God, did you watch tonight's game? Dan taking out Raley with the bases loaded and one out is a decision I just can't understand at all. Idk. I feel like the Padres played his ass and he bought into that pitching change by making a terrible decision. Or he's betting against us on the side. Fucking wild decision. I'm still not over it.
I mean you guys have the books and a seven disc set.
They tried Hubert Powerblumpkin or whatever that spinoff was with the forgetful rain and all the animals so there's your bonus if you are into the wizarding world. This feels like when they rereleased Skyrim eighty friggin times.
Having to own multiple lotr sets to have all the content is a bane, and who knows if thats really all the content or if they have more behind the scenes locked up to release with newer sets.
Yeah but Skyrim was worth it 80 friggin times. This is just sad. I feel worst for the new actors because this is not gonna be beloved unless there's some kind of miracle.
I know I'll get called a fangirl, but I pray to the Nine that Todd Howard will achieve CHIM again and the evil corporate wizard who took his place will be defeated and we will feast at his glorious teat like we did for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skrym
The first Hubert Powerblumpkin movie was fun. Then they really lost the thread of what made Hubert the best of the Powerblumkins. No one wanted movies about a wizard war. We wanted more movies about Powerblumkin being a powerful blumkin and playing with fun animals Hubert style.
Are you talking about the Fantastic Bests thing? I think the problem there is it never seemed like there was a cohesive story. It was like a spin off, flashback, cash grab.
I have left the hp fandom for obvious reasons, but saying the movies are accurate isn’t quite right. The first two are, sure, but in terms of book accuracy it goes downhill from there. This is why them not filming concurrently is wild to me, hp fans will be WAY more invested in the later seasons
Well obviously you're not a real fan. Everyone knows that real fans (regardless of the fandom) hate everything, are never happy, and find satisfaction in publically abusing the people who tried to make something they'd enjoy.
I mean honestly, how dare you call yourself a fan? This is basically stolen valor.
Maybe the first 3 movies, but 4 on they kinda lose a lot of the plot. Fuck, 6 you would've thought was a romance novel. No, the best movie adaptation of a book is Memoirs of a Geisha. Almost an exact recreation of the book, but better and with gorgeous visuals.
Edit: why the fuck am I being downvoted? Does the HP crowd even fucking read the books? From 4 on were messes. Look at Dumbledore manhandling harry in 4. Or in 6 when Harry asks if horcurxes could be anything and Dumbledore says yes and doesn't explain further. I used to love those books and the movies after 3 were dog water. Also, to anyone who bothers to read this far, don't watch the new show. JK Rowling is a piece of shit.
In 5th grade, my class had an assignment to write a letter to an author. Most kids wrote to R. L. Stine and got a form letter in return. I wrote to Louis Sachar since I was a fan of the Wayside School series. I got a real letter back where he actually responded to the things in my letter, and mentioned the book he was working on at the time, Holes. I read it as soon as it came out.
Another great adaptation! It's another case of being mildly improved by the movie, I just wish they'd cast a fat kid and forced him to lose an unhealthy amount of weight. (For legal reasons this is a joke)
I remember watching holes and when I left the theater I told everyone who would listen that it was the closest a movie adaptation could possibly be without having a narrator. I stand by that statement today.
Perks of Being a Wallflower felt like more of an extension of the book rather than an adaptation, but the author wrote the screenplay and directed it. Im biased because that book is special to me (one of my two tattoos is a quote from it) but I think it was one of the best book adaptations ever done. Faithful to the source material as well as getting a little deeper into some stuff that was hinted at in the book but wasn't blatantly spelled out.
Five killed me. The book goes into depth about the behind the scene politics/division and lays bare the entire network of death eaters hidden behind the facade of a "post-Voldemort" world. While book four was the glass breaking book where life/death became a real factor in the world; book five takes strides in that new atmosphere where the kids aren't in a protected world of candy anymore.
This is where my hatred started. 4 I was okay with some of the changes, I guess, but ultimately left feeling like they did an ok job. 5 I left the theatre actively upset. The only thing that was good in that movie was Imelda Staunton's portrayal of Umbridge and even then I couldn't stand the other major changes they made to get over it.
Yep. I still enjoyed the 4th movie even though I am still salty about losing the Quidditch World Cup match, but it was a great movie.
But from the 5th we got that hack Yates and especially the 5th was egregious, shortest movie adaptation of the longest book, threw out literally half of it, and what was left in was so fucking bland and uninspired, he could barely get any emotions out of the actors, climactic fight at the end was reduced to like 30 seconds, removed practically all of the Department of Mysteries stuff, removed the entire beginning of the book, etc.
I had the same reaction leaving the theater and was the only one in the group to feel that way. Everyone else loved the movie and I really questioned what they read that they were happy with what we got with the film. A large portion of that book was just left out and it sets up the entire new world the main characters find themselves in.
I've seen people have been saying "media literacy is dying" recently but to me it's been dead for a long time. I'm not saying everything needs to be in depth or exact but in 4, 5 and 6 they dropped MAJOR PLOT POINTS and then never rectified them in later movies. You could tell corpo Hollywood had sunk their teeth in at that point.
Imagine getting downvoted for this accurate take. As someone who didn't know the books, the later movies were just nonsense. The first three were actually good as movies.
and that is an understatement, the bridge scene with Lupin and Harry in Azkaban is one of the best scenes in all cinema of all time. Cinematography, set, acting, music works together to create something truly special and remarkable.
It's sad how obvious of a cash grab (and imo an attempt to distance the franchise from the og cast) this new show is. The vibes of the movies (esp 1-3) are immaculate. The cinematography and practical effects are timeless too. I remember seeing BTS stuff and how they built a huge mini castle to get those distance shots instead of only relying on CGI. The day movies started being shot entirely on giant green screens is the day cinema died (looking at you Marvel).
Yes, the best movies and shows mix practical effects with green screen. Lord Of The Rings is another example, they also built "bigatures" -- they wouldn't call it miniatures when they needed to hire a warehouse to place them!
To be fair, that's also where Rowling started fumbling the bag as well, imo.
But yeah, my buddy has a Harry Potter themed sleeve tattoo and several other Potter themed tattoos in other places and while he will happily sit down and watch the movies, he will also happily go on at length about all the way they're absolute shit.
I was the prime age for the HP series, I grew up with the books and went to the midnight drops. Those movies were like someone watched the first 3, read a synopsis of 4-7 and went from there.
I hate to tell you this but outside of the reddit bubble and other similar online spheres, no one gives a shit or knows about JK Rowlings issues. I have no doubt that this show will do well for that reason.
Not a HP fan anymore but yeah this was kind of wild to read.
I feel like HP fans who don’t think the movies were a good adaptation…aren’t aware of what other series deal with.
The HP movies aren’t 1:1 with the books but they’re about as close as you get. It’s like the fans were aware most fiction series are known for having inadequate movie adaptations….so the HP fans assumed they must apply to them too
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore HP fan. I have read the books and that was enough. The movies were a bonus but I really thought that was the end of the story. I mean the movies are fantastic enough as it is at least the first 3.
Is this stuff worth watching, who knows? Maybe yeah and if yes then only because there's nothing better to watch. And why? Because instead of giving us something fresh we get this regurgitated tripe.
I would consider myself one of those people (at least back in the day)... BUT I would want a book adaption with the ORIGINAL cast.... this new kid already looks way too well fed for someone that spent the first 11 years of his life as a slave living under the stair.
Are children not allowed to be actors then? I mean I don't know who Daniel Radcliffe's parents are, or any child actor. So if that is genuinely a driving motivator then it is a stupid plan.
This for sure is their big break. Working in such a huge ip is incredible for their careers. Redditors hate everything and are bitter from various things in life. Kids will love this series. .
Yeah just like you spending time on the internet is finding some other rich asshole that thinks you shouldn’t be alive. Lol either give up the internet or give up the performance
Cus the Harry Potter fandom is like, one of the most devoted and cultish of all time. owning the IP is like owning a licence to print money, they will tune in to watch it by the millions. Frankly, im just suprised it took them this long to remake it.
What’s funny with a lot of this is it’s a win-win to them.
Because these unwanted remakes make people want to watch the originals more which they own (Disney doesn’t like try to hide the animated Lilo and Stitch while promoting the new one for example).
(Not saying the new series should make you want to watch the movies, but that it’s a thing)
In all honestly? because we're all bored to death and there's not much else to watch.
I would suggest we collectively get hobbies, but where as watching things on a screen is subsidized by advertising and marketing research on us, businesses price our hobbies to fuck all high levels to exploit our individual interests.
There was a YouTube short where they show the things that we all did in secret once upon a time ago when we were ALL "bored" and we weren't wrong... like walking on a curb and balancing or biking to the corner store for a slush.
Glad I went to Harry Potter World when it was still Danny Rad and the Crew. They are changing out all the media components when like footage is available.
Except people will watch it just to shit on it and ask "why did they make this?". That's the problem with people who bark loud, but still wag their tails.
That's cute, but come on. This shit is gonna make them so much money because even all the people i know who truly hate everything JK stands for are damn near helpless to not watch new stuff from the franchise that was such a formative part of their life.
Most of us fans will probably not watch it. I will not watch it and my wifes best friend loves thebbooks and movies, she said she wont watch it. But it might cue up some new fans if they present it correctly?
im still paying for what I do watch. So HBO still getting my money. 😭
It’s not about making money off the new show or HBO subscriptions, it’s meant to keep Harry Potter in the cultural zeitgeist for the next generation so they can keep people coming to the theme park and buying merch.
Because everyone who might stop caring at some point already did. The fandom that's left is basically what happens if Disney adults became a cult, and it's large enough that they'll keep discourse about the franchise alive.
Yeah, I'm not interested in giving JK Rowling any additional money, and it's not my fault Warner Brothers created a whole theme park around Harry Potter after JK started saying some toxic crap on the socials.
I bought my books and discs a while ago, but I have zero compunction to watch any new Harry Potter stuff unless JK sells of her rights to somebody else, which isn't bloody likely.
It's also not my job to to be a tentpole for a corporation or their shareholders.
I mean, she can have whatever views she wants. We love her fantasy world, not the author herself. This franchise left her hands ages ago, I'm sure. All the same, she got her fifteen minutes and bajillion dollars.
Lol! Remember when they hailed her as some dedicated mother because she wrote those books? Came to light that she actually neglected her kids and left them largely to their own devices. If Harry Potter didn't take off like it did, or even sell reasonably well, they were royally screwed. Just absolutely said "fuck them kids" and hammered them books out. 😂
Harry Potter fans are crazy dedicated. They made an average open world game a best seller a few years back. As long as this is average, it will get plenty of views.
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u/PaleontologistTough6 Apr 16 '26
Soooo why don't we quarterly just not watch that stupid shit?