Who's ready to see the magic that is Harry Potter? Anyone got their tickets yet? I ordered mine online last night for a 12:01 am showing tonight. I'm really excited (especially now that I've read the book before I saw the movie). I still wish they would have made the movie into 2 seperate volumes (like Quentin Tarantino did with his Kill Bills). But alast, I've waited a year and a half for this movie so at this point I'll take what I can get. Enjoy the festivities this weekend!

Good book. Probably not gonna check out the film.

Wait until DVD or not at all?

I'll probably rent it, though the main reason I won't see it yet is because I want to see a bunch other films in the Theatre.

You should have time too to still see it in the theater. It'll be there for at least a month or more

I'm not a fan of the books or films. But I will be seeing this sequel for one reason, and one reason only; Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway of Radiohead (my favorite band, for anyone unaware) have a cameo in this film.

I wonder if they will make another one after this movie?

Yeah but it won't come out until 2007

Do you know the title?

Thanks DA. Are they going in order as the books come out?

Yep.

They should really make these movies faster -- so Harry et al. age at the same rate as the actors themselves... cuz the last thing I want, is for some "more age-appropriate" actor replacing someone from the original cast!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ** 1/2

Harry's fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort's rebirth be too much for the young hero?

I was VERY disappointed with this movie to say the least. To clarify, I did enjoy the movie, but it was nowhere near as good as I was hoping for it to be. SPOILERS I knew that a book 700+ pages wouldn't fit well into a 2 1/2 hour movie and I was right. The movie was very fast paced and never seemed to slow down. It really felt like they were trying to cram in as much as they could due to Warner Bros. "time limit." I was also very upset at the fact that the Dursleys weren't in the movie as I love those characters very much. I also believe a member of the movie who didn't die in the book died in the movie (although I won't go so far as to spoil that). END OF SPOILERS If you're a fan of the book, don't set high expectations. Again, I did enjoy this movie, would see it again in theaters, and will definitely buy it on DVD. Personally, I'd rank the films in order:

1) Sorcerer's Stone
2) Prisoner of Azkaban
3) Goblet of Fire
4) Chamber of Secrets

Hey people, just a note to let you know that if you have a copy of Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone you should hang on to it. They've changed the title to Philosopher's Stone, which is the version that was released everywhere but the States pretty much, and they've stopped making Sorcerer's. They're way expensive to get now, so you could make a bit of cash on them. I work in a book store and it's impossible to get them in for customers now.

And all the books will be turned into movies eventually, they just like to take their sweet time. Quite frustrating really, I get so many people yelling at me when all I do is sell them the book, I don't make the movies. Gotta love retail.

Yes, they left out some of the more juicier tidbits of the book and changed some to fit the time slot. Although i don't tend to like LONGLONG movies, I think with HP they should have made the exception.

Thank you Saladbar! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks so. Also, this movie is PG-13 so a lot of kids might not be able to see it due to their parents not wanting them to. Another reason why it should have been longer

Irish,

Did you see kids dressed up as Harry? Refresh my memory who are the Dursleys? Also is Hagrid and Professor McGonagall and Draco Malfoy in the movie?

Yes there were some people dressed up in the theater, including a friend I went to high school with. SPOILERS The Dursleys are the people Harry lives with during the summer (his aunt, uncle, and cousin). I love the characters in the movie because they are so nasty. And yes Hagrid, Professor McGonagall and Draco and all in the movie but only in limited roles unfortunately. END OF SPOILERS

Harry Pothead and the Stashful of Grass scored $100 million this weekend.

Box-Office "slump" my ass!

NO SPOILERS IN HERE


As a devout Harry Potter fan, I thought this was one of the better ones in the series. I am afraid the guy playing Potter is a weak actor, and it is easy to see the many ways they have gone around him to tell the story. I did not mind the length, but some of the character development that was in this particular book was left out, and I doubt that someone coming into this movie without having read the book would have a hard time with it.

If anything, Chris Columbus has always been a boring director, always a Point & Shoot director with no energy or style or anything remarkable. He was only hired as an insurance policy by Warner Brothers because he did HOME ALONE and others, which made a ton of money.

However, Alfonso Cuaron felt like a Latin Terry Gilliam with #3, in how he actually....has energy. He has flair, and he really did make me care about what the hell was happening.

Mike Newell, the director of the pretty good DONNIE BRASCO, succeeds as well with GOBLET OF FIRE, which feels in time-length like Columbus' earlier movies, but Newell isn't making kiddie fluff. Hes telling a story of maturation and of how now that the "happy ending" isn't its all cracked up to be.

My Rankings:

PRISONER OF AZKABAHN
GOBLET OF FIRE
CHAMBER OF SECRETS
PHILOSIPHER'S STONE

I think I wouldve loved this movie as perhaps a two-part, 6 hour epic. There was just so much in the book, which I remember being excellent, which didnt translate well into this lightning fast treatment. The current film is only helping to speed my loss of interest in Potter.

From all these fan complaints about their precious books, thank god I never got into the books themselves.

Yeah if you read the book, this movie ruined it for you

why? Because the movie doesn't contain subplots or characters that possibly, and probably, are mostly deadweight to the main story?

Sorry, but I rather have my steak without all the fat.

Funny Irish of how if you HAD read the FANTASTIC FOUR comics, you wouldn't be so peachy and cheery with your "fantastic" ( :p ) review of that movie.

Nevermind that movie was a P.O.S. as a film itself besides my gripes with leaving out some cool stuff from the comics.

That's the good thing about the Harry Potter books. They are heavy (700+ pages), but there is never deadweight. All the subplots and character developments are very fun to read. I doesn't always have to be about a major plotline. In a movie, maybe, but in (HP)-books that is not true. Btw, in HP all the 'deadweight' is always somehow functional for the main plot.

Enzo, they're called SUBPLOTS.

If people wanted THE GODFATHER as faithful as possible to the novel, we would have had to deal with that awkward subplot about the doctor and that girl. A very good novel, but really, Puzo and Coppola knew what to keep, cut out, and rework.

I also wanted to use the Dr Lucy/Fontane parts as an exemple. Sometimes certain parts from books are useless, that's true.
But you made it seem like all the character development in the books was useless and detracts the attention from the main plot. And that is, especially in Harry Potter not true.