Finally saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and would not recommend.
Finally saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and would not recommend.
1) A main character is a kid who's abused his whole life into adulthood, and then you murder him? Wtf? And no, whether the idea that he was supposed to survive is a retcon because they figure there's still money in the franchise or it was planned it's still bull because in this movie, he's murdered and it's rationalized and justified and everybody walks away all smug (except Newt and friends).
2) JK Rowling must really hate America and Americans, because she made it very clear that their answer to everything is to kill it. Not even her racist Ministry of Magic did that, although you can certainly argue the ethics of locking people up and essentially torturing them to death if they were stuck in Azkaban long enough. The only people who committed murder in her British world were the Nazi psychopath equivalents, aka Deatheaters.
3) She really did not serve her female characters at all well in this movie. The most consistent and believable one was the abusive psycho witch hater. Not the ex-Auror, not the Legilimens, not even the President. Frankly, the witch hater was more well-rounded, even though they obviously tried to make her two dimensional.
Glad I did not waste money to see this in a theater.
1) A main character is a kid who's abused his whole life into adulthood, and then you murder him? Wtf? And no, whether the idea that he was supposed to survive is a retcon because they figure there's still money in the franchise or it was planned it's still bull because in this movie, he's murdered and it's rationalized and justified and everybody walks away all smug (except Newt and friends).
2) JK Rowling must really hate America and Americans, because she made it very clear that their answer to everything is to kill it. Not even her racist Ministry of Magic did that, although you can certainly argue the ethics of locking people up and essentially torturing them to death if they were stuck in Azkaban long enough. The only people who committed murder in her British world were the Nazi psychopath equivalents, aka Deatheaters.
3) She really did not serve her female characters at all well in this movie. The most consistent and believable one was the abusive psycho witch hater. Not the ex-Auror, not the Legilimens, not even the President. Frankly, the witch hater was more well-rounded, even though they obviously tried to make her two dimensional.
Glad I did not waste money to see this in a theater.
Definitely. I kind of wish they had just stuck with that.
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