Finally seen it to read this! (I almost wasn't going to see it, but eventually caved because nifflers- the niffler remains my favourite)
I just... the only way Credence makes sense as a Dumbledore is if he's Ariana's (rape?) baby, but why is Grindelwald saying brother instead of uncle/nephew?
I was mad about Depp and Nagini but knew about them going in -- I'm really upset about Queenie. I was happy, in the first one, that they hadn't made the blonde sister bitchy and evil. (Brunettes get to be competent, blondes get to be airheads or evil. Or now both!) Surely the telepath ought to understand that mind control is bad!
I could see the good writing in the manipulation Grindeldepp was doing in his rally, it was excellently scripted, but... he really did deliver the lines like he was drunk, for some of it.
(Also Credence needed to shave. Like, the entire movie he looked like someone stuck carpet fuzz on his face.)
The Grindelwald/Dumbledore parallels of older men grooming younger people to act for them was just. so. blatant. I kept being creeped out by Dumbledore, even when he was being nice. And the message of it felt all over the place.
....I liked Theseus and Newt hugging. And I still love the niffler. And the zouwu is precious, I want it to have all the feathery chase toys it can destroy.
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Date: 2018-11-28 12:02 am (UTC)From:I just... the only way Credence makes sense as a Dumbledore is if he's Ariana's (rape?) baby, but why is Grindelwald saying brother instead of uncle/nephew?
I was mad about Depp and Nagini but knew about them going in -- I'm really upset about Queenie. I was happy, in the first one, that they hadn't made the blonde sister bitchy and evil. (Brunettes get to be competent, blondes get to be airheads or evil. Or now both!) Surely the telepath ought to understand that mind control is bad!
I could see the good writing in the manipulation Grindeldepp was doing in his rally, it was excellently scripted, but... he really did deliver the lines like he was drunk, for some of it.
(Also Credence needed to shave. Like, the entire movie he looked like someone stuck carpet fuzz on his face.)
The Grindelwald/Dumbledore parallels of older men grooming younger people to act for them was just. so. blatant. I kept being creeped out by Dumbledore, even when he was being nice. And the message of it felt all over the place.
....I liked Theseus and Newt hugging. And I still love the niffler. And the zouwu is precious, I want it to have all the feathery chase toys it can destroy.