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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I know this is kinda off topic but every time I see any guns akimbo I think of this.

I mean yeah fuck the way the world going. On the other hand Guns Akimbo is so worth a watch as well as Swiss Army Man. They're both such fever dreams and I very much appreciate Radcliffe going from that terf's garbage to doing what I would call (hesitantly) real art.

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  • Yeah, Radcliffe is in the uniquely special circumstance, where he has more money than God but he also wants to keep making movies. The result is that he only does the movies that he wants to do. He doesn’t attach himself to movies just for clout or money, because he doesn’t need either of those.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    It pisses me off so bad that JK Rowling had to be a fucking transphobic racist piece of shit. This is me off to an extreme extent because she is a fucking genius author when it comes to one thing. She chose one generation and then wrote a story specifically for that generation, having the writing style get older with the generation. And then she wasted it by being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit and filling the story with the same type of garbage. Like credit where credit is due. That one thing that she did is fucking genius. But she had to ruin it by being herself. Goddammit.

    For the record, I'm not saying she's the only one to have done this or anything, but doing that and capturing that type of magic for a child will easily become an important part of that person's life. She could have told so many amazing stories and morals to help people be a better person as they grew up and she didn't. Fucking colonoscopy of a human.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Eh, she spoke to a bunch of people hungry for mid fantasy. She's not very good at it, just lucked out on timing.

    Get some Pratchett in ya, now THERE is a writer who put good into the world

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Her editor was very good. As the books went on and JK got veto power over her editor, the books got worse and more problematic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Makes a lot of sense. 1-4 are great, fun, whimsical magical mystery books. 5 is painfully annoying. Couldn't get through 6 and 7. As a kid I skipped through them only reading the most important section.

    I have since tried to read the 6th book, listen to the audiobook version or watch the movie multiple times and couldn't manage to get through it even once. It just sucks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I grew up reading the books as they came out, and where I had read (or had my mom read to me when I was too young to read them myself) the first 3 books repeatedly, I definitely aged out by the time 6&7 were released. I think I read 6 once and I couldn't even finish 7.

    I also noped out of the films after the spider in 2 (holy crap I was way too young to be seeing that film btw!)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    oh weird, I liked the darker tones of 567

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it makes you feel any better there tons of video essays tearing the series apart. It's not particularly genius, very little if any of what she did was original and from the very beginning it was chocked full of racism, antisemitism, fatphobia and ablelism.

    Also that's an insult to colonoscopies, as they're important and save lives.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not saying the books are genius, I'm saying the move to write the books for a specific generation is genius. Like most books in a series will be written all in the same style. The HP books were written to 'grow up' along with the people who were reading them. That idea and tactic was genius. Literally nothing else.

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