Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Movie • Page 2

Any reason you're avoiding spoilers?

I have a little more hope for Fantastic Beasts because JK Rowling wrote it as opposed to approving it but at the same time I feel like she's become a greater fan of the movies then the source. It's weird to say that since she is the source but her comments about Ron/Hermione make me feel like she was more impressed by the on-screen chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson instead of the relationship she built in the book. Like I said before, I really would have liked another book series if there is a story to tell. At least we will probably get some more cool rides at Universal based on these movies.

 

I read Cursed Child about a month ago and went back and forth about how I felt for a while, but now that some time has passed, I really didn't like it. I would still love to see the play, though.

Fantastic Beasts looks amazing, and I'm really excited that we're finally going to see some of the other schools and magic in different parts of the world.

 

Ah, man! I'm guessing due to the story and not because you don't like reading plays?

I would just rather read it myself or see it in person rather than viewing a summary!

Really intrigued by all these negative views. I've not come across as many over here in the UK but maybe I've just been lucky and have missed the consensus! Shame. I will still check it out at some point. And it is a shame that the theatre performance is so sold out - would have loved to have seen it!

 

Cursed Child seemed like it would have been incredibly entertaining with all of the visual tricks they were pulling off on stage but not having that opportunity and only being able to read it, I thought it was really awful.

 

Oh yeah, the play format was fine. It's the story itself that's so terrible. They completely unraveled everything that JK Rowling created in her books; I'm really shocked that she approved any of it.

 

There were a lot of things I didn't like but revolving a sequel around (CC spoilers): time travel and Cedric Diggory of all things is the most bizarre choice.

 

The far bigger problem imo is making the adult version of the series' main character an unlikeable asshole. Harry is fallible in the main series in a way that gives importance to Ron, Hermione etc, not in a way that makes the reader question whether he's a good person. It was like I read 5000 pages on this dude being the utter beacon of wizarding goodness and I'm supposed to buy that the primary conceit of the play is based around him being a shitty dad? C'mon.

 

In the theater for this movie. Hope it doesn't suck.

 

Not sure I liked this. Other than some great visuals and the No-Maj character, very little of it grabbed me. It was a cool IMAX experience, though

 

I liked this a lot. Took a risk by not playing it up anything like the original, and I liked it more because of that.

 

Not sure how I feel about it. I guess I liked it, but it was lacking on many fronts.

 

This was so good. Damn. I felt very similarly to the way I did after seeing Ghostbusters...like a kid again. I thought the changes in tone throughout the film were very natural and very much encompassed the mood of the early HP films. The plot wasn't hard to follow, the characters weren't wasted, and their use of the setting was fantastic. Even the emotional moments got me. That's how you make a blockbuster.

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This was a lot of fun. Didn't feel beholden to the HP films, which was great. Love the visual spectacle of this universe.

Did not see that reveal at the end coming. So awesome.

 

Seeing this tonight and taking my wife who is a massive Harry Potter fan. Hopefully it does not disappoint.

 

I too am seeing this tonight with my wife who loves Harry Potter. My own Harry Potter experience is kind of weird. I've seen 4 or 5 of the movies and have read the first and last book. I think I kind of ruined HP for myself with how I went about taking it in lol.

I saw the 5th movie and decided I wanted to know how the story ended before the rest of the movies came out. That's how I ended up reading the last book before anything else. Then I read the first to begin an effort to read all of the books and just didn't get into that one very much.

I did read The Cursed Child and enjoyed it pretty well.

 

Looking at a $75 million+ opening

Glad others are loving it more than me

 

Loved it! Was really fun to watch

 

J.K. Rowling is a good enough writer that this is fun and there are touches of stuff with a lot of potential. Unfortunately it's told from like, six perspectives and none of them get quite enough to earn their resolutions. Overall I definitely bought in and was entertained, even if it could have been a whole lot better.

Fuck Johnny Depp. He is a bad person and a bad actor and he looked ridiculous.

 

I liked this and had a lot of fun, but I felt it spent too much time setting up the future films and not in making this one great. It seemed like there were 2 stories shoved together in the same movie that were originally separate and the end reveal was really unecessary especially given how little character establishing they had done with that person.

 

I loved it

 

Me and the fiance are about to go see it in an hour can't wait. I'm actually the one who got her into HP when we first started dating. #hogwartspriorities.

 

Also I pretty much went media blackout for this. Didn't want to read any of the reviews, BUT if I don't see a blast-ended scrute in this I will be miffed.

 

Skrewt

 

I looooooved it.


They captured the HP cinematic universe so well in this setting. Little confused at Johnny Depp, and Kravits being in such small roles. Obviously in the HP universe Grindewald is not a small role.

 

Did anyone catch what Grindewald said to Skemander?