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   From: yourname@yourisp.com   
      
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   , Duggy   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Dec 1, 1:12=A0pm, yourn...@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:   
   > > Definitely for the younger kids. Many older kids might say it's the   
   > > Twilight saga   
   >   
   > The are adult Harry fans.   
   >   
   > Twilight isn't Star Wars.  Twilight is Gone With the Wind or Titanic.   
   >   
   > > or Lord of the RIngs / The Hobbit.   
   >   
   > The novels were huge before the films... makes it harder to directly   
   > compare the two.   
   >   
   > > Harry Potter is also often said to be "bigger than Star Wars". That might   
   > > be true in terms of just the movies (more of them and some had bigger box   
   > > office takes), but is untrue when comparing the two franchises as a whole   
   > > - there are FAR more novels, comic books, games,   
   >   
   > Far more people have read the Harry novels than the Star Wars ones and   
   > that stuff didn't take off until the 90s.   
   >   
   > > and merchandise for Star   
   > > Wars than Harry Potter or any other franchise can ever hope to match.   
   >   
   > As far as we can tell now.  I'm sure people said the same about The   
   > Little Rascals.   
   >   
   > > Personally I think Harry Potter (the books and the movies) lost it toward=   
   > s   
   > > the end   
   >   
   > I fought the first book was badly written and the first 3 movies were   
   > horrible predictable and gave up.   
   >   
   > > and started getting weird and too scary for it's target audience.   
   >   
   > Then you missed the point, it seems.   
   >   
   > > It tried to do what can, and should, never really be done: "grow up" with   
   > > it's fans.   
   >   
   > What Star Wars should have done.   
   >   
   > > George Lucas on the   
   > > other hand has kept his main target audience the same throughout.   
   >   
   > Harry Potter and the Deadly Harrows pt 2 - PG 13.   
   > Star Wars ep 3 Revenge of the Sith - PG 13.   
      
   Believe whatever garbage you want to delude yourself with - I'm not   
   wasting time trying to prove anything to you. You asked, I replied ... end   
   of story.  :-\   
      
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