Seeing as how I ' m being told how horrible I am for disagreeing with the way proper people think , and how I ' m a disgusting racist , homophobic , transphobe , etc , for thinking for myself and voting in my own interests , I ' d say that I ' m the mainstream . I actually do come from a cult . Where all non believers are demonized literally , all non believers are possessed by satan and those who buck the idiotic narrative of the mainstream press are now seen as the outsiders ? The average working person who are the majority are now a cultish out group ? <| sep |> Whoa . I never tried that . I ' ve been putting it in the toaster oven . <| sep |> I thought it was a fantastic beasts movie it ' s just the editing made it feel . odd and it caused a lot of the flatness overall you noticed as well . To answer your question I think that despite the flatness it still was pretty fun and had fantastic beasts premise and many new characters and locations and most importantly it had SO much to offer as far as lore for fans . We ' re looking at 5 more years of this American Gman looking witchcraft and wizardry ? ! Sign me up ! I think the sheer mystery of all that coupled with the nostalgia and hope for a decade more for Potter fans , gets them excited for the good parts of the movie and hides the not so good stuff enough that it ' s getting high marks . That ' s my theory ! I felt it could have been better and I ' d like to see some fresh direction coming into the mix . But I still loved it !