Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread- Page 90

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 8:32pm

blaxx said: "I wonder if the silver shoes will turn red if not ruby in the second part.

I know the ruby slippers were heavily protected, but red would be ok?"

Back when that first teaser aired during the Super Bowl, there was a shot of them on Dorothy’s feet and they were still silver. 

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 10:06pm

TheQuibbler said: "I’m wondering if the color saturation complaints are actually an issue with the projection at many folks’s theaters. I thought the colors popped really nicely, specifically Elphaba’s green skin and all of the various pinks. The visuals weren’t nearly as muddy as, say, theBeauty and the Beastlive action remake."

Same. I saw the early screening in Dolby and the colors were really bright and saturated! Nothing looked dull to me at all. Really confused by those saying the colors were muted.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 10:08pm

This was a perfectly good movie, that was a good half hour too long. For a movie that left the first act virtually unchanged only "expanded" it wasn't expanded well, just padded out. Anyone talking Oscars for anything but production design is high on their own supply. Defying Gravity was impeccably filmed, I applaud them for that. Going back to being a teenager in 2008 baulking at how it'd come off on film as nothing special, they did pull it off.

No One Mourns The Wicked should have been done at night tho.

Updated On: 11/23/24 at 10:08 PM

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 10:19pm

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE TARGET

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 11:20pm

NOWaWarning said: "blaxx said: "I wonder if the silver shoes will turn red if not ruby in the second part.

I know the ruby slippers were heavily protected, but red would be ok?"

Back when that first teaser aired during the Super Bowl, there was a shot of them on Dorothy’s feet and they were still silver."

[pablitonizer]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 11:32pm

This is one of the greatest musical adaptations I've ever seen. Audiece broke into applause when 'to be continued' appeared on screen. I hope it gets all the Academy awards nominations possible, a true masterpiece! 

Updated On: 11/23/24 at 11:32 PM

[TheatreMonkey]

Posted: 11/23/24 at 11:46pm

I went with a diverse group of friends from the pub I work at -- Wicked/musical noobs, to seasoned theatre folk -- and everyone loved it! Even my Sunday Football dudes were into it.

And just have to say...Jonathan Bailey with that (albeit CGI) lion cub...swoon! 

[DAME]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 12:06am

The director is asking theaters to turn it up!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/movie-news/

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 12:43am

Well, this was simply thrilling. I was in the edge of my seat for most of the Emerald City sequence. The casting really was great, and everything looked and sounded beautiful. This is really a stellar adaptation of the first act, any I do believe that making two separate movies was the right choice, so I'll be eating my hat on that one. 

[uncageg]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 12:47am

Jay Lerner-Z said: "I liked it very much.

Michelle Yeoh wasn’t let shine enough, though. This is Michelle Yeoh, people. MICHELLE YEOH."

I thought Michelle Yeoh was excellent. I wasn't sure what her take would be for the character but I think she was directed and acted it beautifully. As I mentioned earlier, I love the way she used her eyes. She was my favorite next to Grande.

 

Updated On: 11/24/24 at 12:47 AM

[FLarnhill]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 1:05am

If any of y'all seen Anora, y'all already know the Best Actress race is over.

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 1:15am

FLarnhill said: "If any of y'all seen Anora, y'all already know the Best Actress race is over."

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths clears everyone.

 

[FLarnhill]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 1:18am

Georgeanddot2 said: "FLarnhill said: "If any of y'all seen Anora, y'all already know the Best Actress race is over."

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths clears everyone.

"

Perhaps but I don't think enough voters will have even seen it.

[blaxx]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 1:48am

BrodyFosse123 said: "NOWaWarning said: "blaxx said: "I wonder if the silver shoes will turn red if not ruby in the second part.

I know the ruby slippers were heavily protected, but red would be ok?"

Back when that first teaser aired during the Super Bowl, there was a shot of them on Dorothy’s feet and they were still silver."

"

Thanks for that!

Do I remember correctly that in the stage production they turn red?  Do we ever see the shoes again after that scene?

[bluetuna]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 2:07am

blaxx said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "NOWaWarning said: "blaxx said: "I wonder if the silver shoes will turn red if not ruby in the second part.

I know the ruby slippers were heavily protected, but red would be ok?"

Back when that first teaser aired during the Super Bowl, there was a shot of them on Dorothy’s feet and they were still silver."

"

Thanks for that!

Do I remember correctly that in the stage production they turn red? Do we ever see the shoes again after that scene?"

 

We see them in the "Wicked Witch of the East" scene, when Nessarose acquires the ability to walk.  After Elphaba casts her spell, Nessa says that it feels like her feet are burning, and reddish lights are shone around her feet, but the shoes remain silver.  After that scene, we don't see them again until curtain call!

Updated On: 11/24/24 at 02:07 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 2:46am

In regards to audiences--I went to the early evening show tonight (Saturday) here, which was packed in a large theatre.  I admit, I sunk down in my seat when I saw how many GROUPS of 10-16 year old, mostly but not entirely girls, were coming in, along with a few smaller children, and several full families, along with other random gay men (I assume) like me. 

Anyway, the audience was actually, much to my cynical surprise, great.  I hardly heard any noise--rustling bags, and kids being carried out to go to the bathroom and coming back quickly was basically all I noticed.  After the film there was applause.  Maybe I was lucky?  Maybe Victoria BC Canadians are just more polite than I expect?

[uncageg]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 3:32am

DAME said: "The director is asking theaters to turn it up!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/c/movies/movie-news/"

 

I saw it on Thursday at it's first preview in Denver. When it was over I asked an employee about the sound. We could hear it but it just sounded a little low. Didn't help that the theater next to us was one of those immersive ones. I was sitting on the wall aisle and could hear the rumbling and my seat was actually vibrating. 

 

[rg7759]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 5:18am

I hate if this is true, but I fear sound and picture are worsened on purpose to encourage buying premium format

[theatretenor2]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 7:47am

FLarnhill said: "If any of y'all seen Anora, y'all already know the Best Actress race is over."

Was not my favorite Sean Baker film. Actually did not even like It really. But you are right, Mikey Madison has that on lock basically.

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 8:12am

TheatreMonkey said: "I went with a diverse group of friends from the pub I work at --Wicked/musical noobs, to seasoned theatre folk -- and everyone loved it! Even my Sunday Football dudes were into it.

And just have to say...Jonathan Bailey with that (albeit CGI) lion cub...swoon!"

Omg I had the same thought: I know the lion is fake but he’s so sweet with it!

 

Also I saw it in “standard” AMC. I thought the sound quality was good and I definitely noticed subwoofers vibrating the seats a bit at appropriate moments. I knew I didn’t want to see it at an off brand local theater for this reason. I saw Challengers twice in theaters-the first was accidentally at a bougie high end theatre and I loved it the second was at my local off brand theater and I found the experience much less thrilling because the sound wasn’t pumping and that score should be pumping. After that experience I was like okay anything I’m going to for the score I need to go to a better theater

[Valentina3]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 9:07am

"I don’t know if those salary figures are correct, but if so, a million bucks is not bad. My heart does not break for Cynthia. They get paid according to their box office drawing power. Not their talent, or how much hard work they put in.

Still a LOT more than the hardworking public servants. Nurses, paramedics, firefighters, teachers etc. Down with capitalism!"

This gave me whiplash. Quite a duality you have in which you hate capitalism but someone's talent and amount of work not getting compensated same as another person does not make you a little ... "Yeah that's weird".

I mostly want to understand what else goes into these contracts.

[windowwaving]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 10:19am

rg7759 said: "I hate if this is true, but I fear sound and picture are worsened on purpose to encourage buying premium format"

I saw it in IMAX and thought the colors were so vivid and loved the sound. The vibrations were so strong and I felt like I was "in" the movie. If you haven't seen it in IMAX, it's definitely worth the price.

On another note, much as I loved seeing Kristin & Idina, I wasn't actually all that fond of the One Short Day additions. I didn't feel like they needed to hit audiences in the head with the Grimmerie details and the final shots with their respective counterparts felt forced and out of place in an otherwise perfect movie. 

At first, I didn't love how they chopped up Defying Gravity, but by the end of it I was all in. It gave the movie a much-needed action sequence and added an unexpected extra thrill to an already thrilling song. 

I can't wait to watch this again.

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 12:16pm

I await the Youtuber who recuts the "Defying Gravity" sequence to be less chopped up.

And I promise you everyone will see "Ah, it should've been that"

Someone like Rob Marshall would've seen that "no this is what the song and the moment needs" 

 

That being said, that's really the only song I had an issue with how it was presented. 

"What is This Feeling?" and "Dancing Through Life" was 10 times better than how it is onstage. That's how you do a movie musical

 

Oh and Elphaba smashing through the window should have NEVER been in the trailers. What a stupid idea. Let that be a reveal.

 

Updated On: 11/24/24 at 12:16 PM

[caitlinette]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 12:46pm

I was absolutely blown away by how this film completely immersed me in the world of Oz.
 

However, what I really missed was the true musical theater quality. Everyone’s lines were delivered so soft and flat, and they didn’t really leap off the page so to speak. Ariana’s Glinda had so little pep or comedic timing, and I thought Cynthia‘s lines were very subdued as well. I know it’s a film, but its roots are in musical theater, and I just wish there was more of that larger than life quality to the dialogue and the performances. The only time I really felt things come alive for Ariana was at the very end of Popular. I wish she had been at that level for all her other comedic bits. 

[OharaFosseWolfe888]

Posted: 11/24/24 at 1:39pm

TheatreFan4 said: "This was a perfectly good movie, that was a good half hour too long. For a movie that left the first act virtually unchanged only "expanded" it wasn't expanded well, just padded out. Anyone talking Oscars for anything but production design is high on their own supply. Defying Gravity was impeccably filmed, I applaud them for that. Going back to being a teenager in 2008 baulking at how it'd come off on film as nothing special, they did pull it off.

No One Mourns The Wicked should have been done at night tho."

Just replying to save for when Oscar nominations come out for Performances lol....