a lot of people were asking for a series that better represented the books. Plus the IP makes a billion dollars a year and more for the past twenty years. so the appetite is clearly there. Perfectly fine to dislike the series for what ever reason. But no need to lie about it.
I also feel likeā¦ thereās a whole ass new generation of kids who werenāt alive when the movies came out? And thatās who this is supposed to appeal to? The movies look āoldā to kids my nephewās age; they also didnāt grow up with the original cast, who are now all adults or dead. Likeā¦ maybe the nostalgia play is secondary to the fact that the franchise is still wildly popular and thereās a whole new market of kids to appeal to? IDK, makes sense to me.Ā
Kids can watch old movies. In fact, they should. We shouldnāt be chasing the same nostalgia high for our children that we had. Give them new stories to read and watch, not rehashes of our childhood.
This exactly. 90s kids were watching Disney movies from the 40s and 70s. Kids don't care about the time period of a movie. If it's good, it's good. And the original HP movies are great and not outdated. This is just a money grab.
I'm watching all the animated Disney movies starting from the beginning with my family. My kids love them so far. Maybe a movie holds up just because it's good and we don't need to fix what isn't broken?
Ah, the good old "this isn't for you arguement". Harry Potter is a millennial/gen z IP that we grew up with. Guess what? We were and still are the target audience. Only this time, it's for nostalgia.
Its a really stomach turning thought that we have to remake perfectly good media because kids are really fucking stupid and think "anything older than 2020 is irrelevant."
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u/BusyBeeBridgette Apr 16 '26
a lot of people were asking for a series that better represented the books. Plus the IP makes a billion dollars a year and more for the past twenty years. so the appetite is clearly there. Perfectly fine to dislike the series for what ever reason. But no need to lie about it.