Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Nov. 20th, 2016 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI saw "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" yesterday, it was fun. My favorite part were the animals. So pretty! The Thunderbird and the winged snakes (Occamy, according to the internet) especially, I also liked the Swooping Evil and the bowtruckles, and the others we saw were cool too, the whole environment inside the suitcase was fantastic. If Newt created it himself he must be pretty powerful (and if he didn't, rich.)
I mostly liked the characters. I would be very annoyed at Newt's lack of safety measures too – seriously, letting a Niffler escape in a Muggle bank? He should be punished for that, at least a hefty fine. But I came to mostly like him later when I saw how much he cared for his creatures.
I liked Tina too, though she seems a bit, hm, spontaneous, in the sense of not thinking things through properly, but she's trying to do well. I thought her sister was creepy – a Legilimens who says she can't always stop reading people's minds? And who doesn't even ask permission first? *shudders* Goldstein is a Jewish name, I didn't expect it to come up in the movie but I hope there will be some exploration of Jewish magical culture in fic.
I liked Kowalski, I found the head of the anti-witch society appropriately creepy, and I liked Graves as character. I liked Credence, except something about his appearance rubbed me the wrong way, it almost seemed like they were trying to hard? I couldn't put my finger on it, but his appearance looked almost too familiar for the character type.
The casting for Grindelwald is terrible, even apart from the actor's character. It's always a problem when you look at a movie character and you see the actor, and especially when the actor is so connected with specific things/roles like here that when he was revealed some people laughed. Not the reaction they were going for.
I mostly liked the plot too, at no point was it so stupid that it was distracting (a low bar that's too often not cleared.) The beautiful scenery probably helped. Thinking back a few things made more sense once I knew that Graves was Grindelwald, watching it again would probably clarify it even more. A few things seemed like they might be elements being set up for later films, like the Shaw family, we'll see.
(Sidenote: one magical school in North America, or even the US? Extremely implausible, it's so big, how could one school be enough. The brief school pride exchange between Newt and Queenie was cute though.)
Five films in total, I learned. There'll be more Grindelwald, of course, and more Credence (I'd love to see him maybe get in contact with Modesty and his other siblings again, probably not in the films but maybe in fic), more Newt, probably Tina though they'd have to be on the same continent again, and new characters too. And hopefully more magical beasts!
I think this was only the second movie that I saw in a theater this year (the first was Ghostbusters.) Three last December though, and there are three more movies I'm planning to see in theater this year: Rogue One, and probably Arrival and Moana. Looks like December is movie month.
Other things: I hadn't been sick for so long that I forgot how much it sucks. A lot. I'm not at the stage where I need someone to look after me, but just in case, this is one of the reasons why I'm happy I don't live alone.
I mostly liked the characters. I would be very annoyed at Newt's lack of safety measures too – seriously, letting a Niffler escape in a Muggle bank? He should be punished for that, at least a hefty fine. But I came to mostly like him later when I saw how much he cared for his creatures.
I liked Tina too, though she seems a bit, hm, spontaneous, in the sense of not thinking things through properly, but she's trying to do well. I thought her sister was creepy – a Legilimens who says she can't always stop reading people's minds? And who doesn't even ask permission first? *shudders* Goldstein is a Jewish name, I didn't expect it to come up in the movie but I hope there will be some exploration of Jewish magical culture in fic.
I liked Kowalski, I found the head of the anti-witch society appropriately creepy, and I liked Graves as character. I liked Credence, except something about his appearance rubbed me the wrong way, it almost seemed like they were trying to hard? I couldn't put my finger on it, but his appearance looked almost too familiar for the character type.
The casting for Grindelwald is terrible, even apart from the actor's character. It's always a problem when you look at a movie character and you see the actor, and especially when the actor is so connected with specific things/roles like here that when he was revealed some people laughed. Not the reaction they were going for.
I mostly liked the plot too, at no point was it so stupid that it was distracting (a low bar that's too often not cleared.) The beautiful scenery probably helped. Thinking back a few things made more sense once I knew that Graves was Grindelwald, watching it again would probably clarify it even more. A few things seemed like they might be elements being set up for later films, like the Shaw family, we'll see.
(Sidenote: one magical school in North America, or even the US? Extremely implausible, it's so big, how could one school be enough. The brief school pride exchange between Newt and Queenie was cute though.)
Five films in total, I learned. There'll be more Grindelwald, of course, and more Credence (I'd love to see him maybe get in contact with Modesty and his other siblings again, probably not in the films but maybe in fic), more Newt, probably Tina though they'd have to be on the same continent again, and new characters too. And hopefully more magical beasts!
I think this was only the second movie that I saw in a theater this year (the first was Ghostbusters.) Three last December though, and there are three more movies I'm planning to see in theater this year: Rogue One, and probably Arrival and Moana. Looks like December is movie month.
Other things: I hadn't been sick for so long that I forgot how much it sucks. A lot. I'm not at the stage where I need someone to look after me, but just in case, this is one of the reasons why I'm happy I don't live alone.
