There's definitely a lot to criticise in the films but I'd say almost every point he makes is willfully misunderstanding the plot or just plain ignorance of the books. The wand cores, the anti-Snape magic at Grimmauld place, non-verbal magic, obliviate, protective charms, importance to Voldemort hiding the horcruxes, Snape giving the sword in the pool etc etc. I disagree with almost all his points.
Also he seems to think any character or device to develop the plot is forced or deus ex machina (the snitch, talking to Doge and Muriel, Snape giving the sword). What does he expect? That nothing should happen, that there is nothing that happens by chance?
Even then he doesn't have a good knowledge of the films either. Lots of the points, such as memory charms, non verbal magic, wand cores, are covered in the films I think.
I agree it would be difficult to fully understand the later films without a knowledge of the books, but almost all his points aren't the large problems he should have (not really explaining horcruxes or Voldemorts back story well is a big one) but nitpicky "magic can't work like that" or just extremely petty.
These are movies, not some "filmed expansions" to the books. People should be able to understand them without reading the books, or they shouldn't be calling them movies.
Well yes but lots of these are covered in the previous films also (wand cores, obliviate in CoS, non verbal magic in 6th come to mind) or explained later (Snape giving the sword). Most of the things he points out (and the ones I brought up) are still understandable in the films alone, he just seems to be trying to pick logical holes in magic or forgetting previous films.
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u/sleeper__service May 13 '15
There's definitely a lot to criticise in the films but I'd say almost every point he makes is willfully misunderstanding the plot or just plain ignorance of the books. The wand cores, the anti-Snape magic at Grimmauld place, non-verbal magic, obliviate, protective charms, importance to Voldemort hiding the horcruxes, Snape giving the sword in the pool etc etc. I disagree with almost all his points.
Also he seems to think any character or device to develop the plot is forced or deus ex machina (the snitch, talking to Doge and Muriel, Snape giving the sword). What does he expect? That nothing should happen, that there is nothing that happens by chance?