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Drince88 · 11-20-2005, 09:06 AM

I saw it at a matinee yesterday.

GC - I believe Fleur mentioned Harry saved her sister when she was first brought to the surface.

I was somewhat disappointed in some of the things left out - like how the others got their eggs from the dragons. They could have left out all the Rita Skeeter (or whatever her name is) parts to summarize those (like Ron telling Harry about it, or something if they didn't want to hint at that before Harry had his go with them. Would also have explained how Harry and Cedric could have been tied going into the maze.

I agree, the maze was really boring. "Don't fall down and keep moving" seemed to be the only trick in getting through it.

I had envisioned Sirius in the fireplace as more 'real' and less charcoal-y -- was it this book, or one of the later ones where a hand comes out and tries to grab his head -- that's going to be hard to do with this 'style' of special effect.

The story (maybe editing?) was choppy to me -- Fight dragons, be uncomfortable teenagers at a formal dance, (and ALL those kids would rather stay at school for a dance then go home for Christmas???), rescue people from drowning, go through a maze, fight the bad guy, and "oh no, our world will never be the same" loss of innocence. Yes, I realize it's a formula-ic story overall - but I didn't get the cohesiveness. Like the reporter stuff, and why were the three walking with Hagrid through the forest?

I'm a believer that you shouldn't have to read the book to 'get' the movie - in fact, if a movie is coming out soon when I'm about to read the book, I'll wait and see the movie first so I get the suspense and surprise with plot twists, since the movie should be more, I don't know, kind of visceral - but that's not quite it. THEN I read the book to get the nuance and detail that I know they can't put into a reasonable length movie.

Also, there weren't enough "Mothers" in it -- Mrs. Weasley as Harry's surrogate mother worrying about him in the tournament - Cedric's Mom at the end (she was there in the book, wasn't she?) - This is dangerous stuff, yet I didn't feel any 'worry' over the characters.

Finally, WHY does the girl have to fail the most in the tournament? Even Hermione is relegated to 'girl' stuff, and her ultra-book smarts is not a factor.

And to end on a frivolous note (yea, unlike the rest of my post), they didn't pronounced the Baton part of Beauxbaton the way I did in my head. Maybe I'm picking up more Cajun pronunciations then I thought living in New Orleans?

11-20-2005, 09:06 AM	#10
Drince88 Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 481	I saw it at a matinee yesterday. GC - I believe Fleur mentioned Harry saved her sister when she was first brought to the surface. I was somewhat disappointed in some of the things left out - like how the others got their eggs from the dragons. They could have left out all the Rita Skeeter (or whatever her name is) parts to summarize those (like Ron telling Harry about it, or something if they didn't want to hint at that before Harry had his go with them. Would also have explained how Harry and Cedric could have been tied going into the maze. I agree, the maze was really boring. "Don't fall down and keep moving" seemed to be the only trick in getting through it. I had envisioned Sirius in the fireplace as more 'real' and less charcoal-y -- was it this book, or one of the later ones where a hand comes out and tries to grab his head -- that's going to be hard to do with this 'style' of special effect. The story (maybe editing?) was choppy to me -- Fight dragons, be uncomfortable teenagers at a formal dance, (and ALL those kids would rather stay at school for a dance then go home for Christmas???), rescue people from drowning, go through a maze, fight the bad guy, and "oh no, our world will never be the same" loss of innocence. Yes, I realize it's a formula-ic story overall - but I didn't get the cohesiveness. Like the reporter stuff, and why were the three walking with Hagrid through the forest? I'm a believer that you shouldn't have to read the book to 'get' the movie - in fact, if a movie is coming out soon when I'm about to read the book, I'll wait and see the movie first so I get the suspense and surprise with plot twists, since the movie should be more, I don't know, kind of visceral - but that's not quite it. THEN I read the book to get the nuance and detail that I know they can't put into a reasonable length movie. Also, there weren't enough "Mothers" in it -- Mrs. Weasley as Harry's surrogate mother worrying about him in the tournament - Cedric's Mom at the end (she was there in the book, wasn't she?) - This is dangerous stuff, yet I didn't feel any 'worry' over the characters. Finally, WHY does the girl have to fail the most in the tournament? Even Hermione is relegated to 'girl' stuff, and her ultra-book smarts is not a factor. And to end on a frivolous note (yea, unlike the rest of my post), they didn't pronounced the Baton part of Beauxbaton the way I did in my head. Maybe I'm picking up more Cajun pronunciations then I thought living in New Orleans?
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