Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[watervole]

It's excellent. Best of the series so far and would work pretty well as a stand-alone for anyone who hasn't seen the others.

Fantastic CGI, more adult plot. I cried at the point where one might expect.

It's better than 'Serenity'. 'Serenity' was okay, but I felt GoF was better paced and was more true to the characters.

Comments

Re: Unenthusiasm and spoilers

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I didn't understand why he couldn't just kidnap him at the start

That was the big weakness of the book as well.

I've concluded (only after watching the film, oddly enough) that they needed to have Harry at a predictable time when they had everything else prepared. (though they could still have kidnapped and kept him prisoner until needed)

Re: Unenthusiasm and spoilers

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Yes, but all they needed to do was kidnap him. Forcing him to become an unwilling and controversially under-age participant in a tournament which could have resulted in his death (possibly they could have got some blood from his corpse, but I suspect the spell specified fresh), and then fixing the tournament to make sure he won it, seemed unnecessarily complicated. As my friend said, they could have turned his toothbrush into a portkey, and it would have worked just as well; the goblet didn't appear to have been one until it was enchanted while being hidden in the maze.

Re: Unenthusiasm and spoilers

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'd rationalised it (without reading the book) that Hogwarts is protected against unauthorised portkeys, but the tournament maze falls outside the school boundaries. Whatever, it does seem likely that faux-Moody could just have caught up with Harry on a Hogsmeade weekend.