Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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As a HP fan, how disappointed will I be?

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Very. Unimaginative as shite.

I enjoyed it

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I really, really, really wanted to like it

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Instead of JK's ideas, she really should have passed it off to an American writer. She clearly doesn't understand American culture anymore than she understands sports when she made Quidditch. Like really only one American institution exactly like Hogwarts, despite America having 5 times the population of Britain? I just can't see Americans building such a thing, since we've been far more influenced by Greek than English architecture as a society, and that's just the least of it.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
On HBO tonight. As a HP fan, how disappointed will I be?

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I saw it in the theaters and I am actually sitting here watching it again. I personally enjoyed it but I understood it wasn't Harry Potter.

It was okay. Just really forgettable. The main character was way too passive and had a stupid smirk on his face most of the movie. I can't really remember the other characters besides the one girl I would bang. She was hot.

Johnny Depp as Grindewald was way too cartoonish and a total letdown.

Not the worst movie but a disappointment.

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I mean it was a spinoff plot contrived from an otherwise novelty field guide of the original franchise. It's about like watching a Spring game and expecting it to feel like September

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would have liked it better without the ending. I really liked Colin Ferrell in it, Eddie Redmayne was good as the odd/outsider that loved the creatures more than people. The two main girls were good in it but I didn't like seeing Dan Fogler as a "serious" role.

I saw a vid of why Redmayne played a man/confident roll in his character due to how the English see masculinity....and what he does to show it.

I liked Beasts more than most HP movies to be honest. I liked adults magicing more than kids dicking around.

its fine, its a movie on hbo so you aren't really putting much into it to be disappointed.

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OML, I can always count on you to find the dumbest shite to complain about.

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I don't think that's dumb shite to complain about as an American. Just imagine where you could take the American Wizarding World. At the very least a Northern and Southern school.

Like have the Southern school be located in a Louisiana Swamp that is designed like a ridiculous plantation with a specific focus on voodoo. Or how about a Southwestern school in the middle of a canyon that is designed like a ridiculous Puebla and focuses on Native American magic.

I mean, that's just off the top of my head. Seems like you could do a lot with America's history and magic.