Recapping the Epic Failure of the Fantastic Beasts Movies
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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?_
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
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
Unfortunately the only canonical Jewish character in Harry Potter is “Anthony GOLDSTEIN!!!” Like jfc Joanne
@@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?
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
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
“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 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
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
hermione granger quiet literally held rita skeeter captive in a jar. she's 100% down for ANYTHING.
WE STAN!!
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.
"thank you carley" we all say in unison
thank you!
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!!
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.
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
When the world needed her most
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She... vanished??
@@hyunjinsanity that's what I was thinking 🤣
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 💀
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
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)
I've really thought hard about this concept in the context of the wizarding world and why someone would come up with something like this, in-universe. And I'm thinking (if we set aside the whole AIDS subtext mess for a moment) that in a universe where there's a disease that's basically like once-per-month rabies, which turns people into violent, homicidal creatures who at best are incapable of recognizing their own loved ones (Lupin) and at worst actively position themselves as terrorist weapons (Greyback), the infectious disease authorities would MOST DEFINITELY want to keep tabs on people who have contracted a disease this hazardous and transmittable in order to curb future harm. But my hope would be--and I doubt JK ever thought of it like this--that being on a werewolf registry meant their identities would be kept private from the public and they'd be provided with free resources and care so that they can live as normal of lives as they could, seeing as there's the incredible Wolfsbane potion for symptom management. To treat it like both an infectious disease and a disability, since in the real world discrimination against a disability should be unlawful. (I was always so mad about the whole Lupin thing. It's so unfair. He was discriminated against to the point he couldn't even afford enough food or to replace his clothing.)
However, that's too compassionate and sensible a take, so instead we got basically the sex offender registry but it's to ostracize innocent people who literally can't control an incurable disease they didn't ask for in the first place.
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!
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
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 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
Oh i am SO fucking sat to watch you rip these apart
thank youuu
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 💀
"the bank is where coins live" makes them so much cozier
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
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jk rowling really said “one slur for non-magic people isn’t enough”
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
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
jk rowling being the real villain of this franchise
per usual
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
"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!
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
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 😭😭😭
Obviously Grindelwald was referring to track 7 on Tinashe's first independently produced Album Songs For You: "Die A Little Bit"
OH MY GOD
“Try a lobotomy” will live in my head rent free for years 😂 top tier insult!
Can we please give it up for our chronic pain warrior!? Girlies with bubble guts rise up!
yesssss
“Another child exploded! Let’s go get a beer!” I’m crying 😭😭
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
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
The shaking eye twitch head bobble is SENDING me.
“I wonder who the obscurus is.”
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
Oh girlie I was FERAL just hungry THIRSTY thanks for feeding me
happy to help
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
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
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 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.
Whoever made the decision of casting Johnny Depp as Jude Law's love interest needs to be fired, especially if it was JK herself.
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i literally watch youtube videos as a distraction when i'm having a flare-up so i feel seen 😭
i’m having a flare up rn so i felt that
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.
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
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😭
@@uncarley So real. Prisoner of Azkaban is BY FAR the best one.
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 😅
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
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
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.
looked him up because he seemed familiar and the actor for jacob WON A TONY?? insane love him
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 💀
That "What if we die just a little" line is going to be circling my head all day.
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
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
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
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.
Maybe Johnny Depp didn’t hear the line being read in his earpiece quite right and that’s how that mystery line about dying just a little came about
2:38 girl no
Immediate thought
same
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
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.
PLEASE don’t flop. I need a part 2 and 3
"will we die just a little" lives rent free in my brain and i'm so mad that it's not a reference to anything? it's just? there like that????
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
i did NOT expect carley to give me "willkommen, bienvenue, welcome." cackling.
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.
Before JK came fully out as a shitty person, I felt the best way to do these movies would have been to have Newt out to get various magic critters and the C plot would have been him accidentally stumbling upon the various Grindelwald story lines and saving the day with said magic critters. That should have been the formula for each movie. Obviously that's not what we got.
Yes absolutely!!
i think they could have asked david attenborough voice over a BBC docu of the beasts and it would still be more interesting, like actual stories of how the beasts got into the suitcase
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!!!!
5:35 GIRL when you said this I perked my little dumbass head up like "WAIT, WHO'S GAY IN THESE" and then I remembered what these movies were about and who was in them and I was like "OH YEAAAAAA I LITERALLY FORGOT" because it was so stupid and forgettable JK needs to just stop trying to write queers we dont want her
She generally sucks at writing romance but that doesn't stop her in writing straight couples.
My favorite hobby is hating so thank you for feeding me
"Will we die, just a little" is now tattooed on my brain. It's not going away any time soon.
The evil Colin Farrell impression and the Defying Gravity parallel: incredible. Top notch video.
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
I'd like two more of these videos, please. They don't HAVE to be about the sequels, but it would make the most sense, I feel. Up to you.
If HBO don’t cast Carly as Bellatrix Lestrange I’ll eat my sorting hat.
Omg, my tea went through my nose when you did the Johnny Depp jumpscare impression 🥲
I loved the first one as a tween/teen because I was also charmed by Newt and there were cute creatures and was melodramatic romance!! And then in the next two they were like nope no more of that time for boredom
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.
You absolutely have to do the other ones or I’ll die just a little bit
JK went full George Lucas with this movie; Oh you love this universe? You had lot of fun following this epic tale of good verses evil, rooting for the heroes? Well here's a prequel that's all about.... politics! And bland characters! And CGI!
What I think is great about this video is that your energy was so chaotic that it felt like an emotional representation of the films themselves. Very meta.
Hot take, Fantastic Beasts should have been an Isekai style story with Jacob as the protagonist and Newt as the deuteragonist
Autist here - Newt is super autistic. It's a *little* awkward because he is acting like kind of a stereotype, but it's not as bad as say that one Sia movie. I remember him and Jacob very fondly even if this movie and JKR is… a goddamn mess
Went from watching the marauders video at lunch to this for dinner 😌👌
what a marathon
i might need to go rewatch that after this because the Fantastic Beasts movies (of which I only saw two) were painful 😂😂
Please please please do the other movies as well. They are so chaotic, and I need you to just rip them a new one.
Also, I agree about movie no 3 being a chaotic fave, but to me it’s 100% because of the recast of Grindelwald. This movie is so all over the place, but AT LEAST Mads Mikkelsen’s Grindelwald is more believable both as a love interest and as a demagogue.
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.
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."
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!!!!!!
please continue. pleeeeease im begging. I'm laughing so hard at "will we die just a little" never noticed it before
the fact I saw the most DIABOLICAL ad before the video, for a Bark (?) collab with Harry Potter?!?! I don’t even have a pet tf
Carley I had a semi viral tumblr post back in the day about how FBAWTFT should have been Indiana Jones-esque. It got numbers, honestly the wasted potential of the concept is SO infuriating!!!