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| Monday, November 21, 2005 07:51 PM |
| Manimals Volume One: The Potter Post |
 by Fëanor |
- Poppy and I saw Goblet of Fire this weekend. A short review: Believe the hype. I think each Harry Potter movie has been better than the last, and thus this one is the best yet. There's lots of humor and action, as well as some dramatic and moving scenes, and even a few really creepy bits. I hardly remember the book at all (which perhaps increased my enjoyment of the film), but poppy tells me it was satisfyingly faithful to the text. In short, you should check it out.
- Let me tell you, though, through most of that movie experience I seriously wanted to strangle the bunch of idiots sitting behind us. I actually had to look away from the puerile, insulting, idiotic, and vomitously bad trailers they played in front of the movie, or risk having a stroke from sheer outrage, but meanwhile these folks behind us were guffawing like jackasses and commenting that they really wanted to see the animated penguin movie, as well as the one about Tim Allen turning into a dog ("Did you see when he knocked that old lady down! That was funny.").
And then, even worse, when the movie finally started, they had to talk loudly through the whole thing, explaining to each other how that scene was just like the book, and how this scene didn't happen in the book at all, and guess what happens next? Oh my God. It was like everything I hate had somehow been embodied and seated behind me.
- There were some good trailers, too, though. It was great to see the Superman Returns and King Kong trailers on the big screen, and it was interesting to finally get a look at Shyamalan's next one, Lady in the Water, although I still can't figure out where he's going to go with that story. I mean, once the hotel janitor finds a mermaid in the pool...what can really happen next that wasn't covered in Splash?
- But we were speaking of Harry Potter, and there's another fun Cinematical Seven on that very topic: a list of great British character actors yet to appear in the Potter movies. I for one am tired of seeing Judi Dench in things, always playing the same damn grumpy old woman character, but I love pretty much every other idea on this list, especially Helena Bonham Carter as Merope Gaunt, and Christopher Lee as pretty much anybody.
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