The Fantastic Animals
I went and watched Les Animaux Fantastiques (in English: Fantastic Beasts and where to find them) in VOSTFR 2D yesterday.
That is a movie with one hell of a special effects budget, yowza.
Short version: I enjoyed it and I liked all the characters, except [redacted] once [big reveal] happened. Overall I think the movie would have benefitted not having such an obvious sequel hook in it.
All the creatures are indeed fantastic, but the moment I was most impressed with the special effects was after the climatic battle when a piece of masonry was on screen for a moment and I had the thought "Sure the creatures are amazing, but you can still tell they're CGI. Unlike this chunk of concrete, that's real. ...Why is it flying?"
OKAY SO FRANK WAS MY FAVOURITE OMG WOW SO GORGEOUS (It bugs me that even though he was so obviously a Thunderbird they never actually that word. Seriously, every other creature's species gets named, but not thunderbirds???)
Similarly, I am also peeved that the Sudanese girl never gets a name. THERE WAS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO NAMEDROP HER IN THE SUBWAY SCENE. I really wish the movie had given her that much.
Weirdly enough I was enjoying Graves as a character until he turned out to be Johnny Depp. WOW that was some egregiously bad acting, damn. It was also completely pointless. The entire movie would have stood on its own if Graves had been a Grindelwald fanatic instead. Also I feel validated that he was the main antagonist because I've never known anyone with that haircut who wasn't an asshole. (Short back and sides: average chance of jerkitude, buzzed/shaved back and sides: 100% guarantee of jerkitude.)
Norbert Newt is fantastically awkward, aww. And he is such a bleeding heart so of course I was bound to like him. (Shipped him with Jacob more than either with their actual love interests, tbh.)
Tina is quite cool, but Queenie's mindreading freaked me out SO MUCH. Go away, lady, I don't need nobody getting inside my head.
What I'm hoping for in the sequel: More creatures! (Apparently they're going to Paris, so hopefully something from French folklore? I promise we have lots of fun creatures!) Less Grindelwald bullshit.
I also got to see the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and I have so many thoughts, but for now I'm going to go with HOLY SHIT THEY'RE ADAPTING L'AMBASSADEUR DES OMBRES? THAT'S MY FAVOURITE. Also, that's not how you say Valérian.
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That is a movie with one hell of a special effects budget, yowza.
Short version: I enjoyed it and I liked all the characters, except [redacted] once [big reveal] happened. Overall I think the movie would have benefitted not having such an obvious sequel hook in it.
All the creatures are indeed fantastic, but the moment I was most impressed with the special effects was after the climatic battle when a piece of masonry was on screen for a moment and I had the thought "Sure the creatures are amazing, but you can still tell they're CGI. Unlike this chunk of concrete, that's real. ...Why is it flying?"
OKAY SO FRANK WAS MY FAVOURITE OMG WOW SO GORGEOUS (It bugs me that even though he was so obviously a Thunderbird they never actually that word. Seriously, every other creature's species gets named, but not thunderbirds???)
Similarly, I am also peeved that the Sudanese girl never gets a name. THERE WAS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO NAMEDROP HER IN THE SUBWAY SCENE. I really wish the movie had given her that much.
Weirdly enough I was enjoying Graves as a character until he turned out to be Johnny Depp. WOW that was some egregiously bad acting, damn. It was also completely pointless. The entire movie would have stood on its own if Graves had been a Grindelwald fanatic instead. Also I feel validated that he was the main antagonist because I've never known anyone with that haircut who wasn't an asshole. (Short back and sides: average chance of jerkitude, buzzed/shaved back and sides: 100% guarantee of jerkitude.)
Norbert Newt is fantastically awkward, aww. And he is such a bleeding heart so of course I was bound to like him. (Shipped him with Jacob more than either with their actual love interests, tbh.)
Tina is quite cool, but Queenie's mindreading freaked me out SO MUCH. Go away, lady, I don't need nobody getting inside my head.
What I'm hoping for in the sequel: More creatures! (Apparently they're going to Paris, so hopefully something from French folklore? I promise we have lots of fun creatures!) Less Grindelwald bullshit.
I also got to see the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and I have so many thoughts, but for now I'm going to go with HOLY SHIT THEY'RE ADAPTING L'AMBASSADEUR DES OMBRES? THAT'S MY FAVOURITE. Also, that's not how you say Valérian.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/159740.html and has
comments over there.