How is it?

It's good.

It's bad.

It's ok

Not dull.

It's something

It's good in some part, bad in others, mostly just ok though.

Would have been fine as a standalone, but all the universe building made it shit

Maybe it's Maybelline.

>>86285344
It's pretty good, the ending scene threw me. I mean if wizards could fix that much shit in such a short time over that large of an area like why did they have trouble with Grindewald or Voldemort?

Fantastic Beasts is the perfect example of the modern Hollywood movie. It casts the hit Hollywood star of the minute and it's loosely connected to a wildly successful franchise. This movie was made for the sole purpose of making money. There is no other reason. Rowling, Yates, the actors, everyone... all in it for the money.

It's easy to imagine the pre-production meetings... You know, that cute tree in Guardians of the Galaxy was really popular among audiences, let's have one of those. And people really liked that dive bar with lots of goofy creatures and fun music in Star Wars, let's have one of those too. It's frustrating when I hear people call this film imaginative. There's a reason all the fantastic beasts look so cute. Because toys.

Yet again we see Eddie Redmayne overact, taking the role of "autistic British wizard" to a level not needed. There was no chemistry between any of the actors, which made for awkward moments throughout the whole 2+ hours runtime. The relationship between Colin Ferrell and Ezra Miller especially seems unintentionally predatory.

There are two completely separate plots that are sloppily connected. One of the plots is pushed so hard and is used only to create a franchise of this thing. If they focused on only the fantastic beasts instead of the bizarre possessed horror aspect with a cheap twist, the film might not have been half bad.

In the end, yet again, almost a whole city gets destroyed in the climax. By now it is beyond tiring and by my count that is how FOUR big budget movies have ended in 2016. And by what, a fucking dark cloud. The whole film, each and every scene, is predictable, features terrible CGI, obvious blue screen, lifeless sound stages, and is riddled with plot holes

Tldr: Utter shit

I will DVR it & there it will wait for months.

Then & only then, I will delete it.

Thank you, Home Box office, my hreatest ally.

>>86285478
Because there was no way to kill voldemort by fixing buildings.

>>86285344
I liked it a lot.

Boring, nothing felt genuine between the character motivations and there's no momentum to the movie, it just happens like an awkward rape

>>86285493
>There was no chemistry between any of the actors, which made for awkward moments throughout the whole 2+ hours runtime.


Movie was fine, but this statement is very true.

>>86285644
The setting and art direction are pretty nice though.

>>86285454
This. I liked it more than most of the Harry Potter movies