goblet of fire:

i was enjoying myself right up to the horntail, feeling generally very indulgent about everything, loving the food (the food!) and the set and the costumes and getting quite hungry for a giant lunch afterwards, but then the horntail scene spoilt everything. i don't much mind departures from the book but this was an utterly gratuitous bit of destructiveness right out of a vulgar thriller film and completely implausible and illogical i loathed it so much it stood for all that was cheap and disgraceful and sensationalist in the movies and at that point i could no longer care for it except that the yule ball bits hadn't happened yet. same for the duelling just light and thunder and a poor 80's version of bad science fiction or magic movie.

and then of course as i sat there fuming thoughts came to me such as: couldn't we have a separate screening for teenagers? you've got to be about twelve to ooh and ahh just because harry takes off his shirt. and dumbledore! no grip, no dignity, no wisdom. sack him i say. (julian: but who would replace him? ian mckellen? cp will wet himself. but he (mckellen, not cp) apparently hates the books so it's okay.) but i didn't dislike it, if this is what it is sounding like. i would quite like to see bits of it again.