I think you replied in the wrong place, since your comment had exactly shit to do with anything I said. For example, I never said "If a movie includes foreshadowing, everyone should like it!"

"We" get it? How many of you are…in there? And no, you don't get it. I haven't seen the movie yet and never said I did. I have read 2 and 1/2 of the 3 books in the series though, and your complaints about Jake were ones I shared during book 1, even though I stayed optimistic that there must be something more to come…

Hurrah! I say good for you! Here, have this coveted movie and novel reviewing job! Don't forget to mention how love stories have been in like 50 movies and books already, so there can't be love stories in fiction anymore!

It's called "foreshadowing" when something is hinted at but takes a while to manifest in a story. Sometimes, in a series of books or movies, it doesn't happen in the first installment. Jake is extraordinary and you will see it if you can get over the kneejerk desire for instant gratification of the times we live in…

Have you seen the movie yet? Is it an "open end" or is it the charted out end-to-part-one Ransom Riggs planned when he wrote the first book? If it's like the books, a second movie should, and probably will, pick up precisely where the first one leaves off.

The story is too sweeping and has too many characters for it to end in one movie. Why adapt a trilogy of 300-500 page novels into one 2 hour movie? I think they just assumed, after Harry Potter and Hunger Games (and about 50 billion other franchises prior and since) that critics wouldn't count major points against it…

They can keep the movies going with or without Burton. Harry Potter movies weren't all directed by the same person. Hell, get Bryan Singer to direct one of them, the franchise is already jonesing for all the X-Men associations it can get.

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, so now I'm qualified to critique the entire Potter series.

It's not "a book", it's "a series". That's what people in these comments keep missing. I hate to keep saying the same stuff, so I guess I'll stop. But imagine if the first, extremely short Harry Potter novel had been judged for not fully realizing the potential of its implications to the extent people are judging the…

It's a slow burn for the first book but the second one, Hollow City, more than makes up for it. I'm not sure what I think of the third yet, though. It seems to have some of the best elements of book 2 and some of the most mundane elements of book 1. I'm only halfway in, so it could still go either way. There's some…

I'm torn about whether to think those entirely fair criticisms. Yes, we've seen love stories in a lot of YA stuff…and in every other subgenre of movie and/or novel. Does anyone really think love stories are going to stop being a big subplot of almost all stories anytime soon? Or ever? It gets tedious at times when…

Not to give too much away, but the reviewer is wrong about Jake just being a boring, ordinary audience stand-in. That ends up being one of the twists, which I wouldn't even have to hint at if the reviewer could just have a little patience for things to be revealed in their due course. Jake is the most useful and…

There are actual bears in the story. Well, semi-actual bears. Grimbears. Can we just call actual bears Grimbears now? It makes them sound simultaneously scarier and more huggable.

Well, now you've guessed the ending.
Killing you DOES bring their parents back.

The first book was good but not quite great, in my opinion. The second book, however, is quite phenomenal, having gotten much of the convoluted world-building out of the way in part 1. I'm in the middle of the third book now, and Ransom Riggs seems torn between warring instincts to turn out a real slobberknocker of a…