HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

The bad news: My dance class was canceled last night.
The good news: WE WENT TO SEE HP4!!!

It was amazing!!! My first thoughts were, "Wow, this is soooo fast paced!" And then I thought, "oh, it has to be, doesn't it?" There was absolutely no extraneous material--and I don't mean the funny bits, I mean actually plot line things. There were plenty of funny things, but I didn't get the feeling that I did in HP3 that, "OK, enough of this, why didn't you cut it and put THIS in?" Everything in the movie was very cool.

SPOILERS:
There was no:
Ludo Bagman
Winky
Mrs. Weasley
Mr. Roberts
The Durslys
Ministry refusal to believe dear old baldywart was back (we're going to be murdered in our beds) (ha) (or NOT)
Dobby

Those were the main things, I think. And there was pretty much nobody but Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Like, there was, but there were tons of minor characters. Fred, George and Neville took greater prominance. And Filch. IT"S SNOWING!!!! Anyway...there was practically no Sirius. But they did have the school song! We loved that!

I always imagined the Priori Incantatem to be more quietly intense, not so chaotic. And the echo people were not as JK described them and therefore I don't think they were how anyone imagined them.

In the lake was pretty cool--sufficiently creepy. The dragon was sweet. Anddddd.....I think I'll go eat monkey bread or something.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I'm hoping to post later! :-)