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MonsieurChoc posted:Wicked part 1? How long is the musical!? Two and a half hours, but apparently they're adding a shitload of Wizard of Oz stuff and a bunch of backstory.
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Feb 13, 2024 17:44
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Two and a half hours, but apparently they're adding a shitload of Wizard of Oz stuff and a bunch of backstory. I think this is fine, especially the Wizard of Oz stuff. The stage show has the entire Wizard of Oz story happen off screen, with Dorothy only ever seen in silhouette. The film would have to expand it to not feel like a disjointed mess. Also, the second half of the musical only suffers because it never achieves the heights of Defying Gravity again, there's some great songs in the second half. However, where the film has hosed up is in not using the time gap between the first and second part to cast Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth in the adult roles.
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Feb 13, 2024 17:56
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PriorMarcus posted:Also, the second half of the musical only suffers because it never achieves the heights of Defying Gravity again, there's some great songs in the second half. In fairness I feel like this is a lot of musicals I've seen. The best stuff musically is before intermission.
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Feb 13, 2024 18:18
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I have not seen Wicked yet. But everything I have seen made me cry, a grown man, at work.
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Feb 13, 2024 19:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgfkthLpeXw huh
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Lobok posted:
We got a sidewinder! *starts frantically blowing on joint to even out the cherry*
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Feb 13, 2024 19:37
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Wicked was one of those trash airport books I decided go give a go on a long flight once. I was into it for a while but by the time I got to the part where it's explained how the wicked witch has to bathe her emerald green skin with essential oils because she can't get wet, I tucked the book in the seat back pocket for someone to puke in.
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Feb 13, 2024 19:42
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clown shoes posted:she can't get wet But enough about Ben Shapiro's wife
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clown shoes posted:Wicked was one of those trash airport books I decided go give a go on a long flight once. I was into it for a while but by the time I got to the part where it's explained how the wicked witch has to bathe her emerald green skin with essential oils because she can't get wet, I tucked the book in the seat back pocket for someone to puke in. I'm sorry, what? That part certainly didn't make it into the stage show, unless I'm misunderstanding something you said.
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Feb 13, 2024 19:53
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I don't understand why something like that would be your breaking point, that seems really innocuous
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thrawn527 posted:I'm sorry, what? That part certainly didn't make it into the stage show, unless I'm misunderstanding something you said. Are you sure? Could swear I've seen a stage show with a naked green woman oiling herself all over.
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Feb 13, 2024 20:00
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thrawn527 posted:I'm sorry, what? That part certainly didn't make it into the stage show, unless I'm misunderstanding something you said. The book and the stage play are dramatically different, they've mostly only got the basic concept in common
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Feb 13, 2024 20:02
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Remember when NBC wanted their own Game of Thrones so they used Wizard of Oz as a basis and made Emerald City? That was funny. They got freakin Vincent D'Onofrio for the evil take on the wizard.
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Feb 13, 2024 20:04
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thrawn527 posted:I'm sorry, what? That part certainly didn't make it into the stage show, unless I'm misunderstanding something you said. DeimosRising posted:The book and the stage play are dramatically different, they've mostly only got the basic concept in common Among other things the book has a lot of weird sex stuff in it and is generally much darker.
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Lobok posted:I can't help but think this movie is going to really disappoint you.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Remember when NBC wanted their own Game of Thrones so they used Wizard of Oz as a basis and made Emerald City? That was funny. They got freakin Vincent D'Onofrio for the evil take on the wizard. That show looked loving gorgeous. Honestly, I had a lot of fun with it, it wasn't half bad.
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Feb 13, 2024 20:46
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thrawn527 posted:I'm sorry, what? That part certainly didn't make it into the stage show, unless I'm misunderstanding something you said. In The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch is killed when water is thrown on her. She melts. So keeping with that canon, she can't take baths or showers. I've never seen the stage show. Colonel Whitey posted:I don't understand why something like that would be your breaking point, that seems really innocuous The book is filled with all sorts of details explaining little things from the world of the Baum books and movie without straying too far from them while still being revisionist literature. Why animals talk, why the wicked witch of the west can't take baths but isn't unclean. Literal fan service, which I hadn't really encountered in a book before. I'm sure it's fodder to true Ozheads who wish they could attend Shiz University (the Hogwarts of Oz) with all the magical critters but I just found it so silly that I couldn't bring myself to care. Never even got to the political intrigue. This was like 20 years ago and I barely remember anything from it but that one part has stayed with me. I never watched the iconic "I'm melting! I'm melting! Oh, what a world!" scene in The Wizard of Oz and thought How does she bathe? but I guess someone did. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't for me.
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Feb 13, 2024 21:10
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clown shoes posted:In The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch is killed when water is thrown on her. She melts. So keeping with that canon, she can't take baths or showers. I've never seen the stage show. Been a little while since I saw the stage show, but from what I remember, the whole, "She melts when water is thrown on her" was her faking her death, and she gets away at the end. clown shoes posted:The book is filled with all sorts of details explaining little things from the world of the Baum books and movie without straying too far from them while still being revisionist literature. Why animals talk, why the wicked witch of the west can't take baths but isn't unclean. Literal fan service, which I hadn't really encountered in a book before. I'm sure it's fodder to true Ozheads who wish they could attend Shiz University (the Hogwarts of Oz) with all the magical critters but I just found it so silly that I couldn't bring myself to care. Never even got to the political intrigue. This was like 20 years ago and I barely remember anything from it but that one part has stayed with me. I never watched the iconic "I'm melting! I'm melting! Oh, what a world!" scene in The Wizard of Oz and thought How does she bathe? but I guess someone did. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't for me. Okay yeah, I misinterpreted why you put the book down after reading about her bathing in essential oils because she "can't get wet". Move along. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Lobok posted:In fairness I feel like this is a lot of musicals I've seen. The best stuff musically is before intermission. Unfortunately this is built in to how musicals are developed. What you think is a reasonably finished product can suddenly collapse in the presence of a paying audience, and now you're spending the entire try-out and preview period scrambling to fix as much of the show as you can, which usually means most of the first act gets sorted out and then the show opens before the second act can receive the same amount of attention. Wicked pretty notably spent three months between its San Francisco tryout and its Broadway premiere just doing rewrites, in which time they cut an entire hour off the runtime.
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clown shoes posted:In The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch is killed when water is thrown on her. She melts. So keeping with that canon, she can't take baths or showers. I've never seen the stage show. Gotcha, I thought you were just icked out by it. I haven’t read it or seen the show so I didn’t realize the sheer extent of the fanservice and explaining things that didn’t need explaining.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Unfortunately this is built in to how musicals are developed. What you think is a reasonably finished product can suddenly collapse in the presence of a paying audience, and now you're spending the entire try-out and preview period scrambling to fix as much of the show as you can, which usually means most of the first act gets sorted out and then the show opens before the second act can receive the same amount of attention. Wicked pretty notably spent three months between its San Francisco tryout and its Broadway premiere just doing rewrites, in which time they cut an entire hour off the runtime. This explains so much, thank you. Specifically makes me think about how Hamilton felt similar: first half ends with a banger, and while the second half was good, it just didn’t hit the same heights.
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Nybble posted:This explains so much, thank you. Specifically makes me think about how Hamilton felt similar: first half ends with a banger, and while the second half was good, it just didn’t hit the same heights. Agreed, and specifically with Wicked, it explains how the second act feels hacked to pieces.
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Day 1, must-see.
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I am here for the Tornadzilla movie, predicting it plus Minus One will be the double feature of the year e: I have been informed that Minus One came out last year  Minus Color then
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It came out last year and this year and it’s going to win an Oscar lmao. You missed it all
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The breakfast in Twister that Helen Hunt was grossed out by looked pretty fuckin' good
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The Peccadillo posted:The breakfast in Twister that Helen Hunt was grossed out by looked pretty fuckin' good It did, but also maybe not the best kind of breakfast for piling into trucks with everyone and driving as far away from running water as you can.
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The Peccadillo posted:The breakfast in Twister that Helen Hunt was grossed out by looked pretty fuckin' good It was Hellen hunts awesome aunt Meg who made that breakfast
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CelticPredator posted:You got it backwards dawg. It was bill’s upright sex therapists wife who couldn’t stand it I'll take your word for it. Don't for the love of God tell me Phillip Seymour Hoffman didn't house that poo poo because that's also a memory I have of that movie E: haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztl0gGVFoK0 The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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This premiered at Sundance a few weeks back and apparently it had the highest number of walkouts of the entire festival, apparently because these bigfoots spend a LOT of time graphically making GBS threads and pissing and loving etc etc which sounds hilarious 
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Feb 14, 2024 05:35
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Everyone but Melissa didn’t like it. Which is why she got lost lol
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:well in the first movie, the tornadoes symbolized the trauma of seeing your dad killed by a tornado. Creature features
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Feb 14, 2024 07:05
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The two main squatches are played by Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keogh.
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Trailer looks great - can't wait to see that.
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That looks so poo poo.
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So what's the big secret monster going to be? They've already used Ghidrah and Mechagodzilla. Anguirus? Gigan? 1998 Godzilla?
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Action Jacktion posted:So what's the big secret monster going to be? They've already used Ghidrah and Mechagodzilla. Anguirus? Gigan? 1998 Godzilla? Shimu an ice one.
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