Harry Potter- Goblet of Fire

Rating: 3/10 (20 November 2005)

i really, really wanted to like this movie. i love the books, as most people do. but. i don't know. just everything was not quite right. i know they had time crunches and its hard to get everything from the book into the movie. but. some things, it's like. it wouldn't take any more time to do. i really wondered if the director actually read the book. first off, the traditional HP music wasn't there. i love the music, and i think that the music is REALLY important. and when Cedric died and when harry came back from the graveyard, the scene didn't evoke any emotion from me. i cried when i read the book, but, i was like...um? this is corny music. also. Dumbledore's whole portrayal. he just seemed so agitated in the movie. he couldn't control his emotions. in the book, its not like he suppressed his emotions or didn't feel the guilt of everything that was happening, but in the book, a lot of is was shown through the eyes. and that he was a strong wizard...so he wouldn't get so frazzled. (for lack of a better explanation) i just didn't think that Michael Gambon did a good job at portraying the essence of Dumbledore's character. the acting on a whole... i just didn't like. as the story progresses (the books) the books are darker and darker. and i don't think Daniel, Rupert, or Emma really did a great job at it. it seemed forced. i don't know. you didn't feel the pain nearly as much as you should have. or how much of an impact it had on me in the book. it was superficial, you could say. they showed like...almost nothing of the World Cup and wasn't Barty crouches Jr.'s hair blonde? and i thought Moody's hair was dark brown. it wouldn't have cost THAT much to get actors with the color hair that was correct. there were just so many little things that didn't go parallel to the book. oh yeah. and Barty Crouch Jr. wasn't even in the first scene with Wormtail...in the maze, i mean, the maze was pretty cool, the helicopter scan, but, i mean. what was the thing with the moving bushes? i don't ever recall there being any hedges that strangled people. the spider, the sphinx, or the sparkly field wasn't there. but devil's snare was there. and that wasn't in the book. the graveyard scene wasn't even that intense either. when the reflections of all the people Voldemort killed came out, i remember in the book, they looked almost solid, almost real...but i could hardly see what they looked like. oh and they didn't show Bertha Jorkins come out. they left her out the of the movie totally. everything just didn't seem to scale very big. i mean. the crowd before they went in the maze....it seemed so small. it seemed more like a circus room with the band. oh and the lake looked more like a river. and the landscape didn't even coincide with the book. when harry looks in the pensive at the scene with his father, they were lounging around the lake on grassy knolls besides the lake. i don't know about you. but. those cliffs don't look like you could chill on them. maybe i'm a purist about the movie. but when there are so many blatant mistakes...even with small details. i liked the other three movies, just not this one.