worst of the potter movies, severe disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (28 June 2008)

OK it wasn't a bad movie just as a movie. My bias of being a huge Potter fan (especially of the books) lead me to the feeling that this movie was a train wreck. The Goblet of Fire was perhaps the best book of all of Rowlings. In my opinion it was the most suspenseful and throughout the story it was full of action, romance, humor, suspense and MOST IMPORTANTLY a mystery. Yes the best part about the story is the mystery surrounding the man who put Harry's name into the Goblet and what the motivations were behind it. Which no one knows until the end when imposter Moody is revealed.
THAT is where my biggest disappointment is. they almost entirely butchered the Crouch storyline and it was left unexplained. The story as it goes on becomes a more suspenseful mystery as clues are thrown out that could lead you to the conclusion that Moody isn't actually the real Moody, he is a fake and that he put Harry's name into the Goblet. The most important part of the books was about the mystery. The movie it was mostly about Harry's tri-wizard adventure, romance and as much humor as they could put in.
Look I wont complain about the triwizard tasks although the first task was severely dramatized(in a good way in terms of the casual audience perhaps), the third task was completely messed up. In the book it had everything it was an amazing chapter in the book and in the movie it was a bunch of ATTACKING branches.
Next up....Voldemorts return. Horribly rushed. If they had put in more to that scene and less to the stupid Yule Ball then it would have been terrific. The graveyard scene was so rushed but not as much as the shrieking shack scene in PoA.
LOOK, it wasn't THAT bad from a casual viewers opinion, actually pretty good. But from a huge fan of the books it was a mess in my opinion and it really hurt to watch again. The best book in the series is matched by the worst movie of the series. Both GoF.
PS: I hate how they make Ron a sissy with no special abilities. Ron isn't supposed to be the sharpest tool in the shed out of the three and certainly not the most skilled with a wand but its like he is a comic relief character and that was his purpose.