Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

“There isn’t any rising action, random stuff just happens until it’s time for an unearned climax”

ucieaters33▲ 628about 0–100% inread it ↗

“Pretty much nothing in that first hour mattered or impacted how things end up.”

ucieaters33▲ 628about 0–50% inread it ↗

“you can get the gist of them if you just watch the last 20 minutes”

ucieaters33▲ 628about 80–100% inread it ↗

“There was a moment, about midway through the movie, when Kowalski and Hicks are escaping from the dinner party/assassination attempt. They race up a stairway of magically-summoned book pages. It's a slow-motion, vividly lit, beautifully shot sequence that lasts no more than ten seconds. It was my favorite part of the movie. It was the only part of the movie where my eyes widened in wonder and I felt a little twinge of awe”

bigpig1054▲ 421about 40–60% inread it ↗

“it managed to keep my attention up to 90% of the time”

bzndkabout 0–90% inread it ↗

“Recycled Beasts, Diminished Character Power, and Superficial Emotional Depth Make for an Ungainly and Flat Wizarding Sequel.221113 (1.5)The fantastic beasts feel mostly recycled, and while the cast remains charming, the character presence has diminished drastically compared to the first installment. The narrative carries inherently tragic setups, but exploring them with such shallow depth leaves the overarching experience rather bland and anticlimactic; had the film offered far more screen time ”

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“If you ask why this movie exists then it quickly comes to mind that its solemnly for finance reasons. I cant think of another reason why this movie had to be made. The Plot is barely existing, it has an idea but not an elaborated plot as normal movies. The Idea why there needs to be an undertaking is conveyed to the audience but never the reasoning or the actual threat. The whole base idea is Dumbledore and Grindelwald have been more than close (by the way, dumbledoore is gay) and have created a”

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“So, for me, this movie did get off to a poor start indeed.”

Dark Jediabout 0–15% inread it ↗

“Too bad the first half suffers from the constant tweaks to the saga, taking once-important characters through irrelevant side adventures and repairing plot points established in earlier insta”

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