Fantastic Beasts Franchise: Hit or Miss?
Did you think the Fantastic Beasts franchise was a worthy addition to the Harry Potter universe, or were you unconvinced? Feel free to add your thoughts in this thread!
I think the Fantastic Beasts movies were a blatant cash grab by people/entities who didn't understand the first thing about Harry Potter fans. Other than that, I can't really speak to their merits. Never cared enough to watch them.
The only parts I liked about Fantastic Beasts were the magical creatures and the concept of the Obscurus/Obscurial. Wasn't fond of anything else.
I liked the concept of Fantastic Beasts movies, particularly what it was supposed to be in 1st movie, Newt Schmander travelling the world and solving magic beasts related issues. But WB studios got overambitious and tried incorporating Grindelwald and Dumbledore storyline in the movies and the thing we got was a mess.
They should've kept Grindelwald stuff in a separate movie with Dumbledore as a protagonist.
it could've been pirates of the carribean but on the side of law and instead of pirates you have newt vs poachers. A fun little side gig. They wanted to include grindelwald too much imo.
Like scratch grindelwald and dumbles and have them do their thing seperate from Newt. Boy's just a glorified Zoo keeper. I was a bit interested in the Leta Lestrange bit. It's doomed love for a slytherin all over again.
