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jack* Millions of homages: 2001, water world, starwars.
* I liked the level of humour.
* Sometimes the whole audience giggled at the slashy bits. Some amusing sexual references were deliberate, some were just us (Ferret/Crabbe!), some were ambiguous -- Cedric asking Harry to have a bath.
* I thought people must be exagerating when they said this, but the plot was eviscerated. The core plot was there, and indeed I liked a lot of the little changes they made to make it more obvious; indeed, when you see wormtail, I thought that was alastor, which would be a large change, but possibly a decent one.
* However, most everything else was cut. It wouldn't make much sense to someone who hadn't read the book. Some characters were gone, poof, and some, eg. Rita, were barely there. The number introduced in the first few minutes would be bewildering enough.
* A lot of the casting -- Amos Diggory, Alastor Moody, Barty Crouch Sr -- seemed a bit more laughable than I had imagined them, though all were reasonable.
* Krum was quite good. I imagined him more brooding and less arrogant than he looked, but he was great in the quiddich match. I'm not sure about him and hermione, though; though I know some people with much more of an age gap than that.
* Cedric was ok. Sometimes he seemed fine, but a lot of the time he seemed more "dumb rich pretty (and knows it) nice oaf" than the "hardworking dim pretty (but doesn't know it) nice oaf" I thought.
* Again I assumed the trailer was misleading wrt the sexes of the foreign students, but no; it seemed the film did intend Beauxbaton to be female and Durmstrang to be male. I admit it made for a pretty scene where they were introduced, but it seems like an odd choice.
* The action was all pretty well done. Though they could have showed any of the quiddich, and maybe the other champion's fights.
* Some of the children's interactions seemed very Biker Grove, other soap, or Enid Blyton :)
* Voldemort looked really stupid imho.
* I liked the level of humour.
* Sometimes the whole audience giggled at the slashy bits. Some amusing sexual references were deliberate, some were just us (Ferret/Crabbe!), some were ambiguous -- Cedric asking Harry to have a bath.
* I thought people must be exagerating when they said this, but the plot was eviscerated. The core plot was there, and indeed I liked a lot of the little changes they made to make it more obvious; indeed, when you see wormtail, I thought that was alastor, which would be a large change, but possibly a decent one.
* However, most everything else was cut. It wouldn't make much sense to someone who hadn't read the book. Some characters were gone, poof, and some, eg. Rita, were barely there. The number introduced in the first few minutes would be bewildering enough.
* A lot of the casting -- Amos Diggory, Alastor Moody, Barty Crouch Sr -- seemed a bit more laughable than I had imagined them, though all were reasonable.
* Krum was quite good. I imagined him more brooding and less arrogant than he looked, but he was great in the quiddich match. I'm not sure about him and hermione, though; though I know some people with much more of an age gap than that.
* Cedric was ok. Sometimes he seemed fine, but a lot of the time he seemed more "dumb rich pretty (and knows it) nice oaf" than the "hardworking dim pretty (but doesn't know it) nice oaf" I thought.
* Again I assumed the trailer was misleading wrt the sexes of the foreign students, but no; it seemed the film did intend Beauxbaton to be female and Durmstrang to be male. I admit it made for a pretty scene where they were introduced, but it seems like an odd choice.
* The action was all pretty well done. Though they could have showed any of the quiddich, and maybe the other champion's fights.
* Some of the children's interactions seemed very Biker Grove, other soap, or Enid Blyton :)
* Voldemort looked really stupid imho.
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