Why the Goblet of Fire is My Least Favorite Harry Potter Movie (Out of the 8 Films): Video Essay 

Newell: “The book was twice as thick as any other book.” Order Of The Phoenix: Hold my beer

Mike Newell: “The book is too long” Thank God they didn’t hire him for Order of the Phoenix lol

I think we can all agree on one thing though: Brendan Gleeson absolutely stole the show as Mad Eye Moody. Incredible casting for that role.

The “Dumbledore asked calmly” part was the reason this movie was my favourite. 😂

Two questions 1. Who directs a movie based on a book without reading the book? 2. Who hires someone to direct a movie based on a book who hasn't read the book?

Harry Potter and the Year everyone had long ass hair.

The fact that Rupert didn't do the essay because "Ron wouldn't do it" is incredible.

Cedric Diggery’s father crying out “MY BOY” after the death of his son is one of the most gut wrenching moments of cinema that I have ever seen. It changes the stakes and the mood of the entire series from then on. Kudos to the director, actors, and everyone else involved.

If a guy doesnt like a book, dont let him do the movie.

Damn he just completely roasted this director dude for 20 minutes straight

I am absolutely shocked and appalled by what I'm hearing from this director in the behind the scenes footage. I had no idea. Makes me appreciate what a small miracle it is that the movie didn't turn out a complete disaster. Its main saving grace is the graveyard scene with Voldemort which I thought was brilliant and the scariest Voldemort ever was on screen.

What made me laugh/groan was when Dumbledore said "Barty sent him(his son) to Azkaban. It nearly destroyed him to do it" Dumbledore makes it out that Crouch really didn't want to send his son to prison,while in the books he did it without hesitation.

the whole "i can't make a dark toned movie because the last one was dark" argument makes 0 sense. God forbid we have a consistent tone throughout the series smdh

“that’s my son that’s my boy” breaks my heart every time

Ron’s actor not doing the essay assigned to him is honestly the most Ron thing I can think of

This one is my least favorite too, mainly for the pacing. The challenges were so much fun to watch and the return of Voldemort, and heck I even liked the beginning with the death eaters attack. But I can't stand the prom scenes. It just felt like it was a huge pause on the story. Plus the angsty teens where Ron and Harry don't like each other got annoying

Ok, ok. So... You're telling me... You're telling me that you were able to reread the goblet of fire to make this small review, but the director of the literal movie couldn't read more than 20 pages of it...?

Year 1: Year of high voices Year 2: Year of voice drops Year 3: Year when things got Sirius Year 4: Year of no haircuts Year 5: Year where things were very serious but stopped being Sirius Year 6: Year of teen angst Year 7: Year of confusion

This movie had the impeccable ability to make everything that wasn't very important a massively long scene, while everything that truly mattered was rushed over or cut. This movie came across like someone had a train to catch.

Rita being a bug was really cool coz until that point, it wasnt stated animagi could be things other than animals but later it's explained your animal form is based off your personality so her being a dung beetle is fuckimg brilliant

"DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE" Dumbledore said calmly

It doesn’t matter how anyone feels about the movie, what we can agree on is Cedric’s Father mourning the death of his son was soo damn real. It really broke me.

Imagine if Newwel did the order of the phoenix . Voldemort would attack Dudley and Harry , Authur would be tortured by a death eater than attacked by nagini and and Umbridge would have tortured people daily ‘because it’s cooler’ and ‘tops goblet of fire’

Totally agree with you about Dumbledore....It bothered me the most about the movie. Can't erase my memory of how gentle and perfectly cast Harris as Dumbledore on the first 2 movies - then suddenly switched to Mike who portrayed Dumbledore as aggressive

Imagine how lazy Alfonso Cuaron thought this guy was and that’s why he said “watch 40mins of my film (‘cause I know yo’ lazy ass ain’t about to watch the whole film)” like come on dude! Such an embarrassment.

Harry Potter and the year where Dumbledore needs anger management

I liked Michael Gambon's performance as Dumbledore in Cuarón's Prisoner of Azkaban. So, with that in mind, I think Mike Newell is to blame for Gambon's misrepresentation of Dumbledore in Newell's movie.

Hate that they cut out the Dobby scenes, it lessens the impact of his death later in the series as he has no screen time from movie 2 until Deathly Hallows.

Fun fact: the director of the prisoner of azkaban has 5 oscars

It just boggles my mind that a director making MILLIONS of dollars acted like he didn’t have the time to read the book. That is so ridiculous. Put your ego aside for once

Such a pivotal book that was stupidly crammed into one movie when it obviously needed a two-parter (like they soundly did with Deathly Hallows)

Leaving this movie’s midnight premiere, my best friend said, “remember the Spider-Man cartoons that we used to watch and an episode would say, “previously on” and then show clips from the last episode? I feel like I just watched a whole movie of that.”

Mike Newell: Books too big. Order Of The Phoenix: Am I a joke to you?

So your telling me a 11 year old can read that book in 2 days but a like 48 year old can’t even read it for a 2 hour flim?

Imagine if Alfonso Cuarón directed all the movies after the prisoner of Azkaban...

as a little kid the "muggle mother" line always confused me but as i got older it seemed more in character for voldemort to just deem a mudblood as nothing more then a muggle anyway. i started seeing it as a much better line that makes more sense as u understand more about his ideology

"Dumbledore said calmly" also movie HARRYDIDYOUPUTYOUTNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIYAH

I hate the way this movie made Fleur out to be so weak, when in the book she is actually a talented and clever witch.

It always cracks me up how Cedric holds his wand as if it was a gun, complete with his other hand holding the "muzzle". I mean, its silly and it stands out, but at the same time i like it, i like how it hints that there are different "styles" of holding the wands

I feel like this movie’s interpretation of Dumbledore is one of if not the biggest reason for so much evil/bad guy Dumbledore bashing in fanfics

Why did they hire a director that didn't care about the book.

I wish they’d shown Sirius’s scenes in this movie. The one where Harry, Ron and Hermione meet him in the cave and the one where he comes to Dumbledore’s office to check on Harry.

The part that always bothered me is how Harry seriously contemplates leaving Cedric to die in the maze.

Voldemort calling lily a muggle always confused me, I just assumed Voldemort saw muggle born wizard/witches as so inferior they might as well be muggles… but still thought it was a weird thing for him to say! makes more sense now knowing that it was because the director didn’t know the source material

I think the weirdest part is the complete tonal shift at the end. Diggory has died and then everyone is just laughing and smiling in the next scene seeing the other schools off. And then Ron makes that comment along the lines of “can we ever have a normal year at school?” Like geez a kid DIED

Another feature thrown in for no reason was Krum's glazed eyes when under the Imperius curse. That opens another plot hole: it makes it visibly obvious when someone is cursed.

Why this is my least favorite is because they focused on the Yule ball for a quarter of the movie, when it only lasted for only two chapters in the book. Plus it focused way more on romance and comedy when it should have focused on mystery for it’s the main theme of the books.

Director: *says the book is too long* Me: *ate every page with my eyes in 4-5 days*

I wish he didnt cut Dobby out. That makes him coming back on the last movies kind of "out of the blue"

When making a book based film, the director must read the book first, they need to know what happens to see what they’ll leave out or add or just know what the premise is. The director not wanting to read the book or not knowing what happens is a bad mark.

If the director didnt read the whole book we wouldnt get the dumbledore asked calmly meme

I wish the director of the third movie handled the fourth Wow 1.4k likes jeez. I never expected this.

why’d they even hire him... he didn’t read the book or watch the movie-

The first task scene is aggravates me so much. It’s one of my favorite parts of the book and the movie absolutely spits on it

I actually love Dobby for his sense of loyalty and kindness for his friends

To be fair Rupert Grint not writing an essay on Ron IS getting into character more than doing it would have. Ron would never do that.

okay but like rupert not writing an essay while dan and emma did, is the embodiment of ron

“I’m not saying anyone’s opinion is wrong, I’m just explaining why I feel the way I do.” This man❤

I would've loved to see the whole series with Richard Harris as Dumbledore, he was perfect.

Also they cut my favourite scene of the book which is when Harry is in the hospital and Dumbledore instantly reforms the Order of the Phoenix, like, we see Sirius becoming innocent in the eyes of the Weasley, we see Snape coming together with Sirius and indirectly Harry as well, and we understand just how a threat Voldemort is just by how quick Dumbledore reacted and reformed the Order. also, long live SPEW :(

''RONALD WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU STEAL THAT CAR! '' Molly whispered kindly, while giving Ron a hug

This analysis is amazing

For me it’s the half blood prince. It’s just a teen drama. It should’ve focused on lord Voldemort.

Sounds like Newell should have read Hogwarts A History.

To the directors credit; I think this is a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging movie. That being said…the entirety of your video is correct and all it makes me is sad knowing a movie I already enjoy could’ve been SO much better.

I feel like Afonso should have directed this film. He wanted the film to go into a darker territory, which he started with Azkaban.

Forgot to talk about how ridiculous Ron is in this movie. He’s so nonsensically mad at Harry and it’s just plain bizarre

Also, notice how Newell says “a forest” not “the Forbidden Forest”. Really shows how much he cares about the material he’s making a movie out of.

In an ideal world they would have split the Goblet of Fire into 2 films, but I still enjoy it. Yes, it's not really all that close to the book, but it's still in my top 3 HP films

“And then, Dumbledore cleared his throat and read out - “Harry Potter.”” *HARRY POTTER!!*

The got a guy that had not read the books NOT EVEN watched the previous movies to direct it? Wtf?

I find it ironic how he wanted to be the most well known director of the HP films, but he's the one everyone forgets.

It´s my favourite. Like the first movie the emphasis was really put on exploring the magical world again. It feels more lighthearted than part 3 and the movies after. Except the end ofcourse.

Between Dumbledore being so hostile towards Harry that has reached meme levels, The fact Ludo Bagman, Winky and SPEW, the Quidditch world cup as well were omitted, it was my least favourite movie too. The actors however were pretty good, and the scene where Malfoy was a ferret and the scene where Voldemort came back was pretty good.

But hey, at least we got the "Dumbledore asked calmly" meme.

I’ll never get over Narcissa being taken out of the movie, it’s such a small, unimportant, minuscule detail that effects basically nothing but I’m deeply upset by it, why would she not be there, it’s so weird to me

When you used The Dark Knight as an example of a sequel done right, I honestly started to wonder what a Harry Potter movie directed by Christopher Nolan would be like.

Remember: He asked CALMLY. Edit: Thanks for all the likes kind strangers!

i STILL hate to this day on how dumbledore "calmly" yelled at harry, it was so uncharacteristic

I love how now the “Dumbledore asked calmly” video has 48 million views like jeez they messed up with that one

Goblet was the first book I owned. I remember fondly the prep time before every trial.

Watching goblet of fire, the depiction of Dumbledore was certainly one that bothered me the most. He looked uncharacteristically agitated in ALL the scenes. Now one of the most defining qualities of Dumbledore is that he is a very chill person and rarely let emotion slip out of him.

This is one of my favorite movies and it will never change

The 3rd and 8th movie is my favorites. They are both very exciting and there is a lot happening. The story telling is amazing and i love them.

Hogwarts: Does Triwizard Tournament, Quidditch, and keeps ginormous three- headed dog in castle Also Hogwarts: No they need permission slips to go to a *village*

The director sounds like he's not even interested in the series. I wonder how he even got the job

This was the film that made me realise the later ones would have been better in TV format. They left way too much stuff out to keep them around 2 1/2 hour mark.

Yeah people do get very upset about that Dumbledore asked calmly line. my biggest pet peeve is when Grindelwald just gave up where the Elder Wand was

Movieflame: Mike Newel was the worst person to be a part of a Harry Potter project Writers of The Cursed Child: Hold my Butterbeer.

The way the director said he couldn’t read the book cause it was too long really disgusted me. If 10 year old me could read that book then a grown ass man definitely could. Edit( Chile some of y’all be calling saying that y’all read it at like one 😭😭)

This movie followed up my favorite movie of the whole franchise (at least cinematically speaking). Even though I agree with all the flaws presented in this video, it's still the most enjoyable movie for me. I can literally pop this movie on the TV at any time and I'll have a great time. I have to be in a certain mood to watch any of the other ones.

I love this video so much because it is so true. Especially the eye part 🤣

The paintings don’t move in the background in this movie and to be honest that really bothers me.

“Goblet of Fire is too long”. Order of the Phoenix laughs in the background

honestly my favorite book/movie in the series is Chamber Of Secrets it was the first one I saw and it always gives me comfort to watch it

Dumbledore from this film onwards just wasn't the Dumbledore I had pictured from the books - not faulting Gambon as I think he's a great actor- but the book Dumbledore was a calm old man who just gave an aurora of power. He was the only wizard Voldemort was afraid of and this combined with his relaxed nature gave a kind of mystic awe about him which was completely lost in the latter films. The Dumbledore vs Voldemort duel in Oder of the Phoenix is the perfect example, Dumbledore easily handles Voldemort in the books without even looking as if he's trying. In the films however it looks like Dumbledore's at the limit of his power, Voldemort even looks calmer than Dumbledore. This is why when Dumbledore died in the books it was this IMMENSE feeling of hopelessness, how could they survive without Dumbledore? Although this was felt to a degree in the films it had nowhere near the same impact as it did in the books. Richard Harris in the first two films was the book Dumbledore, I wish we could have seen him all the way through the films, RIP.

Michael Gambon was trying to be calm but Newell was telling him to be more “outgoing” about his character thats how he really ruined the movie

"it's twice as long as any of the other books" Order of the Phoenix has entered the chat That book literally has nearly 800 pages

Something I hated about the film was that they kept explicitly saying that you can die in this tournament. Especially during that cringe interaction with Sirius at the fireplace. In the books, it is mentioned that the ministry and Dumbledore took serious measures to protect the students competing.

Good points, the graveyard scene though is INSANELY good and very creepy, that’s when it really got serious haha