Harry Potter - 10 Years Later

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I just thought you might like to know that the autogenerated subtitles came up with the amazing 'Hell on the Bottom Carter.' Thank you for your time.

I forgot all about David Tennant's tongue flicks, the greatest "I am crazy" cue in acting history

Regarding Dumbledore’s character flaw of being manipulative: this is why I enjoyed Yates’ directing. In the very beginning of Half-Blood Prince, with the reporters there asking questions & flash-bulbs going off. He has the camera ZOOM IN on Dumbledore’s hand on Harry’s shoulder, LEADING him away. If there was any iconic shot that sums up the entire series, THAT is it. PS I love that you’re a Taker stan, btw! ☺️

I genuinely think prisoner of Azkaban is one of the best directed and shot blockbusters ever made. Im mixed on the rest of the series, I generally enjoy them but don't think theyre all amazing, but Azkaban is extremely special and Alfonso is amazing at staging, blocking, and lighting. What a phenomenal film

"For the first time I started to discovered art, not because it was popular with other kids my age, but because it felt more specific to me" - Very profound. That is the path to true artistic self expression and self identification.

I feel like the movies botched the magic duels as 90% of the time they are just glorified gun fights which differed to how they were handled in the books. The Order of the Phoenix perhaps had the best duel out of all the movies, and one that was closest to the books but still not as thrilling.

As a Mexican, a little part of me is really proud that the best Harry Potter movie was directed by a Mexican 😅 I loved the look of it overall, the tonal shift, Radcliffe’s elevated acting as he grew, I loved that Voldemort isn’t the center of the conflict, it’s essentially about Harry becoming an adolescent and learning to cope with his trauma. It’s a very human story in a magical setting.

"David Yates song choice" broke me. Well done 😆

Overall, I feel like my biggest criticism is the lack of genuine complexity. While there is some explorations of morality, the characters who are good are ultimately good because they happen to be on the good team. The characters who are bad are ultimately bad because they happen to be on the bad team. Even when we learn that a person we assumed to be bad was actually good, it’s because they were on the good team all along, not because they’re actually complex morally (and no, making Snape a jerk doesn’t mean he’s complex, he’s just an a-hole). Not to mention, our heroes are hardly agents of change. By the end of the series, nothing has really changed outside of the characters. They saved the world, but the world just goes back to how it was before the Death Eaters showed up.

I got the impression that Snape’s behavior isn’t excused but the result of someone having to reconcile protecting his tormentor’s and love’s son simultaneously. Context for how rough he was, not an excuse leading to us loving him for it. Harry’s naming his son after Severus is more of him realizing how hard that was and how well he did considering

Dude, you're not giving Chamber of Secrets the credit it deserves.

Part of me still has a soft spot for these movies despite their flaws. But, like yourself, there's other art that entered my life that I revisit more. It's not even a matter of Potter being a kids thing. I just broadened my scope. I still come back to it on occasion. I enjoy it a lot too. But other fantasy fair like Star Wars or LOTR resonates with me more.

Chamber of Secrets is my favorite. Not the biggest fan of Deathly Hallows Part 1 but overall the whole series was fun.

It really feels like the complaints you have about the first two movies consist of 'they suck because they made a faithful adaptation rather than pulling a Peter Jackson's Hobbit with it'. Especially when it comes to chamber of secrets, where a lot of the 'plot threads that go nowhere' DO have payoffs down the line, or existed as world-building segments and/or foreshadowing. The most egregious of this is the 'Weasley bros rescue Harry from the Dursleys' and 'flying car' bits. The Weasley's rescuing Harry was the first time someone outside of 'Dumbledore's group' was shown being aware of what was going on, and more importantly, BEING BOTHERED BY IT. It was only the second time Harry felt like someone was actually HELPING. It is quite important, both story wise and thematically, as it helps establish the weasley family as being MORE than just 'Harry's friends/aquaintances at school'. The movie was sorta hampered by runtime, and thus didn't really show how much of 'part of the family' Harry felt between his breakout and the start of school. With the flying car, it's mixed in quite clearly with the Dobby subplot, serves to introduce the whomping willow, which has roles of some importance later in the story (especially in book 3) and also provide a way to not have the rescue from Aragog be a total 'deus ex machina' moment, by using a semi-sentient car that was previously established as extant to solve that tangle. You come across as both overly nitpicky, and outright ignoring the established context on some things when it doesn't support the conclusion you want to reach. FTR: I'll take a faithful adaptation over 'director puts his own spin on things' pretty much every time. It rarely turns out well when Directors go messing about with the actual plot elements beyond the changes that are absolutely necessary. See LOTR VS Hobbit adaptations by the same director, for plenty of example of that 'less changes is better' approach being the smarter.

Man this genuinely really resonated with me; we're about the same age and in the mid to late 2000s I was hugely into Harry Potter to a ridiculous degree, but over the course of the following decade I lost touch with the series and now its something I don't really have any interest in at all. The reasons you gave, disappointing sequels, terrible fan base, Rowling herself all probably confirmed my lack of interest, but at the heart of it is really just that I'd grown up, grown older and developed a wider range of tastes and interests. I haven't actually watched any of the films for years maybe, despite my fond memories of them, and I have no idea how I'd react to them today, but your video really helped me look at my own attitude and put my feelings into perspective! Keep it up 👍

The lead singer in the Yule Ball band is none other than Jarvis Cocker! One of the coolest guys of the 90s haha

I was a little old for HP when it came out, so I never had that connection. I remember at the time there was a big hoopla and people decried the book as witchcraft.

32:08 I literally had the same journey of Batman, wrestling, and metal music in the same years (2005ish), except I was 13.

14:20 "the lamest band in fiction"?? it's a pulp and radiohead supergroup