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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
A mess that could use some of the potter magic again...
Fantastic Mess: The Crimes Of JK Rowling. Sorry Jo, you're not Gillian Flynn...
I really wanted to like this movie. I really do. But what I eventually got is such a mess from a creative mind who tried to tell so much in one movie. I was vastly disappointed. And this is coming from a huge Potter fan...
I would not even call this a movie. It was a concatenation of random events that are somehow linked to each other. Every scene was too short, when things got exciting they cut away to the next one. This movie was stuffed with so much plot lines and characters that I had trouble following the story. I can't even explain what the plot is, except for the fact that everybody is after Credence for their own reasons. The plot revolves around him. And he doesn't do much besided looking for his mommy.
I heard from most people that the opening was the best part and that it went downhill from there on out. I have to disagree, for me it was from the opening scene where everything went downhill. Sure, there's a lot of action and magic going down. But it was difficult to see what was going on. It was a mix of fast pacing, dark imagery and an abundance of CGI.
After that opening scene, JK Rowling lost me completely. What immediately follows is a scene where people are explaining what was about to happen in the movie. But honestly, it's a giant, boring mess.
Everybody had a stupid reason for being there. And some of the characters are just walking around, doing random stuff. Also, there's not one, but three different attempts for setting up a romance. Those are plot lines that I do not care about. I also believe the movie has some 'mistakes' regarding the Potter movies. Some inaccuracies.
Eventually we got to the third act. An act in which we are given a huge amount of information about a certain character. The backstory is revealed. But they went to far with that. It's not that I couldn't follow. It's just incredibly cliche and stupid. There's also a big twist at the end. I rolled my eyes and let out a big sigh and wished we go the credits instead.
Someone must have thought that this was a bad idea. The biggest crime here is the script. Yates made a beautifully looking mess. The script should have gone through some four or five rewrites. Or someone should have said NO to Rowling and her stupid ideas for this story. The first one had a cohesive story line. This one didn't. It's all over the place.
But on the side note. The performances are all great. Depp sold it as Grindelwald and Redmayne was once again amazing as Scamander. Even Jude Law, who had limited screen time, was great. Ow, and the younger version of Newt was perfectly cast.
I hope they fix things in the next one. Because this was just bad. Rowling is responsible for the first Potter movie I did not like. Let someone else write the script, please. Or Rowling should see that scripts aren't novels...
American Horror Story: Chapter 10 (2016)
I was disappointed
Alright, so basically this season was one of the best ones. With some awesome and very good episodes that changed the whole thing around. They really stepped up their game. But this finale? It was garbage. They played everything out at the end of the 9th episode. After that one, I kept thinking what they where going to do. But then I recalled that Asylum did almost the same thing. So it didn't felt new or original. They also had troubles with their "found footage" genre. At one moment they just didn't do it anymore. Especially at the end. That was the thing what made this season fresh. Of course the found footage genre is nothing new anymore, but we haven't seen it much in a horror TV-show.
Now another thing that really bothered me where the parody shows they kept introducing in this episode. Lee is going to that interview, now she's going to that interview. These morons are going to the house with the blood moon. It was too much and not believable anymore. They should have done a whole episode just with Lana Winters as a host. And she would recap the whole season and then at the end a big twist that turn the whole story around. The problem is that this episode was predictable. From the very first shot I knew how this was going to end. Unfortunately, I was right.
This episode lost some energy as well. The rest of the season was really intense and scary. This episode wasn't one of those things. I won't spoil the big plot details, but I think die hard fans (like me) will be left disappointed. I had the same feeling when area Queens ended last year. We where promised a big bloody finale. But we didn't got that.
So yeah, Murphy disappointed me again with this lousy written finale. I expected much more and also some twists. I didn't got that. I hope they step up their game in the 7th season. And do something original. This wasn't original in my eyes.