oh, and i saw the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[lobelia321]

I saw this movie on Friday.

For those who still care about that sort of thing:

T'h kept hissing into my ear, "This is such dreadful crap!" "This is so appalling!" Except when he was snoring away in his seat, overcome by boredom.

T'kids thought it was "okay". T'older son said, "Well, I don't much like Harry Potter any longer, anyway."

T'family we went with quickly moved onto other subjects. It's not as if there are plot subtleties to discuss or acting abilities to be marvelled at.

However: I perved! T'actors have all grown up a bit and I enjoyed myself immensely! It's the old rps-fan in me rearing her head! I don't even know a fifth of their names but the Cedric Diggory actor is yummy, and Hermione is eye candy and quite sweet the way she can't act. In fact, all of the children remind me of my own children in their end-of-school plays in the overplayed wooden-ness of their so-called acting, and I find that endearing. I discovered an unexpected liking for the actor who plays Ron (cute!) and there was the Gregory Goyle actor, all slimmed down and ruddy-cheeked and cherry-lipped. And Viktor Krum, cor, what a hunk. And Miranda Richardson is always a bit of all right (those teeth! those lips!). And Myrtle groping Harry's dick in the bathroom!! Risqué for a kids' flick!! And the guy who played Barty Crouch junior was not bad, either, in his haunted-eyes way and gaunt-cheekbones way. And Cho Chang was also a cute young morsel.

And oh, Draco. Now here I actually know a name: Tom Felton! He is in this film SO RARELY!!! Why, oh why?1 Whenever there was a crowd scene, my eyes roamed in desperation to spot that shock of white hair. Also, I am way, way, way channelling Draco, anyway, so any rps that floats my way will do as a hook to hold onto. I liked the way he was stuffed down Crabbe's trousers to do goodness-knows-what to Crabbe's pubescent member.

BUT WHERE IS DUDLEY???!!!

I will not forgive them for excising Dudley.

*swoons over memory of Draco Malfoy in black-and-white dress robes*

Comments

[ook.livejournal.com]

It's too bad the Dursley's were chopped out of the film. I liked how each book began at their home. Well...at least they shouldn't get chopped out of the next film since a Dementor gets to attack poor Dudley! Too bad about Draco, too. At least his ferret scene didn't get chopped, but it was sad he wasn't given credit for his clever buttons.

I heard a rumor that Dan said he would be "too old" to be in film six...which made me wonder if perhaps (with the characters all being older) that it might open up the possibility for Warners to try casting other people in certain key roles like the Trio.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Er, who's Dan? Is it the guy in my icon?

[ook.livejournal.com]

Daniel Radcliffe.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Is he the boy who plays Harry? In which case: he reminds me of Elijah! Eek. And I don't like Elijah!

[ook.livejournal.com]

Yes. LOL. Radcliffe does have a bit of that Elijah thing going on...I think it's the cheekbones and jawline.

I'd be curious to see someone else play Harry though (just for a change). I'd definitely like for them to find a different Dumbledore.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

My own grown-up Harry is either Gael Garcia Bernal or Karl Urban. It's the nostrils!

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Yep, although I do not/will not/will will NOT write slash in this fandom (snicker, it's not the fandom, it's my desperately trying to keep control of some stuff), I could *definitely* see the pervy possibilities--agree with all you say here (although I go much more for Draco senior than junior), and will add that the actor playing Neville Longbottom has great possibilities (those eyes!) now that he's sort of growing into his bone structure (and teeth), and I SO lurved Rupert Grint (Ron), and his older brothers. I was searching more for Snape at times, sigh.

I am pissed at the excision of the Dursleys--since as we find out from Dumbledore at some point (book five?) Harry must be there when he's not in school for protection, and it's all tied up with magic, the fact that the books start at the Dursleys for me takes on the impact of ritual, the repeated structure being a major part of the book (that he's miserable there is part of it too).

But the cutting of the Dursleys *and S.P.E.W. sigh* pissed me off bigtime.

Director was quoted as seeing the thriller plot as what he wanted to do. Well, OK, he did it.

But damn, I like the parts of the book that aren't the thriller (and as a straight thriller--well, um, it lacks something. I found the hedge sequence sort of laughable--it was the same damn corridor/turn at every single major shot, wasn't it?)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Hedge sequence totally silly because what is the point of Harry's big moral triumph in saving Cedric from the evil hedge tendrils if Fleur just reappeared with nary a scar after having been snatched by selfsame evil tendrils only minutes earlier?

And yes, ooh, Neville who likes dancing!!! And Snape is lovely (I dislike him in the books but Rickman is yumster). Who plays Draco's dad again? I don't like his hair! It reminds me too much of Celeborn in Peter Jackson's film!

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Yep. Any man (male of any age) who likes dancing is aces in my book.

Jason Isaacs plays Lucius Malfoy. And yeah, the hair, is like Celeborn, but I can get over that. His clothing, that cane, his voice, his body language, the sheer lustiness of evil! *happy sigh*

butnotgonnawritehpslashnuh-uhnopenotgonnadoit

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

butnotgonnawritehpslashnuh-uhnopenotgonnadoit

*chants* Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!

*evil cackle in Lucian style*

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

Hermione is eye candy and quite sweet the way she can't act.

Hahaha! I'm glad someone agrees with me. She seems to think acting means speaking with a great deal of inflection to indicate emotion.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's all about being very emphatic at all TIMES.

And furrowing the eyebrows a lot. She does have lovely eyebrows.

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

I was mostly irritated to see Hermione, who in the previous movies (and books, btw) was pretty much Da Man when something needed to be done, reduced to some über-girly twit. Hello? Here's the girl who fucking punched Malfoy in the previous year.