Harry Potter vs Twilight vs Chronicles of Narnia

[Volumise]

I like all, but Harry Potter is a way better movie.

[Nikki]

I do like twilight, but I've grown up with the Harry potter books and films.

[Volumise]

I've grown up with the Harry potter books and films.

ohyes and this.
also harry potter has such better storylines

[Moh]

Why is Twilight in the list? Twilight is aimed at an older audience, plus it's a bit of a romance.

Harry Potter & Narnia are both fantasy-adventure films, so they're the only ones you can compare.

Harry Potter has more releases (films) and a bigger budget.

I did quite enjoy Narnia, but not in the way I enjoyed Harry Potter. My vote goes to Harry Potter

[FlyingJesus]

Twilight is aimed at an older audience

Is it? I thought it was only 13 year old girls who went to see it :S

[Special]

harry potter

[samsaBEAR]

Chronicles of Narnia are good books, but the films don't do them justice imo.
I enjoyed reading the Twilight books, and the films are ok, bar the horrendous acting. Nothing can beat Harry Potter though. I grew up with that little *******

[W00TZEH]

1. A Better Universe

Like George Lucas, J.K. Rowling is so great at creating worlds that it more than makes up for whatever flaws her writing suffers from. Think about all the wonderful things we know about Rowling's wizarding world: where they shop, what they eat, what kind of prejudices their society has. Consider all the side characters she stacks the stories with: Neville Longbottom, Arthur Weasley, even Lee Jordan, the Quidditch announcer. We know them.
By contrast, what do we know about the world of Twilight? Three things: Good vampires don't bite people. Vampires and werewolves don't like each other. Vampires like baseball. That is all.



2. Better Acting

Let us examine the state of both franchises' werewolves. The werewolf in Twilight is played by human action figure Taylor Lautner. He is undoubtedly a nice boy, but no one would disagree with the assertion that he is more famous for his workout regimen than anything he's done onscreen.
The werewolf in Harry Potter is played by acclaimed British thespian David Thewlis. Have you even seen Thewlis' gripping performance in Mike Leigh's Naked, Twi-hards? No, of course, you haven't.


3. Better Villains

It might not be fair to compare Harry Potter and Twilight on this issue; after all, Lord Voldemort is one of the greatest villains in recent pop-culture history. (He made it into the Final Four in Techland's super-scientific March Madness villains bracket.) Voldemort is a genocidal dictator who scares people so much, they won't even say his name. He wants immortality and will do anything (even drink unicorn blood!) to get it. He killed Harry's parents -- and tried to kill Harry -- when our hero was just a defenseless baby. Shoot, just writing this is making NewsFeed glad he's not real.
But even without being compared to Voldemort, the bad guys in Twilight are weak. A villain played by Cam Gigandet (what is this, The O.C.?), Michael Sheen (oh no, it's Tony Blair!) or Bryce Dallas Howard (come off it, I saw Lady in the Water) just isn't scary enough for me. You could make the case that Bella's inevitable aging is the real villain of Twilight, but come on! This isn't Star Trek -- invisible, intangible villains aren't going to cut it.


4. Healthier Attitudes Toward Sex

Twilight is basically a supernatural version of The Secret Life of the American Teenager: everyone talks about sex all the time, and how bad and horrible and awful and wonderful it would be. In Harry Potter, no one talks about sex at all. Having been weaned on Jane Austen adaptations, NewsFeed much prefers stuffy British repression over American teenage wangst.


5. It's Lasted Longer

The members of NewsFeed's generation have grown up with Harry Potter. We got Sorcerer's Stone from the library in elementary school, waited in line for Order of the Phoenix in high school and dressed up for the Goblet of Fire movie with our freshman dorm in college. The years-long gap between films and movies filled us with anticipation. Each new release -- as numerous trend pieces show -- is an event.
Twilight is much more ephemeral. The books have been out only since 2005 (which, if you're counting, is when the second-to-last Potter book was released). The films, rushed into production in case the trend should dissipate, are even worse: the first movie came out barely a year and a half ago. There's no waiting around, but there's also no growing old with the characters. Twilight is undoubtedly a commercial enterprise -- more than $1 billion internationally for just the first two films -- but it's simply not a lasting cultural one.

Yeah, that sums it up really.

[--liger--]

Wootzeh said it all. Number 5 is so true. Jack120, Harry Potter actually has lots of romance involved if you ask me. It may not seem like it, but it does. Especially in Half-Blood-Prince. Plus Twlight draws in my girl teens than anything.

[Inseriousity.]

Harry Potter, no contest. It has everything tbh. Action, Romance, Comedy.
The only reason I'd go and see the new Twilight film is to see the new Harry Potter trailer on the big screen.. but I'm not going cos I can just watch it on my little computer screen.

As for Narnia, not read the book but the film (first one, not seen the other one) kept me entertained at least.