D tier incoherent sloppa that’s only popular due to the sheer retardation and tastelessness of the unwashed normie masses.
You don’t have to pretend it’s good just to own the troons.

>>24461359 (OP)
i liked the atmosphere. it was very silly. that's all i can remember though.
i don't think something has to be God-tier for someone to enjoy it.

>>24461359 (OP)
>that’s only popular due to the sheer retardation and tastelessness of the unwashed normie masses.
this logic would apply to every single popular work, it has nothing to do with harry potter specifically

>>24461363
See, that’s the thing. It’s all aesthetics, 0 substance. You could get the same experience by just looking at the book covers.

>>24461364
There are popular works that are legitimately good. It’s just that popularity and quality are not particularly related.

>>24461368
i don't really know that you could, that seems to me a subjective opinion. at any rate, i think books that are purely aesthetic, or at least lean aesthetic, are okay from time to time. not everything has to be deep philosophical discourse or immaculately plotted to be a fun read.
the problem comes when people refuse to acknowledge flaws within the work, and adamantly assert that it's a masterpiece simply because they themselves enjoy it.
the inverse is what you're doing, which is claiming it has no value whatsoever. but the world does not operate on black and white.

>>24461359 (OP)
>You don’t have to pretend it’s good just to own the troons.
You don't have to pretend it's bad just to signal how much you've outgrown children's literature, anon. It's time to let go and start with the Greeks.

The monumental scale of my throbbing cerebrum does not permit me the enjoyment of "Hop on Pop", and other such scribblings of the literary charlatan "Doctor" Seuss.

Let’s be real. Harry Potter was astroturfed by the media and then it’s legacy constructed by the movies.

this is the same as shitting on Star Wars dude.
they're wizard books for kids, they're the modern equivalent of bargain-bin pulp serials. disposable media for people of a transient age group.
it's not that deep.

>>24461359 (OP)
The thing is millenials, though it isn't at all limited to them, could very easily repudiate the franchise but they seem to have this yearning for childhood, and its memories, making them unable to realize changes in their life which are in opposition to it. You can allow that articles that you treasured as a child held a singular role in your life but upon growing up, and self-reflection more so, you find that there is much more merit, in the entertainment provided or otherwise, that you can get through works that are not created for children and thus have more depth to them in virtually all facets of humanity.

Harry Potter is the dullest franchise. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

a-at least the books were good though "No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>24461689
lol Atlas Shrugged

>>24461359 (OP)
filtered

>>24461637
>disposable media for people of a transient age group
Why should we be so resigned to entire strands of storytelling being lower grade on purpose just because delusional corporate slaves think that emotional maturity is "oh I'm suddenly not who I was when I was 17 because I'm 18". You don't die. Your proclivities and goals don't change. You can't emotionally mature for a "mature" reason, you are immature. You need a motivation to grow up that is coherent to the mind of someone who isn't grown up. Why should we just let media that mattered growing up be abandoned? Why should we let the people who create it get away with thinking they're allowed to be stupid? Why should we expect children raised on this media to mature at all if we're building their relationship with storytelling around literal slop to compensate for hack writers not knowing how to be worth taking seriously while also being intellectually simplistic?

>>24461780
>it's not that deep.
fucking relax, god damn dude no wonder you have no friends.
did you at least enjoy constructing some imaginary opponent to throw that screed at, or did you just upset yourself again?

>>24461689
Why is The Stranger in God Tier?
The Stranger is retarded. It's not even absurd. He shot the guy for no reason. What did he think would happen?

>>24461970
>It's not even absurd. He shot the guy for no reason.
I dunno, seems pretty absurd to me

>>24461972
I shouldn't say no reason. Dude was Arab.

>>24461970
He was standing in his shade. The real question is why did he keep shooting him when he was already dead.

I think he was irritated that the arab forced him to shoot him. Because of their earlier altercation, there was no other way for him to access the shade.