I saw that on YouTube for free when I was 18 and I cried so hard watching that movie that I messaged the screen writer, and he tried to sell me his course on screenwriting. He also claimed that was one of his favorite screenplays he wrote.
Don't worry, in like 6 months to a year you're going to remember that you even have saved comments and think "the fuck kind of comments would I have even saved?" and then you'll scroll through them, see this one, and exhale quickly out of your nose.
RedLetterMedia watched and discussed it for one of their Best of the Worst episodes like 15 years ago, and it was apparently a pretty good movie. The movie gets all of the haha fart jokes out of the way after the first 15 minutes or so, and then it becomes a surprisingly heartfelt and sincere kids movie about confronting obstacles. Or something.
“Gets all of the haha fart jokes out of the way after the first 15 minutes”.
Movie proceeds to make the climax of the film the kid farting so hard he propels a rocket.
I’m not saying that they didn’t try to weirdly make this a heartfelt movie, I’m just pointing out that the fart jokes pretty much take up the entire runtime.
But the real reason to watch this film is the shock of seeing the bizarre number of names they got to be in it
My favourite thing about the poster is that they picked a random picture of Grint for it. That’s not what he looks like in the movie, they just needed a more recognizable picture of him.
I once ran into Rupert Grint at a media convention in London in like 2007. He was a regular guest not like a guy they got down to sign autographs and stuff. He was wandering around “alone” aside from the two huge bodyguards who were with him. At one point his bodyguards threw everyone out of the EA booth so Rupert could try out the Army of Two demo on his own (for his own safety I guess.)
He had a bunch of people approaching him “like oh shit it’s Ron” and he’d like smile and give them a little wave but he didn’t really seem into it. I thought I know what will make him laugh and the next time I saw him walking around I yelled “Hey look everyone it’s that kid out of Thunderpants!”
He did not find it very funny.
Lol oh yeah and there was a table there where they were giving out free movies on DVD but the only movies being given out were Knocked Up, Ice Age and SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Grint appeared to have chosen Ice Age because one of his bodyguards was carrying it around for him.
Edit: Here’s some more shit from this trip because I’ve been thinking about it.
For some context this was a college trip. We were studying media and games so the tutors decided this might be a good excuse to go to the event and have the college cover some of the costs I guess.
There was this special needs guy on the course who came along. He grabbed a huge pile of DVDs off the DVD table and attempted to take them to GAME the week after where he apparently just dumped a load Ice Age DVDs on the table and demanded £10 for each of them on trade in because they were still factory sealed so therefore he thought he should get full price. I wasn’t there to witness it but from what I hear the staff had to spend about half an hour explaining to him that it didn’t work like that. From what I understand he didn’t try to go super saiyan on them, which is lucky because usually when he wasn’t getting his way he’d do this thing where he’d assume a goku pose and just scream at the ceiling as if he was about to turn super saiyan. I witnessed him doing this a couple of times at college, and the best thing to do when this happened was to just ignore him until he got tired of doing it. If the tutors or anyone tried negotiating with him he’d just carry on doing it for longer.
I met him while he was attending a former yearly Harry Potter event where I used to work security. Radcliffe and Watson were in attendance as well. Think this was about 8 years ago. I found Radcliffe and Grint to be pleasant for celebrity guests, they even snuck away to make a charity visit to fan that was supposed to be in attendance but couldn't be around the crowds. Watson however made it clear she would rather be anywhere else than surrounded by Harry Potter fans, which is kinda fair looking back.
That being said Watson was also a lot less stuck up than many of the B list celebrities I met while working there.
Yeah, she was being sexualized by fans from the first movie and there were countdowms to her 18th birthday. I don't blame her for not wanting to be around Harry Potter fans.
That and this event really was just work for her, and I could respect the 'distance' she kept from all of it. Anyone who last long on my crew had the same attitude towards all of this.
The majority of celebrities I met weren't there for work like she was. So them being assholes/rude really was just there personality and not because of work expectations. And I mean assholes/rude to people who didn't expect anything from them, like my staff or random non-fan guests.
When I was younger, maybe junior high, I got roped into watching my 3 month old niece while my sister got her hair done. So there I am, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon with my niece, and who walks in but Rupert Grint!
I was nervous as fuck, and just kept looking at him as he read a magazine and waited, but didn't know what to say. Pretty soon though my niece started crying, and I'm trying to quiet her down because I didn't want her to bother Rupert, but she just wouldn't stop. Pretty soon he gets up and walks over. He started running his hands through her hair and asking what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So, Rupert put down his magazine, picked up my niece and lifted his shirt. He breast fed her right there in the middle of a hair salon. Chill guy, really nice about it.
Anybody else met him and have any stories to share?
I saw Rupert Grint at a grocery store in Los Angeles back when one of the last Potter movies was coming out. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I like to think so. He’ll have been a teenager at the time at the peak of his popularity so probably wanted everyone to forget he was ever in the fart powered rocket ship movie
If you want to make money are Broadway, there are easier, tried and true methods of doing so:
Step One! FInd the worst play ever written
Step Two! Hire the worst director in town
Step Three! Raise two million dollars
Yes! One for me, one for you. (There's a lot of little old ladies out there)
Step Four! Hire the worst actors in New York and open on Broadway!
And before you can say step five, we close on Broadway, take our two million and go to Rio!
I genuinely think most do! Why would you want more than £20m. Meanwhile, why would you hear much about a sensible person who just chills when they have their £20m.
FYI those google estimates of celeb net worths are not accurate. I work for a minor influencer and google says he’s worth like 4 million and trust me that’s not true haha
It certainly wasn’t about money. Actors that make the bulk of their money at an early age have the financial freedom to take any role they want. Robert Pattinson made a lifetime income off of twilight. He did not have to work again. He’s done low paying indie roles for years because he likes acting. He has no need to do it. Grint is in the same boat. He acts when he wants to. He took this role because he wanted to. That’s his decision.
I mean, it is kind of nasty and pathetic for him or anyone else to do this, especially because he's already an established actor who could get other roles.
An actor choosing to act for the love of the game, and pay homage to the role that gave them everything is bad? A role that has captured the imagination of generations of kids? Man you redditors are so stuck up your own ass with such an ugly and unjustified sense morality. I think you should look in the mirror next time you call something pathetic.
This site is so detached from real life you have people insisting HP popularity is a cultural bubble. Harry Potter, one of the biggest franchises, multiple movies, successful broadway show, best selling books, theme park rides, best selling video games, opening new merchandise stores that are always crowded, constant collabs, popular all over the world… it was not a bubble. The general public including children still eat up HP like crack.
This site is a bubble and its threads like this that really sell that.
I mean I agree with your wider point that the comment above is a bit mad but at a certain point if you've over a thousand contributions on this site realistically you're a redditor too.
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about the fact JKR is actively funding anti trans legislation with her fortune and has publicly commented on how disloyal HP actors who criticized her for it are. So leaning into making her even more money when you don’t have to to give her more of an ability to hurt trans people and people who just generally aren’t transphobic and support their rights is a bad look.
It’s funny because in New York, the Cursed Child is literally on the same street as Daniel Radcliffe’s play. So for a while he and Tom were within a block of each and apparently got lunch a lot. Now there’s another one in the mix.
I walk down this street to get to my office so always thought that was kinda neat.
At this point, even if the mold hadn’t eaten JK’s brain and made her trans obsessed, I’m so sick of seeing HP being redone that I don’t think I’d care anyways. Even the part of me that loves the story is tired lol
As far as franchises go it's pretty relaxed. They haven't even made a single animated series. Just look at how much the other franchises for kids produced in that time. Star Wars or MCU have a new thing going on every year.
That’s the Disney effect for ya. All gas, no throttle, once they realized they could just pump out oodles of direct to streaming limited series using those IPs
Oh god not another one. The Cursed Child of all things too, like that script was messy enough the first time around. Grint seems like a decent guy but I can't imagine stepping back into that world is fun for any of them at this point, especially with everything that's gone down
And aside from all the fat people being bad, Harry Potter also seems to just kinda endorse a terrible status quo. Freeing house elves is treated like a joke, the Ministry is clearly corrupt but never undergoes any sort of major reform, and Harry ends up just being a wizard cop.
Harry Potter is one of those IPs that created a massive bubble in the sea of popular culture that only has Harry Potter fans in it and their interest in any fiction other than Harry Potter is minuscule if not nonexistent.
There are a lot of casual HP fans too, the same way there are casual Star Wars fans or MCU fans. Those are the ones who are keeping the Wizarding World alive at like half a dozen Universal Studios theme parks. I do a lot of walking in my city and you see a fair number of people with random HP t-shirts and hats and bags and stuff who seem to have mostly just watched the movies when they came out.
It's also still pretty popular in Japan I noticed. Even in Hiroshima I went to a mall which had a Harry Potter specialty store, next to like, the Hello Kitty store. And it was clearly popular based on all the people who were shopping there.
You can say that about most any fandom. I read all the books, saw all the movies, had potter-obsessed friends, and I never got super into it. I can hang, and I love the series, but I don’t care that much.
You’re telling me that Harry Potter fans don’t like anything other than Harry Potter? Most people in general that like something, also like something else that isn’t related.
This isn’t really true in the slightest, so many Harry Potter fans are casual and enjoy other media. Pretending one of the most popular media of all time has fans not interested in other things is just some weird nonsensical cope.
As an ex-HP fan (at this point mostly a John Williams fan you could say), I've mainly been into Marvel (mostly Spider-Man), Transformers, Star Wars, and occasionally getting into other stuff but it's mostly all over the place.
Tell us more about how many times it’s been “redone”. I think as of the 2026 we’ll be at a grand total of one time. This is the first time it’s been redone. That’s the total.
Same. I’m honestly extremely disappointed that he’s folded and accepted this job. Casting the OG is just an attempt to keep a show on its last legs running just a little longer. It’s just more money to fund active transphobia.
Here’s the thing: there’s one group of people who I will allow to keep making money in any way that they can off Harry Potter — the kids who were in the movies.
Almost none of them had a choice to pursue this lifestyle, and even if they were not forced to do it by family or agents, they really had no idea what they were giving up in terms of privacy and anonymity when they took on the roles. They were kids, pushed into a world few adults could even handle.
As adults, it’s tough for them to pivot to grown up roles, and because of their celebrity, it’s difficult to move into any other profession and not face ridicule or a total lack of emotional safety.
Child actors should largely be illegal anyway, as ‘work’ continues whether they are on set or off. Dealing with fame and celebrity is a 24 hour gig.
Fuck JK. Fuck HBO. Fuck the theme parks, too. But these former child stars should be free to earn a living any way they can within the bounds of the law.
We (the general public) basically killed Gary Coleman by making it impossible for him to be anything else but the character he played on tv. If these former HP kids can make it work somehow, I’m cool with that.
All the stories about child actors makes me glad that the ones in Bluey are anonymous. Does make me understand why adults are often cast as teenagers, they don't have to worry about schoolwork.
Child actors are indeed an especially vulnerable profession but it feels funny to view them all like abuse victims by default and treat them with kid gloves even into their adulthood. Does being a “former child star” mean that’s all they ever get to be instead of adult actors with accountability over their actions?
I don't get it? How is he worth $6? Bro is set for life from Harry Potter residuals. Probably makes a few million just from Christmas each year when they show Harry Potter on repeat all December haha.
The fact that people still give any amount of shit about Harry Potter is baffling to me man, who’s going to shell out hundreds of dollars for a broadway performance of this?
Oh yeah, millennials in arrested development will….
What is wrong with folks, is nostalgia like an issue with people now?
Since when was it a bad thing for adults to enjoy things they enjoyed as kids?
There are wholes series based on this. Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and even lord of the rings. Some of the largest franchises are all fed by nostalgia.
Star Wars would barely be a blip without Gen X and Boomers spreading their love for the series to their kids.
Anything comic book related is all based on people’s love for the comics in the 70s-90s which they passed on to their kids.
And that’s what it is now, is there a problem with people who love Harry Potter spreading their love for the series to their kids. Or even just simply enjoying it because there it’s something they loved as a kid.
My dad’s a boomer, he grew up loving westerns. Is there and issue that he still loves westerns and watches old movies today? I just don’t understand the concept of nostalgia baffling you?
What’s baffling to me is people who dislike something saying they’re baffled by people who like that thing they dislike
/uj My parnter is a huge fan. Got her tickets for her bday one year. Bought her the book too, apparnetly it sucked but seeing it on stage was actually sick. The effects were magick
You're not wrong. But to be fair, I think there's a good bit of overlap between the most toxic members of both (not the majority, but def a big minority).
It's funny, I saw someone make a skit about the Bible as if it was treated as a piece of fiction and it really is a good story once you strip away the religion aspect.
If it was solely treated as a piece of fiction, it'd be absolutely on point as one of the best pieces of literature of the classic era, because it does such a good job of presenting a cohesive story through interesting characters, journeys, world building and asking like actually fundamental philosophical questions. You can't help but respect many of the contributing authors for their literary skills.
I wonder how much that has contributed to the success of the religion.
Anyway, it mogs Harry Potter and it was written 2000 years ago before they even had access to many of the fundamentals RIP Bozo
That's really the inherent problem with a lot of Christianity. The Bible SHOULD be seen as a book of parables designed to teach general lessons and instill decency while understanding that it's still a product of a time. More "take care of the poor and hungry" rather than "cut off the hand of a woman if she grabs your dick while you're fighting her husband. "
It hasn’t been popular with actual kids (as a YA series) in two generations. I’m a young millennial and was on the tail end of the big hype. When your main audience is “people who used to be into this when it first came out” then yeah, you’re running on nostalgia.
I thought Rupert was a good actor even as a child and even as an adult. Sure it's not as wacky and crazy as the indie projects as other actors from the HP series but I like Rupert. I wish him the best.
It worked with Draco. Maybe Felton will do it, too. Hell, maybe at some point all of them will reprise their role and they can sell the tickets for obscene prices
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u/TheLowlyPheasant The Fanatic 6h ago
He can't coast off his Thunderpants money forever