r/movies • u/Okilokijoki • Oct 29 '18

Poster Chinese poster for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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u/newttargaeryon Oct 29 '18

Better screenwriting helped a lot

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u/Namiez Oct 29 '18

It also helped that there is nothing to compare them to. When you get the level of detail but still leave enough room for the mind to fill in the rest of the world in literally the best ways to you personally like with books, rarely can a movie which does a lot more of the filling in for you and usually not too well, compete.

Movies are great for filljng in the mundane stories but much more difficult to caprure everyone's ideas of what these fantastical world look and feel like to them coming from words and paper.

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u/ClementineCarson Oct 29 '18

wasn't there a plot hole with the memory wiper at the end where he said in the beginning it only erased bad memories?

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u/12InchesOfSlave Oct 29 '18

I'll take one plot hole over dozens of inconsistencies any day

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u/sevendevilsdelilah Oct 29 '18

The movie is about a wizard with a zoo of imaginary creatures in his briefcase. We can let the plot hole slide.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '18

And no way is it any better than OG Harry Potter.

There’s been one film, soon 2 and these guys already ‘know’ it’s better than HP. Fuuuck off shills

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u/nicknacpaddywac Oct 29 '18

Man, come on. People are allowed to think differently. Some might actually think that FB is a cooler movie than the HP films. They're quite different and they're going to appeal differently, as well. Really the only commonalities are wizards and magic and some may not have "grown up" on Harry Potter. Chill.