Wednesday, November 30, 2016
How to criticize people
I am a big Harry Potter fan. I have read all of the books several times, including the minor books like Fantastic Beasts. I cried at times when I read "The Cursed Child." I purchased and viewed all of the HP movies many times. I use Pottermore and other websites. I went to the theater on the day that the movie "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" opened in my area. I bought a ticket for the very first screening. Well, I hated the movie for a whole bunch of reasons. The first thing I did was to send a tweet to J.K.Rowling herself. She will probably never it read it but maybe one of her assistants will give her a tally of the positive and negative comments. The next thing I did was to go to the Harry Potter websites. I argued that the movie was historically inaccurate. I mentioned that shooting a movie in sepia colors doesn't make it historic. I had about ten other reasons why I thought this movie was awful. The response was dramatic. How dare I criticize J.K.Rowling? Didn't I realize how eagerly her fans had waited for the movie to come out? Didn't I realize that JKR wrote the book and the movie script? Well, that was what I was trying to say. The movie was what you would expect as an amateurish first attempt. Perhaps JKR will write a better script next time. I can tell you that I am extremely unpopular among JKR fans. So I went silent for two weeks. The initial reviews of the movie were glowing. They always seemed to mention that the movie was making a lot of money. By the second week, the reviews were less enthusiastic. The last time I checked, a few vloggers and bloggers have been critical of "Fantastic Beasts." I think that most fans will finally decide that this movie is a stinker. Everything I have been saying is leading up to one key point. Sometimes timing is important when you want to say something unpopular. I think that tweeting JKR directly was the right thing to do before criticizing her movie. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't have been so quick to criticize something that people had waited for. Next time I will wait until the time is right before verbalizing my opinions. Maybe I will try to be less harsh at first. Sooner or later most Potter fans will reach a common conclusion about this movie.
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