The Secrets of Dumbledore - Death by Author | Anatomy Of A Failure 

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We could’ve gotten Newt Scamander and his friends hunting cryptids in wizarding North America. Instead we got this.

Imagine if they'd stuck with a series just about fantastic beasts, that would have been great.

Honestly, this series ended up being something way different than what I expected/wanted. When I heard Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I thought we were getting a movie set a looooooong time ago that had Newt traveling across the Wizarding World to discover and write about these beasts. It could have been something like a Wizarding World version of Indiana Jones but with finding rare magical creatures. I thought we would hey to see him go to the various Wizarding Schools around the world that were introduced a few years back by having him meet with a Professor from the school in the area he happens to be exploring. That Professor could have been a guide and it is a way to expand and introduce those various schools without doing a repeat of the original movies. If they needed a "bad guy" for the film (or films), they could have had Wizarding poachers part of a huge global black market or something. Instead, we got a prequel for Dumbledore and Grindelwald with magical creatures shoved in to keep with the title Fantastic Beasts.

can we just acknowledge that we literally don’t even know credence even though the whole story revolves around him

they planned to confuse Gellert and ended up confusing us audience, mission accomplished by 200%

It’s a real shame that they’re wasting these good characters and actors and fun setting with terrible writing. So disappointing

A spinoff about a ragtag group of characters searching for magical creatures is a cool idea. A spinoff about wizarding history focused on a younger Dumbledore and Grindelwald is a pretty good idea too. But why did they have to *_combine them?_*

Might I just mention that Grindelwald using the Cruciatus Curse (a spell thst requires hatred of the victim and is considered dark enough for an instant prison sentence) on Jacob mere moments after the deer thing "deems him pure of heart" on magical national television is the wizarding world equivalent of going on a talk show with ham juice on your face so the cute puppies lick it to show how nice you are in a grand publicity stunt... only to immediately shoot the host in the face.

If they do another one they should recast Grindelwald again. Like how the Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher kept changing each year

Blood Purity was Voldemort's thing. I would have preferred if Grindelwald had been a techno-phobe. He wakes up in bed beside Dumbledore in 1899, and he explains seeing the warplanes and tanks of WWI. Imagine explaining WWI to someone who lives in a world of horses and buggies. Great metal eagles drop fire on unsuspecting cities. Youthful Dumbledore helps spin an anti-muggle, anti-technology narrative. In 1908, ford releases the model T. In 1914, the great war breaks out. In Secrets of Dumbledore, it is 1932, and the Great Depression is still getting worse in the U.S. It is also the year Hitler took over Germany. In 1932 also, Japan invades China. For a wizard, it would be easy to blame everything on technology and end up hating technology. "These muggles are getting out of hand! They'll burn themselves down and us along with them!"

An issue I had with the film was that there was no set up to a lot of stuff. Albus and Aberforth somehow know Credence is Aberforth’s son. Queenie is suddenly doubting and afraid of Grindlewald. Credence seems to be having doubts in Grindlewald too. It seems like they skipped the film where Albus and Aberforth discover Credence is part of their family and Queenie’s and Credence’s faith in Grindlewald is shaken.

A great way to introduce the characters on the train besides having newt just introduce them, is to have all the characters come to the train car a few minutes apart so we can get two characters interacting and talking and then another joins and interacts and then another. That way we can differentiate everyone’s style and personality individually rather than as a group with each person saying 1 line in a quirky ton

"They ruined me" - Dumbledore said calmly

Not having the Qilin bowing to Jacob was the biggest missed opportunity. Jacob was shown to have a pure heart throughout the movie, the Qilin was even playful around him. Having the Qilin bowing to him would make the Wizard community to warm up to Muggles (No Majs) then eventually Half-Bloods and Mudbloods. Some other missed opportunities include having Theseus be the spy, Tina Goldstein playing a more active role in searching for her sister and writing out the Karma guy entirely because there was zero point to him being in here. But in my opinion, this franchise was cursed from the start, right back when JK Rowling had this asinine idea of having Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a clear cut solo adventure connected to this huge Wizarding War. I can see Newt seeing Grindelwald once in his life and in regular contact with Dumbledore regarding his books and research, but I cannot see him as part of the legit Dumbledore’s Army. Fantastic Beast should be one solo film, then JK can focus on the Wizarding War series about Dumbledore vs Grindelwald.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore's story should have been its own thing. Maybe a TV series. Fantastic Beasts should have been another.

Book authors: Writing a screenplay is objectively easier than writing a book. Fantastic Beasts: Are you sure about that?

dont worry JK will change the lore in like 5 years in a random tweet and then the movie will be good

Voldemort cursed this movie franchise the same way he cursed the Defense against the Dark Arts teacher position: in every new movie Gellert Grindelwald has to be played by a new actor

I still have no clue how Ezra Miller's character is alive. He literally exploded at the end of the first movie, and then he's just magically back in the second movie, not even explained as to how he's alive again.

One element that also killed the movie for me was the election itself. The significance, power, and reach of the International Confederation of Wizards was never properly established in this movie or any of the previous ones. I read all of the Harry Potter books,and I still have no clue how important they are supposed to be. I get the idea that Grindelwald being elected President of it is supposed to be a bad thing, but I have no idea how much of a threat this actually makes him. Is he dictator of the Wizarding World? Commander in Chief? Just the guy who can sign into law the things that his followers push forward? A spiritual leader who is now infinitely more credible (despite already having enough influence to get himself pardoned for crimes witnessed by dozens of wizards)? We don’t even know anything about the other two candidates. What are their tax policies? For all we know, one of them being elected could be far worse, either because they fail to counter Grindelwald or secretly sympathize with him. So, even when the stakes are spelled out, the film still didn’t engage me, as I couldn’t wrap my head around why I should care. Also, I thought the unanimous election at the very end was absurd. Even when Zombie Voting Machine Bambi chose Grindelwald, the other two candidates still got votes. Were there no Grindelwald supporters willing to vote for him regardless of what Bambi said? No followers of the other guy who lost who decided, “I didn’t care what Bambi thought before, and now even that’s been proven unreliable, so why should I care now?” It makes me wonder why Rowling bothered writing this as an election in the first place (outside of political commentary that makes no sense without the real-world context) rather than officially making Bambi the ultimate decision maker.

I think the ideas about a series about Dumbledore and a different series about Newt and his beasts would have been great, they would just have to be different franchises, not the same. Edit: thanks for all the likes, I never got this much before!

I wondered why the Qilin bowed to Dumbledore instead of Jacob or Newt, after they'd preciously made a big deal about Jacob having pure heart.

Fun Fact: All lines said by Ezra Miller in this movie were unscripted. He was simply coming to the Fantastic Beasts sets at random days/times, in costume, yelling and screaming.

One thing, as an author, is that when you introduce characters as a group, it is generally advisable NOT to have a large exposition like that, as info dumps are also looked down upon in books, rather you build up to them beforehand, or your work backwards to then show how they know the characters, and there ar many ways to do that, which depends on the characters. Novels are so very different from screenplays, as novels and screenplays condense so much information but in drastically different ways. A screenplay can compound things into an instant, and has different tools at it’s disposal, but a novel needs to figure out when and how to be efficient with word choice. So, still, even then it’s not good.

I found the entire premise of the deer thing choosing the wizard president because they're "pure of heart" hilarious. First off, the idea that any politician could be "pure of heart" is not only ridiculous in the real world, it also goes against the themes of the original Harry Potter series. Was Cornelius Fudge "pure of heart?" How about Scrimgeour, or Umbridge, or virtually any other character from the Ministry of Magic? The underlying theme for the last 3 books was basically "don't trust the government." The deer thing first decides to bow to Dumbledore, a character that we know is flawed. Then, it bows to some lady that we know literally nothing about, except that she is a career politician who has put herself in position to be a candidate for wizard president. There's no setup of any kind to indicate that she is "pure of heart," but we're just supposed to accept it because the movie is over now. It's stupid.

We should have had two separate series, one about Newt’s wacky and lighthearted adventures, and a darker one about Dumbledor and Grindlewald. Either could have been great, but everything has fallen apart in trying to combine them. There’s just no coherent thread holding this story together.

My favourite part of this entire film is where, literally in the middle, they all realise they achieved nothing and are back to square one.

I was expected that the little "Ganyu" will bow to Jacob because the whole movie actually building his character as simple pure man. That also will be quite interesting situation in wizarding community, although the muggle/no-majs will not allowed to take the place but they actually have a capability and equal with wizard in some way. Or in another scenario, the Qilin will bow to Newt. I mean, just in previous movie Dumbledore himself said that Newt doesn't seek power which something that he lacks, we also saw how fair and pure hearted Newt was both for fellow human and especially for his fantastic beasts, he is Hufflepuff after all. But yeah, Dumbledore is the chosen one, so just make the little Ganyu bow at him.

You know what would’ve been a really cool HP spin off?? The origin of hog warts and follow tell the founder’s stories

The heroes choosing to not have any plan to confuse the villain into defeat cause he predicts the future legit sounds like the set up for a comedy movie, but they tried doing it unironically lol

has anyone noticed that without their wands, JK's witches and wizards are mortal and easily defeated?

I love the Charms teacher. I would love for her to have her own story. She also had the best display of magic. It’s usually just laser beams but with her it’s creative.

JK Rowling is a textbook example of “Just because you do X that doesn’t mean you will be great at Y.”

My grievance with the movie is that it was supposed to be about FANTASTIC BEASTS...I loved the first one.

I agree that Newt definitely deserves a series solely to him and his fantastical beasts and the adventures that he has travelling around the world. But I also think that Dumbledore and Grindelwald's story have so much potential too. Like they could've dwelled into their teen stage, their relationship and how they met and the hallows without rushing and smushing the storyline with Newts and adding more thought-out context to it.

The last movie: Tells us Aurelius who has never learned any spells or how to use magic is OP and can defeat Albus This movie: Proceeds to show Aurelius getting bodied by a not serious Albus.

What had me nearly laughing at the end was the crowd reaction to the election results. The entire movie shows an important part of the wizarding world supporting a fascist leader, who wants to basically rule over/enslave the muggle population. The crowd reaction when Grindelwald was chosen confirmed this. But as soon as the second candidate got elected instead everyone was imitatively like "oh yeah so great lets just forget that we tried to enslave billions of people a second ago". They could just clearly split the crowd in two camps or something similar but like that, it was just utterly unbelievable. Also the Dumbeldore Grindelwald fight and the long speeches had ruined the last act beforehand for me anyways. I wanted to like this so badly...

What i hate that the last movie was about Lita Lestrange and her relationship with Newt and his brother, and she sacrificed herself for them and they did not mention her once😆 Theseus was engaged to her, didn't realy seemed bothered by the loss😅

As a first time book writer, this was actually useful for me writing books as well, so thank you.

OMG you got this on exactly on point! I resumee in my own words: I don't like all the phantastic beasts serie. Why? 1. The costumes and the styles. Capes? Where are the capes that almost every wizard wears? Unlike in this movies, the acutal wizarding world of Harry Potter plays in a universe, that remembers more like a fairytale-world with extravagant clothes, old fashioned styles, almost mideval...the nostalgic vibes we get from Harry Potter is what makes it so magical. This movies instead looks more like a future version of the Harry Potter century....it makes no sense. 2. The missing magic. Although we have some wooden sticks, that people are using mechanically like every single muggle could use a weapon, and although it's supposed to look like magic, it doesnt. We learned, that every spell has it's own choreography, it's own spelling words, it's own emotion and atmosphere. You cannot be frightend and swear some deadly spells without changing your whole aura. It doens't appear magical for me. Did I mention the boring movie soundtrack? They had acutally the possibility to create something new, epic, beautiful, but instead they are just messing it up again and again...I didn't get magic-vibes at all. Did you? 3. The actors. Shouldn't hire super famous actors like Johnny Depp (he's famous for being Captain Jack Sparrow!) on the first place. But than changing the actor was even a worst desicion. And even if the other ones are good actors, Dumbledor is diffrent for me. In the books and the Harry Potter movies he is funny, playful, kind, wise, calm and has a big, pure heart. Jude Law is a perfect Sherlock Homes. But a Dumbledore? Even Eddy Redmayne (Newt Scamander) could be a more convincing version of the younger Dumbledore-Version, than a total serious Jude Law. I doesn't feel like some of the actors really enganged with their future characters in the books and HP-movies. It's not convincing for me. 4. The storyline. Or should I say, the missing one? Too many things happening simultaniously, too many people introduced at once, without really introducing them to the audience... Did acutally someone understand what was happening and why? Could actually someone explain what is going on? Why are there plenty new characters, introduced like the audience is supposed to know who this is? It's a big, messy, confusion. And that's why it was boooring like no movie before. That's the diffrence of Harry Potter. You could easlily watch the first four movies for it's own and you would understand anytime what's going on, even if it would be the first time ever you would see one of them. For fantastic beasts you need to be a hardcore-super-hp-studied-fan, to understand who this is, what this is, why this is and what's happening at all... This was the worst movie in the entire HP-World ever. I felt so cringe, I couldn't even watch the first hour completely, until I felt so confused, so cringe and so bored, that I turned the TV of. I don't know if it would be smart to contiune like this. Better hire Chris Clumbus (regisseur), John Williams (music), Judianna Makovsky (costume) and John Seale (camera) from the first cast again. Steve Kloves messed this time the script up, unfortunately. And: Never make a movie about a non existing story. Let J.K. Rowling write a book first, before even thinking about making a movie out of some scraps of side-informations of her books. And I agree: She can write books unlike anyone else, but she's a desaster in writing movie or theatre scripts. It's simply not working for the entire picture. Sorry. Without the team of the first two movies, J.K. Rowling's HP-Universe would never get a second part and be just forgotten like the wonderful story of "His dark materials" from Phillip Pullman. So if the wizard world of HP got that big, it's not just because of J.K. Rowling's ideas. It's especially because of the great movie team from the first two years that adapted a perfect alinged story of a great book. Never forgeth this 😉👍

So what was Dumbledore's secret? That he loves Grindelwald? That he had a secret family member? That he was good at heart?

The fact that when the ending credits rolled in, I didn't know do I want to laugh or cry, summarizes my thoughts about this movie. The actors do a great job, but the plot and it's aspects are badly built and the whole election thing with in the end Queenie marrying Jacob totally blew my mind (in a bad way).

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The editing is on fire in these videos man! Crying at Jacob holding a phone instead of the shot of laughter. 💀

JK Rowling should just have written another book series to be later adapted into movies, just like HP. That way, she would have been able to tell the story she wanted without anyone interfering, and professional screenwriters would have been in charge of adapting it into movies, and the audience could have chosen what they liked best.

I knew this movie bad when nobody was talking about it

Thank you so much for your videos man. I see movies differently because of you, I notice so many things from the perspective of writing and character motivations. I always knew if I liked or disliked a movie but after watching your videos I can finally see why I like or dislike them. You've given me a vocabulary for movies and respect for movie critics that I never understood before.

The main take away from all this is "When writing books you can be as detailed and trail off as much as you want to whenever you want to to explain certain things, but with movie writing everything must be in service of getting to the point."

A major inconsistency through this entire series has been the side characters and background characters. It's an entire society of wizards but for some reason only the villains and main characters are able to do any magic.

I would re write the entire ending, Dumbledore didn't show himself as a "pure of heart" character as he was basically trying to clean his mistakes and ended up involving people that didn't really had anything to do with those mistakes like Newt, unlike the muggle (forgot his name) that risked his life and wellbeing to help not only the love of his life that became a magical nazi but also his friend. The Quilin should've bowed to the muggle, but since he can't assume for obvious reasons they require it to choose someone else, maybe have him bow to Newt too since he has shown multiple times he is deeply compassionate and don't think twice before putting his life on the line or breaking any laws for the good of others, Newt refuses and then the final selection is made. There shouldn't have a moment of putting Dumbledore as a "perfect" wizard as he can sometimes act like an A-hole and while he is a great wizard that is knowledgeable is a lot of things and arguably the most genial wizard alive, this doesn't mean he doesn't have flaws.

If "Grindelwald as the ability to see snatches of the future" and Dumbledore know him so well so that he sent is Ocean 11 team to confuse him, how come Dumbledore did not put much credence in divination and Trelaney in the Harry Potter books ? I know he mainly offered her a job at Hogwart to protect her from Tom and his followers. Just wondering

As an amateur writer, this video has not only helped me to further understand how to write scripts but also how to write stories in general. Many of the points made actually inspired me to jot down some ideas for a novel I would like to publish in the future. Really great and informative video!

Similar to Game of Thrones (Seasons 7-8), it breaks my heart that this amount of talent, both on and off screen, is completely overshadowed by bad writing

Finally someone who mentioned the "confusing Grindelwald" thing as the main problem! To be honest, I didn't feel anything while watching the movie. No amazement, no sadness, no joy, nothing. The only time I really felt something was when I was raging about the Qilin going to Dumbledore and even now I'm asking myself: "Why the in the world did it go to Dumbledore?! Why not to Newt or Jacob perhaps?" The way the entire movie is basicly pointless and they managed to butcher the only scene that wasn't... I literally can't with Fantastic Beasts at this point! Unpopular opinion: The 2nd movie was better than THIS, even if it wasn't logical, because it at least had something of a purpose.

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Personally, I felt that this wasn't a "bad" movie per se, but it definitely wasn't very memorable. The first thought I had when I walked out of the theatre was "What just happened?" which, you know, isn't a really good sign

Ignoring the critical issues with this movie, the fact that Warner Bros said this films commercial success would determine the future of the Wizarding World in cinema and then there was barely any marketing ruined this movie's chances. My mom is a huge Harry Potter fan, read the books several times, saw all the movies in cinema including the first two Fantastic Beasts movies, and was one of the few who liked Crimes of Grindelwald. Despite that, she never saw a single person talking about the movie or even a single ad for the movie and as a result, she never saw the movie while it was in theaters, making it the first Harry Potter related movie she didn't see in theaters. Warner Bros relied on a movie of this quality and less marketing than freaking Morbius (no not memes, I mean actual marketing from the company behind the movie) to be what decides the fate of this entire universe in film, and I just find that really sad since I also really like the Wizarding World and want this franchise to be the best it can be, but Warner Bros just doesn't seem to care anymore. I mean, Hogwarts Legacy is one of my most anticipated games releasing this year, only behind Splatoon 3 at this point (and maybe Hollow Knight Silksong if it ever releases), and my second most anticipated single player game for the time being only behind Breath of the Wild 2. I want this franchise to succeed, but WB just doesn't seem to care anymore and just wants a corpse to use as a cash cow.

They explained why Dumbledore and Grindelwald fought each other...the vow was broken because they each tried to do something to a third party (one protected, the other attacked). the vow was then void as they avoided direct conflict but ended up engaging each other anyway...it's like a loophole no one knew about.

To me the main problem is Dumbledore. He should be more on the background using everyone as pawns, not in the middle of everything MEETING with Grindelwald.

maybe she need to split this movie into few parts so she can have more time to build the character and the world, like: part 1: The Secrets and The Dumbledore part 2: 2 Secrets 2 Dumbledore part 3: Secret and the Dumbledore - Hogwarts Drift part 4: Secrets & Dumbledore part 5: Secret Five part 6: Secrets and The Dumbledore 6 part 7: The Fate of Dumbledore

The fact that Warner Bros paid both Depp and Mads Mikkelsen (they paid Depp around $10 million because of their contract, and paid Mikkelsen $16 million) for the same role in a movie that would end up failing financially is hilarious. Corporate karma at its finest.

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I remember these movies and Curse child were compared in a sense that Curse child is a bad story with good execution while the Fantastic Beast films are a good story with bad execution

I still can’t believe that they fired Johnny Depp, _but they kept Ezra Miller._ Edit: Ezra Miller uses they/them pronouns.

Arthur C Clarke is alleged to have said "Writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film script is like thrashing through treacle." It's not easy, and JKR would be well advised to familiarize herself with the interplay that occurred between Kubrick and Clarke when filming 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Excellent breakdown! I only saw the first in this series and came away with the same frustrations -- no forward momentum, no clear stakes, unmemorable characters, spoken exposition, no urgency, and no sense of what the cost would be if the characters failed at whatever they were trying to accomplish. Of all the characters, only the baker resonated for me, but not so much that I remembered his name as the credits rolled. On one level, I'm not shocked to learn these problems persist in the franchise. Rowling's spectacular success as an author make her too important to the studio to challenge and too precious for anyone to challenge if they want to put her name on their resume. Subbed!

Even with her books, JK didn't exactly work on the series by herself, Harry Potter was a team effort. She's frequently discussed how she'd submit versions of the material to her editor, who'd then correct inconsistencies within the story, suggest changes to the narrative, and remind Rowling of her own canon. Once she and her editor were comfortable with their final draft, they'd submit it to the publisher who'd make some suggestions about changes, JK would make adjustments and then the Publisher moved the book to print. Screenplay aside, the numerous inconsistencies are incrementally stacking with each new Fantastic Beasts movie and it's a little jarring, to say the least.

this not harry potter franchise would probably do better as a tv series without such a big plot (and without jk rowling), we really could have had newt and jacob catching pokemon

The big problem with these movies is that they don't deliver what they promised. On one hand we have a main character that is relegated to secondary. From a really passionate researcher that is willing to do anything for his research, and to change the magical society's view on magical creatures, to Dumbledore's sidekick who's really good with animals. On the other hand we have Dumbledore, one of the most interesting character on the HP saga, who's past hide many secrets, none of which are answered so far. Instead being presented with new misteries that are way less interesting.

Very good points! I agree with everything. A huge improvement to this movie would have been tp get rid of all unecessary characters and just focus on the ones we know. The professor witch for example - she contributed nothing that a character like Tina couldn’t contribute. Why was Tina off being ”busy” and the professor witch part of the team instead? Didn’t make any sense. Tina should have had her role and since she has a romantic relationship to Newt that would have raised the stakes immediately. But I think the main issue is that the story couldn’t make up its mind about who is the main character. Newt? Dumbledore? Jakob? Pick ONE and stick to this character!! Since the movie couldn’t make up its mind everything fell apart. It turned all these characters passive and weak, made sure neither had enough story for a two hour movie, and since Grindewald doesn’t really care about any of them (maybe Dumbledore a bit but not nearly enough) he didn’t serve as an effective antagonist. This script was not ready, it needed more work. I mean just the fact that the plan was ”no plan”?? And the audience was invited on this ”no plan” adventure? meh :|

My Mom and Dad watched this movie on HBO max, and they fell asleep right through the whole thing.

I think a good and quick change would be if Newt is afraid of his brother, Theseus, b/c he's bullied him their entire lives. That way, as the movie progresses, Theseus learns to love beasts too and comes to respect Newt. They could've had it when Theseus gets captured, Newt has to abandon an important mission to go save someone he hates (an enemy). Then when Newt uses his beast knowledge to save Theseus without violence, Theseus would saying something like, "I was wrong and I'm sorry." That way, it's a strong emotional transition from 2A to 2B.

forget dumbledore and grindelwald. we want a "the wizard in the hopping pop, babbity rabbity, and the cackling stump" spin-off series. The spin-offs we all deserve.

What baffles me is the fact that on the first movie, they set the world as if the wizards don't known about magical creatures, because no one has take his time to study them, and then, in this movie, the next leader of the wizarding world is elected by magical bambi, and everyone knows that a quilin only bows to someone worthy, so we come from a world where no wizard trust or knows nothing about magical creatures, to a world where magical bambi elects the next leader, and everyone seems fine with that.

Since the second movie, the "Fantastic Beasts" title feels really forced on this series. They only keep it because the executives want to make another anthology with multiple parts just like Harry Potter. But in my opinion, that whole struggle to be just like the previous story is boring, the first Fantastic Beasts was okay, although it had some flaws, but it was enjoyable, because it's told a story about some weird guy who just wants to capture some endangered species in America, meanwhile the film has kept a bit of the atmoshpere and visual from the last 3 Harry Potter movies, BUT it didn't really want to act like one of them. I'd prefer if the creators just leave Salmander in the first movie, and the next one can drop the "Fantastic Beast" name and replace it completely with "Crimes of Grindelwald", and this one can focus on new characters (mostly from America) who are trying to chase Grindelwald, for example. And each part of this "anthology" could have its on story in this era. And maybe, just maybe it wouldn't be so repetitive.

They should just have used the first movie as a setup for two movie franchises that told their own separate stories. One about fantastic beasts and one about Dumbledore taking down Grindelwald. I’m still saddened we didn’t get a movie about a young Dumbledore and all the tragic events in his early life.

"And if most of your second act would ultimately function the same way if your characters stayed at home to confuse the villian by watching TV, that's not earning anything" - this line is great, and really nailed it for me - exactly why these feel so pointless and boring.

"Magical voting machine Bambi" is the single greatest name for a plot McGuffin I have ever heard!

My complains : - there is less Hufflepuff energy. I feel like watching another Gryffindor movie. - there are very little Fantastic Beasts despite the title - there are less worldbuilding and lores. The feeling of finding and exploring something new, new world.

I love how Grindlewald somehow became Felix Leiter in the old Bond films, in that he's played by a different actor (almost) every time.

How the hell do you have Mads Mikklesen playing the grand evil bad guy of your story doing major international crimes and yet somehow have the character he is playing have no menace whatsoever?

My main problem is multiple plots that go nowhere. Animals that are introduced with no purpose just because of the title, family relations that are mentioned every other time, broken friendships, political elections. We're in the third movie and Grindelwald did not accomplish anything with an extensive army behind him. There are so many questions to answer, so many characters that appear and disappear out of thin air. Is just a waste of time.

What annoyed me the most about this movie is that they invent new stuff into the wizarding world that never existed in the harry potter movies. Like how come we have never heard that there was a global leader of the magic community? In the harry potter books it seemed that every country has its ministry of magic and that was it. There was never any mention of a global leader or that he or she was elected by magic bambi. Its just stupid to invent new stuff in prequels, thats what sequels are for. It breaks the entire timeline. Also: this movie is set in 1933 but from the books we know that the fight between dumbledore and grindelwald happens in 1945. So is dumbledore just gonna chill for 13 years or what? This movie just doesnt make sense on so many levels its baffling me.

the first movie was what was expected, catching magical creatures but also introducing an evil wizard who could use the creatures in order to fulfill his desires, if they had stuck with newt traveling to countries for beasts instead of making it political and about dumbledore we could of had a great series

The problem is the characters never get to move the story by themselves. It’s always the story that keeps pushing them around. Grindelwald was free without him doing anything, the baker guy got into the team without any reason. And he screwed the plan just because he saw his lover. Non of these characters have mind of their own and are just puppets.

The fact that the climatic battle between Dumbledore and Grindelwald stopped abruptly because they COP A FEEL each other is on another level of absurd.

This movie series honestly breaks my heart. Say what you want about the Harry Potter movies, each one functions as a competent movie and for real fans is a place of magic and childhood memories. This is a spit in the face to all fans as far as I’m concerned. And for a self proclaimed “feminist” the “bad witch” in this movie is so badly written and has no individuality of her own. Smh…

I know I watched this movie at some point but I totally dissociated after the first five minutes right up until the end because I could not explain to you a single thing that happens in this movie.

Newt should have been the main character and be more of a sci fi adventure movie. Newt is literally a glorified side character in these movies.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel like I'd enjoy these stories way more as books, where JK Rowling's worldbuilding and writing style can have proper space to breathe and develop.

The Most desaturated fight in this "Movie" has two characters that dont really want to kill each other because they have a very deep Very easy for china to cut out,love for each other

Great videos! Would you be so kind to tell me the end "credits" music playing in all your videos? Love it! Thank you in advance.

The Secrets of Dumbledore was not about the secrets of Dumbledore. There were no 'secrets' to speak of, nor that were not already fairly understood by the fandom.

Biggest turnoff? No secrets were revealed ! And what? Credence was a Dumbledore? Pffftt.. Johnny Depp revealed that last time .

A book can have all the filler you want, but in a movie every minute counts.

should've stuck to two things: cool wizarding world monsters and jacob learning about the wizarding world as a muggle. no big ass war

You are amazing! thank you for the lessons!