Comments | layne67: The strange and the fantastic.

layne67

The strange and the fantastic.

Nov 21, 2016 17:22

Who won?

As much as I adore Benedict Cumberbatch, I have to say that Fantastic Beasts won ( Read more... )

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suzy_74 November 21 2016, 12:47:20 UTC

I haven't seen any of them Movies. But I'd like to. :)

How would you say Fantastic Beasts stand against Harry Potter? I mean, is the magic magical and so forth? Or can't you compair them at all? Just because it's the same universe doesn't mean they are even close to be similar.

Yeah, Eddie Redmayne seems like a great actor though I haven't seen him in anything either. Hee, I was never compelled to watch him in The Theory of Everything either because of Hawking.

layne67 November 22 2016, 01:44:11 UTC

Hmmm, comparison wise to Harry Potter ... well, HP had kids in it, while in this movie, all the wizards are adults. Magical? Very much so!!!

suzy_74 November 22 2016, 08:21:02 UTC

I like that it is set in an adult wizard world! I wasn't sure.

It's just that much of the promotion I've seen here seem to use Harry Potter and if you go see the movie because of HP I was kinda wondering if that will disappoint you (not me personally but people that might expect a HP movie) or make you pleasantly surprised.

layne67 November 22 2016, 08:45:13 UTC

I love it, and I think you'll love it, too!!!

Newt Scamander is so adorable you can't help but love him. I believe his character was mentioned in the HP books as the person who wrote the books of magical creatures.

shirebound November 21 2016, 15:09:05 UTC

Thanks for the review!

Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything is AMAZING.

layne67 November 22 2016, 01:47:46 UTC

LOL this is a bit like after watching Ed Norton as Hulk. I know Mark Ruffalo has a lot of fans ( and I like him, too ), but to me Edward Norton will always be The Hulk for me!

But Eddie Redmayne was great in Fantastic beasts, no doubt about it. Maybe I'll watch him in his other movies first before ToE.

shirebound December 4 2016, 02:55:27 UTC

I'm glued to "Survivor" until the finale now! I watched the last two episodes, and am more or less caught up with the people and the drama. It seems to be anyone's game at this point.

layne67 December 4 2016, 05:06:12 UTC

I'm just so happy that David and Ken and Adam and Hannah are still around. Too bad about Jess though :(

Who are you rooting for?

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shadowc44 November 21 2016, 15:41:04 UTC

I haven't seen Hawking, though I did see The Theory of Everything, and was absolutely blown away by Redmayne's performance. It really is worth watching.

layne67 November 22 2016, 01:49:58 UTC

Do try Benedict Cumberbatch's Hawking, Shari. He was really great as Hawking. Haha, and there're probably Eddie Redmayne's fans who aren't keen to watch BC's Hawking for the same reasons as mine!!

shadowc44 November 22 2016, 02:46:31 UTC

I really should watch it. I can watch it for free with Amazon Prime. I do have a DVD called Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, something like that, which BC narrates or is somehow involved in. I haven't watched it yet. I'm not all that fond of BC. He's a good actor, but I can't warm up to him as a person.

layne67 November 22 2016, 03:13:13 UTC

Maybe that's because the characters that he played lately ... how to say it ... require him to be somewhat "arrogant" and "menacing"?

I didn't immediately warm up to him when I first saw him on Sherlock. It was when I watched him in his earlier works when he was younger that I started to become a fan. The characters that he played then were "warmer" and "softer" He was awesome as Hugh Laurie's son in Forty Something, really, really great in Stuart: A life backwards and fantastic as Vincent van Gogh in Painted with words. And of course, Hawking!

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verangel November 21 2016, 16:19:13 UTC

The Theory of Everything is outstanding!! Love this actor. He's got incredible diversity. First I saw of him was in Les Miserable. He also played a trans in That Danish Girl. I'm glad fantastic beasts was good. Hugs!

layne67 November 24 2016, 02:28:52 UTC

I love Fantastic Beasts Very much and Eddie is totally the star in it. I read somewhere that Eddie Redmayne was their first and only choice to play Newt Scamander and I totally agree :)

lbilover November 21 2016, 20:29:16 UTC

He was quite wonderful in The Theory of Everything. Dr. Strange isn't my cup of tea so I'll wait for it to be on Netflix. I hope to see Fantastic Beasts in the next few days. I'm looking forward to it! Glad you liked it.

layne67 November 24 2016, 02:34:08 UTC

Ahaha I just focused on Benedict Cumberbatch! He really was awesome in it.

Mine is a small town so there's not much of a crowd when we went to see FB but I can imagine the huge crowd wanting to watch it in the big cities.