Profile for Musical Master

MagicalMusical said: "I saw the film again, this time not missing any parts, and I think it is as well directed as the first one. Nessarose, sure, comes off as whiny sometimes, but her crying for Boq is sad, especially when the cyclone hits, and Chu really showed the horror and sadness of what happens to her. Chu also used flashbacks really well, like the field where the leads hung out back in college, what Elphaba sees of Fiyero during "No Good Deed" (not flashbacks but wh

kdogg36 said: "MagicalMusical said: "I wouldhave loved to see one3 and a half hourfilm, though, too."

I understand why this would beappealing from a stylistic perspective, but splitting it into two 2-hour-ish movies got me (a very infrequent movie-goer) to spend two successive Thanksgiving afternoonsin a cinema. If it were a single 3.5-hour epic, I would absolutely have waited to see it at home on a streaming service."

Agreed. Though I d

Just got out of an early screening and I thought that Wicked: For Good was quite a large improvement over the original musical's Act II. I think it's as equal with the first film in terms of quality and an extremely satisfying conclusion to the two Wicked films. Cynthia and Ariana are as perfect as they were before with maybe Ariana getting the slight edge because of the wide range of emotions that she sells so effortlessly. The two new songs were actually pretty goo

Finally watched it and the good news is that this is nowhere even close to being a bad film adaptation of a Broadway musical. Kiss of the Spider Woman isn't Nine or the live-action Beauty and the Beast which was a relief, but it's not as good as Wicked and hearing the news of it bombing isn't surprising me; considering that this doesn't have the household name power that Wicked has. Everyone in the cast was reall

It's a shame that the score is cut into ribbons, but the musical numbers involving Lopez is getting some positive notices in some of these reviews. Tonatiuh sounds like they're a star in the making judging from the reviews and I'm glad that they are getting well deserved attention. As for the film itself, for me it's going to be a wait and see kind of movie musical; Bill Condon is certainly a hit and miss kind of director and I'm hoping that at least it's decent. Pleas

Saw it again on Sunday and it's still an amazing 10 out of 10 movie musical adaptation to me. The second viewing also made me appreciate the easter eggs and cameos a lot more. Still don't know what some critics are complaining about the grey/washed-out look of the movie (maybe the times I watched it was in an amazingly good quality movie theater so they may have had really good projectors) but the lens flares/glares complaint is perfectly understandable. The colors on display wer

I agree that Oz doesn't feel too overwhelming with saturation because 1: we already have the classic 1939 film for that, 2: there are many moments in the film where the colors pop like crazy and is better than the compressed videos on YT have shown. But I will sort of understand where people are coming from with the glare/lens flares that happen from time to time. It is a little annoying, but Spielberg's West Side Story was also guilty of doing that quite often, so I don

Wicked has now become the highest grossing movie domestically for a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, outgrossing the likes of Chicago and Grease. We movie musical fans are being fed a feast in this timeline, and I couldn't be happier. The legs this movie has, even against the likes of Moana 2, is a very good sign of things to come indeed (it oddly reminds me of The Sound of Music in a way with how extremely well that movie did with audien

^Well there was that one time that Weinstein wanted Princess Mononoke cut into ribbons to make it shorter that made Hayao Miyazaki so mad that he sent him a samurai sword with the words "no cuts".

As for Pippin, there's a big problem that it was built for the stage in mind while making it; so, trying to get that transferred to another medium like film would be impossible to do. Wicked was always felt to many people that it would make a great mov

RJ14 said: "I was the only person in the cinema chuckled at the Deer/Dear line. That was such a funny delivery.

And Jon M Chu deserves anOscars for making Sentimental Man and Something Bad interesting to watch."

That was the most surprising part of the movie for me. That Jon M. Chu actually took two of the weakest songs of the entire score and made the numbers not only interesting to watch, but also, dare I say. Investing?

This was one of the best m

Finally got to see it. Now I can be added to the growing choir of those who absolutely loved it! So many things from the acting, directing, writing, editing, musical numbers, costumes, production design, and yes, even cinematography (my theater had a really good projector in Dolby Atmos) were firing on all cylinders. This may join Chicago and the 2021 version of West Side Story as the best film adaptations of Broadway musicals of this current century; and something that othe

This has been wonderful day for me, between this getting very positive reviews and seeing the "Defying Gravity" hour long special. Honestly this makes me even more excited for this weekend. Also seeing the entire "What is This Feeling?" number at the end of the special was awesome! Jon M. Chu might be the one director who knows how to give a musical number both a classic and modern touch without one overwhelming the other.

He should direct more movie musicals a