Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread- Page 95

[Listener]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 1:26pm

Delete please.

Updated On: 11/27/24 at 01:26 PM

[Listener]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 1:29pm

I'm really, really surprised by all the over-the-top raving now that I've seen the film for myself.

Grande isn't funny, Erivo isn't interesting, and they both look blank 90% of the time.

What are people crying about? How is this movie touching people??

It isn't a trainwreck or anything, but it's hardly Oscar worthy.

And they barely changed anything to significantly improve on the source material.

...is everyone just hysterical? Or a paid shill?

And why is it so loooooooooong?

I liked some of it but it wasn't better than the stage version or anything. 

[joevitus]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 2:55pm

Jonathan Cohen said: "

However, Wicked is a prequel to a film that employed over 120 actors withdwarfism. Excluding those actors from playingMunchkins in Wicked, had precedence inL. Frank Baum's original description and the stage show,"

This Baum's description of the Munchkins: "While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older." As Dorothy is about 10, even if "well-grown" I see no discrepancy in the casting of little people for the MGM film.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 7:07pm

Listener said: "I'm really, really surprised by all the over-the-top raving now that I've seen the film for myself.

Grande isn't funny, Erivo isn't interesting, and they both look blank 90% of the time.

What are people crying about? How is this movie touching people??

It isn't a trainwreck or anything, but it's hardly Oscar worthy.

And they barely changed anything tosignificantly improve on the source material.

...is everyone just hysterical? Ora paid shill?

And why is it so loooooooooong?

I liked some of it but it wasn't better than the stage version or anything."

Sorry you didn’t like it but you are clearly in the minority. I found it to be absolutely magnificent, even more so when I saw it again today in Dolby. Current predictions are that it will receive as many as 12 Oscar nominations, and it will definitely win some of them. Variety says Grande will win Best Supporting Actress. 

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 7:42pm

Variety now predicts Wicked will win Best Picture.

 

https://variety.com/2024/film/columns/wicked-oscars-best-picture-win-1236223120/

[SisterGeorge]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 7:44pm

I saw Wicked at its very first pre-Broadway preview performance in San Francisco 21 years ago. Intensely disliked it and never saw the show again. Today, I saw the movie in IMAX at my local AMC and absolutely loved it. I mean I guess I'm glad there's a part II coming next year, and of course I'll go see it, but I don't feel like I need it. I thought part I was a complete triumph on all fronts and  totally satisfying on its own. What a relief.

Updated On: 11/27/24 at 07:44 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 11/27/24 at 8:46pm

I think a lot of the hype will die down before the Oscars.