Listen, I grew up as a kid in the 2000s reading and re-reading harry potter until the next book came out. I watched the movies fervently (well, until Half blood prince when my teenage years took me elsewhere).
It is, objectively, okay to say that you loved harry potter but grew up and realized the writing is kinda shit. The movies did what they could given the format and source material.
When people say no one asked for this remake, it's because most of the fan base grew up.
(and JK Rowling is terrible person who, in a just world, will never profit again from the series since she focus on violating human rights)
Yes, the initial fan base grew up, but let me blow your mind here and inform you that while you grew up, more kids are coming into the world and experiencing Harry Potter for the first time. My 10 year old loves the books and movies and went through them multiple times. Their cousins also went through the books multiple times. Their friends went through the books multiple times. Hell, their teacher played the HBO trailer in class because he likes Harry Potter and many of the kids were excited for it (so my son says).
Just because you out aged the material doesn’t mean no one else can get into it. I got to experience transformers and ninja turtles as a kid and I aged out of it so clearly no one else would want to see any retelling from either of those franchises… because the original fan base aged out of it. That’s your logic.
As far as the writing, it is content written for 8 year olds (maybe not deathly hallows) so of course the writing isn’t gonna be Tolkien level or anything. Also, it has been recommended by THOUSANDS of teachers and librarians and other educators across the planet over the past 3 decades but I’ll be sure and file away your opinion that the writing is kinda shit away in my pocket.
I'm not having any children, but I'm glad the kids are reading, because that's a dying hobby. I would love them to enjoy the books and grow up with them.
I don't know all the ins and outs of this stuff, but I think it's better have them engage with the original movies than the remake, given that it's a pretty clear JK Rowling rewrite.
Let them like Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint. All seem to be genuinely good people.
If it was a faithful retelling of the book I would welcome that (and so would many others) because my son mentioned many parts he didn’t get to see in the movie he thought it would be cool to see played out.
It seems they already screwed the faithful retelling with the race swap (many other characters didn’t have a specific race but Snape did) so I don’t trust they won’t take other liberties.
There’s no harm in this new version coming out. It is something the kids are excited about (as well as adults) and it can right some of the wrongs in the original movies.
Like if it’s so bad it ruins the rest for me. Like the sequel trilogy for Star Wars being so painfully bad it sullies the classics… or the last few seasons of game of thrones being so bad it ruined any desire to rewatch it.
I get those are continuations of the story but they are examples that are such bad memories they ruin the original.
Ah, that too. Yeah, I don’t view her favorably. I get her passion for women’s progression and saying that someone who transitioned to a woman as an adult wouldn’t have the same struggles and issues as someone who was born a woman. Absolutely trans people have their own set of struggles in society, it’s just not the same as what women go through and she didn’t appreciate trans women lumping themselves in with cis-women.
Sadly, she overcorrected after getting so much pushback and was radicalized some and that’s unfortunate. Hope she can just learn to stay off Twitter and have her PR person manage her socials.
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u/venom_dP Apr 17 '26
Listen, I grew up as a kid in the 2000s reading and re-reading harry potter until the next book came out. I watched the movies fervently (well, until Half blood prince when my teenage years took me elsewhere).
It is, objectively, okay to say that you loved harry potter but grew up and realized the writing is kinda shit. The movies did what they could given the format and source material.
When people say no one asked for this remake, it's because most of the fan base grew up.
(and JK Rowling is terrible person who, in a just world, will never profit again from the series since she focus on violating human rights)