Okay warning! If you have not seen the movie and plan to do so, you may want to skip this blog, for I have seen the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and this is my blog about it!
WOW! Brilliant! 3 hours of amazing, accurate Harry Potter fun. True, there were many things that were left out of the movie that would have been really great to see. In my fantasy world, the whole book would have become the movie, but that movie would have been like sixteen hours.
My absolute favourite part of the movie was at the Yule Ball when Hermione peeks her head around the corner and looks downstairs shyly and comes down with the most adorable smile on her face, and the most beautiful dress and Harry is shocked to see that Hermione is actually a girl. Ron denies it's even her. The actors and actresses are doing much better jobs of acting now, as Hermione had a lot more tears. She showed amazing emotion when Mad-Eye Moody used the Killing Curse on a spider right in front of her, when she yelled at Ron for making her feel like a last resort (being invited to the Yule Ball out of desperation) and also when Ron and Harry were fighting. She's beginning to show the struggles that 14-year-old girls go through.
Ron and Harry are showing this as well. The whole awkwardness with girls was so funny to watch, as they tried so hard to ask girls to the Yule Ball. Harry did a great job acting in this film, especially at the end when he returned with Cedric's body and he cried and cried, gripping onto the body.
VOLDEMORT WAS TERRIFYING! Seriously, they did such a great job with his return to his body. It was frightening. The special effects were amazing, with the dragon, and the end scene when Voldemort and Harry's wand interconnect and the forms of the last killed people appear, including Harry's parents.
Some things that they changed: Well, Padma and Parvati aren't even in the same house, but in the movie, they were both Gryffindors. In the book, Parvati is Gryffindor and Padma is Ravenclaw. I also found the movie seemed to go through scenes quite quickly, but I guess they would have to because it was a long book but only a three-hour movie.
The part that irritated me the most was Dumbledore. In the book, he's always seen as a kind man, who is accepting and forgiving, but in the movie, he was portrayed as old and grumpy. When he found out Harry's name was in the Goblet of Fire, he practically attacked poor Harry, grabbing him and shaking him. THAT IS NOT IN DUMBLEDORE'S CHARACTER! I miss the old Dumbledore from movies 1 and 2. He would have done a better job. This Dumbledore scares me; completely out of character.
You can definitely see the romance budding in Ron and Hermione, as Ron is obviously jealous with Hermione's fancy with Viktor Krum.
Can't wait for movie #5, which I have no clue when that will come out. But hopefully soon. Don't get mad if you read this and now you're angry because you haven't seen the movie; I did give you ample warning at the beginning of my blog.
Ta
CHRISSY