GoF movie trailer

[justcarol67]

Geoff wrote:
> 
> It's interesting to see the widely differing reactions to the films; it 
> parallels the wide swathe of interpretations on the main list. 
> Personally, I like the first two films - it was seeing COS at the end 
> of 2002 that lured me into this Internet lunatic asylum in the first 
> place :-)
> 
> However, I think that POA was the best I have seen so far. I also like 
> Daniel Radcliffe; I saw him before the HP saga began when he played 
> theyoung David Copperfield in a BBC1 adaptation round about 1999.
> 
> I hope that CMC will enjoy movie Zero when it is released. :-)

Carol responds:
I liked the PoA film, too, especially the "Something Wicked This Way
Comes" choral performance, uncanonical or not, since it was well done
and provided an interesting link to Macbeth. They left out too much
(how, for example, did Lupin know the piece of parchment was a map?)
and there were continuity errors (Lupin sees Harry's Dementor!Boggart,
yet later claims that he thought the Boggart would be Voldemort), but
it was at least as faithful to the original as the LOTR films. (No, I
won't go off on that tangent.) Didn't like the Muggle clothes (Draco
Malfoy dressed like a Muggle?) or the shrunken head, though.

GoF looks somewhat better. They appear to be keeping as much as they
can (please, please keep the midnight confrontation between Snape and
Crouch!Moody and Snape's "If you are ready. . . If you are prepared"
scene!). They still have the Muggle clothes, apparently, and I didn't
like Sirius in the fire (Is he saying something about devils in the
walls?). It didn't bother me that the Beauxbatons students were all
girls, but Fleur should be more stunningly beautiful. And MadEye Moody
doesn't look the way I pictured him. (Couldn't they give him a false
eye using CGI without the strap?)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the film, but it needs more Snape. He's
not even included in the photos at the bottom of the poster!

Carol