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Hermione
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 Posted: November 11, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: Countdown! |
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7 days! (6 where i live) to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Posted: November 11, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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I've purchased my tickets, have you? I wanted to see it Friday nite at the IMAX, but it was sold out. I'll be seeing it on Saturday morning! I can't wait! My daughter is bringing along a friend, which one, she doesn't know yet. She has three who want to go, so she's making them compete by answering Harry Potter questions. Our tradition is to re read the book, then watch the previous movies the night before. What's yours?
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Hermione
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| Posted: November 11, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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I re-read the book last month LOL but i still have it fresh on my mind. I haven't purchased my tickets yet ( I doubt they have sold out im going at about 2:00pm thursday and there are not gonna be a lot of people in the movies since it is a school day LOL) I think i'll go alone or with a friend:)
We dont have Imax here:(
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I homeschool my daughter so we could go earlier, but she wants to bring a friend. We're seeing it at 10 am. The Imax is about 1 hour away so we will have to get up at 8 am to get there in time. We are both night owls and can easily stay up half the night. We've already planned a Friday night movie night!
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Hermione
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| Posted: November 12, 2005 1:34 am Post subject: |
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That sounds fun! Im a night-owl too and I sleep during the day so its hard waking up early sometimes.
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Planning on seeing it Friday night with a big group of friends 
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Hermione
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| Posted: November 13, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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I think ill go alone:(
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| Posted: November 13, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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You can come with me
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| Posted: November 13, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Lol. I don’t think you two live anywhere near each other. 
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| Posted: November 14, 2005 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Eek! 3 days! to go! so excited! *jumps up and down and hums the movie's theme song*
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Hermione
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| Posted: November 14, 2005 10:00 am Post subject: |
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LOL yeah it sucks! I have know so many cool people on the net, too bad they live so far away from me IMAO! yay!
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| Posted: November 16, 2005 2:32 am Post subject: |
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Well, she's got a winner! We"re having a pizza, popcorn, and pop (soda) nite whilst we watch all three movies. Then, it's up early for us to drive an hour to see this movie at the nearest IMAX ! I'm so excited (jumps around room) I hope this movie is great!
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| Posted: November 16, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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I just found a review: I just can't wait!
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Review: 'Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire'
Tuesday November 15 11:45 AM ET
If the third film in the Harry Potter series, last year's "Prisoner of Azkaban," seemed frightening with its soul-sucking Dementors and its German expressionist aesthetic, then the fourth installment, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," will have kids quaking in their seats and perhaps wishing they had an invisibility cloak to hide beneath.
This "Potter" earns its PG-13 rating a first for the previously PG series about the boy wizard as Harry grows into adolescence and learns more about his powers and his past. Of course, young fans have already devoured the J.K. Rowling books that provide the basis for the films, so they know what's coming. (The author is up to No. 6 out of seven planned.) But reading it on the page and seeing it on the screen can be two entirely different experiences, and several scenes will be disturbing to viewers regardless of age.
"Goblet of Fire" features the return of the dreaded Lord Voldemort He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named the dark warlock who killed Harry's parents and tried to kill him, too, when he was just an infant. (Having survived the attack is what gives Harry a certain mystique among his professors and classmates at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; it also gave him his trademark lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.)
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As played by an unrecognizable Ralph Fiennes, Voldemort appears hairless and noseless, hissing and threatening in the moonlight a smooth, almost effeminate incarnation of the Devil, surrounded by cloaked minions.
Even scarier, though, is the maze Harry must navigate as a competitor in the dangerous Triwizard Tournament. The giant hedges that serve as the maze walls aren't just tall and the pathways aren't just narrow they're also predatory, collapsing violently on their inhabitants, sensing and feeding on their fears, trying to swallow them whole. (Bet Stanley Kubrick wishes he'd thought of that when he made "The Shining")
While these are the most extreme examples of the movie's intensity, they're also the ones that are the most emotionally powerful. Director Mike Newell has crafted a film full of images that are vast and wondrous, but strangely detached and obviously artificial, similar to the look of the "Lord of the Rings" movies. You can appreciate the enormity of the visuals, but they seem so distant, it's difficult to feel engaged by them.
But with Newell at the helm the first English director following American Chris Columbus, who did the first two parts, and Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, who did the third and best thus far "Goblet of Fire" seems more in touch with the innate Britishness of Rowling's books, both in its sense of humor and in its boarding-school setting.
Newell (working from a script by Steve Kloves, who has adapted all of Rowling's books and had his work cut out for him with the 734-page "Goblet of Fire") seems less interested in the whimsical magicality of Hogwarts' halls thankfully, since we're all over the moving staircases and talking portraits by now and focuses more on Harry and his friends as they come of age.
"Goblet of Fire" is more effective in these smaller, more intimate moments than in the bloated bombast of its larger set pieces. One of Newell's best-known and loved films is "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and he applies that same keen sense of romantic comedy timing here.
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe, more confident than ever), Hermione (Emma Watson, more vibrant than ever) and Ron (Rupert Grint, who's, well, still a little goofy) are beginning to figure out who they are and struggling to understand the opposite sex, something they're forced to do upon the unexpected arrival of students from two other schools.
The sophisticated young women of the Beauxbatons Academy and the virile, vaguely Eastern European young men from the Durmstrang Institute are visiting Hogwarts for the year to compete in the Triwizard Tournament. As headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) explains it, this is an opportunity to foster relations in the wizarding community; it's also the first time for us to see that there is indeed a world outside Hogwarts and England.
The Goblet of Fire spits out the name of one student from each school to participate in this grueling challenge: Hogwarts' BMOC Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson); Beauxbatons' glamour girl Fleur Delacour (Clemence Poesy); and Durmstrang's Quidditch star Viktor Krum (Staniskav Ianevski).
Then it offers a fourth name you guessed it Harry Potter, even though the rules state that he's too young to compete at age 14. Surely darker forces are behind his selection, which he'll have to confront in the film's overlong climax.
But first, he'll have to dance at the Yule Ball awkwardly, of course, since he and his classmates have received only cursory, uncomfortable lessons from Maggie Smith's Professor McGonagall. (Brendan Gleeson, a fantastic new addition to the cast as the school's bad-boy Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, just stands in the corner with his flask and his one fake eye, which has a mind of its own.)
The whole scene is like something out of a John Hughes movie funny, relatable and loaded with misunderstandings, with everyone in attendance wishing they were there with someone else, or not at all. In its realism, it's one of the most magical moments of all.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images. Running time: 157 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. |
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YAY! I'm so flippin excited 
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Currently GOF has an average of 76 with it’s lowest score been 60 by Empire/Angie Errigo and its highest been 100 by The Hollywood reporter/Kirk Honeycutt.
Just thought you guys might want to know.
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 9:24 am Post subject: |
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^thanks!
LOL they are raving about it being the best of all the films in almost all of the reviews so i assume its gonna be good. It's 10:22am here lol and just 5 hours left for me! YAY! By the time most people read this, im gonna be watching the film  I can't wait!
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Well, have a good time. By the way congrats on the 500+ posts and the cool new sig.
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Hermione
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! LOL im still here trying to kill my time until GOF.
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Only a couple of hours left ago. The forum should be pretty active after everyone watches the film, maybe even a couple of new members.
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 10:34 am Post subject: |
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yeah:) Hopefully we'll have more new members
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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I cant wait now, im sooooo excited. Trouble is im still trying to get a babysitter to watch my kids while i go and watch the film so i might not get to see it just yet  . You guys will have to fill me in when you have watched it.
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| Posted: November 17, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! I just came back from the film LOL im gonna start a new thread.
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| I loved waiting in line for my tickets for the movie; it is almost time to do it again! |
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