Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Best HP Movie Yet!
I was fortunate enough to see a midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie last night. My quick summary: The movie is awesome! I laughed, I cried, I nearly peed my pants. You should rush out and see this movie right away.
For those of you familiar with the size of the novel, you have to figure that the movie has been greatly boiled down. The people who made the movie decided to concentrates on the plot of the Tri Wizard Tournament. In short, the Tournament is a set of 3 challanges that the champions must face with only one winner in the end. Even thought it was late, the movie moved really quickly through the first 2 challanges (I think mainly to fit everything in…) and right up to the start of the third challange. By the time we reach the thirds challange, the pacing of the movie had really slowed down. Since this is the end (and most important) part of the movie, this is not totally suprising. But the pacing transition caught me a little off guard as I tried to adjust to the slower pacing that took us through to the end. But it was worth it as the difficulties of the ending of this novel were expertly handled leaving the viewer not on a happy note, but not on a sad note either.
Every time a new Harry Potter movie came out, I thought it was better than the previous. My main theory on why, is that each book gets successively better as well. If you have better source material, you can make a better movie. You can also toss in that each of the kids are getting better and better as actors as they get older (more practice!). Put that together with jucier roles for the kids, and you are going to get a better movie.
All in all, another excellent movie in the Harry Potter Pantheon.
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