Needs Way More CGI
The next three Star Wars movies will be shot in somebody's garage and all the costumes will be made of cardboard and empty Mountain Dew cans, because Disney put all their money and more into the Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. Disney released the first full trailer for it this morning.
My abuelita had this moving waterfall painting in her bedroom that came alive when you plugged it in. The entire painting lit up, the waterfall moved, birds chirped and the rainbow over the water glowed. It was more real-looking and awe-inspiring than anything in the Oz: The Great and Powerful trailer. I know it's not supposed to look like real life, but damn. If they were going to use this much CGI, they should've used some CGI magic to make James Franco look anything but smug. I know, I'm just saying that because I'm jealous of the fact that Franco is an award-winning blogger.
Oz: The Great and Powerful is basically just a damage control piece, because they want us to believe that before the Wizard was a cranky, old, assholian bitch, he was a good man who wanted to do great things. Please, the Wizard of Oz was born a straight-up bitch and Disney can't convince me otherwise.
All shade aside, this doesn't look as awful as I thought it was going to look. It looks like the perfect movie to get stoned to (but what isn't?). My only real problem is that somebody needs to give Michelle Williams a hug or some TUMS already. Girl always looks like she's either got bad indigestion or she just watched the last part of Where the Red Fern Grows. Or maybe Michelle is just on the verge of letting out a stream of happy tears, because she can't believe that she's acting opposite the greatest artist in the world: James Franco.
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Maybe if I were a kid I might find this exciting, but this movie looks like shit. Lame predictable special effects. Shitty acting. No thanks. I'll spare my childhood a kick to the taint and not look at this.
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Submitted by saltydog on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 4:50pm.
I hate when people get all pissy and act like something like this is a direct attack on the 1939 movie. There are so many Oz things, this is just another drop in the bucket. There were 14 official Oz books by Baum, who also wrote several other Oz related things. The Judy Garland movie wasn't even the first film adaptation. There have been comics and toys and TV shows and lots of other movies made. It is a whole be universe of Oz stuff.
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
j/k. I agree with you. I love the 1939 TWOO but it's not like the be-all and end-all of Oz things.
It looks like it could be okay. Lots of eye candy.
Feejee mermaid-lookin' fairy creature = surefire nightmare fuel.
But regarding the wisdom of making a CGI-stravaganza "Oz" movie at all... well, I wanna paraphrase the original flick:
"It CAN'T come back! They don't know how it WORKS!"
My god, this acting looks horrible. The cast is full of indie pretentious types who are not going to put their "all" into a role like this, and it shows. Depp might have turned cheesy, but at least he tries, even with that Pirates dreck. Ugh, this is why sometimes movie stars are needed instead of "good" actors.
Looks part Shrek, part LOTR, and part Thor. From that trailer, I've no idea what this is about but since they can't redo the original, I don't mind at all that they're taking it in a new direction.
They could have cast Joaquin too! lol
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I think I might like this. Dark Oz.
The Wiz is fun! It's like discofunk Oz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztDwyEuiBY
I've been lurking forever, and *had* to finally speak up because of this post.
The books are far darker in tone than, and have much more in common with, "Return to Oz" or even "Tin Man" than the 1939 film (or "The Wiz," for that matter). Don't get me wrong--I LOVE the Judy Garland movie so much I have a tattoo honoring it--but this trailer seems to match Baum's tone more. And in the books, Oz is a *real* place, not a place in Dorothy's dream. That's actually one of the few things I *don't* love about the film, the change of the ending.
The Oz books are one of my favorite series of all time. They were easily some of the most creative and clever stories ever written. Frankly, this prequel doesn't interest me. Are they going to show The Wizard overthrowing the King, kidnapping his daughter Ozma, giving her to a witch and having her changed into a boy? I don't think so.
The whole point of The Wizard that he was kind of a putz until he studied under Glinda. And please tell me "Theodora" isn't supposed to be Locasta.
This is going to be all style and no substance. L. Frank Baum is rolling in his grave.
And I say this as a fan of Return to Oz.
Butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
Take a look
It's in a book
Pig-fucking movie
Pig-fucking movie
I confuse Oz with Wonderland. This shit is starting to all look the same.
ha ha this crap movie needs:
roller skates
disco mirror ball
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I loved Return to Oz. This looks like it could have had potential but they ruined it with the casting choices.
Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:50pm.
Is The Wiz one of those so-bad-it's-great films?
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Yes. It has Michael Jackson in it... when he was black.
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I hate when people get all pissy and act like something like this is a direct attack on the 1939 movie. There are so many Oz things, this is just another drop in the bucket. There were 14 official Oz books by Baum, who also wrote several other Oz related things. The Judy Garland movie wasn't even the first film adaptation. There have been comics and toys and TV shows and lots of other movies made. It is a whole be universe of Oz stuff
WHY do they keep messing with classics? Stop it.
So. Not. Interested. Why?
This looks a hot mess.
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I actually like the look of this because I'm attracted to shiny things but this cast is God-awful.
Submitted by Ophelias evil twin on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:50pm.
Hey Whammy do you remember this? I think it was shown in Canada only...
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LOL Heck ya I remember that, it was usually on at 6:30 and I put up with the crappy animation to get to the good cartoons that came on after it.
I had to watch that one on with the volume really really low because it was so early.
I remember the song like it was yesterday.
I'd rather watch Mila than sickening Michelle Williams. She makes me nauseous. So overrated, so boring, so famous because of Heath Ledger.
Submitted by Deb on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 1:55pm.
Firstly, "The Wizard of Oz" remains my favorite film to this day. And it's 1939 special effects are superior to this dreck.
Secondly, if Dorothy's trip to Oz was a dream brought on by a head injury during a tornado, how can a dream have a prequel? (Never saw "Wicked")
Third, it seems too complicated for kids, and too dippy for adults.
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I LOVE the movie The Wizard of Oz. It's perfect and there CAN'T be a prequel because Dorothy hit her head. It was a DREAM! "Wicked" sucked ass big time. I left a intermission.
James Franco and Michelle Williams???? I simply cannot will not sit through a commercial with these two, let alone an entire movie. They both SUCK.
Submitted by Gobbler on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 3:08pm.
haha I STILL remember the words too! That one and the Pinocchio cartoon used to play back to back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tivEPinluLQ
Submitted by Ophelias evil twin on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:50pm.
Hey Whammy do you remember this? I think it was shown in Canada only...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqnui9dV9o
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Oh my goodness! I had totally forgotten about that show, but as soon as I heard the music, I remembered the words to the song. Childhood memory of the day :)
Submitted by TelevisedRevolution on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:45pm.
Mila Kunis looks lumpen there. Whenever the camera is on her I think she is counting paychecks in her head, and not even bothering to hide it.
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THANK YOU She is just terrible. She makes no effort to adjust her slurry, nasal voice no matter which character she plays. And do all the females in this movie speak in tremulous, over-dramatic whispers the entire time? What a shitfest.
Your abuelita sounds sweet. I love people who love simple things. Bet when she threw a chancla at you it was always made of terrycloth and made more noise than it hurt huh.
Hey Whammy do you remember this? I think it was shown in Canada only...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqnui9dV9o
re: this movie - no thanks. I don't like sequels or remakes especially when the original was so fucking fantastic.
Submitted by M.E. on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 1:41pm.
What cave did my parents keep me in. I don't remember ever seeing "Return to Oz".
Must have been a few doors down from the cave mine kept me in - I'd never even heard of it. Is The Wiz one of those so-bad-it's-great films? I want to see it, but only if it is. Still waiting on a copy of Sharktopus.
bahahahahahaha @ Elly May! i will never see Franco's face again w/o thinking "government cheese" lmao
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Definitely shade. I hate it when they ruin a decent fantasy flick by peppering it with quips, one-liners, and stupid little side-kick characters. Kind of like how I was mostly enjoying the Alice in Wonderland remake until the part where the Mad Hatter does that STUPID dance, UGH!! Why do they have to do this?
Submitted by Ellie May on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:33pm.
Guess they couldn't afford J. Depp so they went for the Government Cheese version.
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Mila Kunis looks lumpen there. Whenever the camera is on her I think she is counting paychecks in her head, and not even bothering to hide it.
Seriously, are these people supposed to be actors?
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Submitted by Ellie May on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:33pm.
Guess they couldn't afford J. Depp so they went for the Government Cheese version.
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Guess they couldn't afford J. Depp so they went for the Government Cheese version.
I'm goin'. I might even pay for the 3-D version.
Submitted by The Sunshine Gang on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 2:03pm.
I should have known lemur-faced Kunis would be in this movie.
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Mila is getting pretty pudgy faced to go along with her Lemur looks
I still think she's pretty though, AND yes I would.
Ya because that'd what you'd yell if you got sucked into a tornado "I haven't accomplished anything yet" !? WTF!
I think shiiiiiittttt fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccckkkkk meeeeeeeeeeeee!!! is considerably more appropriate.
The painting that MK is talking about is something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6KMax7VSs
You can win either this o the most awful stuffed animal in any carnival in Mexico by inserting marbols in holes with numbers.
I would have expected more on Disney about quality, this make me remember Gwen Stefani video "What are you waiting for?" the fake tears dropping in her face
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Needs more Johnny Depp.
it should be about the great and powerful Dorothy, a liberated Kansas woman, animal lover, witch slayer; who snapped her fingers and had 3 men follow her to Oz. :>
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Eh, might be a good time, but I can't stand James Franco, and this looks to have been heavily influenced by that boring Alice in Wonderland remake. And that flesh-colored fairy thing looks like a ripoff from Harry Potter.
I should have known lemur-faced Kunis would be in this movie.
Oh to SHADE. Definitely to shade.
Firstly, "The Wizard of Oz" remains my favorite film to this day. And it's 1939 special effects are superior to this dreck.
Secondly, if Dorothy's trip to Oz was a dream brought on by a head injury during a tornado, how can a dream have a prequel? (Never saw "Wicked")
Third, it seems too complicated for kids, and too dippy for adults.
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Wow. James Franco is in Goop territory with how insufferable and smug he's become.
I remembered before CGI that Disney made some pretty awesome animated movies. But their movies have gone to shit.
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Hell yeah, 3D real life paintings! Only abuelitas can get away with that.
I think it looks good.
*shrugs*
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