Movies I Love Way More Than People Think I Should

Joshua Beck
12 min readApr 4, 2021

We’ve all been there: we see a movie and we absolutely fall in love with it, only to find that the majority of people in the world had a wildly different opinion.

And every time you revisit it, you find yourself either wondering what they are all missing, or if you are simply crazy for being such a fan.

There are several movies on my list of favorites that I’m sure most people wouldn’t understand why I love them so much, so let’s talk about that. And who knows… maybe I’ll change your mind on one or two of them.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Image Credit: Warner Bros.

Let’s start off with one of the biggest conundrums for me: I simply do not understand the hatred that Crimes of Grindelwald has garnered over the years.

I will easily admit that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them had some issues. The pacing was off at times, and some details were easy to miss upon first (or even second, and maybe third) viewing. And while I think those complaints can also be attributed to the sequel, I think Rowling did a much better job with the story overall.

If anything, the issue with these movies is that Rowling wrote them as scripts; if these had been books, they would have easily been as big as the latter Potter books, filled…

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Joshua Beck
Joshua Beck

Written by Joshua Beck

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