I saw the 8:10 showing on Friday. Whee. The lines were horrendous for such a small theater. o-o
[spoilers, highlight] So, the fourth book is my favorite, kay? Well, I was seriously excited to see this movie because I thought it would be very cool. And I'm disapointed. The acting and directing is good, the special effects were sweet, and I cried for half an hour at the end. :/ It took about all my self restraint I had to not bawl out loud, but instead do this little sobby thing with tears. I was still crying coming out of the theater. I think I was a little mental going in though.
Back to my point though. The whole movie was just action after action after actions scene. It was like Bam bam bam! done. And that was all. Sure, sure, the Triwizard tourney is the main focus, but not the only focus. They had almost no showing of the Quiditch World Cup, Harry was in a forest in the book and they never showed the muggles. SPEW was absent from the movie, along with any house elves including Doby. In the maze, what the heck? No sphinx? No spider to go after Harry and Cedric? And Cedric, didn't he break something? And Harry had to help him? Yeah. The Yule Ball was pretty cool, the dance looked neat. Though Hermoine, did she really have that emotional scene on the steps in the book? She was very pretty though. There was also alot more mature things, like the scary mermaids and Voldemort. And the sexual jokes. There were a lot more sexual snide things in this movie, though it's understandable. Hermoine was actually the only one that looked fourteen. Meh.
Personally, they left a lot of stuff out and I would've been fine had they simply done a matinee type thing. You know, sit there for about two hours, break, and come back? Like they did with Gone With the Wind. Because now I'm worried about the fifth movie. <-< Anyways, I felt as though I was there for about ten minutes and then it was over. It was a good movie, but still really disappointing. Meh. [end spoiler]