Fantastic Beasts has worst opening of any HP film

[alsemanche 93,932]

I've only seen the first movie of this series and it was very meh. I watched the trailers for the other 2 and they didn't get me hooked in any way. I wouldn't have paid a dime for them anyway but like I don't even feel the desire to pirate them to watch  and that's coming from someone who's seen and read HP books endless times including the Fantastic Beasts book and whatever other publications they released back then.

[MelbHawker 6,583]

I saw the film last night - I really enjoyed it.

I really only went to see it because the Dumbledore/Grindelwald storyline is something that I was so intrigued by whilst reading the books when I was a kid. It was cool seeing it on the big screen. Jude Law is so fab as Dumbledore & although I love Johnny Depp, Mads Mikkelsen was flawless as Grindelwald.

I lowkey wish Dumbledore’s back story was explored outside of Fantastic Beasts, not via it. I was hoping there’d be a depiction of what happened between Albus/Aberforth/Ariana, not just a gloss over / monologue. Law delivered it brilliantly though. Anyhow, I don’t think there’ll be a fourth & fifth film the way things are going with this franchise. 

 

[HorusRa2 5,005]

55 minutes ago, tomdsgn said:

It’s a Harry Potter movie and it’s behind Jackass and Morbius LMFAO

are you honestly coming in here and comparing a movie that came out 3 weeks ago to one after its 1st weekend. come on, do better.

 

At any rate, the opening is still a disaster. It's sad because from what I've heard, this one is better than the previous two by more than a considerable amount. 

[Reginald 13,841]

not @HermioneT clicking like on the shady comments, I--  The characters don't even like her 

[holy scheisse 22,277]

These movies have been so boring tbh. I tried to watch the first one the other day and turned it off halfway thru cuz… boring

[Galvon 1,868]

Sometimes I wonder where it went wrong. For me the fun was starting to disapear since 2016, with the release of The Cursed Child. Already felt like a betray. Ever since I started to care less about new HP related media. I only saw the first Fantastic Beast movie and I wasn't intrigued enough to see the scond one. Recently JKR made it very easy for me to skip the 3rd one as well.

[Prostitute Barbie 4,077]

As much as I love HP it’s kind of a weird feeling how apathetic I am about this whole series. I think a lot of other HP fans feel the same. I tried watching Crimes of Grindelwald the other night since I’d never seen it and ended up giving up on it 30 minutes through because it was so uninteresting to me. I wouldn’t care one bit if they announced today they were canceling the next 2 movies 

[thatfoxyfeeling 13,017]

This franchise just hasn’t appealed to me in the slightest. It always screamed cash grab when the first film was announced, they would’ve been more interesting if they were individual films set in the Wizarding World. 

[Regina George 59,387]

They need to end this fantastic beasts series and focus on dumbledore and grindelwald for one or two more movies. No one likes these new characters. 

[HorusRa2 5,005]

58 minutes ago, Regina George said:

They need to end this fantastic beasts series and focus on dumbledore and grindelwald for one or two more movies. No one likes these new characters. 

In this particular case, the problem is that the first movie set everything up incorrectly (primarily driven by JKR being the screenwriter). JKR is a good writer for fiction; however, writing a screenplay requires an entirely different set of skills. She did not do a good job with the screenplay, set up plots that were not subsequently pushed forward. As a result, the previous movie was basically trying to do damage control (and succeeded but it makes the movie as a whole take a dip in quality). I cannot speak about this movie; however, as I've not seen it. 

[Galvon 1,868]

1 hour ago, Regina George said:

They need to end this fantastic beasts series and focus on dumbledore and grindelwald for one or two more movies. No one likes these new characters. 

From what I know fantastic beasts was originaly going to be a trilogy. That's what we knew it was going to be, but when the first movie came out they said it was going to be 5 movies. They were very confident at the time, I imagine they wish they were done by now.

[bionic 50,107]

Fantastic Beasts and the Wizarding War (or whatever this storyline is called) have no business being merged into the same saga. They should be two sets of film. A lot of people enjoyed the first film (myself included) but most people I spoke to though the second was trash- it was not what the series was marketed to be at all

[boiswifty 1,051]

it's actually the best out of the three  this movie just.... slayed  y'all better give it a chance 

[alecks 744]

4 hours ago, MelbHawker said:

I saw the film last night - I really enjoyed it.

I really only went to see it because the Dumbledore/Grindelwald storyline is something that I was so intrigued by whilst reading the books when I was a kid. It was cool seeing it on the big screen. Jude Law is so fab as Dumbledore & although I love Johnny Depp, Mads Mikkelsen was flawless as Grindelwald.

I lowkey wish Dumbledore’s back story was explored outside of Fantastic Beasts, not via it. I was hoping there’d be a depiction of what happened between Albus/Aberforth/Ariana, not just a gloss over / monologue. Law delivered it brilliantly though. Anyhow, I don’t think there’ll be a fourth & fifth film the way things are going with this franchise. 

 

Mads should have been Grindelwald all along. I agree - he was flawless. Jude Law as well. And they just ooze charisma on screen. Honestly, the whole cast does. And Theseus is an absolute PIECE 
 

I have a feeling they’ll squeeze out a 4th movie to tie up loose ends. It would look worse if they just abandoned the story midway through, imo. It was originally set up as a trilogy before they added two more as a cash grab. It should have stayed a trilogy. 

[StrawberryBlond 14,888]

Not surprised. Forget any controversies swirling around, I was totally confused after the second one. I genuinely did not know who all these characters were, didn't know what was going on with the plot, didn't seem to understand why I was expected to know what was going on. I've never left a cinema completely bamboozled as to what I just saw. If an adult can't understand it, how are children and teens expected to? Shocked to find recently that there were 5 movies planned for this, I originally thought it was going to be a trilogy, which is why I thought I'd have to watch the third one as I can't stand giving up on a series when I'm only one away from finishing. But 3 more movies of more baffling stuff for 2+ hours? No thanks.