Well, after the nasty weather yesterday, today dawned bright and sunny, though the forecast had been for rain all weekend. I guess the weather predictions down here aren’t any more accurate than around Puget Sound!
After Max’s sword class and me finally writing something new in this blog, we went and saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (since it was _supposed_ to have been raining today, and we had bought tickets ahead of time). We all really enjoyed it, though they really need to follow the example of The Lord Of The Rings, and produce an extended version. In cramming the main highlights of the story into 2-1/2 hours, there wasn’t any room for continuity and back-story in a number of cases. You will definitely need to have read the book to follow what was going on with everything. But it was great even so!
We’ve been lucky that our kids grew up along with the books, so as the story gets darker with Voldemort’s return to power, they’re old enough to handle it. In the future though, when a ten year old wants to read the whole series, what do you do? The later books would scare a younger child. And it’s such a good story, they won’t want to stop.
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Actually, I know several people who haven’t read the books — even one who hasn’t seen the other movies — and they could follow the film just fine. I actually think it confuses readers of the book moreso because they can’t see how all that fat could really be trimmed without missing something important. But really, in the reduced form of the story, I think everything is perfectly coherent.
Now, what they really need is the World Quidditch Cup tourney! That’s *got* to be on the DVD!