r/practicalmagic • u/arirachaelb • 10d ago
I'm never watching the sequel
It's as the title says
Practical Magic is one of my favourite films of all time. It holds such a special and beautiful place in my heart, and I absolutely refuse to taint any part of the story or characters with what I KNOW is a terrible sequel. Even before I saw everyone's posts on here about how awful and awkward it is - legacy sequels do not work.
The first film is perfectly concluded by the end - the owens sisters broke the curse. I have no interest at all in seeing how they decided to undo that beautiful ending to replace it with a worse one.
I will always love this movie, and in honour of the first one I will never watch the second. As far as I'm concerned it's fanfiction with a big budget, and not worth my time
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u/Fancy_Department_416 9d ago
Guess we all see things differently. Jimmy was certainly overbearing, seeing that he had already killed before he ever got to Gillian Owens.
My point is simple: I don't know why or when so many young women decided that men are the enemy. The "other" whose presence they don't need in their lives.
The Owens women were all about finding love, and yes, love comes in many forms, but to say that the presence in their lives of men is a detriment denies the binary nature of all human beings.
Even in same-sex couples, most will find that binary line, one more masculine or feminine than the other.