Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire! 2 Thumbs up! (beware of spoilers)

I just saw the new Harry Potter flick and i thought it was pretty good! They stuck with the book pretty nicely and the Hungarian Horn-Tale was awesome! I liked the funny scene at the Yule Ball where it's the nice classical music, then it's a wizard rock band... it was pretty funny, and the music was kind of good to! Lol The ending climax was awesome! Voldemort almost freaked me out! To bad they didn't show but the beggening of the Quiditch Cup.... But the movie was still pretty wicked!

dang it that is one scene that I was really hopeing that they would not cut out all together but I guess my hopes were in vain. The opening quiddich scene is the only one like it in the entire book, but I am guess that everyone already knows that.

Well I did not get to see it this weekend but hopefully this week sometime I can squeeze it in, I am pretty pumped about it seeing about how it has gotten such good reveiws.

yea, i was rele hoping for a bit of the quidditch world cup, but i guess it was too much special effects to deal with with the triwizard tournament and all...i was so happy that they included malfoy turning into a ferret...classic.

Yeah, quidditch is one of my favorite parts of the books, I was sad to see that gone, I was really looking forward to it. I had low expectations because the book was so long, I figured the movie would be awful, but they really made the best of the time they could give it. All of the special effects in the movie were awesome and there were a lot. I felt all of the underwater stuff was particularly well done and how I would have imagined it.

The only thing I was upset about was Voldermort, I just feel he was a low caliber actor. I haven't seen him in anything else so maybe this just wasn't his style, but I don't think he really knew how to play the part. The look was off like the eyes weren't snake eyes or red and he was not tall enough or thinly muscled. I recall him being described as less torso and long spider like arms and legs. Appearenceis easy to get over if he acts well, so I hope he does better in the next film, I have faith in the people making the movies.

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Harry Potter 4 I thought was amazing.. it did keep closer to thebook than Prisoner of Azkaban. The Yule Ball was probably my favorite part. The only thing i notice tho, is that Harry and Hermione are staying closer together, isn't it Ron who is in love with Hermione??? In the movies, they keep implying that Harry and Hermione will become some kind of item. The characters were very well played by the actors they chose, especially Viktor Krum and Cedric Diggory. I thought that in parts, that the information was wrong for example what was up with the tongue thing that Crouch Jr. kept doing as moody??? that was all wrong, it basically gave away the ending, it was probably put in so that the people that didn't read the book figured out who the antagonist was. The quidditch cup was basically a waste of time, they spent all of that time working up to it, and then they cut to the scene with the dark mark. And they totally cut Winky out of the whole story and the kitchen with the house elves... it wasn't Neville who gave the gillyweed to Harry, it was Dobby. Ralph Fiennes was a great choice for Voldemort, he was a good bad guy. I would have to say that all in all.... besides those main points that i read over, that the movie was pretty close to the book. And I have to agree that The Hungarian Horntail was done extremely well... along with the Durmstrang and Beauxbatons entrance to Hogwarts.

The only thing i notice tho, is that Harry and Hermione are staying closer together, isn't it Ron who is in love with Hermione??? In the movies, they keep implying that Harry and Hermione will become some kind of item.

You being a chick I thought you would have understood better. Pon is angry with Hermione because she is involved with Krum and not waiting around for him to work up courage. I have a great female friend who is a lot like Hermione and we're close like that with no romantic connections. As you may recall from the book, Rita Skeeter was turning everything they did into something it wasn't, so that needed to be set up somehow.

Don't complain about the movie being off from the book, they only have two to three hours, give the director a friggin' break and quit being such a fangirl about it.

Ralph Fiennes was a great choice for Voldemort, he was a good bad guy.

Of course this is all opinion based, but are you serious? He may be a good actor, but not a good bad guy. He's a bit of a pretty boy and is obviously not well aquainted with the proper delivery, ecspecially for such an absolute (one sided or inately evil) role like Voldermort. This is of course my opinion, but I don't understand how you thought he did well.

Althoug I do understand that he couldn't of made a 5 hour movie,

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I was quite dissapointed with this movie actually, they cut out at LEAST 100 or more pages from the book. One of my favorite parts was the quidditch world cup, and you saw the first 10 seconds of it!
Also, I thought the plot of the movie was way too convoluted compared to the book. My dad, who was sitting next to me, and only knows Harry from the movies, was bombarding me with questions. I wanted to rip my hair out!
Plus, this started with part of the dream cut out, and then Harry woke in Ron's house. He is supposed to be in his house for 30 or so pages, but NO. I myself thought the instance of the Weasleys attempting to travel by floo powder into Dudley's quite comical myself, and that was gone.

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All in all, if you only know Harry from the movies, then this movie is ok, but a little loose ends need to be tied, plot wise. However, if you have read the books, the massive story cuts may dissapoint you, as they did me.
I guess I just want the old director back, this new one is just catering to fair weather potter fans.

It's like a three hundred page difference, and I totally feel you on the quidditch thing, that's always the first part I go back to reread. I think they count on people having read the books, they are read by lots and lots of people. I don't think it would be unruly to say that for every person present to see the movie who hasn't read the books there is one who has or has been told what happens. They count on people to be able to fill in what they just couldn't get to; there are things slightly more plot developing than quidditch .

The old director didn't do as much for me, the first 2 books were really tring to get the series to take off, where as stuff really starts to jump off by the third with Sirius and Wormtail. The new director got to pick the cool parts from these longer books and is compiling them and trying to make some sense of it, in that department the first guy had it easier with less to cover. I guess I see it differently because I happy for what they could put on the screen, not mad for what they had to leave out... c'mon those were some killer special effects.

Originally Posted by The Dark Side

It's like a three hundred page difference, and I totally feel you on the quidditch thing, that's always the first part I go back to reread. I think they count on people having read the books, they are read by lots and lots of people. I don't think it would be unruly to say that for every person present to see the movie who hasn't read the books there is one who has or has been told what happens. They count on people to be able to fill in what they just couldn't get to; there are things slightly more plot developing than quidditch .

The old director didn't do as much for me, the first 2 books were really tring to get the series to take off, where as stuff really starts to jump off by the third with Sirius and Wormtail. The new director got to pick the cool parts from these longer books and is compiling them and trying to make some sense of it, in that department the first guy had it easier with less to cover. I guess I see it differently because I happy for what they could put on the screen, not mad for what they had to leave out... c'mon those were some killer special effects.

Yes, I see your points, and I do agree that some of those special effects were really good. Although the mermaids kinda sucked. They looked kinda like clay.

Well I finally got around to seeing it last night and I have to say that IMO GOF is that best movie yet out of the HP series. Moody was great as well, however when I originally saw who was going to be playing moody I thought that this movie would tank. As others have already sad that movie is full of action and full of laughs as well which was a great change from the other movies. About that only thing that I didn't like was how voldemort look, I get that he is supposed to have like a snake like apperance but I just was not feeling it when he was trying to kill harry. Well to anyone that is still waiting to see that movie I don't know what you are waiting for but I assure you that you are missing out until you see it.

Originally Posted by The Dark Side

You being a chick I thought you would have understood better. Pon is angry with Hermione because she is involved with Krum and not waiting around for him to work up courage. I have a great female friend who is a lot like Hermione and we're close like that with no romantic connections. As you may recall from the book, Rita Skeeter was turning everything they did into something it wasn't, so that needed to be set up somehow.

Don't complain about the movie being off from the book, they only have two to three hours, give the director a friggin' break and quit being such a fangirl about it.

Of course this is all opinion based, but are you serious? He may be a good actor, but not a good bad guy. He's a bit of a pretty boy and is obviously not well aquainted with the proper delivery, ecspecially for such an absolute (one sided or inately evil) role like Voldermort. This is of course my opinion, but I don't understand how you thought he did well.

i understand your opinion.. and i am not being a fan girl about it. I am just stating my opinion and am not offending anyone. I still think that Ralph Fiennes looked and acted like a good Voldemort. Do you have a better idea as to who could play Voldemort then??? They did a pretty good job but i would have to agree with BB_11 that there were alot of plot holes.

It's a shame that it took roughly 3 movies to actually put out a good potter movie, out of all the potter movies this is my favourite, but then again, I strongly dislike the movies simply because they are the best example of a book to movie translation gone wrong.

The Harry Potter movie was a dissapointment! Here is why:
-the world cup went by way to quickly
-they took out the part when Hermionie protests elf enslavery which is super important
-the dragon part was like 20 minutes while the maze was like 50 seconds
-they explained nothing which is problem because if you haven't read the book you undersand NOTHING and my parents have never read the books which left ME to fill in the details
-they misinterperated the book a lot
-they hardly put any thing about Rita Skeeter which was a huge part of the book
-they NEVER explained the pensive
-they made Dumbledore out to be mean
-in the book Dumbledore is alway calm, cool, and collected
-Fluer De Cour is supposed to be part siren
-the maze is supposed to have: dementors, blast-ended-swerts, and boggarts which turn into dementors
-the death eaters look silly with their pointy hats
-Mad eye Moody's eye looks silly
-some parts are funny when they should be serious
-Neville doesn't give Harry the Gilliweed, A house Elf does
-they gave WAY to many clues that Mad eye was behind it all when in the book it was a complete surprise
do you need any more reasons?
I can MOST definately come up with more if I had more time

I thought the movie was great, but I really wish I had read the book..

Originally Posted by IluvZelda

The Harry Potter movie was a dissapointment! Here is why:
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It's not exactly like the book! Being entirely ignorant of the vast storytelling differences between film and written media, I despise that they had to change some aspects of the movie! I am also a worthless cad!

The Harry Potter movie was a dissapointment! Here is why:

Did you read a single thing we wrote?

-the death eaters look silly with their pointy hats

I too found the hats to be a bit silly, out of place, and not how I pictured them until I watched 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' the next day. The relavence of that movie is that it has the Ku Klux Klan in it, look at their outfits (specifically the hoods) and then take another look at the Death Eaters you may see some similarities. That was done to purposefully show how the two hate groups are alike, study it for any amount of time and you'll see the uncanny parallels. Notice the Death Eater with the greatest prescence in the books and movies is Lucius Malfoy, who is also the perfect Aryan image (blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin). Moral of the story, the silly pointy hats mean a lot more than you think.