They are going to give Newt and co the death sentence immediately, but Grindelwald, the most dangerous wizard to date can just go to prison and even get a transfer.
literally like “well, something is destroying the city, and he has animals, so murder him and rip out his soul. oh grindlewald? yeah nah he just committed atrocities and wants to enslave all non-magical people”
And it's not even that they were gonna execute him at some point bc iirc he was killed by Voldemort in the original series!! But tbf Newt was sentenced by the Americans so it's pretty par for course
ok, i hate to defend these films (even tho i like the first one), but was it not just colin farrell telling that lady to go ahead and execute them. I always thought he was trying to get rid of them quickly and extrajudicially
@@suitedpanda3108this is true, but nobody else reacted like that was against procedure or even like “no, we can’t do that!” They were all just like “Bummer but whatcha gonna do” Plus they have an entire death pool room with attendants, ready to go 24/7. Seems like they’re regularly merking fools
Fantastic Beasts should've been a one and done movie about newt, the beasts, friends he makes along the way and a dash of conflict such as idk destroying an evil poaching ring. Not this.
How did this franchise went from oh look it’s a cute magical creature to let’s explore how dumbledore’s toxic breakup with a white hair twink almost ended the magical world and we need a guy who wrote a textbook about magic creatures to fight him and dumbledore’s secret cousin 💀
Literally, if they’de done just one movie of fantastic beasts that lead newt into other movies as a support role but those following movies are squarely about the dumbledore/grindlewald thing that would have made sense and probs worked. They baso pulled an X3 where they try to do Dark Phoenix/mutant cure and god knows however many other subplots all in one movie.
In a parallel universe, we'd have a series of light-hearted Wild Thornberry-esque movies of Newt & Co. gallivanting around the globe searching for, documenting and saving magical creatures from discovery by muggles and from wizard poachers. They could literally churn this out like the Paddington/Wallace and Gromit movies. Instead, we got this pile of nonsense...
Fantastic Beasts feels like a version of Harry Potter where Harry was completely unconnected to Voldemort but they kept calling an teenager to help with politics anyways.
I cry every day, mourning what we could have had. Seriously though, imagine Indiana Jones except instead of artifacts its Newt rescuing animal from bad situations
The sad thing is that Redmayne, Fogler, Waterston and Sudol manage to make the first film extremely likeable, despite a lot of the plot and aggressively dark lighting trying to bring it down.
I will FOREVER be pissed that they threw Mcgonagall in for fanservice when she added nothing to the plot AND WASN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE BORN YET 😭 screw J.K so it’s funny watching her mess up her own story but Maggie Smith’s iconic character deserves better 😔😔
What they did to Queenie in the second and third movie should be punished by law. Literally one of my favorite characters in these movies and they destroyed everything that made her loveable
@@biggestnerdalive8476 Not the first time she's done that to her own characters that's for sure... **looks at Cedric Diggory's treatment in **_that_** play....**
@@mustbetheSUN From what I remember Queenie becomes Grindelwald's advisor and uses her mind-reading powers to help him uncover traitors in his group and anyone with ill intentions towards him. Then about half-way through the movie, she decides she doesn't want to work for Grindelwald anymore. She tells Jacob she doesn't deserve to be forgiven for all the bad she has done, but Jacob says he doesn't care about that and still wants to marry her....and that's it! Grindelwald doesn't seem to care that his main advisor left him, the aurors don't care that she essentially became a wizard terrorist for a few years, all her friends forgive her, and she gets married to Jacob because JK Rowling forgot that the whole reason Queenie joined Grindelwald was because she was unhappy about the fact that she couldn't legally marry a muggle.
It makes a slight bit of sense when you realize the Wizard Nazis were the only group saying the actual Nazis would be bad. Which is, frankly, wild in and of itself.
my favourite thing about making newt scamander the protagonist is that he's also canonically the one who introduced the werewolf registry to the wizard government😭 like girl can you imagine if they tried to cover that decision in the movies?? how could they possibly make it sympathetic. it's so funny
absolutely wild plot point what’s even the mental condition of someone who is able to come up with an idea like that considering the whole “lycanthropy is a metaphor for aids” subtext
w h a t seriously just when I think I can’t hate Harry Potter more… I just thought Newt was an nice autistic guy who liked animals ( this is coming from an autistic guy btw)
Imagine how good this franchise would’ve been if they’d stuck with the original concept of Obviously Autistic British guy and his Three American Jewish Friends going on an adventure around the world discovering fantastical beasts. I ADORED the first movie, and still do, because I felt it set up its own cozy, fantastical side of the Wizarding World that wasn’t trying to be more Harry Potter. Too bad the sequels tried to be more Harry Potter
@@sunnfIower It's a stereotype name, because a lot of Jewish last names end in stein. Also the stereotype of Jewish people like money more than anything else.
Fascists and supremacists use incredibly emotionally charged language to manipulate people into think they will help solve their issues, and I wish they played into that more here. Grindlewald could run a platform on wanting to live as “equals” to the muggles, which would lure Queenie in, and then he reveals his true intentions once he has enough power. He could even say all of his “why do we hide in the sewers when they’re up there” bullshit because that’s a broad statement that people can attach their own meaning to. For Queenie, that would mean coming out of hiding so that she can be with Jacob. This whole arc could have been incredibly interesting and powerful if they had actually shown how Grindelwald used his charm and propaganda to trick people with good intentions like Queenie
iirc its because grindelwald's like "noo i swear i dont hate them omg" and at that point they straight up have forgotten queenie can read minds so she just believes that
i love jacob so much. he has such Nice Uncle vibes, and the actor really sells it. the part where he lost his memory is basically the only moment in these movies with an emotional impact on me. he deserved a way better franchise
Honestly one of the funniest things about JK's writing is that her protagonists quite often do stuff that the Hague would investigate and get away with it because they're the good guys so it's fine.
@@mattball8622 In well written series things the protagonists do wrong are called out unlike in Harry Potter where they're treated as OK just because Harry, Ron and Hermione are the protagonists.
The even better thing is that there was already a French word, because the novels had been translated into French. But Rowling saw that and noticed it wasn't made by her, so came up with "non-majik", just to make sure we knew this was a French word made up by an English woman
Grindelwald's reveal at the end gave me Scooby Doo vibes. Fred: Let's see who this dark wizard really is. Shaggy: Like Zoinks, it's Old Man Johnny Depp.
My biggest gripe will always be the fact that they just didn't keep Colin Farrell. Like dude had the vibe, and all that needed to be changed was some white hair and some scars.
Or even bring him back to drive the plot. It would make more sense for Newt to want to help Graves get justice for being impersonated by Grindlewald rather than Dumbledore asking for his help out of thin air 😂
@@noplace3571 Aaaah !! I clicked on this video specifically hoping to find comments about Percival Graves/Colin Farrell's role. Even the producer was very surprised that no one seemed to ask what happened to him, where he was... WTF JKR...
i HAVE to ask, what's up with harry potter fandom and the word gripe? english isn't my first language, but i mean... scroll the internet long enough, and all that, and only lately, after finding myself in hogwarts legacy/ HP rabbit hole have i seen the word "gripe" over and over again. is it an inside joke or something?
@@otter.mayhem I love the idea that we can blame all of JKR's questionable writing choices on the black mold now. The SPEW subplot? Black mold. The idea of Harry naming his child after a manipulative snake and an abusive incel? Blame it on the mold. Everything that happened in The Cursed Child? That's all the mold, baby!
I know that “la petit mort” or “the little death” is like an old timey poetic euphemism for having an orgasm … so like I think Wizard Johnny Depp was like horny…
I like how queenie using the love spell is just kind of seen as a naughty goof When the idea of making someone love you against their will or knowledge is pretty much mental grape, but she gets a pass cos she cries about it when confronted. BLECK
Even better, the love spell is consistently framed as this harmless childish silly-girl prank even in the OG books. Yknow, the books where the villain "cant feel love" or whatever because hes the product of SA facilitated by that love spell. JKR has been married to the idea that assault is "male violence" longer than shes been openly identifying as a t*rf.
@@jojoslameerrand9305 I have no idea what she thinks about SA against men. On the one hand she seems to recognize it's bad (it created the main villain of the series) but also it's downplayed multiple times in the story. Small things like boys being banned from entering girls' rooms but girls being allowed to boys' rooms... It's as if girls were inherently less predatory even tho the only predators are female
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495and theres moaning myrtle peeking on harry in the bathroom, and its kinda comedic (at least in the movie), and romilda vane accidentally feeding love potion to ron instead of harry and they don't get how thats fucked up until Hermione literally whacks them over the head... Like i get this feeling like she thinks "ah silly girls will do silly things, its cute and boys are actually into it"
I could swear to GOD that I saw somewhere back when this movie came out that the "Will we die, just a little?" was just a random weird line that Depp improvised because he thought Grindelwald should say something to Newt in that moment, but there wasn't anything on the script, so he just... said that... and they left in the movie, for some reason. So Redmayne’s "wtf" reaction was genuine, he actually didn't know what the fuck Depp was on about because he was supposed to just look at him without saying anything. However, I couldn’t find this ANYWHERE now, so maybe I hallucinated a answer to something that has also being haunting me for years. Guess we will never know, but we will, in fact, die just a little every time we think about it.
I've dug deep into google and reddit the best theory i can find is "will we die just a little?" means "Newt, since you've thwarted my plan to let wizards rule over muggles and live their fullest magical lives you've condemned wizards to all die inside slowly little by little. Every day a wizard hides their talent just to avoid muggle witch hunts is equal to that wizard dying just a little. until one day wizard kind will be a shriveled up culture, content to die in the shadows rather than live their true lives."
i own the screenplay of fantastic beasts (obviously published after the film's release, but supposedly the script as it was written and given to the actors) and that line is 100% in there. jk rowling wrote that.
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Regardless of whether it's "more accurate than chatgpt" (which is the lowest bar imaginable) accepting an ai sponsorship is still morally reprehensible. These planet burning plagiarism machines aren't useful for finding information, they only try and replicate human-seeming text. That's all they're made to do. Using them at all is proof that you're stupid.
It's insane that she had Jude Law play Dumbledore when he was my fan cast for Grindelwald back in 2007, because the way she describes him in the book is very "Oscar Wilde talking about his boyfriend", who Jude Law played in a movie once! And there was another video I saw soon after it came out that pointed out that Jared Harris's father was the original Dumbledore actor, and should have played younger Dumbledore, and now I'm mad we didn't get that!!!
My favorite thing about the Fantastic Beasts franchise was watching content creators who cover a LOT of HP content get more and more confused with every movie. Like, all the knowledge in the world on the HP series and they STILL can't figure out what's going on/whats x in reference to/where we are going from here.
I was watching the second movie in the cinema and I kid you not, I literally comically shouted 'What the actual f*CK??' at the Credence is a Dumbledore reveal.
I would also like to put my hat in the ring to request finishing this. Plz finish the rest…do not take the same trajectory as this horrible trio of movies lol
The VALIDATION I’m getting from the way you speak about Jacob and Queenie. I loved them so much in the first film, I just wanted them to have a good time, and then the rest of the films happened…. They were the only good things about it 👏
One of the saddest moments to me in this movie is watching the scene where newt tries to catch the fantastic beast in Central Park. Because you’re seeing for a brief moment the fun movies these could have been if JK Rowling’s new brain worms could actually write
I can't describe the feeling in the cinema when Johnny Depp showed up. Like we all knew Graves was Grindelwald, that wasn't a twist. But the pure incredulity at Johnny Depp doing a bizarre pantomime villain performance was crazy. My friend literally turned to me and whispered "Is that Johnny Depp?? Why is he here?!"
begging on my hands and knees with my forehead on the ground for you to finish this series. i neeeeed to hear you talk about the Nazis, Queenie's character assassination and the wasted talent of Mads Mikkelsen
Especially Dan Fogler (who played Jacob) because I knew him from movies like Fanboys and Balls of Fury where he was always "the funny fat guy". I was super happy to see him break out of that awful stereotype because he's a very talented actor who deserved better!
as an autistic person, i always wondered why newt seemed so relatable to me. checks out. and now “will he die… just ✨a little‼️✨” is gonna be a new vocal stim. i can feel it
I’d like to believe that Johnny depp ad libbed that line, like he was trying to work in some improv, and when they were editing they realized they literally didn’t have a better take so they had to use that one.
I haven't seen the third movie and I never will but even as a like, 13 year old watching the first movie I always felt like they should have just kept Colin Farell lol
I'm LGBT, in my forties, and live in Scotland. She has one of her 'houses' here. The shite she's done with her influence... Outside the queer community. She tried to go after our 'right to roam' laws. She's pretty much persona non grata, in most circles.
The part of Harry Potter that rings most true to Rowling's personality is the part where you get a letter declaring you're more special than the boring, jealous peasants, so you get to live in a beautiful castle where they aren't allowed to go.
There are only two reasons why I didn't move to Scotland yet, the unfortunate fact that it's still connected to the rest of terfy Britain and also Jk's moldy presence. I really hope both won't last for long and wish you luck.
man, this was a throwback. i watched this movie in theatres. im an autistic guy who relates to animals more than people so i was excited to see the fun animals and a character that’s plot was driven by his zoology. this video just reminded me how CONFUSED I was after the movie. So few fantastic beasts for a movie named FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM!!! DID WE EVEN FIND THEM??? WE DID BUT THEN WE LEFT!!!!
JK Rowling's entire writing ability can be summed up with "anyone else could do this so much better". Like, not to big up the bigot too much, but she came up with a unique world and character concepts that ended up gaining immense popularity and initially made it have a really unique vibe with cosiness mixed with fantasy mixed with action. It could've really been something special. But instead of leaning into the unique vibes, she made it really "Hollywood-y" and "franchise-y" and action for the sake of action even though FB could've been so nice (I mean, fantasy speakeasys and magic creatures??? Yes please!!). She let the world and characters fall so flat and nonsensical and extra stuff for the sake of extra stuff.
my entire life i'd thought i hadn't watched a single fantastic beasts movie but this video unlocked a memory of watching the ending of the first movie in theatres with my mom and saying "theyre not gonna make Tina and Newt kiss, right? I don't think he likes girls" 💀💀
After being disappointed the first movie wasn't a David Attenborough-esk documentary but for magical animals I only watched the first one so I do require you to cover the next two.
Ugh that mockumentary style version would have been so good, I wish movie studios took a few risks and tried something different but noooo we need more miserable wizard politics and magic nazis
@@villainousthoughts Bro, Imagine if they made it a Watson and Sherlock kinda thing, where Jakob is writing a Journal about his adventures with Newt, narrating the stories. That would have been so cool, and they could still do shit like take down illegal magical beasts smugglers and stuff
@@frozenyogurth yeah like imagine he publishes that as a fiction book later after having his memories erased and that's how he gets the money for his bakery instead of randomly getting a bunch of silver eggs he can't possibly know the origin of and with how suspicious that was realistically probably couldn't have sold them to get money for it anyway??
I just want to say...Newt is my favorite fictional character. He's a male protagonist with obvious autistic traits, no personal ambition, and no desire to be the greatest wizard of all time. He's just a normal human being who I relate to a lot. Pity how far the other two movies got off track. We might have had an autistic character heading a major franchise. Ah well...suppose we'll have to settle for gay wizard supremacists.
"Will we die, just a little?" is actually raw-chicken-breast-looking johnny depp hinting at something he saw in his divination skull bong rips - the fantastic beasts franchise dying, just a little. It's not DEFINITELY cancelled but, like, we all know it's dead
this franchise had the potential to be a cute little slice-of-life adventure about a Magical (&British) Professor who studies and takes care of animals and call it Vet Who or some shit.
The term for when a singer is performing dialogue in a song is called a 'recitative'. So speak singing is recitative. That term always escapes me when i try to think of it.
these movies could have been something that entirely defined the cinematic genre of 2010’s if and only if they actually focused on THE FANTASTIC BEASTS!!!!!!
I watched this movie when I was still a potterhead (derogatory) and haven't seen, nor have any desire to see, the second two. I'm so stokes for the next two parts of this series so I can experience them vicariously throught you
the way i cackled at the johnny depp impression lmao. glad i’m not the only one that obsessively googled “will we die just a little” because surely it was a reference! but no just johnny depp being ~quirky~ villain.
@@katerrinah5442 There are kosher hot dogs made out of beef in real life. I suppose that there could have been kosher beef hot dogs produced back in the era that Fantastic Beasts is set as well.
@MelissaWickersham-k4o yes but the point is that they could've made it literally anything else or had them mention that the hot dog was kosher in the movie but nobody cared to do proper research
it's still crazy to me that the second film immediately undermines and ignores all of the stakes set up at the end of the first one, like nothing at the end of that film mattered at all.
It's so funny to me that JK Rowling purports that she has built like such an elaborate and deep universe of the Wizarding World and yet everytime she writes anything Wizarding it has to be intimately connected into every other Wizarding story as if there are absolutely no events in the Wizarding World that are distant from the people or events that we already know.
thank you so much. i just finished my harry potter marathon and watched fantastic beasts and after movie 1 I couldn’t continue. I immediately went to youtube and started looking for essays on why it was so bad. Thank you Carlie!!
16:08 can confirm, I used get a hotdog at Stratford station for £2 and eat it while listening to the religious extremist shout that we’re all going to hell who was always there on a Sunday
May be a controversial opinion, but from what I remember when I saw this back when it was released, I definitely thought at the time that Tina and Queenie were also both autistic coded, just presenting very differently. I'm dx autistic and I saw so much of myself in Queenie. And the whole mind reading thing, that's a thing that's talked about with autistics and pattern recognition, sometimes it seems like we can "predict the future" but it's just that we can be VERY good at pattern recognition and see something coming a mile away because of it. But also yeah, Newt is like the most autistic coded character I've ever seen in a movie ever and I love him so much.
that scene in a later movie when queenie has a breakdown on the street because the voices she hears when mind reading are too loud hit undiagnosed autistic 12 year old me SO HARD
newt's character pisses me off because he doesn't belong in this franchise. he is such a nice twist from the usual aggressive, borderline misogynistic MC in any other mainstream franchise and it upsets me deeply. to be fair every main character except for tina doesn't belong here because they had the potential to be amazing if they had been in another movie
this movie was such potential squandered T^T Just wanted a lil cosy movie about Newt and his friends finding new beasts and maybe a treasure hunt of some kind????Would have been real cute
i want 2 hours of whatever that platypus gets up to, i don't even care if it's magical. just film a platypus. that's a fantastic beast, right? it's a mammal what lays eggs! also the venom thing! i know where to find those guys, Australia. also, most zoos.
As someone who only saw this movie once and never bothered with the rest i was SO ready te request a follow up only to see the next part is out already I want to say thank you so much. This was massively enjoyable to watch. Now I can find out whatever tf happened next and enjoy all the insane highlights without having to sit through the actual movies themselves thanks.
I've dug deep into google and reddit the best explanation i can find is "will we die just a little?" means "Newt, since you've thwarted my plan to let wizards rule over muggles and live their fullest magical lives you've condemned wizards to all die inside slowly little by little. Every day a wizard hides their talent just to avoid muggle witch hunts is equal to that wizard dying just a little. until one day wizard kind will be a shriveled up culture, content to die in the shadows rather than live their true lives."
Truly I think the two main things about JK that set this whole thing up for failure: 1) she's hated magic since book 5 and can never escape this magic empire she's created and 2) she hates animals and thinks hurting them is a funny joke to use all throughout the original series so like... WHY did she want to even pretend she was writing a script about cute magical animals
YES, even as an oblivious kid I was regularly annoyed by how casually disdainful and abusive the series was towards animals. I was an animal kid, so reading the characters constantly experiment on and shit talk any creature that wasn't traditionally "pretty" or "cute" felt so alien.
You know what, I’m incredibly glad that Jacob got his bakery after all that. He deserves it. I also need you to talk about movie three cause like, I too love chaos and chaotic seasons of tv over normal ones
This is the first video of yours I’ve come across, and MAN am I entertained. I really love your presentation style and humour. I was having such a rough day but this had me giggling and snorting. If you haven’t already-I’m about to subscribe and check out the rest of your channel-pleeeease do the other movies too. Your commentary is frankly iconic.
36:33 no because the way I literally sobbed in the cinema at this part 😭😭😭 I guess it was a trauma response to “returning to the real world” after reading through all the HP books as a child 😅
i totally get sobbing. that part is SO sad. the actors are a big part of why, but it's also just a good plot point that's done well. it's one of the best moments in any of jkr's work and i can't believe it's in THIS franchise 💀
I also googled the die a little quote and according to the director: "You know, ultimately, I think that’s what he’s saying there is he’s saying, “We’re gonna be on this amazing journey together, you and I. And it will demand an enormous amount from both of us in what it will put us through. And in that journey, we will probably sacrifice quite a bit. We will lose part of ourselves on the journey. So that’s what that means, I think. Will we die, just a little?" Which is truly an insane attempt to justify a nonsense phrase.
I always felt this story didn't make sense for fantastic beasts. Just make it a story about Newt traveling the world to investigate different animals. Why do we need dumbledore vs grindelwald.
Also remember how JKR and WB just fully backed Johnny depp when he abused his wife and said “there’s more to the story” and then KEPT HIM IN THE MOVIES
The absolute whiplash I got from first seeing the actor who plays Jacob Kowalski play Dane Cook's incredibly misogynistic best friend in Good Luck Chuck is crazy
Hey there. Random trans gal stuck on TERF Island here. Truly loved this and would love to hear about the other two movies! I'm sorry you are having a tough time. Lot of that going around. Your videos have genuinely brought me a lot of joy in some recent difficult times, so thank ever so much. Sending love, support, and solidarity x
Me, my mom, my aunt, and a bunch of my cousins all went to see the first movie in the theater when it came out. We had a good time, but I think that was mostly because we are all polish and we were going crazy over the fact that Jacob had a bunch of Polish pastries that we all loved that he was trying to sell. Like, just imagine a whole row of Polish teens and adults going "YES PACZKI GUY!!!!"
They are going to give Newt and co the death sentence immediately, but Grindelwald, the most dangerous wizard to date can just go to prison and even get a transfer.
God i never clocked that- what are these movies man 😭😭
literally like “well, something is destroying the city, and he has animals, so murder him and rip out his soul. oh grindlewald? yeah nah he just committed atrocities and wants to enslave all non-magical people”
And it's not even that they were gonna execute him at some point bc iirc he was killed by Voldemort in the original series!! But tbf Newt was sentenced by the Americans so it's pretty par for course
ok, i hate to defend these films (even tho i like the first one), but was it not just colin farrell telling that lady to go ahead and execute them. I always thought he was trying to get rid of them quickly and extrajudicially
@@suitedpanda3108this is true, but nobody else reacted like that was against procedure or even like “no, we can’t do that!” They were all just like “Bummer but whatcha gonna do”
Plus they have an entire death pool room with attendants, ready to go 24/7. Seems like they’re regularly merking fools
Newt was the most relatable Harry Potter character to me. If I was a wizard, I also would have a briefcase of magical creatures and be a disaster.
Same omg
SAME
Yes! Exactly!
And THAT could have been a delightful, whimsical, charming movie, or set of movies. Especially with the amazing Eddie Redmayne. But, no... Sigh.
that platypus thing caused the great depression is my fun little headcanon
I love that as much as I love nifflers (which is a lot)
Oh my word I love this headcanon!!
100%😂
Fantastic Beasts should've been a one and done movie about newt, the beasts, friends he makes along the way and a dash of conflict such as idk destroying an evil poaching ring. Not this.
Yes but that would have made it "Ace Ventura, Wizard".
@@TorIverWilhelmsen Yes, but that would have been perfect for Jowling Kowling Rowling! It already has the casual transphobia!
And you could have made SO MANY of them! Like they could have made bank
How did this franchise went from oh look it’s a cute magical creature to let’s explore how dumbledore’s toxic breakup with a white hair twink almost ended the magical world and we need a guy who wrote a textbook about magic creatures to fight him and dumbledore’s secret cousin 💀
Literally, if they’de done just one movie of fantastic beasts that lead newt into other movies as a support role but those following movies are squarely about the dumbledore/grindlewald thing that would have made sense and probs worked. They baso pulled an X3 where they try to do Dark Phoenix/mutant cure and god knows however many other subplots all in one movie.
it's still so funny how the crux of this franchise is dumbledore and friends making sure that the holocaust definitely happens
In a parallel universe, we'd have a series of light-hearted Wild Thornberry-esque movies of Newt & Co. gallivanting around the globe searching for, documenting and saving magical creatures from discovery by muggles and from wizard poachers. They could literally churn this out like the Paddington/Wallace and Gromit movies. Instead, we got this pile of nonsense...
A simple title change would have made things clearer
Fantastic Beasts feels like a version of Harry Potter where Harry was completely unconnected to Voldemort but they kept calling an teenager to help with politics anyways.
When you said that these films should be more akin to Indiana Jones, I literally screamed, “Yes. YES.” at my poor phone
FOR REAL! thats the vibe.
Sob..
I cry every day, mourning what we could have had.
Seriously though, imagine Indiana Jones except instead of artifacts its Newt rescuing animal from bad situations
I hope Ao3 writers write this instead 😢
The sad thing is that Redmayne, Fogler, Waterston and Sudol manage to make the first film extremely likeable, despite a lot of the plot and aggressively dark lighting trying to bring it down.
I will FOREVER be pissed that they threw Mcgonagall in for fanservice when she added nothing to the plot AND WASN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE BORN YET 😭 screw J.K so it’s funny watching her mess up her own story but Maggie Smith’s iconic character deserves better 😔😔
Mannn I wanted so badly to like this comment but can't ruin the 666 likes.
My main issue with these films is how difficult JK found keeping to her own canon.
"the bank is where coins live" makes them so much cozier
When Fantastic Beasts forgot to be about Fantastic Beasts.
LITERALLY
But where to find them??? It’s a question, not a statement. All fixed. Lol
@@user-lp3ew1xb5u lol 😂
@@user-lp3ew1xb5u😂😂😂
_Where DID Those Fantastic Beasts Go?_
What they did to Queenie in the second and third movie should be punished by law. Literally one of my favorite characters in these movies and they destroyed everything that made her loveable
It’s the biggest character assassination I’ve seen
The second movie pissed me off so much that I didn't see the third one. Is she still a supremacist in the last one?
And boy if Jacob didn't get something good... That character was adorable.
@@biggestnerdalive8476 Not the first time she's done that to her own characters that's for sure... **looks at Cedric Diggory's treatment in **_that_** play....**
@@mustbetheSUN From what I remember Queenie becomes Grindelwald's advisor and uses her mind-reading powers to help him uncover traitors in his group and anyone with ill intentions towards him. Then about half-way through the movie, she decides she doesn't want to work for Grindelwald anymore. She tells Jacob she doesn't deserve to be forgiven for all the bad she has done, but Jacob says he doesn't care about that and still wants to marry her....and that's it! Grindelwald doesn't seem to care that his main advisor left him, the aurors don't care that she essentially became a wizard terrorist for a few years, all her friends forgive her, and she gets married to Jacob because JK Rowling forgot that the whole reason Queenie joined Grindelwald was because she was unhappy about the fact that she couldn't legally marry a muggle.
i love when they had the jewish wizard join the wizard nazis. top tier writing decision
It makes a slight bit of sense when you realize the Wizard Nazis were the only group saying the actual Nazis would be bad. Which is, frankly, wild in and of itself.
Y'ALL the wizard nazi Death Eaters were canonically formed in 1943........... 😳
Apparently when Tom Riddle was at Hogwarts
@@FirstNameBunchANumbers Didn't Tom Riddle start the Death Eaters as a secret club for his cronies at Hogwarts? Or was that just a fanfic?
or when creedence comes back to life with no explanation after literally exploding
my favourite thing about making newt scamander the protagonist is that he's also canonically the one who introduced the werewolf registry to the wizard government😭 like girl can you imagine if they tried to cover that decision in the movies?? how could they possibly make it sympathetic. it's so funny
absolutely wild plot point what’s even the mental condition of someone who is able to come up with an idea like that considering the whole “lycanthropy is a metaphor for aids” subtext
He's quirky 🤓 he's adorkable 🤪 he's a fascist 😚
if he made it so that werewolves were given help by the government and rehabilitated to society then maybe it could work
w h a t seriously just when I think I can’t hate Harry Potter more… I just thought Newt was an nice autistic guy who liked animals ( this is coming from an autistic guy btw)
what....!
Imagine how good this franchise would’ve been if they’d stuck with the original concept of Obviously Autistic British guy and his Three American Jewish Friends going on an adventure around the world discovering fantastical beasts. I ADORED the first movie, and still do, because I felt it set up its own cozy, fantastical side of the Wizarding World that wasn’t trying to be more Harry Potter. Too bad the sequels tried to be more Harry Potter
@@mrspremingeroh god, that’s…no.
@@mrspremingerthat is also Tina & Queenie’s surname
Fr! The first one was so fun and I rewatch it from time to time and still enjoy it
@@mrspremingerI’m not Jewish, is there something bad about the characters last name being Goldstein?
@@sunnfIower It's a stereotype name, because a lot of Jewish last names end in stein. Also the stereotype of Jewish people like money more than anything else.
Whoever made the decision of casting Johnny Depp as Jude Law's love interest needs to be fired, especially if it was JK herself.
If society won't accept Queenie and Jacob's relationship why would she join a wizard supremacist group?
For someone who hasn't seen these movies this comment is like a grim omen tapping on the window
Fascists and supremacists use incredibly emotionally charged language to manipulate people into think they will help solve their issues, and I wish they played into that more here. Grindlewald could run a platform on wanting to live as “equals” to the muggles, which would lure Queenie in, and then he reveals his true intentions once he has enough power. He could even say all of his “why do we hide in the sewers when they’re up there” bullshit because that’s a broad statement that people can attach their own meaning to. For Queenie, that would mean coming out of hiding so that she can be with Jacob. This whole arc could have been incredibly interesting and powerful if they had actually shown how Grindelwald used his charm and propaganda to trick people with good intentions like Queenie
WHAT? Ok so I missed a bunch apparently, I only watched the first movie.
I watched all 3 and yet I don’t recall any of this 😂 blocked from my memory
iirc its because grindelwald's like "noo i swear i dont hate them omg" and at that point they straight up have forgotten queenie can read minds so she just believes that
i love jacob so much. he has such Nice Uncle vibes, and the actor really sells it. the part where he lost his memory is basically the only moment in these movies with an emotional impact on me. he deserved a way better franchise
hermione granger quiet literally held rita skeeter captive in a jar. she's 100% down for ANYTHING.
WE STAN!!
Yeah that was actually kinda psychotic if you think about it 😅
Honestly one of the funniest things about JK's writing is that her protagonists quite often do stuff that the Hague would investigate and get away with it because they're the good guys so it's fine.
@@mattball8622 In well written series things the protagonists do wrong are called out unlike in Harry Potter where they're treated as OK just because Harry, Ron and Hermione are the protagonists.
@@mattball8622to be fair it’s a kids book and the little shits in that tend to get away with everything
jk rowling really said “one slur for non-magic people isn’t enough”
The even better thing is that there was already a French word, because the novels had been translated into French. But Rowling saw that and noticed it wasn't made by her, so came up with "non-majik", just to make sure we knew this was a French word made up by an English woman
Muggle isn’t a slur
Grindelwald's reveal at the end gave me Scooby Doo vibes.
Fred: Let's see who this dark wizard really is.
Shaggy: Like Zoinks, it's Old Man Johnny Depp.
The fact Jh*nny D*pp is already scary on it's own 💀
"I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for this meddling zookeeper and his dumb animals."
My biggest gripe will always be the fact that they just didn't keep Colin Farrell. Like dude had the vibe, and all that needed to be changed was some white hair and some scars.
Or even bring him back to drive the plot. It would make more sense for Newt to want to help Graves get justice for being impersonated by Grindlewald rather than Dumbledore asking for his help out of thin air 😂
@@noplace3571 Aaaah !! I clicked on this video specifically hoping to find comments about Percival Graves/Colin Farrell's role. Even the producer was very surprised that no one seemed to ask what happened to him, where he was... WTF JKR...
i HAVE to ask, what's up with harry potter fandom and the word gripe? english isn't my first language, but i mean... scroll the internet long enough, and all that, and only lately, after finding myself in hogwarts legacy/ HP rabbit hole have i seen the word "gripe" over and over again.
is it an inside joke or something?
“will we d!e just a little” was written by the mold in JK’s walls
This is official canon for me now. Fully sent me lmfao 🤣
Come thru mold! 😂
@@otter.mayhem I love the idea that we can blame all of JKR's questionable writing choices on the black mold now. The SPEW subplot? Black mold. The idea of Harry naming his child after a manipulative snake and an abusive incel? Blame it on the mold. Everything that happened in The Cursed Child? That's all the mold, baby!
I’m fucking crying. This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I know that “la petit mort” or “the little death” is like an old timey poetic euphemism for having an orgasm
… so like I think Wizard Johnny Depp was like horny…
I like how queenie using the love spell is just kind of seen as a naughty goof
When the idea of making someone love you against their will or knowledge is pretty much mental grape, but she gets a pass cos she cries about it when confronted. BLECK
Even better, the love spell is consistently framed as this harmless childish silly-girl prank even in the OG books. Yknow, the books where the villain "cant feel love" or whatever because hes the product of SA facilitated by that love spell. JKR has been married to the idea that assault is "male violence" longer than shes been openly identifying as a t*rf.
@@jojoslameerrand9305
I have no idea what she thinks about SA against men. On the one hand she seems to recognize it's bad (it created the main villain of the series) but also it's downplayed multiple times in the story. Small things like boys being banned from entering girls' rooms but girls being allowed to boys' rooms... It's as if girls were inherently less predatory even tho the only predators are female
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495and theres moaning myrtle peeking on harry in the bathroom, and its kinda comedic (at least in the movie), and romilda vane accidentally feeding love potion to ron instead of harry and they don't get how thats fucked up until Hermione literally whacks them over the head... Like i get this feeling like she thinks "ah silly girls will do silly things, its cute and boys are actually into it"
She WHAT 😀
I could swear to GOD that I saw somewhere back when this movie came out that the "Will we die, just a little?" was just a random weird line that Depp improvised because he thought Grindelwald should say something to Newt in that moment, but there wasn't anything on the script, so he just... said that... and they left in the movie, for some reason. So Redmayne’s "wtf" reaction was genuine, he actually didn't know what the fuck Depp was on about because he was supposed to just look at him without saying anything. However, I couldn’t find this ANYWHERE now, so maybe I hallucinated a answer to something that has also being haunting me for years. Guess we will never know, but we will, in fact, die just a little every time we think about it.
I've dug deep into google and reddit the best theory i can find is "will we die just a little?" means "Newt, since you've thwarted my plan to let wizards rule over muggles and live their fullest magical lives you've condemned wizards to all die inside slowly little by little. Every day a wizard hides their talent just to avoid muggle witch hunts is equal to that wizard dying just a little. until one day wizard kind will be a shriveled up culture, content to die in the shadows rather than live their true lives."
You know that makes sense and it's a shame it can't be verified
this is now going to haunt me. what did whoever came up with this line mean. what were they trying to say. why did he say it like that.
i own the screenplay of fantastic beasts (obviously published after the film's release, but supposedly the script as it was written and given to the actors) and that line is 100% in there. jk rowling wrote that.
i thought it sounded like something johnny depp would just say on the spot lol
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Regardless of whether it's "more accurate than chatgpt" (which is the lowest bar imaginable) accepting an ai sponsorship is still morally reprehensible.
These planet burning plagiarism machines aren't useful for finding information, they only try and replicate human-seeming text. That's all they're made to do. Using them at all is proof that you're stupid.
I think what got to me the most about the Johnny Depp reveal was that I'm supposed to believe that THAT is who Dumbledore was in love with?
Dumbledore obviously has a thing for pirates.
It's insane that she had Jude Law play Dumbledore when he was my fan cast for Grindelwald back in 2007, because the way she describes him in the book is very "Oscar Wilde talking about his boyfriend", who Jude Law played in a movie once! And there was another video I saw soon after it came out that pointed out that Jared Harris's father was the original Dumbledore actor, and should have played younger Dumbledore, and now I'm mad we didn't get that!!!
Literally. Colin Farrell, okay. Mads Mickelsen, okay. Bloated alcohol soaked Johnny Depp corpse? Come on
Ikr? Mads Micklesen should've been the first choice all along
@@brainshutdown the worst pirates ever apparently
My favorite thing about the Fantastic Beasts franchise was watching content creators who cover a LOT of HP content get more and more confused with every movie. Like, all the knowledge in the world on the HP series and they STILL can't figure out what's going on/whats x in reference to/where we are going from here.
I was watching the second movie in the cinema and I kid you not, I literally comically shouted 'What the actual f*CK??' at the Credence is a Dumbledore reveal.
im begging you to do the other two, i've never seen them but i need to know how this trainwreck ended and i refuse to find out any other way
literally same here😭
Adding my voice to this truth, if I accidentally catch one of these movies on a flight or something I want to be forewarned
the second movie is WAY worse than the first one, and it would be so funny to watch her try to make any sense of it. i need it
I would also like to put my hat in the ring to request finishing this. Plz finish the rest…do not take the same trajectory as this horrible trio of movies lol
Yes, please! After the second one, I couldn't make myself go on. This is the only way I will accept knowing what happened in the third movie.
The VALIDATION I’m getting from the way you speak about Jacob and Queenie. I loved them so much in the first film, I just wanted them to have a good time, and then the rest of the films happened…. They were the only good things about it 👏
Also this video had me HOWLING. I NEED the rest
One of the saddest moments to me in this movie is watching the scene where newt tries to catch the fantastic beast in Central Park. Because you’re seeing for a brief moment the fun movies these could have been if JK Rowling’s new brain worms could actually write
Her old brainworm wasn't that great at writing, either, to be fair
I can't describe the feeling in the cinema when Johnny Depp showed up. Like we all knew Graves was Grindelwald, that wasn't a twist. But the pure incredulity at Johnny Depp doing a bizarre pantomime villain performance was crazy. My friend literally turned to me and whispered "Is that Johnny Depp?? Why is he here?!"
"thank you carley" we all say in unison
thank you!
@@uncarleydo the others PLEASEEE
begging on my hands and knees with my forehead on the ground for you to finish this series. i neeeeed to hear you talk about the Nazis, Queenie's character assassination and the wasted talent of Mads Mikkelsen
When the world needed her most
hello
She... vanished??
@@hyunjinsanity that's what I was thinking 🤣
i think this movie was the first time i came out of the theatre and realised like "oh movies... can be bad???" and it was all downhill from there
Im so glad you still gave the actors props. Their hard work was the only thing bearable about these movies
Especially Dan Fogler (who played Jacob) because I knew him from movies like Fanboys and Balls of Fury where he was always "the funny fat guy". I was super happy to see him break out of that awful stereotype because he's a very talented actor who deserved better!
as an autistic person, i always wondered why newt seemed so relatable to me. checks out. and now “will he die… just ✨a little‼️✨” is gonna be a new vocal stim. i can feel it
I can't tell you how many times I heard 'Newt Scamander' as 'Nudes Commander', I am scarred
I can't unhear it now, thank you for this gem
I’d like to believe that Johnny depp ad libbed that line, like he was trying to work in some improv, and when they were editing they realized they literally didn’t have a better take so they had to use that one.
Mads Mikkelsen's take on Grindelward is top-tier, they should've cast him from the start lol.
It's also more believable that Dumbledore would be madly in love with him.
Literally watched the 3rd movie for him 💀
I haven't seen the third movie and I never will but even as a like, 13 year old watching the first movie I always felt like they should have just kept Colin Farell lol
I'm glad they didn't. Bad enough that his talent was wasted in the one movie
Mads Mikkelsen's take on anything is always top-tier
I'm LGBT, in my forties, and live in Scotland. She has one of her 'houses' here. The shite she's done with her influence... Outside the queer community. She tried to go after our 'right to roam' laws. She's pretty much persona non grata, in most circles.
The part of Harry Potter that rings most true to Rowling's personality is the part where you get a letter declaring you're more special than the boring, jealous peasants, so you get to live in a beautiful castle where they aren't allowed to go.
There are only two reasons why I didn't move to Scotland yet, the unfortunate fact that it's still connected to the rest of terfy Britain and also Jk's moldy presence. I really hope both won't last for long and wish you luck.
The whole 'will we die just a little' bit is absolutely sending me, i never noticed it when i watched it and now i cant stop thinking about it
looked him up because he seemed familiar and the actor for jacob WON A TONY?? insane love him
I did dig the first movie because it was kind of like magical Dr Dolittle with a murder mystery involved but even then, the cracks were showing.
Yes!!!!! the first one is fine, the second is weird and the 3rd is a bottomless hole of awefullness
man, this was a throwback. i watched this movie in theatres. im an autistic guy who relates to animals more than people so i was excited to see the fun animals and a character that’s plot was driven by his zoology. this video just reminded me how CONFUSED I was after the movie. So few fantastic beasts for a movie named FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM!!! DID WE EVEN FIND THEM??? WE DID BUT THEN WE LEFT!!!!
Obviously Grindelwald was referring to track 7 on Tinashe's first independently produced Album Songs For You: "Die A Little Bit"
OH MY GOD
Pls this is so funny
i did NOT expect carley to give me "willkommen, bienvenue, welcome." cackling.
“Another child exploded! Let’s go get a beer!” I’m crying 😭😭
JK Rowling's entire writing ability can be summed up with "anyone else could do this so much better". Like, not to big up the bigot too much, but she came up with a unique world and character concepts that ended up gaining immense popularity and initially made it have a really unique vibe with cosiness mixed with fantasy mixed with action. It could've really been something special.
But instead of leaning into the unique vibes, she made it really "Hollywood-y" and "franchise-y" and action for the sake of action even though FB could've been so nice (I mean, fantasy speakeasys and magic creatures??? Yes please!!). She let the world and characters fall so flat and nonsensical and extra stuff for the sake of extra stuff.
The shaking eye twitch head bobble is SENDING me.
“I wonder who the obscurus is.”
my entire life i'd thought i hadn't watched a single fantastic beasts movie but this video unlocked a memory of watching the ending of the first movie in theatres with my mom and saying "theyre not gonna make Tina and Newt kiss, right? I don't think he likes girls" 💀💀
After being disappointed the first movie wasn't a David Attenborough-esk documentary but for magical animals I only watched the first one so I do require you to cover the next two.
Ugh that mockumentary style version would have been so good, I wish movie studios took a few risks and tried something different but noooo we need more miserable wizard politics and magic nazis
@@villainousthoughts Bro, Imagine if they made it a Watson and Sherlock kinda thing, where Jakob is writing a Journal about his adventures with Newt, narrating the stories. That would have been so cool, and they could still do shit like take down illegal magical beasts smugglers and stuff
@@frozenyogurth yeah like imagine he publishes that as a fiction book later after having his memories erased and that's how he gets the money for his bakery instead of randomly getting a bunch of silver eggs he can't possibly know the origin of and with how suspicious that was realistically probably couldn't have sold them to get money for it anyway??
@@frozenyogurth oh my goodness that would have been *wonderful*!!
I just want to say...Newt is my favorite fictional character. He's a male protagonist with obvious autistic traits, no personal ambition, and no desire to be the greatest wizard of all time. He's just a normal human being who I relate to a lot. Pity how far the other two movies got off track. We might have had an autistic character heading a major franchise. Ah well...suppose we'll have to settle for gay wizard supremacists.
"Will we die, just a little?" is actually raw-chicken-breast-looking johnny depp hinting at something he saw in his divination skull bong rips - the fantastic beasts franchise dying, just a little. It's not DEFINITELY cancelled but, like, we all know it's dead
Oh God, I completely forgot about the fucking skull bong! I can't wait for that to be covered in part 2!
Yeah Grindlewald's not a seer. Just high as fuck.
this franchise had the potential to be a cute little slice-of-life adventure about a Magical (&British) Professor who studies and takes care of animals and call it Vet Who or some shit.
Oh i am SO fucking sat to watch you rip these apart
thank youuu
The term for when a singer is performing dialogue in a song is called a 'recitative'. So speak singing is recitative. That term always escapes me when i try to think of it.
The earphones are going in, dinner is ready to go & another banger video just dropped… small things like this really make my day✨
ugh what a vibe
these movies could have been something that entirely defined the cinematic genre of 2010’s if and only if they actually focused on THE FANTASTIC BEASTS!!!!!!
Can we please give it up for our chronic pain warrior!? Girlies with bubble guts rise up!
yesssss
I watched this movie when I was still a potterhead (derogatory) and haven't seen, nor have any desire to see, the second two. I'm so stokes for the next two parts of this series so I can experience them vicariously throught you
I love Newt and I feel so bad for him as a character
newt is trapped in this movie tbh
@@uncarleyhonestly!!!! He was the first character I ever truely saw myself in as an autistic person and I can’t even enjoy the media he’s in 😭😭😭
Same, I just wanted more focus on him 😭
the way i cackled at the johnny depp impression lmao. glad i’m not the only one that obsessively googled “will we die just a little” because surely it was a reference! but no just johnny depp being ~quirky~ villain.
Oh girlie I was FERAL just hungry THIRSTY thanks for feeding me
happy to help
Don't worry Carley, I can't remember things that happened an hour ago and yet I can recite entire SpongeBob episodes from memory.
Thank you for reminding me that the first on screen Jewish character in the HP franchise is introduced eating a hot dog
JK is gonna tweet in 5 years that it was actually a beef hot dog 😂
@@katerrinah5442
There are kosher hot dogs made out of beef in real life. I suppose that there could have been kosher beef hot dogs produced back in the era that Fantastic Beasts is set as well.
@MelissaWickersham-k4o yes but the point is that they could've made it literally anything else or had them mention that the hot dog was kosher in the movie but nobody cared to do proper research
Get that bag, but also don't use AI for research. There's a lot of junk sources on the Internet it can pull from.
it's still crazy to me that the second film immediately undermines and ignores all of the stakes set up at the end of the first one, like nothing at the end of that film mattered at all.
The third one does that two with the blood pact
It's like: drama...we can't fight each other we'll die!
3rd movie: actually nevermind
It's so funny to me that JK Rowling purports that she has built like such an elaborate and deep universe of the Wizarding World and yet everytime she writes anything Wizarding it has to be intimately connected into every other Wizarding story as if there are absolutely no events in the Wizarding World that are distant from the people or events that we already know.
I don't mind the first movie, it's not top-tier cinema but it's ok. However, I cannot comprehend why a studio greenlighted the second and third one.
Yesss!!! In what World would these movies have worked!?!?
We live in a world where someone spent half a billion dollars on Rings of Power.
i just KNOW “will we die just a little” in that goblin voice is going to be my new stim for the next week. thank you carley.
thank you so much. i just finished my harry potter marathon and watched fantastic beasts and after movie 1 I couldn’t continue. I immediately went to youtube and started looking for essays on why it was so bad. Thank you Carlie!!
i had to watch prisoner of azkaban in the middle of my fantastic beasts marathon bc these movies are such a slog
@@uncarley so real😭
16:08 can confirm, I used get a hotdog at Stratford station for £2 and eat it while listening to the religious extremist shout that we’re all going to hell who was always there on a Sunday
Thats so weirdly specific i imagine it in a hot fuzz typa movie scenario now 😂
May be a controversial opinion, but from what I remember when I saw this back when it was released, I definitely thought at the time that Tina and Queenie were also both autistic coded, just presenting very differently. I'm dx autistic and I saw so much of myself in Queenie. And the whole mind reading thing, that's a thing that's talked about with autistics and pattern recognition, sometimes it seems like we can "predict the future" but it's just that we can be VERY good at pattern recognition and see something coming a mile away because of it.
But also yeah, Newt is like the most autistic coded character I've ever seen in a movie ever and I love him so much.
that scene in a later movie when queenie has a breakdown on the street because the voices she hears when mind reading are too loud hit undiagnosed autistic 12 year old me SO HARD
please continue. pleeeeease im begging. I'm laughing so hard at "will we die just a little" never noticed it before
newt's character pisses me off because he doesn't belong in this franchise. he is such a nice twist from the usual aggressive, borderline misogynistic MC in any other mainstream franchise and it upsets me deeply. to be fair every main character except for tina doesn't belong here because they had the potential to be amazing if they had been in another movie
Omg, my tea went through my nose when you did the Johnny Depp jumpscare impression 🥲
“Try a lobotomy” will live in my head rent free for years 😂 top tier insult!
"try a lobotomy, I don't know" is my new favorite catchphrase
jk rowling being the real villain of this franchise
per usual
The joke theories of her being Rita Skeeter were true in the end!
@@williammerwin1850More like Umbridge.
this movie was such potential squandered T^T Just wanted a lil cosy movie about Newt and his friends finding new beasts and maybe a treasure hunt of some kind????Would have been real cute
i want 2 hours of whatever that platypus gets up to, i don't even care if it's magical. just film a platypus. that's a fantastic beast, right? it's a mammal what lays eggs! also the venom thing! i know where to find those guys, Australia. also, most zoos.
not a huge amount of Zoos in my experience, but some
but yeah I do just want to watch a platypus documentary, better than anything jkr could make
As someone who only saw this movie once and never bothered with the rest i was SO ready te request a follow up only to see the next part is out already I want to say thank you so much. This was massively enjoyable to watch. Now I can find out whatever tf happened next and enjoy all the insane highlights without having to sit through the actual movies themselves thanks.
That "What if we die just a little" line is going to be circling my head all day.
I've dug deep into google and reddit the best explanation i can find is "will we die just a little?" means "Newt, since you've thwarted my plan to let wizards rule over muggles and live their fullest magical lives you've condemned wizards to all die inside slowly little by little. Every day a wizard hides their talent just to avoid muggle witch hunts is equal to that wizard dying just a little. until one day wizard kind will be a shriveled up culture, content to die in the shadows rather than live their true lives."
Truly I think the two main things about JK that set this whole thing up for failure: 1) she's hated magic since book 5 and can never escape this magic empire she's created and 2) she hates animals and thinks hurting them is a funny joke to use all throughout the original series so like... WHY did she want to even pretend she was writing a script about cute magical animals
YES, even as an oblivious kid I was regularly annoyed by how casually disdainful and abusive the series was towards animals. I was an animal kid, so reading the characters constantly experiment on and shit talk any creature that wasn't traditionally "pretty" or "cute" felt so alien.
im curious what makes you say that "she's hated magic since book 5", i'm sure you have evidence but it's been a while
@@lavernebennet7395yes I want to know as well
@@lavernebennet7395Same, I'd like to know too. It's been so long since I read the books that I can't put together any theory.
@lavernebennet7395
JKR certainly regretted time turners and had them all destroyed in canon.
Didn't stop cursed child from using them tho 😅
The Pink and blue sisters analogy is sooo spot on. I am dead😂
You know what, I’m incredibly glad that Jacob got his bakery after all that. He deserves it.
I also need you to talk about movie three cause like, I too love chaos and chaotic seasons of tv over normal ones
Nothing can express how happy it would make me if you were to cover the whole trilogy 💖 I don't know anything about this but I'm loving the drama
Sometimes I see the title of a video and then who made it and I just remember why life is amazing and worth living
omg thank u bestie
This is the first video of yours I’ve come across, and MAN am I entertained. I really love your presentation style and humour. I was having such a rough day but this had me giggling and snorting. If you haven’t already-I’m about to subscribe and check out the rest of your channel-pleeeease do the other movies too. Your commentary is frankly iconic.
36:33 no because the way I literally sobbed in the cinema at this part 😭😭😭 I guess it was a trauma response to “returning to the real world” after reading through all the HP books as a child 😅
i totally get sobbing. that part is SO sad. the actors are a big part of why, but it's also just a good plot point that's done well. it's one of the best moments in any of jkr's work and i can't believe it's in THIS franchise 💀
I also googled the die a little quote and according to the director:
"You know, ultimately, I think that’s what he’s saying there is he’s saying, “We’re gonna be on this amazing journey together, you and I. And it will demand an enormous amount from both of us in what it will put us through. And in that journey, we will probably sacrifice quite a bit. We will lose part of ourselves on the journey. So that’s what that means, I think. Will we die, just a little?"
Which is truly an insane attempt to justify a nonsense phrase.
_"Die a little"_ is likely a reference to the French term for The Big O _"Le Petit Mort"_ or The Little Death.
@@bushybeardedbear so he's asking if they're gonna fuck 😭
I always felt this story didn't make sense for fantastic beasts. Just make it a story about Newt traveling the world to investigate different animals. Why do we need dumbledore vs grindelwald.
The Dumbledore and Grindlewald def needed to be its own thing separate from Newt and Fantastic Beasts.
Also remember how JKR and WB just fully backed Johnny depp when he abused his wife and said “there’s more to the story” and then KEPT HIM IN THE MOVIES
My favorite hobby is hating so thank you for feeding me
Carley, nine million years late, but your “will we die…just a little?” impression genuinely had me in tears
The absolute whiplash I got from first seeing the actor who plays Jacob Kowalski play Dane Cook's incredibly misogynistic best friend in Good Luck Chuck is crazy
Hey there. Random trans gal stuck on TERF Island here. Truly loved this and would love to hear about the other two movies!
I'm sorry you are having a tough time. Lot of that going around. Your videos have genuinely brought me a lot of joy in some recent difficult times, so thank ever so much. Sending love, support, and solidarity x
No not terf island 😢 sending you love 💕💕stay safe girl
@@rosalindmorley Much appreciate x
6:07 always here for jk rowling + any transphobe slander
honestly me too
we love to see a billionaire losing
Me, my mom, my aunt, and a bunch of my cousins all went to see the first movie in the theater when it came out. We had a good time, but I think that was mostly because we are all polish and we were going crazy over the fact that Jacob had a bunch of Polish pastries that we all loved that he was trying to sell. Like, just imagine a whole row of Polish teens and adults going "YES PACZKI GUY!!!!"