OK, I understand that things needed to be cut because the book was so long, but the entire 3rd task???? THe maze was only the "container" for the task. When I saw pix of the maze before the release, I thought they'd do an awesome job, but NOTHING!!!!!!
No blast ended screwts! No Spider! No upside down haze! No Sphinx and riddles! Just find the cup in the middle... what magic do you need for that!
They didn't even have the spell that Harry cast to find north!!!

VERY disappointing!

I liked the movie on the whole, but the 3rd task was a bomb!

Yes, i completely agree with you!!
It was a shame that what they have done with the third task!!

Another thing that i didn't like at all, was that we have seen Barty Crouch Junior at the start.
Normally we only should have see him at the end.
So the whole mystery was ruined.

But nevertheless it was the best Harry Potter film
The special effects were amazing.

p.s perhaps they should have shown krum, diggory and delacour on the first task, but yes... the duration of the film

Well as Mike Newell said,I think it was newell but maybe it was heyman, everytime a magical creatures come to the screen it costs about a million dollars, so I can completely understand why they decided to make the maze more of a emotionally challange and i don't think it detracted anything from the films. It would have been nice if they had them but I don't think the movie was any less good because they cut the maze magical creatures.

i personally think this should go in a diffrent forum, but im not a mod so i cant change that, but hav fun while you can!

oh and i agree that the third task was dissapointing

Yeah, I have to say that I'm also a little confused about what you mean, django. Don't worry, we'll pick up on all the problems on the forums eventually... don't trouble yourself with worrying about our job. Also, please do not use netspeak in the forums in the future; "u" should be "you," and I've edited your post accordingly.

As for the Third Task, I wasn't disappointed. True, it diverged from the book more than the first two tasks, but I really don't find it a very big deal. As Solorund said, the CGI stuff is really expensive, and I'd rather have the really cool Hungarian Horntail scenes that we saw than a sphinx and a spider in the maze. I actually think that the changing shape and the people getting dragged into the hedges added to the climate of impending doom, so to speak. You really could feel the situation spiraling out of control before the graveyard scene, and I liked that mounting tension.

Well, I liked most things to do with the GoF movie...

I can see the mounting tension aspect, and did like the horntail scenes, but I really wanted to see a blast ended screwt!!!! I just felt that the need for magic except for protecting themselves from Krum, was not there for a so called "magical" task. They didn't even do the "finding north" spell, which could have easily been used to navigate the maze. I'm not saying the characters in the maze needed to have a lot of air time, but it just changed it too much for me, to have them ALL missing. The upside down fog would not have been a hard thing to do, and one or two other things would have been enough.

I am not sure where this idea that cgi bits are so expensive has come from.

Using computers is cheaper than using animatronics or puppets, otherwise movies like shrek, final fantasy and Men in black would never have been made. Special effects are cheap, that is why so many movies have so much of them now.

Sets and costumes and actors are far more expensive per second, and, considering the dark setting of the maze (going by the previews), the CGI did not need to be as finely detailed as Dobby was in the second movie. They already had done a lot of the work for the CGi spider in COS too, so the cost would have been even less (than if they had started fresh).

Saying CGI is so expensive seems to be a 'cop out' for the director.

Ya, I was dissapointed with the maze too. I would really like to see some of the"creatures" in the maze. All of it was wind and the maze squeezing the champions.

The maze was really messed up. The maze is supposed to be the most dangerous of all of the three tasks. To me, the most dangerous partof it was Krum and the moving hedges. I too wanted to see what a blast-ended skrewt looked like!! It was basically a lot of running around. But I liked Fleur's tracksuit!! ^.^

Do you get the feeling that the director didn't want a movie of his labeled a 'creature feature' so cut most of them out to make way for more 'human interest' stuff?

I do.

The third task should have been a monster fest.

Monster fest! I like that term. But, yes...I guess he may have wanted more attention on the characters. But he could've easily said that that's what the book's like. Yanno? They keep on saying that it's rated PG-13 'cause of the book, why not add monsters to make it like the book too?

I really looked forward to see the third task, and when I did, I wasn't disappointed. I was very disappointed! I missed all the creatures in it... spiders, blast ended screwts, and those! You know what I mean...

I also missed Dobby But I guess they used Neville instead, just so that Neville was more in the movie, he's a quite important character later...

Rather than that, the movie was great It was the best movie yet in my opinion.

Well having just watched it, I can safely say the third task sucked.

I am really glad I read about it before going, so I wasn't waiting in vain for the monsters.

What the hell was DD's talk about the maze changing people all about? He was implying the biggest threat was eachother, but nothing came of it, especially with Krum's eye's all milky, obviously not himself, and him letting Harry go.

As for the hedges eating people, bahhhhh. What a cop out.

The setting was great and full of potential, very tense and nervous, but in the end it was just a couple of people running around, lost, and hoping to get lucky and find the cup.

There was no sense to it, no plan. After Moody's speech telling Harry they would all have a plan for the first task, none of them seemed to have any clue for the third one.

If there had been more fighting between eachother, maybe it would have been better, but there was practically none.

I also hate the way it made Harry look completely useless. His 'rescue' of Cedric was pathetic (easy) and his wide eyed staring down Krums wand ridiculous.

Even his pushing and shoving race against Cedric was a joke, when you take into account the size and age difference. How could Harry complete, let alone win the race, leaving Cedric to get caught my the hedges?


Guess I just wanted the monsters.

Which challenge became your favorite after watching the GoF movie? Was it the Dragon challenge, the mermaid challenge, or the triwizard maze?

My favourite, even when I was still reading the book, was the dragon challenge. I knew that it was gonna be amazing on film, and I wasn't disappointed! =]

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I deffinately have to say the second task. I loved the underwater bit and it didn't dissapoint me.

I cant vote because i loved ALL of the tasks!! All the tasks had spectacular special effects and they were just perfect

They were all awesome, but I would say the underwater task was most enjoyable. The effects were incredible, and it was so much different from anything we'd ever seen in the movies.

Hallo all Potter diggers.
Whath did you think of the undrvater task.
I think it was to short!
But it was very beautiful underwater envariments and the Grindylows were realy cool.

I loved the underwater scene! And Krum going all imperiused in the maze! The only bad thing was they WAY overdid the dragon scene. Harry was supposed to take the shortest time of anyoone, not get chased into the castle....

I voted the maze because that was the most scary.
But i think the first ones were great too.
The first one topped my expertations.
The secund one i felt was a little too short but beautiful yes.

I voted the maze. I really liked all the tasks, but I loved the maze for its scariness, intensity, and effects such as the fog and the footsteps and dirt.

To be very honest i really like The Triwizard Maze challenge,in this chsllenge both Harry and Cedric performz their actin superb!!!!!!!

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I agree with Joeyjoejoe. Harry "wasn't" suppose to get chased into or around the castle. My favourite task would have to be the underwater scene as well, I quite liked the way Krums head morphed into a sharkhead.
What happened to Dobby being the one to give Harry the Gillyweed. Throughout the whole movie I did not see one house elf!!

I like this task very much.It was interesting and enjoyable task.How Harry performed really very well and of course all other remaining characters performs also really very well.I like water so this scene was really meanful for me.

Yeah, overall, I would have to say I enjoyed watching the second task. It was really cool with the underwater scenery! My only problem with it, however, is that the Merpeople (sorry I dont know the spelling off the top of my head) looked a bit to fake and animated. I know some of you will disagree, but that is just my opinion!

Task was pretty cool, twas short but explained alot.

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well to let everyone know i love all of the Tri-Wizard Task they were all amazing and very well acted. but if i had to pick one of the tri-wizard task i think it would have to be Dragon challenge, because of how you can fly and use your wand. i thought the flying to get the egg was a good idea and it was brilliant.

I like the underwater task best, too. Though I enjoy watching it much more at home, as at the theatre we had to sit behind a gaggle of giggling pre-teens who woo-woo'ed everything, from the bath scene (especially annoying) to the scenes of Harry swimming (apparently they were thinking of something else-- ). I loved the colors, the way they depicted the merpeople...everything.

I got to read a really neat interview with the guy who does the special effects, and he spoke of the animatronic Ron, Hermione, Cho, and Gabrielle figures. He said they worried the scenes wouldn't be filmed quickly enough, before the costumes on the figures, and indeed the figures themselves would be corroded from being in chlorine for too long. But it all went really well. He liked the way they got little bubbles to come from the figures' mouths, so it looked like they were breathing.

Maybe another reason I liked the scene was that one could really pick up on Harry's sense of isolation down there--it was so quiet and surreal.

I'm afraid I didn't care for the maze scene at all, thinking it very plain after the thrilling depiction in the book, but that's just the purist in me coming out again...

While actually reading the books, my favorite task was the Maze, but in the movie I liked the underwater task a lot more. The Maze in the book was really scary, and full of creatures and the sort, but in the movie it ate people? Sucked them in it? It was a little odd, but I really enjoyed it. But the underwater task was really great. I had it set up differently in my mind, but with how it came out, I was not disappointed.

When I read the book my favorite task was the underwater task. But in the movie I totally loved the first task. The movie streched out the dragon scene a lot more than what was needed but that made it all the more better!

I voted for the dragon task because it was just non-stop action, and the special effects were the best of the tasks in my opinion. I also loved the maze scene, because it was made scary. But I wish they would have put the other obstacles from the book in. They also did a fabulous job on the 2nd task also.

that is so hard they all where great an in the book i loved the third tast but i was a bit guited because it wasnt great. so seing as the question was about the film i have got to say the first task althoughthe second tast was reli good!!!!

i voted the 2nd task as it was my fav one out of the 3 the 2nd task was as i pictured it and there for was not so much a let down as the others but they were still good but not as good as the 2nd

I liked the second task the most. The maze was boring for me and i usually watch the whole thing and then the maze part bores me a little. I can't really remember what happened in the book at those parets though really since it was a year since i read them.

Yeah, I liked the second task best too. The first one was good, but quite long and extended. The directors or producers probably could have cut parts out and added some with the other contestants, but whatever. The third task just sucked. Literally, it like ate people or something. There were no creatures! Just the wind and moving walls. It was just kind of boring. But the second task, to me, actually followed the book pretty well so that's why I liked it best.

I was disappointed buy the maze but it was still scary. I mean it was eating people!
I thought the first task would be more like in the book, witht he flying in circles and tricking the dragon. But really, that chain must not have been very strong.
The second task wasn't bad. Though I thought the meremaids would look more like Ariel from the Little Mermaid. It was funny how Fleur, Krum, and Cedric all dived and Moody pushed Harry. When Neville was freaking out how he'd 'killed Harry Potter' was funny too.

I loved all the tasks but I didn't really like the Underwater Task as much as the Dragon Task and The Maze because i didn't really find the Underwater Task as exciting as the other two!!! I really liked the bit in the Dragon Task when the Hungarian Horntail's tail hit the bit above the teachers and Fred and George shouted, "Yeah, go dragon!!!" I thought that bit was really funny but that isn't why i liked that task, i liked it at the bit where Harry and the Hungarian Horntail fell right down into the darkness and everyone went silent, then Harry came up and Hermione started going, "Yes, yes, yes!!" !!

I liked The Maze because it was really exciting and you didn't know what was going to happen next!!! I liked thebit when Cedric was getting pulled by the vine-plant-rope things(well i didn't like that bit!), then Harry just turned round and it showed him for lie two minutes just staring at Cedric then he saved him and they both decided to go for the Triwizard Cup. Though I did hate it when they were in the graveyard and then Voldemort killed Cedric!! Though that isn't really part of The Maze since it's not in The Maze!!

Wow, you really found the maze that interesting? For me it was kind of boring, it would have been tons better if the producers added some creatures. Together with the wind and eating walls, it would have been awesome.

The second task, I've already said, was the best by far for me mainly because it followed the book better than the others. I just like things that follow the book for some reason, like the second movie, that has been the best so far. But anyways, I thought that the mermaids looked weird too, but I found them interesting. That was actually the way the book did describe them even though I always imagined them to look like mermaids in the Little Mermaid like X-girl did.

Believe it or not I agree with you here UnknownLocket.

In any of the movies, where stuff is added that just didnt' happen in the book, I wince. For instance the Dragons never left the enclosure, because they were nesting mothers and they each had a clutch of eggs to guard in addition to the golden egg. Harry's broom, his world class Firebolt was set on fire, or at least smoldering. Hogwarts castle must be poorly maintained because everytime harry needed a foothold or handhold, the pieces of the castle kept breaking off like they were rotten.

Victor couln't bite the rope in two in the book, Harry had to show him how to use a sharp rock....

Well, I could go on, suffice to say I think the film version of the third task .... s-worded. But I'm glad they decided to spend film time on the Priori Incantatem scene. So I don't really begrudge them the cut-rate wizard competition.

The third task was bland. Not much too it really. Run past some trees, find Fleur, send up sum sparx, knock down Krum, race Cedric and thats it. Wow! So incredibly hard I can't believe it was possible! They should hav at least included the sphinx to make it more interesting. All in all the movie was good. Except the third task.

i think they couldn't show the "monsters" because they didn't have enough time to have harry encounter each and every one. but i think they could have at least shown one instead of all those "run from the hedges" scenes.

Well, yeah, I was a little disappointed with the maze, but not as much as most of you other guys that have posted. Like someone else said, the upside-down mist wouldn't have been too hard to recreate, but I think the monsters would have been so difficult to make realistic and not too silly or scary. The tension and the creepiness of the general atmosphere was a bit overblown and melodramatic, but it was quite effective in creating the claustrophobic, trapped kind of feeling. Krum was scary.

I liked the 2nd task the best. I didn't really like the 1st task, it was too long and I didn't really like how it was in a giant arena. That's not really how I imagined it. I also thought it was kind of lame how Harry was hanging on to the edge of the castle roof, with his Firebolt above him. That was totally unnessicary. The 3rd task was pretty good, but yeah, the whole eating poeple thing was a bit much. Of course, the best part of any of the tasks was "I've killed Harry Potter!" lol, I loved that! Poor Neville!

1st and 2nd task was realy good.the 3rd task was too breif..i wish we could have seen Harry going throgh the maze fighting all of hagrids beasts !

Here's what i thought of the tasks:

First Task: Um... isn't the ground supposed to be just a plain field, i didn't think that there would be this super rocky field, but i guess i was wrong. Although they didn't stick to the book it was definitely not that bad. They actually made it a lot more action-packed and it kept you a lot more alert and it made the task come to life a lot more than the book did, though it won't ever be as good as the book.

Second Task: Hmmm, it caught me off guard when they went to the middle of the lake to start. And what was the deal with Moody being so obvious that he was helping Harry. I missed Dobby too, that was stupid of them. It would have been a lot better to show Harry oversleeping in the library and then having to run all the way to the lake. They didn't, however, do a bad job inside the lake. It surprised me how good they filmed it.

Third Task: This made me want to stop watching the movie. It's rubbish seeing as there are no obstacles except closing walls and fog. It was a complete disgrace. I mean, they should have at least showed the acromantula. The maze from the outside looked incredible and i was like "this is going to be awesome" but no. Complete disappointment...

Now, forgive me if this has already been mentioned (I couldn't be bothered to look through all the pages to see), but you know when Moody is talking to Harry about the First Task and he says "What are your strengths?..." and Harry then replies "I don't know, I can fly, I'm a fair flier..." and so on. Then Harry says "But we're not allowed to use our brooms" or something to that effect and Moody says "You're allowed a wand". Then later Harry is with the dragon and says "Accio Firebolt!"
Well, if they're not allowed their brooms...??!! Do you see what I'm getting at? Surely if they're not allowed brooms Harry should have been disqualified or something???

I think the idéa is that your´e only allowed a broom if you summon it and jump on it the way Harry did instead off bringing it there. While that really dosn´t make sense that´s how I always interpreted it.

Overall I think the only task I was really happy with was the second task since they got that feeling off time running out that I felt in the book too(and the grindylows were really cool).
The first task was not only too long but it felt like Harry won more by pure luck rather than being clever like in the book.

Now I can understand why the third task was changed for the movie, they simply needed a little more variation to the tasks by not having any creatures for the last one.
Although when I look at the scene again it dosn´t feel like it has the same amount off tension as the second task and off all three off them it´s the most boring to re-watch for me at least.