Well, the idea of the novel it’s a confrontation between good wizard and bad wizard.
Without things turning dark it couldn’t be possible to develop. Ironic
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Hitman is an underrated franchise.
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it’s dog shit. all of it. i’m so sorry you had to find out this way.
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What really makes it THAT bad as you say it is? 
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just to be clear, i built in an escape clause:
i find it trite, mediocre and boring. i don’t like any of the characters. i don’t like that it’s built on the same kind of upper-middle class ‘british values’ as the great british bake off; values which i’m not a fan of.
i will freely admit it was great for the british film industry and for getting kids to read, but that’s about all i can find that’s good about it (and the last one is a stretch).
@Heisenberg yes
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Y’er a trust fund kid, Harry!
Guess it wasn’t such a big issue for a non British kid like me, especially when all I knew about UK is what I saw on Benny Hill, Monty Python and Mr. Bean 
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that’s exactly what the uk is like. 
i don’t blame you, man. loads of kids (and adults) loved potter. i didn’t. tis the way of things 
…but it really fucking sucks
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Death of the author. You can disagree with the creator and still like his work if it has no connections with his beliefs 
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I’ve read the books in my early teenage years and I’ve enjoyed them. Didn’t saw all movies but the ones i saw were also okay.
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recently rewatched all harry potter movies with my family, they were fine, absolute shame the vibrant magical colors didnt make it past the first movie
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that’s more of critical analysis tool than anything else. ‘art’ is a form of communication, so i personally don’t think you can really separate art and artist.
at the end of the day, it’s a personal choice. as i said in that other thread, i like stuff i don’t agree with politically or sociologically. for instance, i think dirty harry and dark knight are great movies, but i vehemently disagree with their conclusions. i have much more trouble reconciling that when the creator is, say, using their position and power to target vulnerable groups.
fortunately, i already thought harry potter was gash.
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Thats probably because you were already an adult when it came around. I was basically the target audience when I’ve read the first books, i think this is also a big factor.
But i agree with the rest of your post.
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definitely played a large part in my lack of enthusiasm, but on the other hand, i’m a 41 year old (recovering) comic book and video game nerd, so it isn’t like i’m above enjoying stuff not aimed at my age range.
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Minecraft is a meaningless boring game.
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aw man. me and the kids love it. it’s digital lego that offers players genuine creativity rather than a prescribed experience. i love the fact it’s essentially goalless too. can’t wait to see the kinds of games people who grew up with it end up making.
oh, and, when you get down to it, all games are pretty ‘meaningless’. they’re little skinner boxes that suck time out of us.
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Trust me, nothing in real life is worth the use of that time. That’s why we invented games; everything nature provided sucks.
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Believe me theres plenty of things irl that you cant experience in games.
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the sad thing about that is we built a reality we feel the need to escape from.
i’ll let my kids know.
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Sure. Heartbreak, bankruptcy, torture, cancer.
My unpopular opinion: life is a state of existence that teeter-totters between boring and horrible, and the small, fleeting bits of happiness it tosses you never outweighs or makes up for the pain and sorrow it puts you through. Give me the entertainment of fiction any time, because nothing in real life is genuinely worth experiencing once the final tally is made.