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ok, so our company came, we had a great time......and then they drove off toward tennessee....and after we cleaned up....it occurred to us all that we had just enough to time to make it to.....the 7:50 pm showing of harry potter and the goblet of fire.......wow.....words are not enough.....the film was that good.....when compared to the first three films, when compared to the book.....of course..much more humor than in previous offerings.....and some overthetop touches....like snapes potions storage room.....the conversation between snapes and harry could have simply taken place in any-old hallway...but the filmmaker went to great lengths to flesh-out the polyjuice potion angle with an inside view of apothocary-like vials and containers stacked to the ceiling.....and then there was the scene in the library stacks that gave new meaning to the term stacks..........we dissected it a bit on the way home......the way that the polyjuice potion angle was not developed enough for folks that didn't read the book..granted, how many people would go to see movie 4 without having seen films 1-3, or read books 1-6?.......and then there was the failure to finish off the rita skeeter story line.....the closure in that regard in print was marvelous and i am saddened that it didn't make the cut in the film......but aside from those taudry comments...the film was richer and fuller in the particulars....of private school life, of friendship, of factions, of young love......and the business of it being dark and deemed too intense for young viewers......hmmm.....i am not sure where that comes into play.....i believe that in the day i was more affected by the death of bambi's mother.......yep, somebody dies in this film......and we knew he was going to die because we read the book...several times..... and he always dies at the end of each reading.....so the death was upsetting in the way that all deaths should be..... horrific.....but not unexpected......and the film set the stage well for movie #5......i was impressed with that forethought.....the earlier films never looked ahead despite the reality of the subsequent installments already in print.....and so.....now that i am home and warmed up.....the temperature has dropped considerably.......all i can think about is how quickly the dvd can be released ......next summer?....we may have to see it again...maybe when child #2 returns home.......an aside......we had the pleasure of a david sighting...he and his family showed up for the same showing.......i trust that he enjoyed the film....and i am eager to read his thoughts on the subject.............he will probably remember the name of the group that performed at the yule ball.....i couldn't recall to save my soul.....despite having read the press.......