>YOUR MINISTRY REMAINS
>STRONG
>immediately fucking dies off-screen
What was the point of this character?
movies 4-8 are soulless
1-3 are PEAK soul
This scene lives rent-free in my head, Nighy has such memorable diction
>>212533380a great opening honestly, he was severely under-utilized in the movies
(not like his character was much more prominent in the books either kek)
>>212532427 (OP)the "point" of this character is evident in the books
they included him in the movie as they are adapting the books
but didnt adapt everything
hence it lacks purpose
but even without that you can still just see this scene as some innocent world building and confirmation that fudge was fired after the previous movie
>>212532898Correct.
>>212533380Nighy always kills it. He’s in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for like 2 minutes and still manages to be the best, most memorable part.
Is the entire magical government just one ministry?. No different Branches?. Even in Ancient Times Rome had a senate.
No wonder they get taken over.
Of course a woman would come up with this completely retarded government, just like she came up with "Quidditch".
The entire plot of this series might very have happened off-screen. I could not tell you, as this was indubitably the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. 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.
>>212534253Why do you post this in every Harry Potter related thread? Is this a bot? Who the fuck gives a shit about Spielberg?
>>212534181The whole magical government was the Ministry of Magic, but it had various branches within it. I think there was also a separate court system, but it’s unclear how separate it was. Also, it is literally never stated how the Minister of Magic is chosen in the series to my knowledge.
>>212534181iirc the Ministry of Magic is subordinated to the british PM so that's why they get only 1
>>212534253>Clifford for PresidentYou alright anon. Even if you did leave a word out of your intro.
>>212533380>>212533665watch "The Boat That Rocked", he's great and it's a great movie
>>2125328984 still has some soul, if just for the memes and general hammyness of it
