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HP movie
We went to see Goblet of Fire last night. We were aiming for the 8:45 show, but they were sold out so we got tickets for the 10:35 and killed time at the bookstore and coffeeshop. It actually worked out better, we had a nice evening together. Overally I really liked the movie. I hadn't read the book in a couple years and there were some things I missed, but others (house elves) I really didn't.
Things I loved:
-yay the movie in general! I am not particularly picky and movie made me very happy overall. Things were paired down, but of course they needed to be in the transition from book to screen.
-plant boy! Neville, sooo cute.
-props! pretty holy-grail-esque goblet inside amped-up reliquary (also liked the Moody trunk)
-Ginny, also cute, why isn't her hair redder though?
-teenage boy stupidity and general confusion/angst (dance scene rang particularly true for me, also liked Hermione's dress)
-scary Voldemort with no "hey that's Ralph Finnes" moment
-Alan Rickman, so great even with almost no lines, I particularly loved the shot of him adjusting his cuffs before he hit the boys. (All the adult actors were good actually)
-Hermione's loyalty
-I bought Harry crying over Cedric's body, but Denis thought the acting in that scene was horrible
-Finch and cat dancing
-inappropriate Myrtle
Things I missed while watching the movie and/or was confused by:
-veela, really wanted to see them!
-why Crouch Jr. appeared in initial Voldemort scene, threw me
-why Moody had to change the Hogwart's ceilling when he first entered
-why they didn't sit up in the box to watch the game, and instead had the "you're poor" meeting with the Malfoys on the stairs, couldn't they have made that point with the dress robes?
-perhaps you should explain priori incantatem?
-Beaubaton boys, Drumstrang girls
-prejudice about giants, they had Hagrid/Maxime scenes, it really would have taken only an extra line and would have made a good point
-rock band at dance, good, but threw me, felt a little too contemporary (also, why so little discussion of wizarding music in the books--or is there and I've just missed it?)
-snogging, I don't remember if it was in the books, but didn't the boys at least become aware of snogging during the dance? Someone somewhere should have been snogging on screen
-other contestants' dragon-fighting (glad they covered their underwater strategies)
There's probably more, but I'm not remembering it right now, we'll have to see it again some time. I'm also re-reading book 4 now to see what they left out that I didn't remember.
Things I loved:
-yay the movie in general! I am not particularly picky and movie made me very happy overall. Things were paired down, but of course they needed to be in the transition from book to screen.
-plant boy! Neville, sooo cute.
-props! pretty holy-grail-esque goblet inside amped-up reliquary (also liked the Moody trunk)
-Ginny, also cute, why isn't her hair redder though?
-teenage boy stupidity and general confusion/angst (dance scene rang particularly true for me, also liked Hermione's dress)
-scary Voldemort with no "hey that's Ralph Finnes" moment
-Alan Rickman, so great even with almost no lines, I particularly loved the shot of him adjusting his cuffs before he hit the boys. (All the adult actors were good actually)
-Hermione's loyalty
-I bought Harry crying over Cedric's body, but Denis thought the acting in that scene was horrible
-Finch and cat dancing
-inappropriate Myrtle
Things I missed while watching the movie and/or was confused by:
-veela, really wanted to see them!
-why Crouch Jr. appeared in initial Voldemort scene, threw me
-why Moody had to change the Hogwart's ceilling when he first entered
-why they didn't sit up in the box to watch the game, and instead had the "you're poor" meeting with the Malfoys on the stairs, couldn't they have made that point with the dress robes?
-perhaps you should explain priori incantatem?
-Beaubaton boys, Drumstrang girls
-prejudice about giants, they had Hagrid/Maxime scenes, it really would have taken only an extra line and would have made a good point
-rock band at dance, good, but threw me, felt a little too contemporary (also, why so little discussion of wizarding music in the books--or is there and I've just missed it?)
-snogging, I don't remember if it was in the books, but didn't the boys at least become aware of snogging during the dance? Someone somewhere should have been snogging on screen
-other contestants' dragon-fighting (glad they covered their underwater strategies)
There's probably more, but I'm not remembering it right now, we'll have to see it again some time. I'm also re-reading book 4 now to see what they left out that I didn't remember.
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IIRC, there is a wizarding rock band called "The Weird Sisters," and they did indeed perform at the Yule Ball in the book.
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Harry crying over Cedric I bought. It was actually Amos Diggory's wailing that I didn't. Not sure why - just too much? (Then again, who am I to dictate what an appropriate level of wailing is for a parent to be doing over their dead child?)
I haven't read the book in several years either, but for some reason I had it in my head that Durmstrang was an all-boys school and Beauxbatons was all-girls. My memory probably just got warped by the movie, though.
Another thing I might be misremembering is that I thought that in the book, in the duel scene with Voldemort, Voldemort gave Harry the option of turning around to make his death less scary, and Harry basically says, "No, I'm not going to die like a coward" or something like that. If that's the case I kind of missed that.
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