Musical Broadway musical hit 'Wicked' to the big screen

[sueb1863]

The great reviews are promising, but my impression is that just about every big blockbuster movie has rapturous reviews at first, and more grounded, critical reviews later on. I still remember how much reviewers 'loved' The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker.

The clips make the movie look a bit too slick and glossy to me. I also wonder how they're going to pad out the story to make it worth two movies when the stage show itself is only three hours long.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

The great reviews are promising, but my impression is that just about every big blockbuster movie has rapturous reviews at first, and more grounded, critical reviews later on. I still remember how much reviewers 'loved' The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker.

The clips make the movie look a bit too slick and glossy to me. I also wonder how they're going to pad out the story to make it worth two movies when the stage show itself is only three hours long.

I have heard they added stuff but it sounds like it'll meaty additions and not "padding". The blurbs would've said otherwise.

 

[DarkKnight88]

The great reviews are promising, but my impression is that just about every big blockbuster movie has rapturous reviews at first, and more grounded, critical reviews later on. I still remember how much reviewers 'loved' The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker.

The clips make the movie look a bit too slick and glossy to me. I also wonder how they're going to pad out the story to make it worth two movies when the stage show itself is only three hours long.

Mostly those early Twitter reviews are completely unreliable for any movie. Especially with “headlines” similar to…

“Better than the birth of my child!”

“Iconic masterpiece!”

“I cried for 6 weeks after watching it!”

 

[Sawyer]

Mostly those early Twitter reviews are completely unreliable for any movie. Especially with “headlines” similar to…

“Better than the birth of my child!”

“Iconic masterpiece!”

“I cried for 6 weeks after watching it!”

The over-the-top early praise like this needs to be shut down. It’s not helpful. Either it’s accurate (but still probably only accounts for about 5% of the time), it’s complete bull**** about a movie that’s mediocre or worse, or it really is a good movie that’s now been oversold and you’ve very possibly created a feeling of a disappointment about it.

 

[Another_Fool]

I seem to vividly recall very mixed initial reactions to Rise of Skywalker.

But to stay on topic, I'm really holding out hopes that Wicked is good. I love Oz stuff (HUGE fan of the books, particularly the first 3) so I've been hungry for an Oz film that does the property justice.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Drizzle]

Those wands are… really gonna be going places.

 

[psylockolussus]

“Better than the birth of my child!”

“Iconic masterpiece!”

“I cried for 6 weeks after watching it!”

Absolutely hilarious!

 

[Kane52630]

I saw Heretic in Dolby over the weekend and they usually would have a Dolby cinema promo highlighting a movie and showing how great Dolby is (they did Deadpool & Wolverine before and Barbie/Top Gun Mav/Nope before that).

So they did a new one for Wicked and it was funny how:

1) yes, it technically looks better than watching it on youtube quality
2) the before/after shots still doesn't fix the bad natural lighting and bad contrasting especially when they're "outside"

 

[Dave McFly]

somebody is SO loosing their job after that

 

[Drizzle]

somebody is SO loosing their job after that

Either that or it was a disgruntled employee that quit and that was their big finale before leaving. Either way, quality control at Mattel was asleep at the wheel.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

What is the actual movie site?

EDIT: Wicked (2024) | Official Movie Site & Trailer | November 22 2024

 

[ComicChick]

i wish Idina and Kristen had cameos in the movie. If they do, don't tell me. i'm trying to avoid over spoilage lol

 

[Lily Adler]

i wish Idina and Kristen had cameos in the movie. If they do, don't tell me. i'm trying to avoid over spoilage lol

Avoid Twitter and Reddit.

 

[ComicChick]

Avoid Twitter and Reddit.

i don't twitter and hardly ever reddit

 

[Lily Adler]

i don't twitter and hardly ever reddit

 

[Drizzle]

And here I thought, "Who actually goes to a movie's website anymore?"

Joking aside, I actually thought that websites for movies were a thing of the past anyway but apparently not.

 

[Lily Adler]

And here I thought, "Who actually goes to a movie's website anymore?"

Joking aside, I actually thought that websites for movies were a thing of the past anyway but apparently not.

How else do you promote a movie that's been in development hell since the 2000's?

 

[Drizzle]

How else do you promote a movie that's been in development hell since the 2000's?

It's been in development hell for so long that he'd have the answer to that question:

 

[Lily Adler]

It's been in development hell for so long that he'd have the answer to that question:

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I could never get it to work like in the commercials.

 

[Drizzle]

I could never get it to work like in the commercials.

Fun fact: Jeeves was my search engine of choice before Google became a monopoly.

 

[Lily Adler]

Fun fact: Jeeves was my search engine of choice before Google became a monopoly.

Technically we're in a duopoly. Most Google alternatives run Bing.

 

[Drizzle]

Technically we're in a duopoly. Most Google alternatives run Bing.

Bing: Made famous by The Amazing Spider-Man.

 

[Lily Adler]

Bing: Made famous by The Amazing Spider-Man.

He also likes Sony Vaios.