Not at one sitting! In rapid succession, to me, means over the space of a few days (with a little everyday life in between). Sorry I wasn’t clear.
In practice, with Netflix turnaround, it’s taking me about two weeks. I’m on number 6 now.
I did this mainly because I wanted to see little Harry (and the others) grow up, almost as if in time-lapse photography. All the way back to my childhood I’ve wanted to see a movie in which the characters’ younger selves were played by the same actors at a younger age. Back then I didn’t understand why it wasn’t so readily done; I thought they should just film the childhood part—for David Copperfield, say—and then wait twenty years or so and film the rest..
I’ve also done back-to-back extended-edition LOTR viewings, the whole thing over one weekend.
And once I did all five Lethal Weapons in one week, one night after the next. I hadn’t condescended to see them as they came along—bashings and crashings and explosions are usually not my thing—but I was having a rough period at work, and all of a sudden they were just the right medicine.
Seeing the whole HP series in a condensed time period is giving me an interesting opportunity to compare the movies. (No, each one did not have a different director, but over the series there were several directors involved.) One thing I couldn’t help noticing, now that the original glow has worn off, is that the first two weren’t very good. Editing, if not the screenplay itself, was choppy and truncated enough that a lot of things didn’t make sense if you hadn’t read the books. Too much was simply unexplained (for instance, who were Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs? I know—but the movie didn’t tell me, although it used those names).
And Dobby is the Jar-Jar Binks of Potterdom.
I could say a good deal more, but I was looking for others’ comments, as well as just wondering out of curiosity if anyone else had done such a concentrated run-through.
