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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Today has been a good day for trailers!

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Eddie Redmayne was born to be in the Potter universe.
 
Oh hi long forgotten thread!

I watched this today. It's okay. But it was the first screenplay Rowling ever wrote and I think it kind of shows. The story telling could have been a lot better. The first hour is like a light-hearted, whimsical adventure about finding magical beasts but then the second half it suddenly changes into a darker story about abused children? It's a bit jarring. Newt is a weird choice for a main character because he's SO socially awkward. Like not in the usual charming movie way but in a "wow, this guy's a bit creepy almost" way. I actually think Eddie Redmayne did a really good job of playing an awkward character...but maybe he did such a good job that it was hard to relate to the character. The muggle guy was the heart of the movie and the actor did a good job. The female lead was pretty but didn't get much characte development. Colin Farrell did his best as the villain but they didn't do a very good job showing his motivations or what he wanted and then...

SPOILER BUT YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW

...he turned into Johnny Depp. For literally no reason. It was really bad. Like the movie did nothing to explain who Grindelwald even is (a few quick flashes of newspaper headlines at the start isn't good enough!) so non fans aren't going to care and Potter fans are just going to say "Grindelwald's played by fucking him!?"

Where the movie was best was creating an actual magical world. Everything looked really pretty! The beasts themselves all looked good and some of them were quite charming (for the kiddies!) There were some fun sequences and all the magical background stuff is always good to watch out for.

So yeah it was a MIXED BAG but if you're a Potter fan you'll get some enjoyment out of it. I just think maybe Rowling should have co-written it with an experienced screenwriter.
 
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Yep, as a non fan I had no idea what the significance was of Johnny Depp at the end. It was just like "aha! The bad guy is actually... still a bad guy played by a different actor!"

The only bit I really enjoyed was when Eddie redmayne went in the case and saw all the amazing cgi creations. Those really were some beautiful scenes and it was kind of disappointing to have to go back into the real world.
 
Yeah, and that was the only scene where Redmayne acted relaxed and comfortable and seemed like a cool character, which leads me to believe he was just doing good acting in the other scenes where he was fully Aspy (which is a bizarre choice for a lead character.)
 
I didn't really pick up on the aspy-ness myself. Or rather, I interpreted it differently. I thought he was going for a bumbling Hugh Grant type act to inject a bit of stereotypical Britishness into what could have otherwise seemed an overly American and not very Harry Potter-esqe movie (which it still did).
 
In the 1990s, Norman Lear made a sitcom called 704 Hauser St., about a black family who moved into the house once owned by the Bunkers of All in the Family. Same set, different everything else. It lasted 6 episodes.
 
I don't know if this franchise really deserves its own thread but the thread already exists so I'll continue to post trailers in it.



Looks okay.
 
So Nagini is actually an Asian woman and that was the plan ALL ALONG even though it was never hinted at before...
 
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