top 85 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 180 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

What just normal drinking glasses? In whimsical magic castle?

Lmao I want nothing to do with that series anymore for a variety of reasons but if this is actually a screenshot of the utterly unnecessary remakes then that is pathetic. I'm pretty sure the source material said goblets. Most meals were described as tables full of food such as the left. Not a cafeteria plate that wouldn't look out of place in a modern school. Soulless remake cashgrab I hope it flops so hard it just basically marks the end of HP in the mainstream. Nobody asked for this.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The movie producers suck so bad they can't be bothered, or don't trust themselves, to find new movies, despite more good ideas than you can shake a stick at, and instead remake already popular movies again paying obsceme amounts of money to big name actors and using flashy new computer graphics.

    Hollywood has sucked my entire life, I understand many of you don't realize how true that is, but they have gotten a lot worse with consolidation, It's down to 3 or 4 studios now, 3 with each around 25%, including Paramount now. It's going to get a lot worse.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    It used to be that remakes would be taking advantage of new technology. Like silent films remade with sound or black and white redone in color.

    Now, advancements are incremental and often look worse than what we used to have. All these remakes are just studios trying to monetize their existing IP.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Not just movies. I recently noticed that a lot of games are getting remasters for a quick buck. I intended to play the whole Atelier Ryza series after I got the first one pretty cheap, but they delisted the original series (2019, 2020, and 2023) to sell the remaster at a higher price. I don’t know how old I want something to be before it’s redone, but it’s got to be longer than that.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Oh yeah, it's been a while but I was playing Total War games a lot like a decade back. I had Rome with Barbarian Invasion expansion pack. They released medieval total war after rome at one point, quality as well. Then released an Alexander which was just cheaply ripping rome onto alexander without much detail or effort.

    Then Empire total war, which should've been the best, and it sucked in some ways, it was clear Sega rushed the developers and forced a product that wasn't done yet. Then instead of fixing it or continuing on through history as they had done, to WWI I would presume would be next, they remade Rome Total War again.

    Maybe that's not the best example, as Rome could've been improved though not sure how the new one was. But the corporate bosses were clearly stepping on their very capable and knowledgeable and witty developers to just rip a few changes to existing games to sell again.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 175 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    In the books, the school putting out a huge feast for the students is supposed to show the stark contrast of starvation and abuse Harry went through prior to Hogwarts. If this is a sign of how little effort they're putting in I'm thrilled.. Let it bomb and bomb hard. Terfs don't deserve our time or money

  • source
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 66 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    It won't bomb unfortunately.

    As much as Twitter and Reddit are up their ass about JKR her bullshit tends to remain only in those spaces. Most people don't know she is a shitty person.

    That's also not even taking into account the number of people who probably support her.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Considering how many of those who complained about Reddits enshitification the last 5ish years are still on it... I'm sure they will also be bitching about JKR and still watching the show.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    It's interesting how the books never truly question the class consciousness that is at the heart of his backstory.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Thats because rowling was writing a story about maintaining the status quo. Its interesting just how much she wrote overtly class conscious inequality, like wizards being an isolated superior class who can act with impunity on muggles, but then hand waves it as appropriate and good because the alternative is "bad".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That and a lot of the early books had an editor tweaking things.

    Remember when Harry traded some food he bought with Ron even when he didn't want Ron's food? Then later he and Ron crashed the family car and Harry couldn't be bothered to help pay for a new one?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    The entire bit about the weasleys being poor was just another example of the horrible writing anyway. Remember how a metric crap ton of the ministry of magic employees commuted to work? Floo powder. Remember what they had just laying around at home in the burrow? Floo powder. If the weasleys were supposed to be way below the level of others, it wasn't shown very well in random moments, just the ones where the author was deliberately making that the point of the scene.

    At best, arthur's choice of transportation was because of his obsession with muggle stuff, but if it was supposed to be another example of their poverty...

    If I'm being really charitable, the biggest thing that was going for the poverty/wealth divide in the magical world was where you lived. Castle/urban/picturesque = rich, while countryside/rural/cottage type = poor. But let's not discuss the 'magical villages' because their details were always incredibly vague.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 119 points 1 month ago

    They need the money to eliminate all the trans people

  • source
  • [–] 74 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Just remember folks - if you really really can't go without it, the only ethical way of watching Harry Potter is by donning your hat and parrot. 🦜

  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [+] -23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Also remember to turn off seeding if you do

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This makes no sense. It's better to make it easy to get in a non-profit way.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    I disagree, making it less available adds an extra barrier (assuming that magically you are the only available seeder for this hypothetical torrent which is a stretch). And my expectation is that people who are pirating tend to be more willing to wait for a few days on a torrent than they are to pay for a shitty movie.

    Imo nobody should download or watch the movie regardless, it'd be better if the whole thing just got removed from the public conscience. So I say don't contribute in any way to helping people keep the garbage alive. If you truly must watch it yourself you should do it alone in a dark room with a pirated copy in shame and erase any traces of this asap (again, in my opinion).

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)
  • [–] 115 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    It's because it was offensive to Americans seeing children being fed at school

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You've probably seen what they feed kids in school.

    There was an idea to make school lunches "healthier" to push weight loss by dumb politicians and the result was worse than the prison food served before. I'll take the prison food any day over the "healthy" lunches I had when I worked in education, lunch duty so may as well eat something then since you get maybe 15 minutes to eat on lunch break, I would drink a pot of coffee a day lol.

    I really felt bad for the kids, and I can say it probably contributed to behavioral issues. I worked 12 hour+ days some of these kids where there that long for the after school program.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Is it possible that the 'dumb politicians' were skill making well meaning and the result was malicious compliance and active sabotage?

    It's perfectly possible to make school lunches health and good.

    If I was ever fed a us school lunch, I'd certainly put the experience down to enemy action.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    "It’s perfectly possible to make school lunches health and good."

    It totally is, watching those videos of school lunches in other countries. I can't say I wasn't jealous. I think the other aspect is that maybe the intention was "good" but didn't factor in everything and went of basic statistics. I think I wrote this in another post; when I went to grade school, I would have a breakfast with tea, then in school I would eat two lunches, after school I would eat something, and then I had dinner. Now my situation was different. I had gym in school, track (running), martial arts class after school, and what I would say a modified marines workout daily(insanity if you ask me). I didn't break over 125 pounds until I was 26. I could eat a whole pizza and still be hungry.

    Either/or food in US schools is shite. But for many, sadly, it might be the only meal of their day.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Harry Potter and the Measures of Austerity

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago

    Depressing brown on grey cinematography strikes again, even with Harry Potter

  • source
  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    start of term feast vs regular morning breakfast?

    but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I'd have been so happy if this is what school meals looked like when I was in school. Breakfast was some cheap peanut butter and jelly thing that technically had peanut butter and jelly inside it, and MAYBE a rubbery sausage the size of a crayon.

    Lunch was like a red apple and some thinly sliced mystery meat and a slice of cheese

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭

    It doesn't. There were always multiple choices of hot food and a well sorted salads buffe at school. This screenshot looks like something you'd get served on an Aeroflot plane 🤮

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Man growing up in the US whatever you just described sounds magical. The meal on the right in this pic is better than what I got at school and there were no choices

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    Toast, sausage, AND an egg? Orange juice that's not in a carton with an expiration date of two months ago? An egg and a sausage that don't look like they came out of a box? This is practically paradisical compared to half the shit a lot of US public schools do.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    Temu Potter

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    Austerity Potter

  • source
  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Because HP is a role model for poor children, and poor children shouldn't have the expectation of getting a feast ever. They should see the bare minimum school lunch and think it looks like a horn of plenty because US schools have been shutting down and reducing school meal programs. Real students don't get anything.

  • source
  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    That’s not magical at all! That’s like normal school😆

  • source
  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    Transphobes starving misfit children is nothing new.

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    "This year's feast has been graciously provided by our sister school across the pond, the Gun Violence School of Magic! Their funding was cut again this year, so please be polite."

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago*

    I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so were many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.

    In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very "USified", to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US "remake".

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Harry Potter joins the navy.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I has to check for myself that this is real. It is.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Isn't one a feast and one a breakfast?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Do the wizards also gas their bananas? The choice of fruit here implies that wizards are bound to the limitations of modern farming and container shipping. The common prevalence of bananas in the real world boils down to a pile of technical limitations on growing and importing fruit.

    1. Unlike most other common grocery store fruits they are tropical. Which means that they can be grown under normal conditions year round. It also means they need to be imported which would normally make them expensive
    2. Bannanas can be picked green, shipped refrigerated, and ripened under ethylene gas (tomatoes and apples might also be in this category). This enables bannanas to be transported by ordinary container ships rather than needing to be done by air. This also enables some amount of stockpiling. This cuts costs a lot such that bannanas can be cheaper than local produce unlike most other imported produce that needs to be flown in.
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I wonder if they went out of their way to hire kids they “know” won’t grow up to be gay.

    Did anyone ask for this to be remade?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    This image makes me kind of wonder how crap a remake of the dinner meal scene from Hook would come out.

  • source
  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Is this real? I thought it was a joke. Is it because they don't want school kids knowing what a big school meal looks like?

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I don't think any Harry Potter came out this year? So AI slop?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Tbf that pile of chicken legs does not look that appetizing...or maybe just me

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It's traditional British food - chicken leg boiled in unsalted water.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    The right looks like a “choose 5 items” breakfast at a university canteen.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Iirc this is from regular breakfast in the trailer, not the huge start of the year feast

  • source
  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago

    Maybe it's because so many people in the US and UK, including half of children, are now overweight.

  • source
  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The one on the left is when they arrive and the one on right might just be a typical day at the school

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments