This movie was awful and needs to be redone

Rating: 4/10 (20 November 2005)

All of you who voted to give this movie a good rating are fooling yourselves. You're giving the people who make these movies license to make another piece of garbage like it for the next 3 movies in this series. Too much was left out, and the movie was so choppy, going from event to event, you had no idea what was going on. I have no idea, beyond the return of Voldemort, what the point of this movie was. They put in all the spectacular scenes, and left out the story itself.
What has made Harry Potter books and movies so interesting is Harrys, Hermiones, and Rons ability to investigate, and deal with problems. They did none of this in this movie. They had plenty to do in that vein in the book. I don't understand the point of many of the scenes in the movie. The Quidditch World Cup scene was pointless. The Yule Ball scene was pointless.
Another commenter stated that there was a lot missing, but that the movie was almost 3 hours long already. GOF is 2.5 hours long. But I don't understand the point in making a movie if you're not going to do it right. If 3 hours of time would have made this movie better, instead of 2.5, then that's what they should have done. But with that said, I don't think an added 30 mins could have saved this one. But those in charge of making this movie, who won't get any more credit from me here, were determined to make a special effects masterpiece, and forget the plot, and subplots that make Harry Potter interesting to begin with.
A note to Warner Brothers: A little less special effects, and a Whole lot more of the story would have made you money in the long run. Harry Potter is interesting enough without spending the bulk of the finances on special effects.
If you've read Goblet of Fire, you'll be disappointed. If you have the money to blow on seeing the movie, go and see it. But don't give them one penny more than one admission price. They don't deserve it for this one.