Wicked. - Based on the musical.

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I thought this was okay, I haven't seen the original Wizard of Oz in some time but this felt more like a Harry Potter-type thing only as a musical. That may just be because they were in school though.

Either I got used to how she looks or Ariana looks less bad in the movie than in promo images and interviews etc., maybe they are using a bit of the CGI budget to make her look alive.

I agree the movie looks fake but I personally liked the color palate overall. A lot of the early stuff felt a bit awkward but there is a point where it clicks and starts to flow pretty well and the last act is good up until the very end which I kind of felt lacked punch. I know it's part 1 of 2 but the cliffhanger isn't that strong imo and it also feels like the story is just getting going in that last 30-40 minutes.

I also found a few of the songs irritating, and some of the stuff in the first 1/3rd of the movie was a little too cringe/on the nose type stuff ("why do you have to teach us history while teaching us history" or whatever Ariana says). Considering this is a movie for younger audiences that kind of stuff is to be expected though. Anyway, I didn't hate it.
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yeah that's pretty much how i feel apart from the color grading which i hated for the most part. first act super awkward and cringe and then half way/last act-ish it somehow starts to click and work somehow. and yh the very end of part 1 is kind of stilted and cuts off the energy it built to that point in the last act. but also the problem is that in the film it keeps stopping the momentum of the final song in sections compared to the original musical which is what lacks the punch. and yeah for some reason the first trailer was absolute crigne awful hell but the final full product somehow escaped that conslusion. its hard for me to know how the cliffhanger feels cos i know how part 2 goes and how it finishes from the original musical. most of the big overproduced numbers are really over ham and cringe and just not natural/real so yeah i understand why you hated them. they are just so over the top hollywood. the on the nose cringe sjw lines were particularly grating too yeah. at least ariana had a strong voice though compared to the rest that couldnt hold a note for more than two seconds,
 
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Name for part 2 is out already
 
I just got forced into watching this and I wish everyone that said it was good, or decent or tolerable would kill themselves or at the very least get a lobotomy. Because I wish I got one after watching it.

Obligatory no I didn't see the play, no I don't care for broadway. I do like musicals though. The songs in this were very forgettable despite the singers being competent. elphaba has the best singing voice.

But that's not the worst part about this, it's just the entire story is complete trash. There was nothing believable about glinda and elphaba's relationship. Glinda had absolutely no personality, and she didn't even pull off the ditzy spoiled popular girl personality the way someone like, say, Charlotte from princess and the frog did. There was nothing redeemable about her, the scene where the two are meant to open up only had Glinda talk about a guy. There is nothing interesting about her, their entire friendship was shallow and unbearable. All we get is one cringe dance scene where she "stands up to the bullies" but I was too busy laughing to take it seriously.
And just about every character is simply insufferable. The worst writing in my opinion is when everyone around the main character is deprived of anything that is remotely of interest, or their bad qualities are on caricature level. It's just like Maleficent. Make everyone else awful to make maleficent look better, when they really didn't have to because bullshit sympathetic disney villain rewrite shit aside, angelina jolie was very charming as maleficent. The writers in Maleficent, and Wicked, simply have no faith or maturity in the writing, so they have to make everyone else cartoonishly annoying or bland.

We get a hint that the very obviously homosexual actor who will be in a love triangle with Glinda and Elphaba may have more to him than superficial shit, but of course he would. Can't make Elphaba good unless you make the only morally decent guy fall in love with her!

I guess the cripple girl was also sort of decent too, I at least see where she is coming from.
And Oz is hard to hate because he's supposed to be a jackass.

I wouldn't care that everyone around Elphaba was insufferable if the movie didn't try to hard to sell you on how heartbreaking it was that her and Glinda are pit against each other by the end. Why the hell should I care?

Also if they're going to keep casting black people in roles, they need to stop trying them with these ugly fucking weaves. Blariel in the little mermaid was done dirty with those stringy turds they put on her head, and elphabas braids were ugly as shit. Either give these bitches the fakest most glamorous barbie hair weaves, or just let them have natural black hair. (I know Elphaba can't because her actress is a bald anorexic but a textured wig could still work).

Don't know if I would have a different opinion if I saw the play. Don't care. I'm glad I didn't spend money on this.
 
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