Y’know, the books/movies about wizards and whatnot. I have heard of it, but weirdly never read a book or (vaguely, can’t remember) watched a movie of it. Just curious on what are your thoughts on it?
Y’know, the books/movies about wizards and whatnot. I have heard of it, but weirdly never read a book or (vaguely, can’t remember) watched a movie of it. Just curious on what are your thoughts on it?
This’ll be unpopular:
They were some of the first books I ever read, I grew up reading them and they’ve created a life-long love of books and reading in me. Reading those books as a kid under the blanket, using a small torch, digital watch or my gameboy as reading light are some of my favourite childhood-memories and the franchise will always invoke those memories for me. They’ve been a comfort during difficult times as a teen and adult and they continue to be just by sitting on my shelf.
I think they’re both overhyped and overhated by the fandom and the “haters”, they’re comically overanalyzed due to their popularity and because the author is a POS.
That said, the world-building has gigantic flaws and ages quite poorly. It’s YA literature, but man these books are littered with plotholes, logical inconsistencies and open questions. JKR’s focus was on creating a quirky, whimsical, lovable world and tell a cute story, not to build a perfect parallel universe with a logically consistent magic system. Also when in doubt “well magic”. That’s fine as a kid, as an adult it pisses even me off. The author’s also a massive lib and while she consciously builds in systemic problems in the wizarding world and sometimes explicitly makes them big plot points, she’s obviously an individualist, not a structuralist, and doesn’t really resolve these issues systemically. The characters stories get a conclusion, therefore the world got one too. I don’t find it that super annoying as just a reader, but as a Marxist it’s…unfortunate.
The movies are overproduced big-budget Hollywood bs and suffer from the same problems all series do. Different directors, screen writers, etc. No consistency between them at all, neither in style nor story telling. Honestly no idea how anyone has any clue what the fuck is happening in them without knowing the books well. The fantastic beasts series is fucking dogshit. Wouldn’t recommend and won’t ever watch another minute of it
There’s better fantasy out there, better literature and most definitely much better movies. I still love 'em and will continue re-reading them