From: bdesham@gmail.com   
      
   Sky Rider wrote:   
      
   > Certainly the last three books deserved better treatment than they   
   > received... and I'm of the opinion that Goblet of Fire could also have   
   > easiy been split. From my perspective that movie is easily the worst of   
   > the lot in terms of telling the story.   
      
   Bleh... even as I was seeing it for the first time, I thought of it as   
   "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as Reenacted in 30 Seconds by   
   Bunnies". I agree with you, this one was the worst in terms of stuff left   
   out.   
      
   > As far as I can see. the problem seems to have been WB's concern that   
   > they might not be able to milk a sufficuently high return from the   
   > movies franchise before the bubble burst.   
      
   There was an article in the New York Times recently about WB executives   
   getting nervous now that the Harry Potter cash cow is done for them. I was   
   surprised at how serious they seemed... sure, the HP movies were huge, but I   
   never thought of WB as having just sat on its laurels otherwise. I'm sure   
   they'll come up with other movies--that's what they had been doing for   
   decades!   
      
   > Benjamin Esham wrote:   
   >   
   > > Yes, I was worried that this group was taken over entirely by trolls...   
   > > nice to know there is still the possibility of legitimate discussions   
   > > here :-)   
   >   
   > One or two of drop by now and then. Deevo is still here but the majority   
   > of us left when the noise from the kiddies became too intense.   
      
   Heh, I've become active in the user group for my newsreader just so I can   
   drive for improved troll-filtering features ;-)   
      
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   live forever.”                                 — Mohandas Gandhi   
      
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