Fantastic Beasts

>Hipster haircuts
>Leading woman cannot act for shit
>Fantastic beats are basically a hodge podge of existsing animals or adding an extra set of legs

Is JK Rowling a genius pumping this shit out with minimal effort to become a billionaire?

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My oneitis saw this film and really liked it.

I have no interest in seeing it.

dudes hair looks like a piece of dry ramen hows that a hipster haircut

Yes.

HAWG WASH

>my oneitis saw it
Special snowflake girls are the primary market for this shit.

no, she conned all nostalgia fags, and those who didn't except much from this movie

i had some free cinema tickets lying around so went to see it. glad i didn't pay.

She's not a special snowflake though.

How dare you besmirch my oneitis.

never heard of a oneitis do explain

It was a surprisingly enjoyable fantasy movie. Probably because there was minimal HP trash in it. I hope there's a cut of it that removes all references to HP because all of them were hamfisted and felt REALLY out of place.

The ending was total shit tho and the actual big bad was overshadowed by the """"great villain reveal"""" who was a fat johnny depp on screen for 10 seconds.

I wouldn't mind seeing more movies set in the universe with no creative control from Rowling or actual HP fans that just dealt with average joe wizards doing shit here and there. An adult neo-noir murder mystery about ritual murders with signs of magic actually performed by some muggle who was trying to become a wizard.

How about you kill yourself instead?

>Hipster haircuts
Who cares. It's not a historical drama.

>Leading woman cannot act for shit
True, it was one of the most disappointing parts about it. The entire role was so underused.

>Fantastic beats are basically a hodge podge of existsing animals or adding an extra set of legs
Almost like it was never about them in the first place.

It's simple escapism + magic + big reveal/deus ex machina + real world parables about discrimination/propaganda. Not a masterwork but interesting enough to keep you watching. Besides, Grindelwald is hype. To build a world people want to escape into while keeping some realistic aspects of our world isn't "minimal effort", otherwise everybody would do it.

Hipster haircuts are so 1930's.

>to become a billionaire?
She's already a billionairem or was. And yes.

I can't feel bad about her, I've been poor and know how much it sucks. She was poor as a middle-aged woman, which must be the worst.

>Grindelwald is hype
Cringe

>Fantastic beasts are basically a hodgepodge of existing animals with an extra pair of legs
>Pheonixes are just birds with fire
>Hippogriffs are just birds/horses
>Centaurs and just humans/horses
>Dragons are just lizards with wings
>Unicorns are just horses with horns
>etc

Wow, its as if mythological creatures are just composites of existing animals with an extra feature

The film was ok, I didn't hate it but I hold absolutely no desire to watch it again

>fantastic beasts
>not about fantastic beasts
What other movie did this?

It's when you become attracted to one specific girl, usually without the girl returning the feeling. You have no interest in other girls, other than possibly fapping to porn. 1st stage in becoming a stalker.

>Goldstein arrests Newt and gets him sentenced to death

NOT ONCE DOES SHE FUCKING APOLOGISE

Bitch was going to turn an innocent stranger in to salvage her failing career.

so is this movie worth 10$ or is it torrent material?

it's an african american slang for "one it is"

i.e. she is the one: oneitis.

i fucking laughed my ass off at the reveal. what a weird casting decision. why him? literally everyone was thinking it.

Depends how into the HP Universe you are.

If its for Nostalgia and you are under 15yrs old then youll like it for the blatant references. Other than that its an odd movie that is not really about the title it suggests.

The only good part of the movie was the little jew platypus

>HIPSTER HAIRCUTS

He wasn't innocent though. She was just catching a criminal and turning him in for the crime he committed.

The death sentence only happened because Grindeldorf (?) overplayed his hand and revealed his villainy so he was trying to kill all of the witnesses.

The ancient world was kind of shit at making monsters

If I was an ancient I would look to bugs and make gigantic versions of them. Prehistoric Them.

>Pirates of Caribbean 3
>barely in caribbean

>Star Wars
>heroes journey + incest + some battles

>Taxi Driver
>crazy faggot can't get laid and goes on a murder rampage, also he drives taxi

Johnny Depp as Grindlewald was literally the shittest casting in the last 10yrs

Jew Platypus stealing money was fucking ace though

No fucking movie is worth 10$.

What's wrong with it? He's a charismatic guy who can play somewhat creepy roles, should be fine.

>blatant references
The spells, Lestrange, Grindelwald. What am I missing? Pretty much nothing else could be considered a reference.

Dumbledore and Hogwards but neither felt forced.

Force Awakens, now that was blatant fanboy bait.

Eh it was fun but nothing special. Just like the Harry Potter series.

>Jew Platypus
Kek

Dumbledore got mentioned. As did Hogwarts. "The Ministry" also got mentioned, but that's about it.

looks good to me tbqh

Niffler a cute . A CUTE !

Dumbledore felt a little forced but not offensively so

The first two-thirds of this were great. When it was a light fantasy film about the main guy and his chubby buddy and the two sisters and his magical briefcase monsters it worked. All of the characters were likable and the performances were great. More likeable characters and better acting than the leads in the Potter movies I've seen.

The final third was so shit it retroactively nuked the good parts. The lore shit and the sequel set up shit in particular just gutted the movie. It felt like The Hobbit all over again where the character and adventure is great and suddenly Gandalf and Saruman and Sauron and the Witch King, etc. etc. are here and you realize that The Hobbit stopped being about the Hobbit 30 minutes ago. When the movie was about Newt Buster Keaton and his magic briefcase monsters it was great, when it stopped being about that it was shit.

When Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp I literally almost said "WUT?" out loud.

"Niffler is an analogy for the ever lasting hunger for money that Jews crave."

What did Rowling mean by this?

>>Hipster haircuts

If he was balding and unable to have any elaborate hairstyle except one limited to his baldness you would have never made this comment

>My oneitis

Stick a cute. A CUTE!

>When Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp I literally almost said "WUT?" out loud.

Is Colin Farrell literally so irrelevant now that he got cucked out of his own role MID movie?

oh man, I completely have that. I occasionally check her facebook to see what's up but I'd never do anything extreme

>Mid Movie

It was the last 5 mins and it made no sense. Depp was on-screen to deliver 1 line.

It also raised questions of how Farrells character could have been in the MCUSA for all those years as Grindlewald

Because some actors become really associated with a role to the point where If you are autistic enough when you see them in another role, it brings you out of what you are watching

I think he'll probably be alright in the role provided he doesn't do his take the mannerisms of a famous person (preferably a musician) and basically just play the role as them thing that he has done in the past. We haven't really seen enough of him in role to tell.

City of God on the big screen would.

Also; Oldboy non u.s. version
pan's lab
and children of men was worth it

"With their ability to expand to occupy the space that they inhabit, Occamies are an allegory for Syrian refugees, whose number swell when they reach Europe and thin out the ranks of the Aryan race"

Geez, when JK Rowling become so redpilled?

I have no fucking clue what happened here. Did they decide that they wanted to make 4 sequels during filming and Farrell wasn't up for it? That's how it feels.

>My oneitis
We /r9k/ now?

Barty Crouch Jr. managed to infiltrate Hogwarts for over a year and no-one knew.

Nothing there to suggest it had been years at all, a few weeks a month maybe?

Well this is the type of retard that enjoys this movie. Graves being Grindelwald was foreshadowed since the first minute they mentioned Grindewald went missing in Europe.

Maybe I'm really dumb and didn't get this until now but did the end mean that Colin Farrell's character was a real guy that Johnny Depp kidnapped or killed and took his place like the Mad Eye guy in the Potter movie? Or was the Farrell guy a completely original creation of Depp?

Farrell theoretically could be in more movies as the REAL guy Depp was impersonating that we haven't seen yet.

Nope Farrell was just a disguise.

From the sound of it they planned to have Johnny for Grindelwald, and "oh, this guy was somebody else all along" happens in almost any work from Rowling.

The necklace he gave to the Flash guy made it pretty easy to tell too.

She literally says "I am truly, sincerely sorry" while they're in the cell together in the scene immediately following.

We don't know.

I'd assume there was a real Farrell but he's probably dead.

Nothing in that post said that it wasn't. I was just pointing out that the sudden actor shift was jarring.

The point is all of the lore and sequel building had NOTHING to do with the protagonist and his quest / character arc so it felt awkward and tacked on, especially when the protagonist of the film would disappear for long stretches of time so minor characters could set up future movies..

The fact that they gave them both the same haircut didn't do it for you? Especially considering that the only shot we get of Grindelwald exclusively shows his haircut?

>When Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp I literally almost said "WUT?" out loud.

>Nothing from these films will carry over into the next ones apart from Johnnywald

Hell of a lot of assuming you're doing there

What the hell is an oneitis, sounds like some naruto power

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the best part of the film

>Death by magical acid bath
>"Well dont that look pretty?"

Why the magical floating chair? Just let them walk in holy shit

>Hipster haircuts

Rowling establishes in the books that Wizards have a different fashion sense, and in fact struggle to mimic Muggle dress.

>When Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp I literally almost said "WUT?" out loud.
Yeah that shit was beyond retarded.
They spent the entire movie setting him up as Grindelwald and he fucking looked the part. Stylish, ominous, intimidating and powerful. And then in the last 5 fucking minutes it's like NOPE he's actually a bloated-looking 50 year old cosplaying as some Mad Max character.
Jesus fucking Christ.

Can someone tell me what Depp Grindelwald said to Newt when he was being taken away in cuffs?

The audio was too fucky for me to make it out for some reason. I also had a few problems with Newt's dialogue because he talked mumbly and low but the audio was mixed the same as other characters who didn't. Could have just been my local theater though.

>do you think you can hold me

I had a problem hearing that too

Where did you watch it?

>No. Luckily that's not my job though. I write text books about wildlife.

I wish he'd said that tbqh

>And then in the last 5 fucking minutes it's like NOPE he's actually a bloated-looking 50 year old cosplaying as some Mad Max character.
Who incidentally is the most powerful wizard ever albeit for Dumbledore.

Talk about looking the part ._.

Not really sure what you're trying to say there, chief.

***cocks head***
***stares at ground***

**sniffs nose**

i um, hey muh creatures, please

>and "oh, this guy was somebody else all along" happens in almost any work from Rowling

>Quirinus Quirrell
>Tom Riddle
>Scabbers
>Mad-Eye
>
>The HalfBlood Prince
>Prettymucheveryone

holy shit

>do news montage at the start
>have the camera zoom around so fast that barely any information can be discerned

I really feel sorry for the people who don't know who Grindlewald is because this film did a shit job of explaining it.

>Villain is just a cgi black cloud

Depp said to the president

>Do you think you can hold me

Depp said to Newt

>We all die

Nah Dumbledore could have rinsed him, he just didn't because he was in love with him, and because he felt hella guilty for accidentally killing his sister.

He basically didn't want to believe the things he was hearing about his ex fuckboi, but then Grindlewald did....something and he realised he had to get off his ass and sort Grindlewald out.

That I hadn't expected for Grindelwald, whose mere name should frighten any wizard to be a "bloated-looking 50 year old cosplaying as some Mad Max character."

But maybe that's just me.

>put tons of effort into designing all these magical creatures
>the 'evil' creature is just a cgi black cloud effect that moves around like a incorporeal transformer

How fucking lazy did they have to be with that eh

And then they just shoot it dead with magic ummmmm i thought killing spells were forbidden though, guess it's not if you're in america

Grindelwald should only be in his mid 40's in this and he's supposed to be like a European fascist beacon of evil perfection. The guy was supposed to be at his peak here. Farrell looked the part well enough but holy fuck Depp's Grindelwald looks like a fat old wino. Why the fuck would Dumbledore catch the gays for that pasty bloated sack of shit?

Pic related Grindelwald is closer to how peak era Grindelwald should be

It didn't DIE

Yeah I didn't expect Voldemort to be domestic accident Rainman and here we are.

>Nah Dumbledore could have rinsed him
Not really.

Their battle in 1945 is reminiscized about as being one of the largest and most climatic wizarding duels ever in history, so I'd say it was no easy task for Dumbledore.

Ad don't forget that Grindy had the Elder wand.

>watching straight to cinema YA cash grab trash by hollywood

Avada Kedavra, the killing curse is illegal

Others aren't. Incendio would set you on fire, Augumentti could drown you. They also said that being hit by three stunning spells could have killed McGonnagal "at her age"

Have enough wizards firing a damaging spell and I'd imagine it would probably kill you.

Well pretty much Grindelwald should have remained Colin Farrell and Johnney Depp should have remained an alcoholic hack and not go anywhere near this movie.

>domestic accident Rainman
Is he though?

I guess they did an exception because it was either killing it or risking a war with the muggles

He looks like somebody who'd suck up to others. Johnny looks and sounds like the leader.

Rita Skeeters book implies that the epic battle wasn't all that and that Grindlewald just surrendered.

Sure she was trying to slander Dumbledore, but she was right about his sisters death

>be a black cloud
>be in America
>get shot by Ministry of Magic

Literally nothing has changed in 100yrs

What really bothered me about Grindelwald is that he gets the chance of being alone with tthe Obscurus more than one time and yet he doesnt do anything. Being the most powerful wizard in the world his behavior was retarded, I take it that he wanted to absorb the power/magic of the Obscurus, but instead he doesnt really do anything, neither as Graves and much less as Grindelwald the main villain doesnt feel like a threat at all.

i felt it was really pretty easy for rowling to make that parallel. cheap as shit.

>we cant wipe the memory of a whole city
>its impossible

ACTUALLY
WE CAN
I HAVE THIS SMALL MAGIC VILE THAT DOES JUST THAT

>American wizards have no separates community from Muggles, live in the same cities, rent apartments from them, police them, interact with them all day, etc.

>American wizards have ten times stricter rules on fraternizing, dating, befriending, etc. Muggles

k

>I take it that he wanted to absorb the power/magic of the Obscurus
I thought he wanted to recruit him or just use him to cause chaos ... so he didn't need to actually do much.

Though the only time Grindelwald gave powerful wizard vibes when he used some magic without a wand.