The best Potter universe movie yet

I mean just look at what they did to it. It's supposed to be a shapeshifting alluring man-eating monster among misty shores, not an oversized seahorse

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>>somehow has to tie in to Dumbledore and a Hitler meme character Rowling vaguely talked about in a canon reading of Hogwarts a History

True, Why even have the Fantastic Beast part in the movie or title. I thought I was walking into a magic detective magic monster story not what I got.

The random scenes were setting up future movies.

It’s not even ironically bad. Just incredibly boring, with people droning out monologues every five minutes because JK isn’t a screenwriter and doesn’t know when to stop with the pointless lore dumps.

i still dont understand that entire plot point about the switched babies, how the h*ck were they related to the plot at all again?

It isn't really difficult to be a better franchise than one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

But it wasn't even good as the first Fantastic Beasts and that wasn't good as any of the Potters.
The best are probably 2, 3, 6, 7 (both parts)

How could you forget the picture? If you don't have the picture then don't bother.

>too much lore dumps
>too much world building

If there's a lack of world building you cry now when there is an insistence of it in any kind it's terrible too? These movies are only supposed to be world building fuck it.

>are magic users in jk's potterverse limited by anything?
Themselves? The fuck kind of autistic question is this. Are force users technically limited in star wars? Not really they are shown to have different levels of skill.

You can be better than another wizard even if that other wizard has an elder wand for example. Or you can get fucking owned by someone who has it, depends everything is situational and random like normal life.

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>so grindelwarts conjures a gigantic beast made out of fire - why doesn't he conjure 2 or 3?
There were 3 dragons that appeared out of the fire which was probably a fiendfyre spell which is one of the most powerful spells that will enflame everything if not contained. Like Crabbe setting the room of requirement on fire.
Flame says something like "if we dont do this shit all of paris will be destroyed". So grindey peaced out and left that fire ablazing and it would have gotten bigger and bigger and set all of paris on fire.