Yes, the movie is still over a year and a half away from being released, but I'm excited dammit. I'll post updates and stuff here since I'm a pathetic nerd.

I first thought of starting this thread where I'd post Harry Potter updates the way everyone posts about wrestling news due to a little dilemna facing Warner Bros. when they almost didn't get Gary Oldman back to play Sirius Black.

This story was from a couple of weeks ago:

And this was from last week:

All I can say is "whew."

I don't mean to spew jism on your parade, but I just don't get these movies at all. They were showing "...and the Goblet of Fire" on the flight back home and I tired---I really tried-- to get into it, but I couldn't. Wait, there's some elite tournament and surprise of surprises, Harry Potter is the chosen one who will save the day! Golly..never saw that coming. It's about as suspenseful as any episode of Giligan's Island, where you know that no matter what happens, Gilligan will save the day.

Every scene seemed to be some "new dazzling form of magic. Lookout kids!!" For wizards and shit, they sure are amazed by the slightest flying horse or purple chic who blows sparkly kisses. I threw my headpones off about 30 minutes into it and read the boring in-flight magazine, instead.

I saw "Chamber of Secrets" and about walked out with the stupid spider nonsense. They were leaving clues for Harry...so he follows 'em and solves this big mystery...and the payoff is simply the spiders saying "oh yeah, we didn't do it. Now get out before we eat you".

Maybe it's because they're smarmy Euro bastards and I want the bad guys to rip their lungs out and piss in their occular cavities. In the opening scenes of "Goblet of Fire", I was thinking "yay! Go Evil KKK-lookin' guys! Kill the Euros!"

But what do I know..I'm in my 30's and watch old superheor cartoons before I fall asleep everynight.

First off, I would find it really hard to get into the Goblet of Fire without seeing the first three movies in their entirity. Secondly, that confrontation with the giant spider in Chamber of Secrets was not the payoff, there was still 30+ minutes of movie following that bit. That scene just cleared up that it was not Hagrid who had opened the Chamber years ago. I actually found the pay-off in the Chamber of Secrets to be one of the most satisfying out of all the books/movies.

That, and Harry doesn't really save the day at the end of the Goblet of Fire. He wins the tournament thanks to outside interference from "Moody" and Voldemort comes back. If anything, the good guys lose miserably in the Goblet of Fire.

Ah, Harry Potter. Much bigger fan of the books than the movies, especially the last one, which made me want to shoot someone at times.

What, you didn't like the super pissed off Dumbledore on the verge of choking Harry either :P

Since I'd seen the movies first (and read all of the books within a couple months last fall) I'm a fan of both of them. The Goblet of Fire movie did leave some important parts of the book out, but I think the overall movie came out just fine.

Feh, the books are good, but the movies leave a lot to be desired, especially since all of her big plots are stolen from various sources.


hmm... I wonder where she got the idea to travel back in time to fix the future. ;)

My point about the spider is... what the hell was the purpose of them leaving clues and a trail for Harry to find them? "oh yeah...we didn't do it". That was the payoff to the spider subplot (not the whole story) and it seemed Absolutely Fucking Worthless to me.

I knew I was late to the party for "Goblet of Fire", but the supposedly bad-ass guy with the shaved head....on a flying broomstick?!

I guess the spider subplot comes off as making more sense in the book, because for a great chunk of it Harry, Ron, and Hermione are afraid that it was Hagrid who unleashed a monster on the school, so that scene instills a great feeling of relief that it wasn't Hagrid and creates a theme of injustice since Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts over it.

I didn't like the dragon scene, either. Made about zero sense.

I actually enjoyed the dragon scene in the movie. It was, IMHO, more interesting than how it was played out in the book.

Not to go off on a tangent, but notice how the dragon was free to fly around and tear shingles off the building? And when he took off, nobody did anything about it? I thought the school was supposed to be magically delicious or something.

Ah, I figured that any damage the dragon did to the school could be easily fixed with magic. And my rationale for no one doing anything about the dragon flying around was because they couldn't interfere in the tournament. However, I do see where you're coming with that.

Meanwhile in the second task, I kind of wish they'd revealed that the "treasures" taken into the lake would not be killed if the champions failed to rescue them. THey covered that in the book, but I guess they wanted Harry to seem more heroic in the movie. That really makes the tournament seem stupid if they are willing to sacrifice noncompetitors for the challenges.

I also enjoyed the South Parkesque "Oh my god. I killed Harry Potter!"


But really, the angry Dumbledore was the worst part of that movie. I almost expected him to pistol whip Harry during that one scene.

Yeah, I don't know what possessed them to make Dumbledore so angry in that scene. If I recall the book properly, Dumbledore was described as being nervous yet calm.

It's because the directors don't seem to know what they're doing half the time. If they screw up the next movie, God help them.

From what I've heard about the filming of the next film, things are looking promising.

Is the acting going to be better? :D

I didn't think the acting was that bad. I'm not the biggest fan of the current Dumbledore or anything, but it ain't bad.

Yeah, I think the acting in the Harry Potter movies has been just fine. The adult cast have all been very talented (though I would have directed Michael Gambon as Dumbledore a bit differently in the fourth one). Besides, Rupert Grint has been downright hilarious as Ron and Daniel Radcliffe did a really kick-ass job as Harry in the Goblet of Fire.

Ron's been my favorite part ever since the second one, when he looked like he had shat his pants in the forest.

I've yet to see Goblet of Fire, so I'm going by their acting in Parts 1-3. The 1st they were downright awful (the child actors, who eat up avbout 85% of the film), the 2nd slightly improved, and 3rd the same as the 2nd.

I'm not such a big fan of Emma Watson's acting in the fourth film, but Dan Radcliffe as Harry Potter was tremendous. If you get the double disc set and watch the extras, you'll gain an even bigger appreciation for his performance, as he actually shot the underwater scenes himself and did several of the stunts in the movie.

If I were being paid 6079494 bazillion dollars just for the fact I kinda resemble a drawing, I'd do my own stunts too. Hell, I'd do them period. Only a pussy needs a stunt double.

That's not a nice thing to say about 99% of Hollywood actors :lol:

Feh, they're all overpaid shitheads. Except Al Pacino.

Shit... i was hoping John Williams would stick around this time. Oh well.

Cross your fingers and hope we don't end up with Lindsay Lohan as Hermione by movie #6.

Ugh... I just threw up a little.

That would be counter productive (Thankfully). If they end up replacing the actors, it would surely be with younger ones. Then again by this point they've come this far, so I hope they never have to recast. It would suck to follow them through five movies and suddenly have new ones for the climatic 6th and 7th films. I don't care how old they look, in television they have 25 year olds play high school students all the time.

I hope they do stick with the same actors, but I am ready to throw Dumbledore under a bus. I realize a lot of that is due to the way he's being directed, but ye gods, he couldn't have been more angry if he had pulled a glock on Harry. That ain't right.

Hurray!

Uh... who gives a shit about a D-Level character coming back? :D

Because she was one of the more amusing characters from the books B)

Pfft. Still doesn't mean it matters who the actor is, since the character will no doubt get about 5 minutes screen time at most. B)

Mugglenet.com had some details for the story structure of the upcoming film. I could sit here and whine about things being left out/changed, but then I remember the freaking book is 800+ pages.

RedFlu has sent us new, very detailed information on the current plan for the beginning of Order of the Phoenix. These could be considered spoilers by some, so we have a link below to take you to the description. At most, this is a rough plan for the arrangement of the beginning of the film and chances are it will adjusted. Nonetheless, an interesting read for anyone interesting in seeing the plan so far for the film!
"The film starts with Harry in the street, when he meets Dudley. This part is like
the book. The one difference is that the fight happens in the atrium of the
Dursley's house. After this fight, the Advanced Guard appears and takes Harry to the Sirius' house. When Harry enters, they tell him it all what in the book Sirius tells him by letter. Hermione and Ron tell him about the OotP and the others say him about the hearing in the Minister. The next scene shows Harry and Mr. Weasley in a big hall in the Minister. In that place it's the hearing and they introduce us to Umbridge. The part in wich we see Lucius talking with Fudge has been removed. Then, the dinner before the Hogwarts Express. Ron and Hermione receive their letter, with the annunce of prefects. Harry is jealous.

After this, Harry appears in the train. He talks a bit with Luna. Hermione and Ron aren't there. Ginny says that they're with the other prefect. For the first time we'll see how they mount the carriage, but it only will be to see the thestrals. Then, we will see the first dinner, when we can see to Dolores Umbridge as professor and also see that Hagrid is not in Hogwarts.

From here, my uncle just told me diferentes things, like there'll be classes with Snape and Dolores. We'll have Grawp, too. The quidditch will be mentioned, but we won't see it, because in the last game we watch the scene when Harry meets Grawp. There will be exams, and also there'll be Occlumency lessons. Snape tell Harry he will have Oclumency lessons at the end of one of potions lessons, and not in Grimmauld Place.

In the last battle, all the wizards will be there. The scene of the battle between
Harry and Voldemort has been written three times, because they don't know when
Dumbledore has to appear.

In September they'll shoot the last battle."

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/harrypotte...thephoenix.html