Fantastic Beasts is Not. Good.

1) The idea this is a conservation movie is kind of laughable. The main conflict is man v society, not man v nature, and the use of positive natural forces is... forced. 

2) The treatment of PEOPLE is terrible in this movie. We blow things up, we erase memories, we are just straight up elitist. But with the wave of a wand all damage is undone.

3) The lack of explaining ANYTHING is horrific. Apparition is CONSTANT, and never explained, Wands are just presumed (especially the apparent horror of the snapped wand which like ???), the interior of the briefcase is BONKERS but also we spend very little time there?
4) The political themes are clumsy and heavy handed, especially due to the fact that they're WIZARDS. Wizards. Have. Magic. They are BORN different. They are almost not human. You cannot address humanity's propensity to be terrible to each other based on how they treat aliens/humans. This is a fallacy. 

5) Newt is an obvious self insert. He's painfully smart, he causes all the plot, he's incredibly smug and *infallible*, he saves the AUROR. Jesus the treatment of Emily in this movie is diabolical. She's consistently shown not as frustrated by the system, but a servant to it.
6) Finally, they're all better main characters. Newt is an interesting and unique character, but he's hard to identify with. It'd be like if Hermione narrated the Sorceror's Stone.
Emily can follow a typical cop arch and play into the crime tropes of it. 

Kowalski is a straight man and can follow the fantasy arch of learning, SLOWLY, dear god, about all these wondrous things before he (maybe? please?) had some sort of impact on the climax.
7) This sucks. It all sucks, it's clumsy as a social metaphor, it's lazy as a fantasy film, it's confused as a visual oddment, it's boring as a crime story, and it's disappointing as a Harry Potter EU exploration.
Please don't see Fantastic Beasts. I mean, you probably will, but brace yourself for a heaping pile of garbage. 

*************Spoilers***********************

1) We just murder Creedence. No care WHATSOEVER to the fact a kid died. "oh, he was sick" is pretty weak imo. We're promised Newt or Graves (AKA Grindelwald, who is essentially Voldemort but less persistent) will save him. Two very smart, capable wizards aren't enough to save an innocent life. That's a fundamentally despairing message. 

Why You Should Play Hatoful Boyfriend

Yes, that pigeon dating game.

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     So, you're still here? Good.
     Hatoful Boyfriend, originally developed by Hato Moa and released in English territories by Devolver Digital, is a japanese style dating sim where you romance a wide variety of pigeons. And I think you should play it.
     The first thing Hatoful Boyfriend does is introduce you to yourself through a conversation with the boy-next-door, Ryouta. You're a human girl that lives in a cave, eats a large amount or ramen, and attends an otherwise all bird academy. The birds speak, they read and do math, they have history class. It's very high school. The game introduces you to various birds, and then demands you choose one right away. The best part of forcing a decision from you early on (there is a "Game Over" screen in HB, though I had to intentionally fail in order to see it, for achievement reasons) is that there are no wrong choices. Every character is more complex than they seem on the surface, and every storyline present is emotionally satisfying. Will you fall prey to the maniacal control freak? Will your heart be broken by one whose own heart is yet mended? Will you meet a god? It's all possible within HB, and you'll soon forget that it would be strange to date a pigeon. The game makes frequent, sometimes painful, bird puns. That's part of the fun. I won't spoil any of the routes here, but there are some real tear jerkers in there, as well as a few laughs and a lot of personality digging.
     The most important part of playing HB, though, is doing it right. The game is very good from the start, but things really pick up once you reach the post game. That's right: There's a secret ending to HB, and it's the best part of the game. If you romance every possible bird (this includes the ones not unlocked until about halfway through the story), you have the option to launch into a choose your own adventure style mystery-thriller ending to the already strange visual novel. It's a strange, powerful, and compelling sci-fi story that not only hides in a dating sim, but thrives off of the fact that it is inside it. You can read more about it here <link incoming>. Or you can just play it for yourself.

On Within the Ruins "Gods Amongst Men"

This is a metal song. It's very heavy/screamy. But it's supposedly about Magneto. The chorus proclaims "Free your mind/trust in me/ i'll show you what it means to feel complete" which is technically addressed to mutants. Could it also be a call to satanism? No, I'm just crazy. I'm no PMRC nut. But also you should think about how similar those two characters are. Give up your humanity/soul and become something more. Align with my power and I will free you of petty morality. Etc.

Basically, Magneto is Satan. Thanks for clarifying that Within the Ruins. I appreciate it.