Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald
An absolute shitshow. Rowling just deletes the first movies ending so she can have her cheap forbidden love story. And there's so many things that don't make any sense, just from a story perspective. By the way, why is the only female auror in the whole book/movie just used as a love interest? It's so infuriating.
Grindelwald's motivations in the last scene are also so over the place! Killing muggles because they're gonna kill each other in an upcoming war... It's just a cheap excuse because I guess she couldn't think of any other motivation that wasn't blood purity.
Also, too many familiar names for nostalgia pandering, most of them could've been replaced with any other name and the story would've been just the same.
One final thing, Rowling, representation matters. Don't say Dumbledore's gay and had a relationship with Grindelwald if you're gonna be so secretive about it. Make him gay, make him say outloud that he can't fight him cause he loves him.
I didn't like it one bit.
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Some disclaimers:
-I knew the spoilers before seeing the film
-I enjoyed the film in spite of its many flaws because I didn’t have to worry about how dumb the story was when I had already accepted it
With that out of the way, I decided to judge the screenplay as a screenplay. Which therefore includes inspecting the plot. OHHHH LORDYYYYY.
I think my biggest problem with this, despite the whole…going against all-things canon, is that the three month time-cut had a /lot/ happen that we were later told about rather than shown. Very minor beginning spoilers, but Credence’s survival was mentioned during Newt‘s fifth hearing (which we see), when it really should’ve been brought up on, I don’t know, the first or second hearing? Things like that scatter about and it’s a weak storytelling element.
Another problem is how I understood things while reading that I didn’t understand while I was watching, mostly because it was in the scene descriptions. This Grimmson guy, couldn’t tell you his name, occupation, or purpose until I saw the little blurb about him. We don’t see the action lines when we’re watching the movie, Jo! Sure, the film could’ve gone overboard with his look and general attitude to present this, but this is an example of when a script goes even further than just telling instead of showing, to not even showing at all.
The names gave me a laugh, though. Don’t know how I missed Antonio the Chupacabra’s name reveal in the film but it’ll be worth going again just to see Johnny Depp try not to make that sound hilarious.
The magic was fine. The new parts were interesting and the stuff we’ve seen before was lovely to come back to but I felt something was missing. Maybe it’s because I’m in my world geography phase but I wanted to learn even more about French wizardry and their customs, you know? I’m not disappointed necessarily but I wanted more.
All in all, this…well, it’s not her finest work. We know this. I’m sure she knows this. In terms of a screenplay in itself it’s purely average and in a wizarding world story it’s below average. But when you put all the pieces together I can still have a fun experience at the cinema, even if it’s not the Harry Potter experience I loved growing up.
Anyway, the MinaLima artwork is ON POINT.
autumnrainee a year ago
i love the book :) i just saw the third movie in theaters a couple months ago but i read this first to get a little recap of what has been happening.
Guest 4 years ago
i already saw the film and it's no fun reading because there is nothing extra to read.....nothing extra to reveal.......the films are exact same
Guest 5 years ago
Seriously..... J.K Rowling has messed up very bad with the timeline in this one.....It was expected because the Cursed Child was also very badly messes up.
DISAPPOINTED!
Guest a year ago
Why doesn't she write a book about the Marauders during their time in Hogwarts? I would be so invested, and I'm sure others would. I think it's honestly wasted potential.
Guest 2 years ago
jk rowling only did a film of fantastic beast the crimes of grindlewald but she wrote fantastic beast as in study guide for her book
Guest 5 years ago
This was awesome, but it ended on a cliffhanger and that was upsetting.I can't wait for book 3!It answered some questions but it left me with more questions!I will put spoilers at the bottom of this comment.SPOILERS
the reason Dumbledore can't move against Grindelwald is because of a blood pact
Credence is apparently Aurelius Dumbledore
Queenie joins Grindelwald
Leta lestrange dies
Guest 5 years ago
Amazing as always. JK said that the next movies/books will (inevitably) focus on the relationship between Gellert and Albus and honestly I cannot wait!
Guest 5 years ago
This is a great book this is a better book than the first one even thought I loved the first one it was great the movie was great tooooo! Everybody should read it. and watch the movie. I love that they tell more about nagini. They should make another movie and book. I love that they have dombledore in it, and Grindelwald. That they tell the story about them . I also love that they put Grindelwald’s followere in it they should put Voldemort in the next one with nagini
Guest 5 years ago
JK Rowling said that the series has 5 movies so we have three more movies and screenplays! Also, I don't think Voldemort is going to be in the third movie because he was born during the time of the first movie, 1926.Write Review:
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