that I'll never comprehend. Ah well.
Outside of Harry Potter's debut, there really isn't anything else. Transformers is still there, as is Wii Fit, Fight Night, World at War. You know the drill by now. Hit the jump to read the latest UK Charts.
- Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
- Wii Fit
- Fight Night Round 4
- Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
- The Sims 3
- Virtua Tennis 2009
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- EA Sports Active
- Mario Kart Wii
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village
- Prototype
- Fifa 09
- Call of Duty: World at War
- UFC 2009: Undisputed
- Grand Slam Tennis
- Wii Play
- Pokémon Platinum
- Guitar Hero: World Tour
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And yeah, Harry Potter is boring as all hell.
This comment, however, is not.
Oh my, you weren't kidding about the doozies that male entrants have. I don't know what's better, the ridiculous hat or the shooped acne.
Nothing wrong with the books. I can understand if they're not your cuppa tea, but to say they are poorly written is not right.
The films are a disgrace & are only loosely based on the books, & the games are a waste of space.
I read an excerpt, and the only thing that made it bearable was the fact that someone replaced the word "wand" with "wang."
#111338 +(14099)- [X]
<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...
<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything
<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.
<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "
<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls
<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"
<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.
<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.
<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.
<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang
<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.
<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
That's kind of where the spoof falls apart, you see.
Oh, that makes sense. Replacing words for others leaves the message completely untouched and as such is a perfect alternative to measure a book's merits.
You, sir, can be such a child about so many things. It's not that I've never disagreed with you, but this constant childish behavior when faced with serious, non-inflamatory comments from long-time members is simply ridiculous.
Dude, I wasn't trying to be petulant. I'm serious. I was all, "Man, even with the wang stuff added, this still isn't very good." I understand it's a children's book and as such, is written for children. Still doesn't explain why adults get so into the books. Not to mention how defensive they get.
There's no defending the film/game franchises though...ever.