Every review of Wicked seems to point to the same: It shouldn't have been two parts, it pads the story a lot with the magic school and the best parts are in Emerald City. Gladiator 2 reviews are all over the place so it seems like the more interesting project to see.
wasn’t the success of the wicked musical and book what lead disney to start the trend of making the villain-protagonist movies like maleficent and cruela?
I was so happy to get to meet you in Grand Rapids! I have been following this channel forever and you are exactly the same person IRL. Also I'm glad that Wicked was a decent film despite all the off-screen controversy. I just wish that if they do a two part movie, they would release both parts at the same time.
@@bigduke5902 I feel like if they could release both movies at once it would give theaters a boost in ticket sales and open negotiations for better rates on distribution as well as making it feel like an event for ticket buyers like "Barbenheimer" was. Wins all around
yeah, i was never into the musical, it's fine but i not big on musicals anyway(sweeney todd is good though) But yeah after her freakout and non-apology, i won't support her. And Grande is okay but she is not exactly a reason to see a movie(even if both are good).
The contrast between Crowe and Mescal is abysmal. Before Gladiator, Russell Crowe could play a computer virus in human form, a cowboy, a police officer, a chemist. Paul Mescal echoes MUBI and chronically online girl who loves Pride and Prejudice, Blue Valentine and Call Me By Your name
Woo Glicked Review! I'm wondering what Wicked will do for a second half given that my theater friends tell me the musical drops off after Defying Gravity. Glad to hear that Gladiator II didn't totally fumble the ball either. Thanks for the reviews Brad!
I wonder what dark, R-rated, ultraviolent spectacle will release on the same weekend as WICKED Part 2. The Oppenheimer to its Barbie, the DOOM ETERNAL to its Animal Crossing.
@@bigduke5902 Some would be perplexed but the majority were more into sports than I was so they'd probably go off on a tangent about various sports teams.
Brad, you are a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera at us, the viewer because you communicate with your words,
I'm personally indifferent on Oz media including Wicked and the original film. I don't hate The Wizard of Oz and as a film geek, I do appreciate it on its revolutionary technical benchmarks and achievements, but I think the movie itself is just ok. That said, I do have a lot of theater friends who are definitely excited for Wicked so I'm happy for them it sounds like a good time. Definitely looking forward to Gladiator II and can't wait to see that with my dad this weekend. Also the description of a big budget epicsploitation movie is music to my ears... Actually until a couple months ago I hadn't seen the original in years and forgotten a lot of it, so when I rewatched it recently, I was actually disappointed that it wasn't the non-stop action extravaganza that everyone seems to build it up as over the years. Of course I recognize MY fault on that and still love the flick as the gritty and gravitas filled drama it is, but it does sound like Gladiator II is exactly what I originally thought the first was gonna be on my rewatch and that works just fine for me... lol
No, Gladiator was a real movie. It's weird hearing the sequel being praised for being a video game. Brad confirms my decision to save it for "bad movie night" once it's streaming was a sound one! It should be highly enjoyable for those purposes.
@bigduke5902 Fun fact: ALL MOVIES are real movies, regardless of quality... They all are frames being projected in motion to capture images... Are they all equal in quality, no. But Gladiator II doesn't sound like a bad movie, or even a funny so bad it's good movie... Brad has many episodes featuring REAL bad and terrible films and Gladiator II wouldn't even come close to the level of shit like Nukie or Troll 2 or Child Bride or Black Rage... And I or Brad said NOTHING about Gladiator II being like a video game... By your definition, any movie that has action must be nothing more than a video game... Indiana Jones is just a video game... Heat is just a video game. Big Trouble in Little China, Mission: Impossible and Top Gun, just mere video games, I guess... Shows you know very little...
@@filmfanaticx4212 Calm down, man, and stop being so intellectually dishonest! You have to have known what I meant and you can't really think in such hyperbolic terms. The criteria by which my companions and I deem something worthy for our own personal bad movie gatherings are different from yours and that's ok. Brad's enthusiastic assessment tells me this will fit in perfectly with the big budget Hollywood schlock-fests we typically include. Get off the ledge, fellow cinephile!
I get why you don't do your longer reviews anymore but man I would of loved a 30 minute midnight screening review for wicked from you. Idk if you're still close/friends with Sarah but she probably would of had fun recapping this
Views. They don't get as many as the short ones. His audience has spoken. Unfortunately we're in the minority. But TH-cam also pushes the shorter vids.
Those shows were after my time, but my daughter discovered them a few years ago through Netflix. I had no idea Ariana Grande was anything but a mediocre pop star, so imagine my surprise to find she started as an extremely funny comedic actress. She's absolutely hilarious.
Meow see, the theaterical version of CATS was shorter, and look at everything they left OUT of the broadway version... if they left everything on- 3 plus hours easily...
As dumb as this is going to sound, a part of me really hoped they were going with the time travelling ghost Maximus from one of the proposed scripts for a sequel. It would have been interesting to see how they made that work.
@@charlottecorday8494 Ridiculous, yes. So deep into a victim narrative that you lash out at your fandom, gave me a chuckle but I feel like there is a lot to be learned there from several angles.
@@TheWarmotorIt is gross how a woman who has been nominated for Tonys and Oscars can have a persecution complex no prob, while getting no grief for bullying someone and sicking your lame stans on an artist with a much smaller platform. Good for that artist to keep the picture up!
The books been around since 1996. In the book they get drunk and kinda maybe fuck the cowardly lion cub. Then elphaba ends up making a magic recipe thats basically speed. The musical is incredibly dumbed down and kiddified.
The movie is based on an extremely popular broadway musical which was based on a popular book which was a reimagining of Wizard of Oz. It has zero connection to Harry Potter. Also Harry Potter has canonically gay characters whereas Wicked does not. It’s just that the fans find them “queer coded”. This is such a bizarre statement to think that an adaptation of a broadway play was made to spite JK Rowling … for some reason. What does she lose from this movie existing? She didn’t direct the HP movies. And Wicked is not currently competing with HP in the box office. You were just trying to write a cheap shot for no reason to be like “JKR hates gay people” when there’s literally no proof and she’s written plenty of positive LGBT characters. Log off.
I took my wife and our daughter to see this as a surprise at yesterdays early showing and was shocked by how much I enjoyed it. I'm already a fan of musicals, but it was the story's themes of propaganda that really threw me for a loop. You could change Elphabas gender and her skin to orange and this would work as an allegory for the past decade of American media. Can't wait for part 2!
I loved this Wicked movie, I've never seen the play but I read the script and watched the song parts from TH-cam videos. I was sitting up in my seat, I was mouthing the lyrics, I WAS THE 1ST PERSON TO CLAP IN MY THEATER!
Saw this with my girlfriend on date night. I was dressed in all black and she was in all green. I liked all the compliments she got and the movie itself was a nice experience. Although I couldn’t stop staring at Ariana’s fleshy colored eyebrows; it was too distracting.
4:23 Is that what the captain in "AIRPLANE!" meant by "Do you like gladiator movies?"? Oh, WICKED. Patient 0 for the trend of revisionist takes on classic stories recasting the villains as misunderstood heroes. I'll pass, and watch GLADIATOR II. Say, if they're both coming out at the same time, are movie makers and theaters trying to make "Barbenheimer" happen again?
The main guy is literally the reason why I stopped caring about this, heard "Pascal" I said maybe, then heard Denzel Washington? said, "fuck it I'm in", but then I saw pascal wasn't the main character but this other dude instead, whom I've never seen on anything nor know anything about but has that "tween's book" kinda face. So I passed at least for theatre.
People saying Gladiator II was unnecessary aren't wrong, but (bear with me), all movies are inherently unnecessary. Movies are my favorite art form and my lifelong passion, but when you break it down, they're just entertainment designed to make money, nothing else.
There were like 10 adaptations of Baum's work before the Judy Garland film. I haven't seen them all, but I doubt they were ALL garbage, let alone completely. And Return to Oz is at the very least worth watching once.
I mean there was Return to Oz, an animated sequel, The Wiz, Syfy Tin Man and Wicked and the list goes on.... I don't find them garbage it's all just good fun.
So my older sister and I got done seeing Wicked: Part 1! The film is absolutely amazing bringing musicals back into the mainstream and it follows very closely to the source material Ariana Grande who’s been dying to play the part since 10 years old brings a boisterous energy with her comedic timing while Cynthia Erivo is reserved but expresses so much with her eyes being the soul of her many emotions like anguish and empathy I love how much more dimension they bring to both Glinda and Elphaba than what was introduced before even adding more elements from the books, one wants to be kind in helping others while the other just wants to belong This movie expands the world of Oz deconstructing it allowing more for viewers to absorb while also seeing a bit of themselves in both main leads It has amazing production design with the sets the costumes and the props being richly detailed The soundtrack is absolutely amazing thankfully having Grande and Erivo having incredible vocal range The school here is more interested in being a social food chain than wanting to study magic and turning away talking animals or anyone remotely different There’s even a few plot twists I didn’t expect showing how Elphaba is pushed to the edge in spite of how predictable this main story is It is mainly a story of women, friendship, and coming together defying the odds The filmmakers even insert commentary on mainstream politics, discrimination, propaganda, a community vilifying someone, and otherness being a target for rising facism in society Two scenes in here did bring a tear to my eye seeing how the main relationship changes drastically A couple things could be improved; the running time might be trying for some since it is Act 1 of the entire show, the love triangle subplot could’ve been excluded, some parts do meander a bit, and it’s a shame Goldblum is only in a fraction of this towards the end but he gets by with a lot of charm The best way to bring people together is to give them a real good enemy, some people are just different, you can do anything as long as you own it not letting anyone else take it away, are people born wicked or do that have wickedness thrust upon them?, we see how hard change can be plus how hard people are, we are are capable of love and friendship no matter who or where we are from, we put ourselves in peril ignoring history, is it better to harp on the past or focus on the future?, should we just remain silent and only be seen? The movie works tremendously thanks to John M. Chu’s direction, the leading ladies, and socially relevant issues So any minor issues could be forgiven since the second half of this is still coming It’s all a matter of seeing if everything comes full circle with this take on the famous story This is the best movie of the fall!
"I am uh the uh great and uh, powerful wizard of uh, Oz. There it is."
Oz ? Oz? Uh there it is
Gladiator 3 should go full campy and introduce dinosaurs and a Post-apocalyptic future twist.
Bring in dinosaurs and Ken Ham will be very happy
At least the reviewer didn't bash the star of "Wicked" for speaking her mind online.
Every review of Wicked seems to point to the same: It shouldn't have been two parts, it pads the story a lot with the magic school and the best parts are in Emerald City.
Gladiator 2 reviews are all over the place so it seems like the more interesting project to see.
wasn’t the success of the wicked musical and book what lead disney to start the trend of making the villain-protagonist movies like maleficent and cruela?
Yes.
I think it was more a particular brand of failure that lead to that and not movie related.
@@bigduke5902some of them were good. It was the live action remakes that failed
I didn’t know they made a sequel to wicked gladiator.
that will be the third one, where Lucius's friend discovers the dark arts of Christianity :)
It's like the sequel to Cruel | Jaws
I was so happy to get to meet you in Grand Rapids! I have been following this channel forever and you are exactly the same person IRL.
Also I'm glad that Wicked was a decent film despite all the off-screen controversy. I just wish that if they do a two part movie, they would release both parts at the same time.
Thank you so much! Great to meet you too!
I say release them within 6 months of each other, one in summer, one at Christmas.
@@bigduke5902 I feel like if they could release both movies at once it would give theaters a boost in ticket sales and open negotiations for better rates on distribution as well as making it feel like an event for ticket buyers like "Barbenheimer" was. Wins all around
@@PsychicGirl That's true, Grindhouse was a big hit after all!
Better be careful Cynthia might call you out for the thumbnail.
yeah, i was never into the musical, it's fine but i not big on musicals anyway(sweeney todd is good though) But yeah after her freakout and non-apology, i won't support her. And Grande is okay but she is not exactly a reason to see a movie(even if both are good).
Brad basically erased her.
Literally came here to say the same thing! She's going to get him cancelled
She’s a huge twat.
@@adamandanna Hey I don't like it either, but separate the art from the artist, baby!
The contrast between Crowe and Mescal is abysmal.
Before Gladiator, Russell Crowe could play a computer virus in human form, a cowboy, a police officer, a chemist.
Paul Mescal echoes MUBI and chronically online girl who loves Pride and Prejudice, Blue Valentine and Call Me By Your name
Woo Glicked Review! I'm wondering what Wicked will do for a second half given that my theater friends tell me the musical drops off after Defying Gravity. Glad to hear that Gladiator II didn't totally fumble the ball either. Thanks for the reviews Brad!
I wonder what dark, R-rated, ultraviolent spectacle will release on the same weekend as WICKED Part 2. The Oppenheimer to its Barbie, the DOOM ETERNAL to its Animal Crossing.
What would your theater friends think of your back nine sports analogy?
Drops off? I love the whole thing and my favorite songs are in Part 2. I've never heard that before!!
@@bigduke5902 Some would be perplexed but the majority were more into sports than I was so they'd probably go off on a tangent about various sports teams.
@@knightnday10 What did you think of mine?
Your take on Gladiator II pretty much matches my own. It's completely insane, but it was a blast to watch.
Sounds like Brad had a long but fun day at the movies
That’s funny
I’m gonna watch gladiator 2 first and then wicked
Paul Mescal really is a weird choice for an action lead given what he is as an actor, so it’s not surprising he is overshadowed.
I just finished an 11:00 screening of Gladiator, now waiting for a 2:25 screening of Wicked.
Wicked is far longer than 2:25, sir.
@bigduke5902 That's the time it started.
Brad, you are a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera at us, the viewer because you communicate with your words,
Some stuff will make more sense once you see Part 2.
And yay for movie musical directors who actually like and respect musicals.
I've got basically the same thoughts on Gladiator 2, really liked it and hope there is a directors cut that could flesh out some things.
A much better Cynthia Eviro movie than Pinocchio 2022 in every way.
I'm personally indifferent on Oz media including Wicked and the original film. I don't hate The Wizard of Oz and as a film geek, I do appreciate it on its revolutionary technical benchmarks and achievements, but I think the movie itself is just ok. That said, I do have a lot of theater friends who are definitely excited for Wicked so I'm happy for them it sounds like a good time.
Definitely looking forward to Gladiator II and can't wait to see that with my dad this weekend. Also the description of a big budget epicsploitation movie is music to my ears... Actually until a couple months ago I hadn't seen the original in years and forgotten a lot of it, so when I rewatched it recently, I was actually disappointed that it wasn't the non-stop action extravaganza that everyone seems to build it up as over the years. Of course I recognize MY fault on that and still love the flick as the gritty and gravitas filled drama it is, but it does sound like Gladiator II is exactly what I originally thought the first was gonna be on my rewatch and that works just fine for me... lol
No, Gladiator was a real movie. It's weird hearing the sequel being praised for being a video game. Brad confirms my decision to save it for "bad movie night" once it's streaming was a sound one! It should be highly enjoyable for those purposes.
@bigduke5902 Fun fact: ALL MOVIES are real movies, regardless of quality... They all are frames being projected in motion to capture images... Are they all equal in quality, no. But Gladiator II doesn't sound like a bad movie, or even a funny so bad it's good movie... Brad has many episodes featuring REAL bad and terrible films and Gladiator II wouldn't even come close to the level of shit like Nukie or Troll 2 or Child Bride or Black Rage... And I or Brad said NOTHING about Gladiator II being like a video game... By your definition, any movie that has action must be nothing more than a video game... Indiana Jones is just a video game... Heat is just a video game. Big Trouble in Little China, Mission: Impossible and Top Gun, just mere video games, I guess... Shows you know very little...
@@filmfanaticx4212 Calm down, man, and stop being so intellectually dishonest! You have to have known what I meant and you can't really think in such hyperbolic terms. The criteria by which my companions and I deem something worthy for our own personal bad movie gatherings are different from yours and that's ok. Brad's enthusiastic assessment tells me this will fit in perfectly with the big budget Hollywood schlock-fests we typically include. Get off the ledge, fellow cinephile!
@bigduke5902 Okay well, next time we can also not go so high and mighty deeming something below your criterias as not a "real movie"...
@@filmfanaticx4212 Something below our criteria for bad movie night wouldn't even be worth watching.
I get why you don't do your longer reviews anymore but man I would of loved a 30 minute midnight screening review for wicked from you. Idk if you're still close/friends with Sarah but she probably would of had fun recapping this
Views. They don't get as many as the short ones. His audience has spoken. Unfortunately we're in the minority. But TH-cam also pushes the shorter vids.
I miss midnight reviews, too, but kids come first.
Yeah, I really, REALLY miss the m reviews :/
arriana grande's comedic chops make sense to me given her nickelodean sitcom roots
Those shows were after my time, but my daughter discovered them a few years ago through Netflix. I had no idea Ariana Grande was anything but a mediocre pop star, so imagine my surprise to find she started as an extremely funny comedic actress. She's absolutely hilarious.
@@bigduke5902she started on Broadway!!
I get the shorter review format and I'm glad it gets more views, but damn would I love a longer form review for gladiator II. That movie was a lot.
0:08 Yep, I’m done with theaters. That’s ridiculous!
160-minutes and it's only part 1? Was the stage show this long?
Part 1 is about 5 minutes shorter than the stage show, not including intermission.
Oooooh yeah.
Meow see, the theaterical version of CATS was shorter, and look at everything they left OUT of the broadway version... if they left everything on- 3 plus hours easily...
I can see how you'd find the stuff with the love interest Fiyero meandering, but it's setting up a twist that's gonna pay off in Part 2
Thanks for letting me watch movies vicariously through you
I got two buckets, one even lights up, but no Lego...
I miss your midnight reviews with your friends
Watch the last SNL she hosted it was one of the funny of the later season of 50 years
Also, good news: This was a *MAGICAL* film
Please make a review of Ironmaster. Directed by Umberto lenzi
and starring George Eastman....🤩😎
I got the Lego set too.
Is some of the make up in Wicked CGI? The fact they did a lot of it practically was cool, like the millions of tulips.
A 2 part movie?
So is this movie just adapting the first half of the book/play? The 2nd movie could lose any goodwill if it's filled with filler.
Isn't part 2 just the wizard of Oz
@@sebsignat8286Basically. It’s also a mess that tries to adapt the second half of the book and reference the movie.
@@jonblain4938 Stupid
not if they bring in Tom Cruise and have him risk his life a lot with jaw dropping stunts! :)
As dumb as this is going to sound, a part of me really hoped they were going with the time travelling ghost Maximus from one of the proposed scripts for a sequel. It would have been interesting to see how they made that work.
Ever think of doing a Snob episode on the Turkish Wizard of Oz?
Guess we should all be happy 'Gladiator 2' wasn't a musical! :)
Oh gawd I can't wait to hear the meltdown over the thumbnail and how it de-persons rich vulnerable hollywood types. Love you, Brad!
Biggest hate crime of all time, according to Erivo
@@charlottecorday8494 Ridiculous, yes. So deep into a victim narrative that you lash out at your fandom, gave me a chuckle but I feel like there is a lot to be learned there from several angles.
Ok
@@TheWarmotorIt is gross how a woman who has been nominated for Tonys and Oscars can have a persecution complex no prob, while getting no grief for bullying someone and sicking your lame stans on an artist with a much smaller platform. Good for that artist to keep the picture up!
What a Wicked Gladiator 2!
Say what you will about Nick Cave's Gladiator 2 script, but at least it was original.
You should review "puspha the rule"
And good news Brad got A new camera
Interesting movies
Well put
It was spectacular
Jeff Goldblum can do just about anything with his charm. One of the strongest superpowers in the universe.
I want to believe the Wizard and Grandmaster from 'Thor Ragnarok' are the same person :)
@@eclipsehorse8693 Thor and Loki would be welcome in Oz, I think.
Joker 2 best musical of the year yes I will die on that hill
It isn't. "Emilia Pérez" is.
Why do I feel like this movie was made to spite JK Rowling? It looks like Harry Potter but everyone is flamboyant and pansexual as hell.
So?
The books been around since 1996. In the book they get drunk and kinda maybe fuck the cowardly lion cub. Then elphaba ends up making a magic recipe thats basically speed. The musical is incredibly dumbed down and kiddified.
@@zeeoroCave people LMAO. Yeah, I hate women trying to protect other women too
@charlottecorday8494 They aren't protecting anything, just using women as an excuse yet again to target others again, a song as old as time.
The movie is based on an extremely popular broadway musical which was based on a popular book which was a reimagining of Wizard of Oz. It has zero connection to Harry Potter. Also Harry Potter has canonically gay characters whereas Wicked does not. It’s just that the fans find them “queer coded”.
This is such a bizarre statement to think that an adaptation of a broadway play was made to spite JK Rowling … for some reason. What does she lose from this movie existing? She didn’t direct the HP movies. And Wicked is not currently competing with HP in the box office. You were just trying to write a cheap shot for no reason to be like “JKR hates gay people” when there’s literally no proof and she’s written plenty of positive LGBT characters. Log off.
In the spirit of Barbenheimer, is this Wickedator?
It's "Glicked"
@colleen4ever aha haha, wonderful. --Jiminy Glick
nice MF Doom cup
Is it just me, or is this like a mix of: The School for Good and Evil and Wednesday Addams?
How about Wicked Gladiators? We need a porn parody with Foxy Boxing style gladiator fights.
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LEGOS!?
I took my wife and our daughter to see this as a surprise at yesterdays early showing and was shocked by how much I enjoyed it. I'm already a fan of musicals, but it was the story's themes of propaganda that really threw me for a loop. You could change Elphabas gender and her skin to orange and this would work as an allegory for the past decade of American media. Can't wait for part 2!
I loved this Wicked movie, I've never seen the play but I read the script and watched the song parts from TH-cam videos.
I was sitting up in my seat, I was mouthing the lyrics, I WAS THE 1ST PERSON TO CLAP IN MY THEATER!
Boo Lego's, Your a Flexiblocks House
God I hate Bowen Yang
This is true, I do still have my Flexi Blocks bucket, even if it's severely cracked as hell now lol.
Now more Jesus movies!!!!
No one said Bowen Yang was in this, awesome! Now I want to see it.
Saw this with my girlfriend on date night. I was dressed in all black and she was in all green. I liked all the compliments she got and the movie itself was a nice experience. Although I couldn’t stop staring at Ariana’s fleshy colored eyebrows; it was too distracting.
Dang it, I was hoping you were wearing Oz clothes to go see Gladiator II! :P
@@StonedGremlinProductionsLOL Oz clothes
I’m sorry you’re in that kind of relationship, that sounds awful.
@@TheJohnWooDoveFoundation What are you insane? That sounds like an awesome relationship for two young movie lovers to be in.
Fun!!!
Opulent. This review is opulent. Some people don’t know the word that they’ve never heard but it’s appropriate in mysterious ways!
How jejune!
Talking shiz
Gladiator 2 was like a straight to tv movie. Nepo-baby of destiny
4:23 Is that what the captain in "AIRPLANE!" meant by "Do you like gladiator movies?"?
Oh, WICKED. Patient 0 for the trend of revisionist takes on classic stories recasting the villains as misunderstood heroes. I'll pass, and watch GLADIATOR II. Say, if they're both coming out at the same time, are movie makers and theaters trying to make "Barbenheimer" happen again?
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The actor that plays the Wicked Witch looks more like a live action version of Shrek, lol.
The main guy is literally the reason why I stopped caring about this, heard "Pascal" I said maybe, then heard Denzel Washington? said, "fuck it I'm in", but then I saw pascal wasn't the main character but this other dude instead, whom I've never seen on anything nor know anything about but has that "tween's book" kinda face. So I passed at least for theatre.
People saying Gladiator II was unnecessary aren't wrong, but (bear with me), all movies are inherently unnecessary. Movies are my favorite art form and my lifelong passion, but when you break it down, they're just entertainment designed to make money, nothing else.
You know what they mean!
Bread and circuses.
Brad, the plural of LEGO is LEGO, not LEGOS
There is only one Oz movie. Made in 1939 and it has yet to be bested. Everything else is complete garbage.
Even Return to Oz from the '80's, which opens with Dorothy getting shock therapy at the mental hospital?
There were like 10 adaptations of Baum's work before the Judy Garland film. I haven't seen them all, but I doubt they were ALL garbage, let alone completely. And Return to Oz is at the very least worth watching once.
I mean there was Return to Oz, an animated sequel, The Wiz, Syfy Tin Man and Wicked and the list goes on.... I don't find them garbage it's all just good fun.
@@filmfangirls9163 Oh I forgot about Tin Man, that was pretty interesting.
@@bigduke5902 it was! I found it when I was watching Syfy Neverland and Alice.
Wicked is crap. The story is awful and the songs are terrible. But, in the film version, we at least get to hear computers sing.
What? I believe the lust for Hollywood is really starting to show through. C'mon Brad
I forgot you existed.😂😂
You did NOT eat all the Legos! I can see them in the bag! Booo!
You’re biased giving gladiator 2 a higher rating than wicked just saying
Both are trash you’re right
13 OZ books and this is what they wasted film om
Its Lego. You dont say sheeps.
@@MrGarycharters *LEGO
So my older sister and I got done seeing Wicked: Part 1!
The film is absolutely amazing bringing musicals back into the mainstream and it follows very closely to the source material
Ariana Grande who’s been dying to play the part since 10 years old brings a boisterous energy with her comedic timing while Cynthia Erivo is reserved but expresses so much with her eyes being the soul of her many emotions like anguish and empathy
I love how much more dimension they bring to both Glinda and Elphaba than what was introduced before even adding more elements from the books, one wants to be kind in helping others while the other just wants to belong
This movie expands the world of Oz deconstructing it allowing more for viewers to absorb while also seeing a bit of themselves in both main leads
It has amazing production design with the sets the costumes and the props being richly detailed
The soundtrack is absolutely amazing thankfully having Grande and Erivo having incredible vocal range
The school here is more interested in being a social food chain than wanting to study magic and turning away talking animals or anyone remotely different
There’s even a few plot twists I didn’t expect showing how Elphaba is pushed to the edge in spite of how predictable this main story is
It is mainly a story of women, friendship, and coming together defying the odds
The filmmakers even insert commentary on mainstream politics, discrimination, propaganda, a community vilifying someone, and otherness being a target for rising facism in society
Two scenes in here did bring a tear to my eye seeing how the main relationship changes drastically
A couple things could be improved; the running time might be trying for some since it is Act 1 of the entire show, the love triangle subplot could’ve been excluded, some parts do meander a bit, and it’s a shame Goldblum is only in a fraction of this towards the end but he gets by with a lot of charm
The best way to bring people together is to give them a real good enemy, some people are just different, you can do anything as long as you own it not letting anyone else take it away, are people born wicked or do that have wickedness thrust upon them?, we see how hard change can be plus how hard people are, we are are capable of love and friendship no matter who or where we are from, we put ourselves in peril ignoring history, is it better to harp on the past or focus on the future?, should we just remain silent and only be seen?
The movie works tremendously thanks to John M. Chu’s direction, the leading ladies, and socially relevant issues
So any minor issues could be forgiven since the second half of this is still coming
It’s all a matter of seeing if everything comes full circle with this take on the famous story
This is the best movie of the fall!