Profile for Musical Master

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

Jordan Catalano said: "Back from a screening of this and just have to say - believe the hype. I went in still not totally sold on this being two parts but yes, it absolutely 100% earns every second of it's run time and Ariana and Cynthia are divine. Ari is doing some truly phenomenal comedic work (I'll be laughing about one of her first lines in the film, for a week) and Cynthia is equally great. I teared up multiple times and not only over Bailey's tight pants. I can'

TotallyEffed said: "One thing I’m so relieved about is how committed they were to casting SINGER singers. This soundtrack is going to be an instant classic."

Oh for sure. The soundtrack is going to sell like hotcakes in a similar way that the OBC cast recording also did, if not more so. Plus, that look into the live singing shows that they are putting a lot of effort into making sure the musical numbers sound really good despite being on set-sound. That's h

TotallyEffed said: "Musical Master said: "Putting that aside for now, a new video has been released about Paul Tazewell and his ideas for the costumes of the movie. It's ironic that he would work on Wicked when he also did the costumes for The Wiz Live.”

"How so?"

Because I don't think anyone would've expected him to work on two different Oz adaptations in his career. Which is pr