Harry Potter - All Movies Reviewed and Ranked (part 1)

oh hello there it's me doctor who happy christmas everybody i'm here to talk to you about my favorite christmas movies the harry potter movies yeah they're christmas movies i'm pretty sure like a few of them the harry potter series is one of the most popular british exports of all time and no offense to british people but you guys just haven't made that much stuff okay that's fine i mean what are some good british things uh you guys guys made warhammer uh arctic monkeys i mean i do enjoy some love island but i watch that for the the big story but the harry potter series is pretty cool and i've liked it for a long time in fact the first video i ever made on this channel is a playthrough of a harry potter video game and you guys have been asking for this video for a while so i figured why not but before we talk about these movies we have to address the big turfy elephant in the room i know and love trans people and i've given her [ __ ] in multiple videos i've tweeted about her incessantly and it's no secret that i don't like her but then the problem is i kind of like harry potter still yes i have an undying distaste for jk rowling but the way i see it the films are not really jk rowling products a lot of people worked on these movies that aren't shitty people daniel radcliffe seems like a pretty nice guy and he says that she's wrong and dumb and i agree with him a lot of the actors and other people that made these movies don't agree with her and i think that it's not really fair to invalidate their work just because of one person i mean chris pratt may not support gay rights but you guys are gonna go watch the new guardians of the galaxy movie i know you are you're not [ __ ] fooling me over the course of my life span i have already purchased every single book and movie in the harry potter series before i knew she was shitty i played the video games when i was a kid i spent a year in college working at the harry potter theme park in universal studios i have literally given jk rowling my money and my labor so at this point honestly it's too late anyway plus if you don't want to support the movies yourself you can just watch this video instead oh wait no i was joking hold on a second this video is transformative in nature and in no way acts as a direct market substitute oh and before we start real quick while we're on the topic of copyright i've been encountering a new problem with these videos where the movies themselves are no longer blocked for copyright issues which is really cool but the music in the scenes that i show you guys do get blocked which means that the entire video gets blocked anyway just for a new stupider reason for instance in my aquaman video the entire movie got past copyright they said it was okay but the scene of black manta getting beaten up had all of the audio removed the same thing happened in my last video which is why the martha scene from batman v superman is just cut weirdly youtube doesn't give me any options except removing all the audio after the video is up or removing the entire scene so if this video ends up having weird gaps or scenes with no audio it's not my fault sorry so anyway with that out of the way let's start with harry potter and the sorcerer's stone [Music] this movie can be best described as timeless i think that word can be applied to all of the movies but this one sets the tone that the rest of the films follow we opened this movie to harry potter and his new york apartment where he works part time as a slave and this is where we realize why everybody fell in love with this character because his life [ __ ] sucks by far the best and easiest way to make a kid character lovable is to make him have a shitty life and plus harry serves as a pretty good audience surrogate because he's new to this world too we see it all for the first time through his eyes we learn with him but this can also lead to him being kind of empty as a character in a lot of movies this happens later on but in this one i think it's fine also check out what my man is wearing look at this fit i'll be crying if i look like that too bro that's [ __ ] up what they be doing y'all and i gotta say for a movie centered around mostly child actors i think the performances could definitely be worse some are certainly better than others and i'll say that the weakest kid in this one is strangely enough daniel radcliffe which is weird because he's probably the better actor out of most people in this movie at least when he gets older but he kind of has to grow into it and i will say it's interesting to watch this kid literally grow as an actor in these movies you can watch him get better in this franchise you can see his highs and his lows he was that friend and it's not like he's bad in this movie he's just a little more stiff than the other kids i think these kids perform the worst when they're just with each other if they don't have an adult actor to bounce off of they're kind of awkward that explains the blood blood blood blood see i like shots like this where you can tell the director was like okay kids i need you all to look confused hmm also it goes without saying but the adult actors are all really good and the one stealing the show is obviously alan rickman he's putting on such a fun performance and he doesn't let up in the later movies either he keeps his energy throughout the series just from his first scene his introduction you can tell that he is different than everybody else i can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses ooh this man is gay however i could say that this movie does have one of the weaker villains the mastermind of this movie is jeff bezos and i guess he's kind of on the weaker side because we're led to believe in this movie that snape is the villain and it's kind of like a little bait and switch and as a bait and switch i guess it's fine because at the time you're not really supposed to think that snape's a good guy because i mean look at him i think most the reason why i can't complain about this is because this is just a really solid movie it's quite hard to poke holes in it i also like a lot of the effects in these early movies the later movies kind of do away with a lot of the practical effects but in this movie and the next one we have some really cool sets and awesome effects makeup and even the primitive cg doesn't really look that bad here i mean especially considering this is like what 2001 this looks fine for 2001 if you ask me however i will say there are some narrative issues that i have with this first movie for instance there are some holes in the world building it takes a few movies for us to learn why muggles can't see the stuff that wizards are doing we don't know why wizards are a secret to the world and we don't really know how they fit into the world at large i also don't like that we don't really find out much about the other houses and hogwarts in this movie they focus on gryffindor and slytherin a lot but in all of these movies we only meet like one or two children from hufflepuff and ravenclaw and with that being said in a lot of these movies you kind of forget that the slytherins are even there it's very much the gryffindor show here yeah jk built a really cool fantastical world that we only see one aspect of and also if you try to nitpick the story you can probably find some weird holes like why the [ __ ] does coral want to secretly ruin harry's quidditch game did voldemort really tell him to sabotage the sports game what's your [ __ ] deal man come on also i love how harry literally sits and watches the whole game without doing anything to help oh my god that sucks bro [Music] damn you guys are really losing huh if only i could do something to help if you compare these first two stories to the rest of the series things also don't always work as far as the writing goes jk rowling like many other authors like to make things up as she goes along but her special trait is that she likes to lie and pretend that she actually planned everything from the beginning i went into this a lot more in my video about the fantastic beasts movie so go watch that if you want to why does voldemort try to kill harry if he needs harry to be alive so he can regain his true form well that's because jk didn't come up with that rule until later i'm not stupid jk come on but overall i think the story in this movie has a pretty good flow it's not trying to be overly complicated it's a very simple kids mystery fantasy story and i like how the final challenge for the main characters in this movie is this test of all of the abilities that we've seen them have so far hermione gets to be smart harry gets to do his broom thing and ron gets to die look at this dude he's faking it his ass is not asleep you'll be okay harry you're a great wizard wait a minute i wouldn't say that he's a great wizard and honestly if we think about it harry has not casted a single spell in this movie and i went back and checked i'm not [ __ ] kidding in this entire movie he does not use his wand to cast a single spell hell the final battle is actually strangely barbaric compared to the rest of the stuff we see in this series the villain doesn't even try to kill harry with a spell he just tries to choke his ass out if you watch this for the first time it's a pretty cute story and then if you watch it too many times over the course of your lifetime like i have you kind of can't watch it the same way again because now i watch this movie and i think harry's kind of dumb and he's gullible and he does whatever anybody tells him to do come here potter now okie dokie but anyway that's the first movie it's hard to hate on this i'm just goofing this movie's fine this movie is timeless as hell and it's a great start to the series it's not really gonna blow your mind at this point but i remember back when i saw it this [ __ ] was legit and i always really like when the first movie in a long series nails the tone so i'ma give this one a 7 out of 10. i don't know the score doesn't really matter in these they're like all the same why am i reviewing all these again anyway next movie harry potter 2 is really long there's a lot of [ __ ] that happens in this movie like seriously a lot there's [ __ ] in this movie that i straight up forget about every time i watch it and if i try to lay out the plot of this movie it's kind of insane so that's exactly what i'm gonna do so this movie opens with harry being visited by gollum and i should point out that for 2002 this little dude looks really good so anyway dobby tells harry that he can't go to school this year because he heard that his master lucius malfoy is talking about this evil plan to wreak havoc in hogwarts and dobby doesn't want harry to be in danger because he's like a huge fan of his i guess but harry ignores him because he wants to go to school so him and his friends all go back to school shopping and malfoy's dad shows up and he talks about how racist he is and how he hates muggles and mudbloods see this movie introduces wizard racism which is good because i saw the first one and i remember saying damn this movie is good but it'd be way better with racism in it and look jk rowling even came up with a new slur for this universe he did not so lucius malfoy's plan is to secretly slip an evil magical diary into the cauldron that belongs to ron's 11 year old sister you see this magic evil diary belonged to voldemort so malfoy's dad is hoping that ginny will open the magic evil diary and become possessed by the spirit of young sexy voldemort oh and jk rowling retcons it later so that the diary is actually one of voldemort's secret magical artifacts that are a part of his soul that he split apart but again i'm not [ __ ] stupid and i know you came up with that [ __ ] later because why the [ __ ] would voldemort give lucius malfoy one of his horcruxes just so he could give it to ginny so anyway jenny starts talking to young sexy ghost voldemort in secret and he tells her to open the chamber of secrets which is an evil ancient torture chamber where one of the founders of hogwarts used to send impure wizards so they would be [ __ ] killed by a giant snake so basically this giant [ __ ] snake travels through the walls of hogwarts to go around and kill impure wizards because salazar slytherin taught the snake to be racist and that sounds like the kind of thing i would make up but it's actually [ __ ] true because harry can literally hear what the snake is saying and all it talks about is how badly it wants to murder the mudblood children so yeah this story is basically just ginny using the death note to cause problems around the school she [ __ ] bleeds a cat writes hate speech on the walls in its blood blood she tries to kill like three students she almost kills a ghost i don't even know that was [ __ ] possible and in general she participates in actual terrorism over the course of the entire school year until harry finds out what's going on he goes into the chamber he kills the snake with a sword which is pretty cool but i'm still wondering why he's not casting any [ __ ] spells use magic you [ __ ] idiot you have a wand and when it's all over lucious is like harry you [ __ ] you ruined my weird complicated plan and then he tries to kill harry he starts to [ __ ] say ivana kadabra he was gonna kill his ass right outside of dumbledore's office how are you planning on getting away with that you [ __ ] idiot the one thing that bothers me about this movie is this is the one where dumbledore is definitely the most irresponsible he probably knows about the giant racist snake but he can't find the ancient nazi torture chamber so oh well the children can tell that gilroy lockhart is a fraud but dumbledore the wisest coolest wizard still hires him to work with children for some reason this movie's just really dumb to me now that i'm watching it again i hadn't seen it in a while so much of this movie falls apart under the lightest bit of scrutiny the snake is [ __ ] gigantic but it can still crawl around inside the walls why didn't any of the ghosts see it i wouldn't normally nitpick this hard but ghosts are actually a pretty important plot point in this movie one of the people who got killed by the snake is a ghost and she literally lives inside the bathroom that has the entrance to the chamber of secrets why didn't she see jenny opening it why couldn't she see the snake crawling around inside the pipes i wouldn't be questioning this if moaning myrtle didn't live inside the [ __ ] toilet also it's kind of dumb how harry goes to aragog the giant spider and he asks him hey are you an evil monster that's terrorizing the students and aragog's like what no and harry's like okay cool i was just checking but then aragog's like yeah no problem okay i'm gonna eat you now [Music] but by far one of the things about this story in particular that is just so [ __ ] funny to me is the reveal of tom riddle secretly being voldemort jk rowling really wanted to take voldemort's name and tom riddle's name and connect them so she came up with this voldemort's name is just an anagram of tom marvolo riddle but i can't stop thinking of young voldemort writing in his little diary i am lord voldemort this makes voldemort so much less cool and marvolo's not even a [ __ ] real name it is like the fakest name i've ever heard jk rowling just [ __ ] sucks at making names alright her names are worse than star wars names sometimes because jar jar binks is a dumb name but it does sound like the name of a weird alien so i give it a pass i don't give a pass to porpentina or albus percival wolfrick brian dumbledore but you know i will say remus lupin is a pretty cool name for a werewolf but isn't it a weird coincidence that the guy whose birth name is literally lupine just so happens to end up accidentally becoming a werewolf later in his life whatever it's a [ __ ] kids book i don't care also in this story we find out that haggard lost his wand and got expelled because he was framed by young voldemort and even though we find out that haggard was innocent dumbledore still doesn't let hagrid do magic instead he lets him work for him in the next movie so he graduates from slavery to indentured servitude so thanks for that dumbledore just [ __ ] stands by while henry gets arrested in this movie he lets him get sent to [ __ ] azkaban which we learn later on is basically super jail dumbledore is such a useless piece of [ __ ] isn't this guy supposed to be your friend now yes i spent a lot of time making fun of this movie but this is the movie that's pretty easy to make fun of it still does have a lot of the same good things that you'd expect from this series like i said the effects are better than they were even in the last movie and i liked the effects in the last movie just fine i think this movie actually looks perfectly fine by today's standards and also i should say that the kids in this one are a lot better at acting than they were in the last movie they're starting not to feel like child actors anymore in this one i also do like how this movie raises the stakes a little bit the first movie talks about the threat of death a lot but this movie shows us that dying is an actual possibility being a child does not make you immune to dying also harry gets to use a sword to fight a giant monster in the final battle i'm a simple man if i see a fantasy adventure series i want to see my main character fight a giant monster with a sword like i said all the harry potter movies are basically on the same level for me this one's just a little weaker than the others it's still a cute charming adventure movie but the story is needlessly convoluted and honestly if you erase it from the series nothing really changes in this story minus the [ __ ] horcrux thing but we've already talked about how stupid that is this is a weird one it's definitely not my favorite i'm gonna give it like a five out of ten i guess and then we'll move on [Music] harry potter three is [ __ ] awesome this is where these movies get good and you can tell right at the beginning right from the start you can feel how the tone is different the colors are darker the jokes are better and overall this movie just has more life to it has more of its own personality if you ask me the harry potter movie slide along a scale on one end you have the childlike whimsical fantasy and on the other end you have like creepy mysterious fantasy the movies kind of grow up with the audience oh and this is mostly due to the fact that this movie was directed by [ __ ] alfonzo carone director of gravity and even some movies that are good he knows what he's [ __ ] doing and it shows in fact nerdwriter has a really good video on why this movie is the best one and i fully agree with all of his points there is just so much in this movie to appreciate from a filmmaking standpoint i should also say that the performances kind of stand out in this one for me too most notably from the adult actors i like this one scene where all of the grown-ups are basically just acting at each other it's like a little shakespeare scene i [ __ ] love it and i've said it before but alan rickman really is the best thing about all of these movies he gives it his all in every single one i love how hard he goes every little mannerism is calculated and i just love how extra he is and the story in this movie is really cool too this is the first movie where it's exciting and engaging from beginning to end and there's no like dumb convoluted side plots and this is a movie with time travel the fact that it's not convoluted is somehow a miracle also if you're not aware this movie has really clever long takes this director really likes his long takes and i think he uses them really well in this movie also the action is kept up pretty well in the beginning of this movie we have a few little exciting set pieces that keep us invested this confrontation on the hogwarts express is actually a really good way of keeping the tension up without being a cheap action scene i really like just throwing a random [ __ ] horror movie scene in the middle of our kids adventure and then we're introduced to lupin who's a really cool character i really like him i wish he was in more [ __ ] movies but whatever it's fine i'll deal with it i also like these little extra scenes that weren't in the book and just set the tone like this frog choir scene i can't play the music because i'll get [ __ ] but it's cool trust me there's also this cute scene of the boys goofing off and then we pan over to see that the threat of the dementors is still present it's good juxtaposition and again this isn't in the book all of the harry potter stories take place over the course of a school year and i really like how we're shown the change of the seasons with these little vignettes about the whomping willow this movie's also shot really [ __ ] well i love some of the shots that he does in this movie corone does this thing where he likes to go through glass and it happens like three or four times in this movie there are a lot of scenes in this movie that don't need long takes but they have them anyway look at this [ __ ] insane shot we start by going through the mirror because again corona likes doing that and then hermione appears in the shot and ron remarks on her appearing out of nowhere because if we look back she wasn't [ __ ] there remember that hermione is time traveling around in this movie and we literally see her just blip into the scene it's really [ __ ] cool this movie just starts adding a lot of extra things that weren't in the books and it makes it better every time and if you ask me the story gets particularly interesting once harry and the gang start time traveling which normally i would never say about a story with time travel because in this movie you think the story has reached its climax with the villain being revealed and then a showdown with the dementors and honestly everything up to this point has just gone to [ __ ] but it's still really exciting as far as we know the cute magical pokemon was executed lupin turned into a monster and disappeared and sirius is about to be executed everything [ __ ] sucks but then they go back in time and reverse engineer it so that everything goes their way and you know i don't like to give jk rowling credit but this is the one narrative that is almost airtight almost the only major problem with this story is just the concept of the time turner because honestly you can't just introduce the concept of time travel without messing things up a little bit because now we're gonna wonder well why didn't anybody go back in time and kill voldemort why didn't anybody go back in time and save harry's parents all jk rowling has to do is say something like oh the time turners only go back 24 hours or something like that there's so many ways to fix this problem but no her stupid ass had to double down because she has to make it seem like she doesn't make mistakes if you call her out for anything she tries to justify it because she's stubborn as [ __ ] oh hey jk rowling isn't it kind of dumb that nobody ever time traveled to stop voldemort uh yeah well it is dumb and that's why in my new book they go back in time and everything's bad and they go back in time to save cedric and voldemort rules the world and the world is run by nazis so yeah there you go haha i swear to god this woman is so bad at taking l's but hey we get more chances to make fun of her in the later books because of this so i'll take it i will say that the time travel if contained to this story works pretty well we find out that things didn't actually go badly because time is like a loop where you can't really change much that happens i've seen time travel in a lot of stories that i really like that was done way worse i just think there's so much to love in this movie i could probably make a whole video about it myself i love snape's personal stake in the story how he has to confront the people who abused him in his childhood i like this little moment where he protects the kids the twist villain is pretty good and i like how the story doesn't really have a conventional antagonist i'd say that the main villains of this movie are fear and like time i think that's pretty [ __ ] cool and i like it that harry in this story takes it upon himself to learn stronger magic we just had two movies where he really doesn't do a lot of magic which is weird because it's a story about [ __ ] wizards so it's nice to see him like actually try for once and then it builds up to this great moment where he expects someone to come in and save the day for him because that's kind of what's happened every time up until now and then he realizes nobody's coming to help him and he has to save the day himself it's really cool i like it a lot it's a very good moment in this series oh and of course i cannot talk about this movie without mentioning the absolutely insane final shot [Music] this [ __ ] makes me laugh every time i watch this movie in a worse movie this final shot would be ridiculous but i think it's funny and i like this movie so i'm gonna give it a pass it's my video [ __ ] you i can say whatever i want there's a lot of things that i like that i can't really get into because then this video would be really long i like this movie and that's not really a surprise because everybody likes this one this is a lot of people's favorite and with this one you can kind of see why i'm okay with defending these movies even though i don't like jk rowling most of what i enjoy in this movie is stuff that she didn't even come up with there are so many little extra moments for the characters that are brilliant i see this as an alfonso corone film he's not transphobic as far as i know so why should i ignore his work in the work of other people who helped make this movie work as well as it does doesn't seem fair to me anyway this movie owns go watch it if you haven't 9 out of 10 next movie harry potter 4 is it's decent it's fine i guess controversial opinion incoming this is where the cracks really start to form for the series now like the last one a lot of people would probably say that this is their favorite and i used to think that way too but nowadays i don't like it as much which is kind of weird as for the story this is basically a shonen tournament arc which is pretty fun and exciting and i think as far as the plot goes this is like the more exciting story on paper harry is entered into this huge tournament against his will and he has to find a way to beat the challenges and unravel a mystery mostly on his own before a lot of harry's adventures were influenced and assisted by other characters but here he has to start figuring out things on his own and i do think that's pretty cool this is especially evident in the climax of this movie for instance in the first movie harry brings his two new bffs into the final battle with him and in the second one he just brings ron in the third one he brings just hermione and in this one he's on his own and i really like that i love a lot of things about this final battle but i'll get into that later first let's talk about a lot of the things that i don't really like in this movie firstly cedric diggory is really lame i'm sorry robert pattinson i think cedric is severely underwritten in this story that goes for the book and the movie i genuinely think harry and cedric should have been super chummy super best friends in this story his relationship with ron is pretty strained up until ron just randomly decides to stop being an [ __ ] oh and i should mention ron is like a huge dick from this point onward he stops being nice for like the rest of the series he goes from being a super loyal best bro who has harry's best interest in mind to a weird petty spiteful [ __ ] there are a lot of scenes where he's just a [ __ ] [ __ ] victor's gone to go and get drinks she cares join us no i would not care to join you and the victim they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine but you just can't get into it because they would never understand but what if we made this the point of the story what if harry starts to replace ron with cedric and then cedric gets killed in the end making us really [ __ ] sad and then harry has to go back to his friend and be comforted by him when cedric dies in the end it doesn't really hit us until later when cedric's dad is crying people say this scene is sad but i don't think it's that sad because i don't really care about cedric that much this is the turning point of the entire series and it could definitely be more powerful another huge problem i have with this story in particular is mad-eye moody see this is where jk starts making her stories complex for literally no reason she has definitely gone too far in a few places the entire barty crouch subplot is stupid as [ __ ] i just do not give a [ __ ] about any of the scenes that feature barty crouch and cornelius fudge these [ __ ] names i swear to god i mean this is a story where harry is in a [ __ ] anime tournament he has a face off against a sexy french girl and a hard-boiled russian super soldier and [ __ ] batman but half of the story is devoted to the crouch family this also completely destroys the character of mad-eye moody moody is given so much characterization in this story except we learn that this isn't the real mad eye moody it's [ __ ] wizard nazi doctor who pretending to be mad imoody and after they arrest him we're left with regular moody who we don't even know because we never met him so when he shows up in the later movies we don't even care because we don't know who he is and when he dies off screen we super don't care if you remove the crouch plotline and just leave moody as normal mad-eye moody it doesn't really change the story that much just say that [ __ ] peter pettigrew put harry's name in the goblet of fire he can already sneak in and out of the castle and he's a character that we already know and hate she keeps inventing new characters and new villains just to get rid of them after one story i think part of the reason why people love bellatrix so much is because she actually sticks around for more than one story in a long epic adventure fantasy series it's nice to have villains that we can grow a relationship with as well moody would have been so much more interesting if this was really him i like the idea of a genius teacher who's pretty hard on the students but still has their best interests in mind i love the scene where he triggers neville's ptsd and then he realizes he went too far so he offers to give him some tea and hang out with him oh wait sorry that's not really moody it's just nazi david tennant pulling neville aside so he can trick him later that's stupid neville doesn't need to be tricked into helping harry find a magical plant neville already likes magical plants and he likes helping harry he would have done it on his own do you think that miserable oath would have led you into the woods if i hadn't suggested it what the [ __ ] does that even mean you're telling me hagrid wouldn't have shown harry the dragons hagrid loves to show harry magical animals he does it all the time also this leads into my next point while i like the idea of there being illegal spells avada kadavra is the dumbest [ __ ] spell in the entire series all of the other forbidden spells make perfect sense to me mind control spell yeah that's [ __ ] up that should be illegal torture spell yeah that's [ __ ] up that should be illegal spell that kills someone now your gut reaction might be to say that yeah that spell should be illegal but lots of spells kill people in this universe what spell is this it looks kind of evil not an illegal spell though this spell [ __ ] kills people not illegal though the difference is that other spells are actually creative too avada kadavra just stops you from being alive it's lame as [ __ ] and it removes so much creativity from the series the later duels just revolve around one person shooting the evil green laser and a good guy shooting the good guy red laser the best fight in the entire series is only cool because voldemort realizes he can't rely on his dumb ass murder laser it's two wizards actually using cool creative spells to try to kill each other oh but this spell isn't illegal it looks like it should be [ __ ] illegal what the [ __ ] even is this he's shooting him with the power of evil why isn't that illegal oh and this point kind of sits on its own and i'm gonna upset some of you with this one but i do not think emma watson is very good at acting she suits hermione just fine but hermione is kind of a caricature a lot of the time are you done having your tantrum her line delivery sometimes is just kind of off like she's always [ __ ] yelling at people even when it's not appropriate wake up wake up bloody hell honestly get dressed also i hate how she like acts with her eyebrows i don't know who told her to do this but it's really distracting once you start to notice it all of this is frustrating to me because this seriously should be the coolest harry potter movie it has so much potential but it's being dragged down by this overly complicated plot and this extra needless world building this is jk rowling's biggest failing as an author she thinks she's smarter than she is a story being more complex does not mean it's better harry potter is best when it's simple the concept of a little orphan boy becoming a strong powerful wizard with a lot of friends is really simple and it catches us immediately but as the story keeps going she keeps adding [ __ ] that we do not care about and it starts to muddy up the concepts that we fell in love with but that isn't to say that this one doesn't still have stuff that i like and i'm gonna say that with like all of the movies that i don't like in this series but like i said i don't hate this movie i think it's decent it's just that the problems in this one are starting to become more apparent i personally don't think harry potter as a character is as lame as people think he is i like that he's just brave as hell in all of these movies remember how he accepts his [ __ ] death in the second movie he's 12 years old and he's willing to give his life to save someone else i think that's pretty cool when i see a little kid pushing himself to do something even though he's really afraid that's when i start to consider it a strong character trait if there's one thing you can criticize harry for it's that he's kind of a dick sometimes and in the books this is kind of shown to be just childhood angst but in the movies it doesn't really feel like that most of the time it just feels like he's a rude person no offense but i really don't care they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine oh and this isn't really a critique but i think it's really funny whenever harry screams in these movies i know that sounds weird but i don't know how to explain it i just think he yells really funny he just has like a funny yell [Applause] but on the end of actually praising harry i like how his personal arc is developing in this movie in particular and this arc continues into the fifth movie where i think he's the strongest and the most developed in this one he has to fully accept that he's gotten as far as he has just because of the help he's received from other people and this one he's getting bullied he can't really rely on ron and hermione and i love how he decides to use his own personal skill with the broom to beat the dragon challenge it's cool how all the challenges rely on the contestants to use their own methods to win but i do wish they showed other characters beating their challenges again it's a lot of missed potential it's very disappointing i will say i really do like the climax of this movie though this movie culminates in the full return of voldemort and this is where the entire series hits a turning point before this it was very much a whimsical childlike fantasy after this point everything [ __ ] sucks and this is also big because we haven't seen voldemort's true form yet and i think he looks [ __ ] awesome it helps too that ray finds is doing a very good performance as voldemort i really like how this feels like the most [ __ ] situation harry has ever gotten into i also like how harry is reasonably afraid when he realizes how screwed he is but again he's brave as [ __ ] and he decides that if he's going down he's going down swinging you can tell that he's just forcing himself to be brave in the face of a situation that he has no hope of coming out of alive i just really love this moment for harry this is probably one of my favorite moments for the character all together and one more thing i should bring up is that this movie has the most tonally dissonant ending out of all the movies every single movie except for two of them decide to try to end in an optimistic way even if it doesn't fit and this is the one where it feels the most forced right after we mourn the death of a child the tone kind of just goes back to being happy for the ending the entire status quo of this universe has shifted we cannot end the movie with the joke anymore it just doesn't work i think we'll never just have a quiet year hogwarts ron our friend [ __ ] died anyway this movie isn't that bad but for some reason even though i've seen it a million times and i've liked it for most of my life i've noticed a lot of things that i didn't really like this time around the tournament is cool in concept but the slice of life school drama isn't really paced very well and the story doesn't really feel satisfying to unravel like some of the other mysteries of ben so it might be kind of controversial but i'm gonna have to give this one a six out of ten okay those are the first four movies in the harry potter series and we have another four to go and the last half of the movies are really miserable merry christmas [Music] so [Music] you

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Published: Mon Dec 21 2020