Scientists have found the worst thing in the history of the universe

[Orrex]

[rocktivity]

1. Is nothing sacred?

Do ALL of our childhood memories have to be turned into steampunked pre-teenybopper porn?


rocktivity

[Orrex]

2. See, I'm of two minds on that

I'm very confident that this monstrosity will be awful, and I HATE HATE HATE the nauseatingly overpraised Tin Man from a few years back, but by the time of 1939's The Wizard of Oz, the story had been told on film several times already. So at the very least we can't fault this film simply for revisiting the material.

I don't object to remakes or sequels or prequels if they're done well, but everything that I've seen about this current offering tells me that it's going to suck as bad as a Tim Burton joint.

[NYC_SKP]

3. FUCKDISNEY!

FUCKDISNEY!
FUCKDISNEY!
FUCKDISNEY!

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I just read a pretty lackluster review (that had good things to say about a few of the actors).

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It's another Disney film that's too preoccupied with promoting an associated Disneyland thrilling ride.
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Disappointing. L Frank Baum wrote something close to 20 Oz novels (I grew up with many of them --
and they were some of my favorite early novels) and I've always hoped that someone could portray
the different characters and situations. The Gnome King used to scare the hell out of me -- partly
because some of the books we had were originally published around 1916 -- I think -- and had SCARY
pen-and-ink illustrations (the color plates from the 30's were nowhere NEAR as fantastic.
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[Arctic Dave]

5. Have you seen it!!!

I have to wait another week until I'm back in town to go see it.

I told my wife that if the ruined my favorite movie of all times I was going to burn the theater down with a flamethrower.

[Orrex]

6. Well, I keep clear of theater-related threats

However, I might be inclined to use some of the film's promotional materials as toilet paper.

[Arctic Dave]

7. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

The humanity!!!!

[olddots]

8. is it a pop corn movie ?

a rom-com a date movie a teen boner film a dramady a edgy indie film ? the poster makes it look like a waste of time and money but it did something like 80 million bucks over the week end .

[Grantuspeace]

9. Apparently you don't remember the 1978 movie "The Wiz"?

Or better yet, you were never subjected to it.

[Orrex]

10. I will never forget Nipsey Russell, thank you very much

And shame on you for suggesting otherwise! Harumph!

The Wiz isn't entirely my cup o' tea, but at least it had a history on and off Broadway as well as socio-economic themes that generally haven't appeared in other modern Baum mashups.

This new debacle doesn't appear to have any of the character or charm of other ventures and rather seems meant purely as a standard Disney cash-generating vehicle.

[lost-in-nj]

11. I thought this was

pre-Dorothy like the play Wicked but with out the music



lost

[cyberswede]

12. I took my kids to it this weekend - I thought it was cute.

It was better than I expected. There was some homage to the 1939 version, and they didn't try to modernize it - the main character's era was the early 1900s, as I believe it was in the books.

[Neoma]

13. I think it should be interesting.

The books never talked much about how Oz got where he was.