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A blistering 'Goblet of Fire'
New York Daily News ^ | Jami Bernard

Posted on 11/17/2005 10:49:03 AM PST by Tanniker Smith

Potter and friends turn 14, and 'Goblet of Fire' pours on the menace

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series' fourth film.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon. Director: Mike Newell (2:37). PG-13: Fantasy violence and frightening images. There's a delicious chill in the air at Hogwarts this semester. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is the darkest, most thrilling entry yet in the movie franchise based on novelist J.K. Rowling's magical creation - the boy wizard from whom so much is expected.

In his fourth year at Hogwarts, a time when Nazi-like "Death Eaters" are on the march, Harry is forced to fight gladiator-style in a deadly intramural competition, the Triwizard Tournament. A dragon breathes fire down his neck while a dragon of a different sort - the evil, presumably vanquished Lord Voldemort - makes Harry's lightning-shaped scar pulse with foreboding.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fire; goblet; harry; potter
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To: Tanniker Smith

I'll be leaving in half an hour for a preview showing, free tickets and all.


21 posted on 11/17/2005 1:52:41 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: AppyPappy
Hey! Didn't you used to be in the anti-Potter gang?

Powerful wizards, those guys.

22 posted on 11/17/2005 1:54:26 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: who knows what evil?
Good thing you saved the money. That trailer was a yawn. Fade-in-fade-out-fade-in-fade-out. You don't see anything, you just hear echoes of a long-dead voice speaking to Kal-El -- I don't mean Jor-El, I mean Brando.

As they say in Brooklyn, "What's up with that?"

23 posted on 11/17/2005 6:28:36 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (By defiintion, we cannot have Consensus until you agree with me.)
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To: Spiff

Well, Jami Bernard (the writer) is female, so maybe you are. Then again, maybe not.


24 posted on 11/17/2005 6:29:11 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (By defiintion, we cannot have Consensus until you agree with me.)
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To: dead

Nah, I thought the books were superflous. I still do. Unlike some of the Anti-Potter group, I read the books. I did think Order of the Phoenix was very anti-PC.

I love the movies though.


25 posted on 11/17/2005 6:36:36 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Good thing you saved the money.

No kidding...better stills around on the net.

26 posted on 11/17/2005 7:25:25 PM PST by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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To: Tanniker Smith

I'm back. It's easily the best of the four. Great dragon scene, much longer than in the book.


27 posted on 11/17/2005 8:01:59 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138

I would hope so. It's very visual. And if you're spending that much money on effects, you want to get your money's worth (without sucking the energy out of the rest of the film).


28 posted on 11/18/2005 7:55:42 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (By defiintion, we cannot have Consensus until you agree with me.)
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To: Clemenza
What do you mean? You are talking about Harry Potter, right? What's wrong with him?

He's more masculine than Frodo or Peter (absolutely no offense to Frodo or Peter- I love all these fantasy stories). He stars in a sport much rougher than football, has many dangerous duels, fights many gigantic monsters, shows overwhelming courage, and does all this while being humble and pleasant.

29 posted on 11/18/2005 2:35:25 PM PST by onja ("The government of England is a limited mockery." (France is a complete mockery.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

My four-word review:

Saw it.

Loved it.

Dan


30 posted on 11/19/2005 8:43:54 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: js1138

I saw it last night with my 8-year old. We left the movie, at his request, just after LV returned, but then we came back in and saw the last few minutes. It was fun to watch but I was disappointed in how some of the plot went awry. I always expect some changes, but the fact that Barty Jr. remained alive seems to indicate--to me, at least--that the next two movies are going to diverge even further from the books.


31 posted on 11/19/2005 11:49:27 AM PST by grellis (Help! My Sims are holding me hostage!)
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To: BibChr

So where are you on the books?


32 posted on 11/19/2005 11:50:34 AM PST by grellis (Help! My Sims are holding me hostage!)
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To: grellis

Barty Jr. is gone. I don't worry about stuff like that. The movies are a clue to what's improtant to Rowling, and most details are not important. Killing off a major character would have added another five minutes to the film without improving it.


33 posted on 11/19/2005 11:58:04 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: grellis

About 180 pages into Goblet -- which is to say about the first fifteen minutes of the movie!

(c8

Dan


34 posted on 11/19/2005 12:39:41 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: js1138

I'm just hoping that Crouch really IS gone. I'd hate for him to show up in the next movies--the way the plot went in GoF, he could easily take the place of Bellatrix LeStrange, and I'd hate that. She's a perfectly twisted, evil character.


35 posted on 11/19/2005 5:58:03 PM PST by grellis (Help! My Sims are holding me hostage!)
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To: grellis

No chance. Barty Jr. was last seen in the company of Snape. He's gone. The movies delete characters, but they do not change any characters who are important to the plot.


36 posted on 11/19/2005 6:08:37 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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