Phantastic beasts and when to see them...
Nov. 17th, 2016 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minavox...in my case: two days early - and then I was late for the press screening. Aaaaah. I think for the overarching sinister "how on earth do we poor little wizards and witches deal with the foes outside our little community (with office buildings Trump would be proud of)"-plot the first 7-8 minutes would have been helpful. *sigh* Someone up for a repeat viewing?
Anyway, I liked the movie. More than I expected, to be honest. I always found the Potter films cramped and overly sweet and conventional (first half of PoA being the exemption). Phantastic Beasts was different: obviously it helps if a movie of this genre doesn't try to cover a year, but settles for a couple of action-packed days.
Eddie Redmayne as Newt is cute, but started getting a bit on my nerves at the end. Failed auror Tina is wonderful but not that relatable - this job is done by their more mundane "mirrors", the little sister and theMuggle No-Maj.
Percival Graves is very, very cool (I never thought I'd say this of a character played by Colin Farrell) - it would be a pity if he really is long dead and Grindelwald just somehow took up his appearance. Even on a strictly aesthetical level I'd always prefer Colin Farrell to Johnny Depp (I never thought I'd say this, either).
Graves and poor opressed Credence had some seriously creepy interaction - I wouldn't have needed the "wave of destruction running amok in the streets of big city"-kind of ultimate violence that was considered necessary even for this very un-Marvel movie. Makes them look all the same, in the end. But at least in the wizarding world there are people that clean up after the evil wizards exploded or shifted shapes.
Still, it was very entertaining!
Anyway, I liked the movie. More than I expected, to be honest. I always found the Potter films cramped and overly sweet and conventional (first half of PoA being the exemption). Phantastic Beasts was different: obviously it helps if a movie of this genre doesn't try to cover a year, but settles for a couple of action-packed days.
Eddie Redmayne as Newt is cute, but started getting a bit on my nerves at the end. Failed auror Tina is wonderful but not that relatable - this job is done by their more mundane "mirrors", the little sister and the
Percival Graves is very, very cool (I never thought I'd say this of a character played by Colin Farrell) - it would be a pity if he really is long dead and Grindelwald just somehow took up his appearance. Even on a strictly aesthetical level I'd always prefer Colin Farrell to Johnny Depp (I never thought I'd say this, either).
Graves and poor opressed Credence had some seriously creepy interaction - I wouldn't have needed the "wave of destruction running amok in the streets of big city"-kind of ultimate violence that was considered necessary even for this very un-Marvel movie. Makes them look all the same, in the end. But at least in the wizarding world there are people that clean up after the evil wizards exploded or shifted shapes.
Still, it was very entertaining!
