[Angela]

Originally Posted by Morrigan

I don't know how to explain it. I cried in all the right places but hey I cried at those exact spots in the book so I expected it. But, I just couldn't connect to this movie, I don't know why. I went into it figuring, it would be very emotional, especially b/c it was the end and I was in Edinburgh just 3 weeks ago (lot's of Harry Potter stuff up there).

I liked the movie and it was very well done but, I just didn't have the emotional connection to the movie that I expected. I walked out of Part 1 totally blown away, and on an emotional high. I walked out of Part 2, not really feeling much of anything.

Is it possible your expectations were too high? So high that it couldn't or didn't match up to the real deal? That happened to me once. I was obsessed with the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera when it first came out, so much so that I actually got interested in Andrew Lloyd Webber and all his other productions. And when had the chance to see the actual show, I enjoyed it but there was a distance there because it didn't and couldn't measure up to the soundtrack. It wasn't Sarah Brightman and Michael Ball and Michael Crawford up there singing. I know it's not exactly the same thing, but it was overly high expectations that set up me for the fall. I saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that same year, and I absolutely adored it. But I had no real expectations going in.