VeesMcGees posted... I actually loved the first Fantastic Beasts, but I hated the second one and didn't bother with the third. The first Fantastic Beasts gave a sense of wonder and made the wizarding world feel like a world. The plot wasn't great, but it was sufficient for the kind of film that it was.
I hadn't been a big fan of the Harry Potter films because they never managed to capture me like the books had captured me. Admittedly, it's rare that I ever like faithful adaptations as much as the source material.
But yeah, 2 was trash and I hear 3 was also trash, possibly even bigger trash.
I could go on a tangent about the MCU, but now isn't the time, so I'll leave a brief answer. The MCU as a whole always had stinkers. Prior to Endgame, people just ignored or downplayed how bad some of the movies were. Now that many people are done with or tired of the MCU as a whole, films that would've flown by pre-Endgame now get trashed, sometimes moreso than they deserve to be. A lot of casual viewers are just tired and done after 30some movies or however many they have now, so mostly people who really want to hate the MCU and the loyal fans who praise almost everything the MCU puts out are the ones left talking about it.
I thought the magic was missing and yhe hogwarts setting gave life to the world.
As for the mcu, I think the biggest flaw has to be not having team up movies/shows to mask the lesser titles like the avengers movies did