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I’m new here in Kerala and I’m based roughly midway between Kochi and Thrissur, so I can comfortably travel to either.

Since The Odyssey is an IMAX-shot film, I want to watch it on the best possible screen in Kerala.

Should I go for the IMAX at Cinepolis Centre Square, Kochi, or is there a theatre in Thrissur (Ragam, JOS, INOX Sobha, etc.) that can deliver an equally good or even better experience? Or something better in Kochi itself? (I’m partial towards Kochi)

I’m not just asking about seat comfort or food; purely in terms of picture quality, screen size, sound, and the overall cinematic experience for a Nolan film.

What would you recommend?

I don’t know whether this has been asked here before or if there’s already an accepted explanation in the fandom, but re-listening to Goblet of Fire recently brought up a couple of questions for me.

First, Barty Crouch Jr.

The guy had effectively been under house arrest and under the Imperius Curse for around 13 years, barely seeing the outside world. Then he’s rescued and, almost immediately, has to kidnap Mad-Eye Moody, impersonate him convincingly, and live as him at Hogwarts for an entire school year.

Wouldn’t that be incredibly difficult? Not just physically or psychologically, but socially as well? Moody was known by Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, and many others. Yet Barty Jr. manages to fool all of them for a whole year while also carrying out Voldemort’s plan. Is there an in-universe explanation for how he was able to pull this off so flawlessly, or is this just one of those things we accept because the plot requires it?
Second, the Portkey plan.

The entire point of Barty Jr.’s mission is to get Harry to touch a Portkey and end up in the graveyard. But why wait until the end of the Triwizard Tournament?

Couldn’t Barty have turned almost anything into a Portkey much earlier in the year? The golden egg from the first task, for example, seems like an obvious choice. Or really, any object Harry was guaranteed to touch.

It seems unnecessarily risky to spend an entire year undercover when the mission could potentially have been completed much sooner. Is the idea that Voldemort specifically wanted Harry’s disappearance to occur during the Tournament so it would look like an accident?

Curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.