The Gobelt of Fire (may contain spoilers)

vivace

was amazing!!!

if you haven't seen it, you may not want to read this thread.

Thoughts from people?

I loved it. The new composer did an excellent job. Fit very well, I liked it.

although they mixed up the story a little, they still did an alright job. I wish there was more quiddich world cup action, but all the triwizzard stuff made up for it. The graveyard scene, holy wow, talk about amazing. This is one to not bring the kids to, a little too dark and scary for the youngins.

also, I didn't care too much for the mad eye moody or cho chang actors. I pictured cho prettier (not that she was ugly), and moody wasn't as scary as I thought. his eye was weird... totally not what i pictured.

so... everyone elses thoughts, opinions?
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vivace · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

no one?
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icebraker613 · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:

I'm a pretty big harry potter fan. Just that it was sold out at all the theatres in my area. I might go watch it the thanksgiving weekend. From what i heard, they cut too much out from the books and voldemort was a dissapointment. Is this true?
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JazzyManda · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject:

I loved this movie! I saw it today in the Imax theater inside my local theater. They built it just for this movie. haha. But anyways, book 4 is my fave book and now my favorite movie

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vivace · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:51 am Post subject:

Gnostic · Veteran Member Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 292

I watched Goblet of Fire the day it came out and was extremely impressed with the movie. To me this is the first movie that captured the writing style of J.K.R. I loved the way the movie was done in an almost visionary style like someone is telling the story by memory, great style. The humor was first rate and very funny. All the roles were nailed and now we see Voldemort in his slithery form, Fiennes did a wonderful job, very expressive. I can't wait to see it again. I hope they keep Mike Newell for movie 5, book 5 Order of the Phoenix.

Thermos · Veteran Member Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 300

I was impressed.

From a critical standpoint however:

One thing that was bad is that for anyone who didnt read the books (i have a few relatives that havent) the movie would be very hard to follow. Obviously its not geared for people who didnt read the books, i just think it would have been nice if they did a little less jumping around. The movie was already 2 and a half hours though. Perhaps they could've released an extended version for the dvd.

I think they should have made voldemort scarier. He was too human like. Obviously he is a human, he just doesnt look scary enough. Also, the way dumbledore's beard was tied bugged me

Overall, i thought the movie was very well done, definately worth watching and something i'll probably go back too.

JazzyManda · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

I was dissapointed they cut out Hermione's whole thing with liberating the House Elves. I think it's called S.P.E.W.? I don't remember, but they had some code for it. Anyways, there's a lot of that in the 4th, 5th and 6th books and I wish they had mentioned it at least.

Also, WHERE ARE THE QUIDICH GAMES???

I miss those

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vivace · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:57 am Post subject:

Gnostic · Veteran Member Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 292

I went to see Goblet of Fire again today; it was great and just as good the 2nd time around.

horndevil · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:29 am Post subject:

Getting to the music for a minute.....I though the taking the main theme into a minor key really darkened the tone for the film, in keeping with the darker story in this film.

Overall, I felt that the humour took this episode to a new level and had me laughing a lot. All my family loved it, we even took my mum, who talked thoughout Prisoner of Azkaban, but sat in stunned amazement through Goblet of Fire.
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vivace · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:02 am Post subject:

i like how the main theme was also in 6 or whatever he did.
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jophst · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:18 am Post subject:

I thought the movie overall was pretty well done for trying to jam a potential 20 hour movie into a little over 2 hours. Of course, he had to leave out certain characters and subplots to make it happen.

The things that I disagreed with were:

Did anyone else think Dumbledore was a completely different character and grumpy and mean even? Where was his previous calm and collected self?

I would have wanted to see more of a scary 3rd challenge in the maze with monsters and other obstacles ... rather than a long maze with moving roots. After coming from that ridiculous dragon, and suspenseful underwater trial, it seemed week IMHO.

I also feel that the lines of most characters seemed a little rushed at times and that the movie didn't flow naturally .. seemed choppy somewhat.

.... all this being said, it is always easier to point out the bad than the good. I really liked the movie and felt more emotionally attached to this one than the previous three. I can't wait to see the last three to come.
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vivace · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

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I thought it was good and as good as the others. Ideally I would have liked to seen many subplots that were left out, but of course the movie would be too long. I thought the visiting schools were done very well, especially the chorographed scenes in which they first appear. My main gripe with the movie, which I consider huge, is that I feel that it didn't capture the magic feel to it. Not so much as more spells, just more detail to drag you into the world of wizards. I.E. references to Hogemades, the banquet food magically appearing, mayb a 3 1/4 train platform scene, moving staircases. Who knows. just more of the immersing details that are in the books.
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Trumpeter656 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject:

Anyone know why Williams didn't compose or direct this score?
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David_N · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:

I was very disappointed at the qorld cup. Not only did they show no quidditch but there were no Veelas. The only thing that made me wanna c the movie was the Veelas and there were none. But serious Cho Changs accent is the funniest thing i have heard. The moment she opened her mouth to speak i fell on the floor laughing. But on the slightly more serious note wat the hell happened in the maze it was reeli weird. I know it was september 22nd last year was when Warner Bros annouced that it wasn't John Williams who was doin the music but like the music was awesome it was a bit different but wat can u expect when its a different composer.

lincolnjazz · Regular Member Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 74 Location: NC

Williams didn't do the score because he was already attached to do Memoirs of a Geisha. His name was attached to the project when Spielberg was set to direct and he stayed on to do it. If he had done GoF he would have had to write 2 scores at the same time. Geisha, by the way is a fantastic score (no trumpets, though).