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  4. 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.”

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  5. 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…

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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. 🙂

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  9. 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…)

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