Oz the Great and Powerful — Page 2

In essence, it's a $325 million dollar children's movie.

(Although, how any child can sit through all that lovey-dovey boring stuff, I'll never know.)

And by "children's" I mean only them. Not for adults.

I predict it will do as well as Burton's "Alice In Wonderland."

... which is pretty dang good.

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Alice did that well? Wow. I really hated that movie. Like, every single frame of it.

Wowza

ALICE makes OZ look like THE GODFATHER.

I can't bring myself to want to invest the two hours of my life from what I have seen in the previews. All I see are actors starring at ping ball balls on green sets while watching it. During shooting the China Girl was a marionette which was much more interesting then the CGI thing they created. With it's limitations it had more life.

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I agree that the China Girl was very well done and you could actually connect with her, more so than the human characters. Of course the animators had the advantage with her that they didn't need to replicate a living texture (skin, hair, etc) so I would have been really disappointed if she didn't look good.

I think the most telling thing, for me, about this film is that while I'm not sorry I paid money for it (like some films), I'm also not telling everyone they need to see it, and certainly don't feel any compulsion to try to convince somebody who's decided they don't want to see it that they should do so anyway.

I thought the China Girl was appalling. The CGI was great, but the character became an annoying, entitled, precocious brat right after she joined the group. Roald Dahl would have turned her into a blueberry or dropped her down a garbage chute.

And the "love triangle" plot line between the wicked witches and the wizard played out like an After School Special about junior high kids.

Still, I enjoyed many of the nods to MGM's Oz. Lots of carefully conceived visual details. Even Danny Elfmann's score snuck in a few strands (like a sound-alike section of the tornado music). I just wish the story and characters had been as carefully conceived.

All in all, I'm squarely in the middle. "Thumbs sideways!"

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I loved all the colors in the film.

This sentence made me laugh out loud...not because of anything against what supportivemom wrote, but because it reminded me of a statement me and my best friend Derek would say to each other once we had finished seeing a movie that was absolutely terrible.

We would turn to each other and almost simultaneously say: "Well, it was colorful!"

Liza's thoughts on the movie are perfect:

Have you seen that there’s a prequel to Oz that’s coming right around now?
No, haven’t heard a thing.

It’s Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful with James Franco and Mila Kunis.
Oh! Great! Whatever.

Would you see it? Is it something that interests you?
Oh, I don’t think I’d run, but I mean, I’m sure if I thought it was interesting. So, where do you live?

http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/liza-minelli-arrested-development-cabaret-interview.html

Saw this over the weekend. After seeing the trailer practically before every movie over the past month I thought this would be a pretty good view. I also went because of my love/lust for James Franco. After seeing the film I can not say that I love it, although I didn't hate it either.

Things I liked and didn't like:

***Spoilers ahead***


The China Doll looked stunning.
The fact that some of the characters in Oz' life were actual characters in the film such as Zach Braff being the monkey and Michelle being both Aunt Em and Glinda made it better.

The plot seemed to be very predictable from the beginning. I am wondering if it is was because this was a Disney film they wanted to make it suitable and understandable to all audiences?
I didn't understand why the Wicked Witch of the East Evanora turned into an old hag instead of dying, as she stated Glinda would if her wand was broken. Another thing that annoyed me from the beginning of the film was that they image they were portraying of women was very sexist. All of the women in this film were characters who were naive, gullible and made very silly choices. I also disliked Glinda's costumes, but that isn't her fault.

***Spoliers end***

Did anyone else feel as though the trailers were painting this film to be a very action-packed adult style movie?

I also strongly dislike the song which Mariah Carey sings at the end of the film.

Besty; It's a shame it wasn't better.. I pretty much agree with everything you said .. but I was still midly entertained and glad I saw it. The china girl was so annoying .

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I think it would've been better if Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis had switched roles. Maybe it's my WICKED mindset with the Witch of the East being the younger, weaker-looking sister, but I just don't understand how Mila Kunis was cast with THAT voice playing such an iconic character. I would rather see Rachel Weisz play the green one.

Although it would explain why in her later form she's so screamy.

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