Of note, the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as the second most influential novel of the past 25 years (coming in first was Cormack McCarthy’s The Road if you were wondering). That’s not to say that the Harry Potter movies don’t pay homage to the pages that brought them to life, but as the books became longer and more complex, it’s understandable that there would have to be certain things that never saw the screen. The first two movies were brought to the screen not missing so much as a semicolon and the third, though more artistic in nature, was very loyal to the novel. It’s a well-known fact that the first two, and to a lesser extent the third, were pure child’s play.
The first came out in 1998 and by the time that the movie version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hit theaters, the sixth book had just come out ( Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince).
Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about?Īs the world of Harry Potter entered the fourth year, the books were already a long-standing thing of the past.