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March 20, 2006
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Posted by spacemonkey at 01:47 PM | View blog reactions | Comments (9)

I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this weekend.

My Review:

I liked it.

Update: I really did. I mean, there were parts.., but you know, overall.

Rating: 2.3/5 (4 votes cast)

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9 Responses To "Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

JK Rowling should label her next one "Harry Potter and the ET Simian"

#1 - Posted by: AlanABQ on March 20, 2006 02:40 PM

Harry Potter and the Van of Mystery
Harry meets a talking dog and they solve mysteries.

#2 - Posted by: spacemonkey on March 20, 2006 02:43 PM

Work family movies hours a day blogging.How in outer space do you manage it all? It must be the shoe.Or the prehensile tail.

#3 - Posted by: DohXs on March 20, 2006 03:23 PM

Concise review.

Now, if we could teach Ebert to do this, we wouldn't have to be nauseated at the thought of him using his "...sexuality, as a part of his personal armory in daily battle."

#4 - Posted by: Master Shake on March 20, 2006 04:00 PM

Harry Potter and the Disappointingly Dull School Year

Pages and pages of Harry, Ron and Hermione doing homework, lamenting the absence of bad guys. But three sixth year girls get pregnant by mysterious means. And Snape comes out of the closet.

Just brainstorming here...

#5 - Posted by: PaleoMedic on March 20, 2006 05:09 PM

I'm 17, so I can say this... Emma Watson is hot.

#6 - Posted by: adamb on March 21, 2006 12:29 AM

In what 3 -3 1/2 years I can say the same thing.

Great SNL skit couple seasons ago about Hermoniny blossoming. I still laugh about if with Horratio Sans as Hagrid.

The movie? Less Snape then I would have liked, but I still felt moved by the final scene. Ray Fines was/is an AMAZING Voldemort.

Very well done is all respects, but th tri-wizards stuff and lack of "school year" made the whole thing a little too fast paced. There was just a sense of too little edge in the competitions. And yes I read the book, so I understand the balance and compremises that had to be made for the screen.

#7 - Posted by: Rich in Martigues on March 21, 2006 02:00 AM

They cut a huge chunk of the story out to make that movie... the whole beginning that detailed the events that panned out at the Quidditch World Cup... I was bummed that they glazed over it (30% of the book) in like 5 minutes of the movie. The rest of the movie was awesome though... I hearted it. :)

#8 - Posted by: Janna on March 21, 2006 12:24 PM

>Now, if we could teach Ebert to do this

Someone still reads Ebert? Mr. "all videow-games are stoopid, unlike movies that have always been considered high art"? Mr. "I wrote a script, and it had 'vixens' in the title"?

>I was bummed that they glazed over it (30% of the book) in like 5 minutes of the movie.

I liked that. I prefer scriptwriters and directors that know what can be kept and what can't. There was no way to keep the whole book in a 2 hour movie, hard decisions were needed, and the ones they made I agree 100% with.
The gist is all there, and that's more than I can say of most movie adaptations.

In fact, I consider Goblet of Fire the best Harry Potter movie so far.

(and if you're missing those scenes so bad... reread the book! For crying out loud, be glad they didn't turn THIS saga into a Bush-bashing tirade...)

#9 - Posted by: Francesco Poli on March 21, 2006 01:44 PM
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