Sauce: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=118226


This post has been edited by firedauz: Oct 16 2014, 01:08 AM

3 movies until 2020!

Looking forward to this. Will it be as dark as the Harry Potter series I wonder???

The music score towards the end was almost Harry Potter-ish but decides not to go there

take my money

double post

This post has been edited by elm0001: Dec 18 2015, 09:39 AM

I didn't know if its my high hope or the expectation after seeing it rate 100% at RT on early review, but it just didn't quite pleased me. The visual and world building is great but the dynamic between main characters and plots not so much. There so much happening in the first act that I didn't bother to care (even put me to good sleep a few minute).

Need to watch it again for its visual and to catch up what I've missed during my snooze. Maybe I'll like it better the second time.

This post has been edited by lord_aminkin: Nov 17 2016, 01:19 PM

Perhaps the best spinoff (of a big franchise) in recent years. This is how you should do it, cash-grabbers!

Will go to watch this with my fiancée this Saturday. Weeeeeeeeeee

I hope it will not disappointing.

well, this movie exceeded my expectation. was expecting a kiddy movie ala the first harry potter, but ended up pleasantly surprised with the darker theme similar to the latter movies in the harry potter series.

oh and there's a surprise actor appearance near the end of the movie. similar to matt damon's appearance in Interstellar, who was not involved or shown in any of the movie's ads or promotion.

my only major gripe is with the acting of the main actor, eddie redmayne. i dont know, something's a bit off. i believe he is supposed to portray a weird character but ended up being a bit cringey lol.

character development a bit lacking, but since this is the first movie in the series (they planned 5 movies), im pretty sure jk rowling will take her sweet time to reveal more in depth on each of the characters' past.

a solid 8/10 from me

This post has been edited by G_KeN: Nov 18 2016, 01:10 PM

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Gosh, how am I to review this...

Truth to be told, the Harry Potter books got me back into reading books...

Then the movies came about, and they were actually decent adaptation of the books!

So, in short, I read all 7 books, and have to admit, I have not read the Fantastic Beast and Where to find Them... It is a thin book...

And I understand they are making a couple of this???!!!

Let me do it this way

The Good

I am NOT a fan of Eddie Redmayne. I understand he had won awards for his works, and I cannot remember being drawn by his acting skills... Until now...


Warner, hoping for another cash cow, spared no expense, and the production is GORGEOUS!

The Bad

Because it is a Warner Production, this HAS TO take place in America... Sigh...

They even introduced an American School of magic... Groan x 2....

The Ugly

Apart from Newt Scamander (and vaguely at that) there is HARDLY any character development!!?!

This also suffers from what I call "The Hobbit Syndrome". meaning, reference material, a story does not make!!!

So, certain parts were spectacular, others...

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Nov 18 2016, 02:00 AM

Upon 2nd viewing, my impression on the movie increased a little bit. Because now I know, what's going on and what to expect. Turn out I did miss a lot during my snooze on the first viewing.

I watched both times at IMAX3D and the effect still impressive. I especially like the dark thingy sequence. So beautiful and engaging.

And I think kids will not enjoy it as much we adults do.

Good movie! I like watching all the different and interesting beasts shown in the movie. Watch it even if you are not a fan of Harry Potter.

Pretty good movie, very enjoyable

The last reveal have me lol instead of being impressed

If anything, it just goes to show how American Sorcerers handles their problems, full blast battle magic to the threat and ask questions later.
I really thought they were gonna capture Ezra's character and keep him under magic lock and key but I guess that's how Americans do it.

I keep pronouncing his last name as Salamander haha, just noticed how he never really keeps eye contact with other characters when he was talking to them.

This post has been edited by alucard89: Nov 19 2016, 07:44 PM

YASSSSSSS to this!

loved the cameo! he was announced to be in the sequel but i never expected to see him in this first one.

instead of the loooooooong scene of catching the rhino look alike at the central park, i thought they should have focused on building the Credence character. but other than that, no complains!

Wow stuckmann just gave an A minus not bad

An overrated movie due to HP relation hype. Boring, tasteless, weak storytelling. 5.5/10

an enjoyable movie....mayb im not a fan of HP..so i gave it 6/10...

but wtf with almost at the end of the movie?? holy shit..i nvr expected that..!

i love the movie... but towards thr ending.. i didn’t feel excited bout it already..

I just learnt there are 5 of these (movies) planned...

Come on Warner Brothers....

i love the movie..
but the ending, i wish jacob follow newt on next journey toh cos every scene of him is so funny..
he has the creepy unker smile.. lol..

Too long, tighten abit will be perfect ...

Nowadays quite alot of movie which the supporting cast grabing my attention more then the main cast

This post has been edited by leawitt: Nov 20 2016, 05:44 PM

Jacob is the best.. other so-so. Tina Goldstein's acting very wood O_O.

Erm..do I have to be familiar with Harry Potter movies to understand this?

nope

Who's Leta Lestrange?

Excerpt fron Harry Potter Wikia

"She's a taker. You need a giver."
—Queenie Goldstein to Scamander, regarding his former relationship with Leta.[src]
Leta Lestrange was a witch who, sometime between 1908 to 1916, had a "close relationship" with Newton Scamander while they were both students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, due to their outcast nature and love of studying magical creatures. One of Leta's experiments went wrong, endangering the life of another student. Rather than see his friend expelled, Newt took the blame and was expelled in her place.[4] This left him bitter, but still much in love with Leta.[5] Scamander kept a framed picture of her within his workshed during his travels to New York in late 1926.

When Queenie Goldstein was using Legilimency on Newt, she noted that Leta was "a taker" in their relationship.

Behind the scenes
Leta Lestrange is portrayed in the film inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Zoë Kravitz.
According to director David Yates, we will learn more about Leta Lestrange, and Newt's relationship with her, in future movies in the franchise

So i guess not that many people went for this movie from lyn

boring 4/10

Did you guys try the quiz which house are you
https://my.pottermore.com/sorting-hat/
i tried few times, all got ravenclaw

I think, even if your head is being put on the talking hat like in Harry Potter 1, that talking hat also will say that u belong to Ravenclaw

It was decent, nothing to shout about. The set designs were great as always with these HP film universe, visual effects of the creatures were brilliant, and the supporting cast were top notch. The issue I found was the pacing which was slower towards the middle part and then starting picking up towards the end.

Not sure why they would need to recast Grindelwald, as Colin Farrell already did a splendid job.

Definitely looking forward to more sequels. A worthy watch for movie fans and a must watch for Harry Potter fans.

8/10.

there is a Grindelwald connection between death hallows and this fantastic beast

Love the dress during old American times.

Its basically just Harry Potter the Zoologist (or Pokemon master ) edition, nothing noteworthy tbh, a 6/10 movie

Colin Farrell was wasted massively in this movie imo, his character is so bland



This post has been edited by dlct87: Dec 3 2016, 12:52 AM

The Movie is very good. I like the movie so much. I Strongly recommend to watch the movie(Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them).

Hogwarts! Dumbledore! Good to be back!

Stylish Dumbledore

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Oh gosh, I did a movie marathon today, and am kinds exhausted, and I still want to complete this review.

SO if my spelling is out, or I don't make sense in general, go gentle on me....

This movie is one of Warner's big gun for the year, and it is...

I am getting ahead of myself.

Watching Part 1 & 2 of this is a little weird.

Why?

With the Harry Potters, I had read the book before I watched the movies, so I knew the story.

Where as with these movies, I really wasn't sure what to expect.

So did I go in with High Expectations?

You bet your bottom dollar.

Jude Law, Johnny Depp and surprisingly, a very sedated Ezra Miller??!?

So Newt's (Eddie Redmayne) adventure, continues.

The main gang from the first movie rerturns.

Some HUGE plot holes from the first movie are being patched here.

Leta Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz) is in this. In some way, this movie "is" about her.

Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) is explained. Also surprising the reason why Dumbledore did not go after Grindelwald much earlier on.

Nagini get a back story here.

Even Fawkes (I think) makes an appearance.

So what do I think of the movie?

A little bit of a mess.

In patching the plot holes of the first movie, this movie dug new ones for itself?

Why?

Because some of the ideas introduced here, contradicts the Harry Potter movies....

So, did my "perfection complex" stopped me from enjoying this movie?

Maybe it did.

My Two Sen....

P.S. Just found out there are going to be 5 of these (movies) What The *beep*

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Nov 15 2018, 05:15 PM

Still mixed feeling on this movie. I expected more revelations or nagini backstory or appearance as a snake like for one.
Second I really wanted Johnny depp to stand out more, coming from a fanboy who watch most of his movie. In here dia tak menyerlah sangat. other than ZOWU I expected more beasts thou like how the first one had. scenes at the grave tu when they were explaining backstories of each character I really think that they can do better la honestly. And and the introduction of baby nifflers was such a delight. But a mere less than 1 minute on screen time Saja of them. I expected more from them cute babies to wreck or steal shiny stuff
Sighhh just my 2 cents

This post has been edited by sicklad77: Nov 15 2018, 01:48 AM

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

I want to like this movie.

I really do.

I love the harry potter books and movies (well with the exception of one of the movie).

This is an expensive movie.

The producers, writers and director are Harry Potter Universe veterans.

If you do follow my reviews, the main issue I have with Fantastic Beast movies are the storyline.

I don't think there is a true idea of what they are trying to express to the audience or even a clear pathway to get to the end game

If it was really up to me, they should end the series with this movie.

It does come to some form of conclusion.

Gellert Grindelwald has so far been played by three actors and latest being Mads Mikkelsen.

I don't think Mads Mikkelsen has a strong grasp of Gellert.

I know Ezra Miller is in alot of kaka at this point in time. Seriously, he literally could have phone his performance for this movie in...

They expanded the wizarding world without much explanation and just assume the audience would "buy it".

Some of the Fantastic Beast is way WAY out there....

The only one that seems to hold it together is Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, not sure if that is enough to keep the series going...

They just had so many things happening and did not know how to keep the audience's focus... Leaving the audience... lacking a better term... exhausted/fatigue...

My Two Sen...

Agreed with your review.

They need to put an end with this Fantastic Beast series.

The latest movie seems so messed up, lack of directions. I feel that they already out of idea. It's so obvious to be honest when I watched this movie.

The ending is really underwhelmed.

For actor part, Ezra Miller is too problematic. Johnny Depp keep going to court regarding his ex Amber Heard. It's not a good PR for this movie.

I'm not sure if I will watch the next installment if WB decided to do it.

This post has been edited by xpole: Apr 15 2022, 11:39 PM

The only thing I look forward to the latest installment of Fantastic Beast is a scene during WW2. How they are going to fight with magic against another witches and wizards.

No its darker and more complex than Harry Potter. So if u r not a Potterhead u might fell bored as they don't explain all the spells and magic in this movie.

Overall i really enjoy this movie.

Hmm.. Nope but would be better as most basic move (spells + magic) is show and tell in Harry Potter movie but not in Fantastic Beast.

this latest installment is made for potterhead and not really for average joes

even worse if you have missed the previous 2 installments, you'll be WTF is going on?

Anyway... Secret? what secret?

Huh, got say meh. I don't recall hearing Dumbledore expressing himself to Grindelwald...

They plan making another 2

Yes Dumbledore is gay. JK Rowling actually say it before. Just google bro. Its a not a secret anymore

And in Malaysia they cut a 6 second scene where Dumbledore was professing his love for Grindlewald.

I think they cut it coz i didnt see it in the movie.

early in the movie, when dumbledore was talking to grindelwald, he said "i love you" but the love was muffled out
although at the end, grindelwald was not censored when asking who will love dumbledore anymore

FINAS not doing their job properly...

Mehh ever since they make his character gay i rather rooted for Newt. Well honestly if the show is spose to be about Fantastic Beast.. Newt is the main character here.

I never find all the scene of Dumbledore and Grindlewald interesting pun

Can change the title to Dumbledore Life Story now.