Harry Potter and the Goblet of Disappointment

[dukewhite]

So I was not too thrilled by the new HP. First and foremost it lacked direction. It was just a sequence of scenes with no real consistency of either style or tone. It made the already complicated and difficult-to-follow script even harder to work out for anyone who hadn't read the books (and even for me, who counts GoF as his favorite of the

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[jedistardust]

glad I'm not the only one who thought it was majorly disjointed and thrown together. I hope Yates does a better job with 5, OotP is my favourite.

[thedeuce]

I think something to consider is the time factor. It seemed that the movie clocked in around 2.5 hours, and was based off of a 500+ page book.

Essentially, there was no Quidditch, even at the World Cup in the beginning. Think of the money it would have cost the studio to make those scenes (which are all pretty much CGI).

A lot of great scenes/plotlines are axed from the movies because they don't really carry the story, they just support it (there was no wand analysis to show Harry's wand doing the Dark Mark, etc).

Hopefully some of these scenes were made, and we'll see them as Deleted Scenes on the DVD. Did you check out the Deleted Scenes on the Star Wars Ep 3 DVD? Two good side plots were taken out, one including Mon Mothma (yet they still sold her action figure despite the fact that she never made it to final cut).

[dukewhite]

These are simply plot items. The reason I most disliked the film was because of the muddled direction, poor pacing and uninspired performances all around.

[esstmehrobst]

Oh god... I love Mon Mothma! I really should watch Episode III I guess... though of course I and II already sucked. I just wonder how a script writer can fuck such a thing up - there is an unlimited universe, there is the force for deus ex machina situations and most important there is no story already existing. the new trilogy could have been really amazing. but instead it did deal with the same characters, telling stories already told and missed everything that was cool about the real trilogy...

eh... sorry... i got carried away. i did not see the latest potter. nor the one before. nor the one before that. i watched the first, got incredibly bored, since I am not really into children's movies unless they are those really deep skandinavian ones. I read HP I and II - there was no message and no nothing. It was like reading Enid Blyton, so I would have expected some Popcorn entertainment but instead they sticked to the book as if it was worth sacrificing good cinematic moments for it.