GoF in Revue
I am proud to say that I attended the movie in full Hermione regalia. Hey, if you have the frizzy hair and the hand-waving, you might as well use it.
As a rather huge HP geek (yeah, like anyone on my FL doesn't know that), I was deeeeeefinitely not fond of certain parts of the movie. Michael Gambon's take on Dumbledore was just so...out there. I mean, it might be a valid take on Dumbledore for the last two books, but even then...GoF is when we really start to see the cracks in Dumbledore's armor, so to speak, but he's still collected and in control for 95% of the book. Why, oh why, did Richard Harris die?
Also, I wish that they'd included The Parting of the Ways and more of the Crouch backstory -- you really get a sense of the drastic implications of Voldemort's return then, and it really sets up Order of the Phoenix.
(And I demand more Sirius and Snape -- Sirius because you need to have more of him to make his death have emotional resonance in OotP, and because he's Sirius, and Snape because Alan Rickman is just too damn awesome.)
However, I loved the twins, and I cheered at how often they were used. I ADORED Mad-Eye Moody -- Brendan Gleeson was just awesome, and the ferret scene was hysterical. I loved Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, even if some of his physical choices struck me as weirdly feminine. I loved Dan Radcliffe for perhaps the first time -- he sold me with his reaction to Cedric's death, and he managed to do a crying scene convincingly for once. Cheered when I finally saw Neville coming into his own. I love that kid. Found Rita Skeeter hilarious -- I enjoyed that "twelve" bit immensely. I really started to appreciate Rupert Grint a lot more this time around, too; he's just too cute. Emma Watson, though, really doesn't embody Hermione like she used to. She's just not as adorably swotty as she used to be.
Overall, it was probably my favorite of the movies (although I preferred the setup of PoA; I think that the other three sometimes feel like big checklists of events). And I did totally lose it when Cedric died. *sniff*
(On a shallow note: Cedric + Krum + Dan Radcliffe's chest + Ginny's new adorableness = much eye candy for Churri.)
As a rather huge HP geek (yeah, like anyone on my FL doesn't know that), I was deeeeeefinitely not fond of certain parts of the movie. Michael Gambon's take on Dumbledore was just so...out there. I mean, it might be a valid take on Dumbledore for the last two books, but even then...GoF is when we really start to see the cracks in Dumbledore's armor, so to speak, but he's still collected and in control for 95% of the book. Why, oh why, did Richard Harris die?
Also, I wish that they'd included The Parting of the Ways and more of the Crouch backstory -- you really get a sense of the drastic implications of Voldemort's return then, and it really sets up Order of the Phoenix.
(And I demand more Sirius and Snape -- Sirius because you need to have more of him to make his death have emotional resonance in OotP, and because he's Sirius, and Snape because Alan Rickman is just too damn awesome.)
However, I loved the twins, and I cheered at how often they were used. I ADORED Mad-Eye Moody -- Brendan Gleeson was just awesome, and the ferret scene was hysterical. I loved Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, even if some of his physical choices struck me as weirdly feminine. I loved Dan Radcliffe for perhaps the first time -- he sold me with his reaction to Cedric's death, and he managed to do a crying scene convincingly for once. Cheered when I finally saw Neville coming into his own. I love that kid. Found Rita Skeeter hilarious -- I enjoyed that "twelve" bit immensely. I really started to appreciate Rupert Grint a lot more this time around, too; he's just too cute. Emma Watson, though, really doesn't embody Hermione like she used to. She's just not as adorably swotty as she used to be.
Overall, it was probably my favorite of the movies (although I preferred the setup of PoA; I think that the other three sometimes feel like big checklists of events). And I did totally lose it when Cedric died. *sniff*
(On a shallow note: Cedric + Krum + Dan Radcliffe's chest + Ginny's new adorableness = much eye candy for Churri.)