harry potter and the goblet of fire...

[seichan]

sis treated us to the movie..also to thxgiving lunch which is funny because she didn't offer...HAHAHA.

i enjoy the harry potter films. even though you obviously need to read the book to thoroughly understand them and even though the cuts and slight errors make me sad sometimes, they are still visually entertaining.

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things that stood out (to me):
#1 of course is the lack of snape..he's there alright, but was he reduced providing comedy? or was that just me laughing at his faces?

#2 no durleys...not that anyone cares.

#3 no weasley wheezes..and no money given to twins. even though they got some great scenes, specifics weren't there.

#4 no bill and charlie (and percy)...i didn't see them, did you? wanted to see if they were hot or not...man, hope ginny gets over puberty soon..she's not looking that great.

#5 no bertha jorkins...who was that again?..haha.

#6 cedric the 'extremely gay handsome boy' had a profile EXACTLY like a guy on the roman coins.

#7 there was random singing that reminded me of the hobbits drinking songs from lotr...like where exactly did hermione and the weasleys learn those awful songs.

#8 no dobby and winky...*cries*, no SPEW...*yahoo*

#9 not much of anything during the quidditch world cup. no muggles, no game, etc...well, the dark mark was there...which was nicely designed..i want one too.

#10 no harry beating the imperio..no 'constant vigilance!'

#11 not enough snape...no charlie...

#12 no weighing of wands..so no explanation of that 'thing' that happens at the end...but they may have mentioned that in the first movie?

#13 only one letter from sirius...*cries* no padfoot..*bawls*

#14 'straw-colored' haired young boy translated into greasy black haired young adult for barty crouch.

#15 plus, no explanation of neville's parents (neville was kinda decent in this movie though).

#16 nothing in the labyrinth but nasty weeds.

#17 voldemort's rebirth was neat...he even created robes out of nothing instead of 'robe me'. red eyes? didn't notice them. i especially liked his rubber fingers that he had trouble bending. *blushes* at his evilness. no nagini at the grave.

#18 pouring 3 drops of veritaserum translated into spilling the whole bottle...nice touch.

#19 no explanation of crouch's 'how i fooled you all' and also rita's 'how i fooled you all'

#20 not enough snape and sirius; no bill, charlie, dobby and winky

...sad about #20, but entertaining movie nonetheless. the director wasn't in love with hermione..which made this movie tons better than the last. a couple more points--dumbledore's 'madness' or 'insignificance' or 'whatwasthat' from the recent book leaked into his portrayal in this movie and lucius is hot..he needs more to do snape in the movies and books.

Comments

[oryssein.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you didn't spoil me. I read the book :3

I've actually despised the visual dynamics of all the Harry Potter films so far. A particularly egregious example of their dereliction, in my opinion, would be the Giant Flying Chutes & Ladders Staircases of Death in The Philosopher's Stone. When Rowling said "the stairs take you to a different place every time you use them" the moron director read "the giant marble staircases go flying stiffly through the air like the rejected prototype of a failed Disneyworld ride" and created the set accordingly. It all went downhill from there, for me. Also, I was mad at Hagrid for not being Hagrid, and instead being a nice but minimally-engaged version of Mr. Edwards from Little House on the Prairie. And many other things. So no, I will not be braving the annoying multiplex to see this, but I'll probably buy the DVD, since I'm sure I'll be going through full-tilt Snape withdrawal by the time it comes out.

No Percy or SPEW infuriates me. Besides the introduction of the ever-looming specter of incipient death, those are the two most important plot developments to evolve in The Goblet of Fire. So now I hate it even more than I did before.

Ah, I know this sort of attitude can be tiresome, but I feel like... there are ten thousand crappy mystery novels, and ten thousand romance novels, and ten thousand historical novels, and ten thousand stories-of-my-childhood novels, and ten thousand terrible fantasy novels which feature pretty gay fairies, but only one Harry Potter, and I can't stand to watch it get repeatedly massacred by people who are too stupid to pass a tenth-grade Lit/Comp class.

Also, I saw a still image of Fleur Delacour, and I thought she was a little dude. A cute little dude. But still.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

'little dude'...haha, that's what puberty does to you. makes everyone look extremely awkward. you'd think they'd be more attractive seeing how they can all use magic...and especially since jkr likes to point out who is pretty/handsome.

btw, here (http://images.themes.ru/POTC2/POTC2_Teaser.mov) is the new pirates trailer. kinda a bad rip. it sorta looks like a bad indiana jones movie.

[oryssein.livejournal.com]

Rowling is really good about that. I think she was permanently traumatized by Firenze in the first film, so in the later books she goes out of her way to tell you where and how cute actors should be utilized. Coincidentally, she also gave Firenze a supporting role in the rest of the story, which consists mostly of all the other characters loudly mentioning how hot and blond he is.

I like her.

I guess I shouldn't be too hard on Fleur. I was a not exactly hot when I was twelve or thirteen, in much the same way that George W. Bush is not exactly the greatest political leader who ever lived.

...But do you know who *is* exactly hot?

CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW!!!!!!!

Did someone tape that on their phone? I thought it was a trailer for a videogame at first. I like how the dialogue came out three minutes before the scene showed up. Actually, I'm sure that movie will be just as weird as the first one, and Johnny Depp will perform the same feat of alchemy upon it, and thus turn it from an unintentional comedy into a real comedy.

I like him, too.