The movie Wicked

 
Arguably the best musical adaptation of all time.


Also the most successful one box office wise.
 
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Following the current trend, it is has too much CGI, even though it is supposed to be fantasy. So, everything looks very fake. But, that's the way they are all going now. Much less expensive to produce:

 
My wife and daughters love it. Saw it in the theater and bought it as soon as it was available online. My daughters 12 and 8 have watched it everyday since we bought it. It’s hitting with the females in my family.

I have zero interest in these types of movies, have not seen this one.
 
JackEd said:
My wife and daughters love it. Saw it in the theater and bought it as soon as it was available online. My daughters 12 and 8 have watched it everyday since we bought it. It’s hitting with the females in my family.

I have zero interest in these types of movies, have not seen this one.
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That is their demographic.
Not the old crusties in Yappi.
 
Tesoro said:
Which song will ever make it on the radio? Grease was a musical... this was just a bunch of singing lines.
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Then you'd have them reversed (I think)? Wicked would be the musical and Grease the movie with songs. Maybe it's semantics but I agree with you.

All these "musicals" seem the same tune with predictable note and chord changes since Webber without Rice. They seem incredibly lazy to me.

The Rock Operas seem to better get it.

Rent and Across the Universe found a decent middle ground. I enjoyed both. More Superstar and Grease, where the songs were songs in different voices and still told the story.
 
PantherProud said:
That’s not the mark of a good musical.

Plus I’m willing to bet at least one of the songs have been played on the radio.
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The mark of a "good" musical I'd think is whether you enjoy it or not? Unless you have a definition you can lay out for us.

If you have to be "willing to bet" and you don't actually know, given that you are our popular culture guy, I'd be willing to bet without googling it hasn't produced any "hits" beyond the whole album.

I don't think I'm too different from a lot, a good musical is one I like singing along with. I don't care to sing along with sing-song talking. I like actual songs. There's no challenging the popularity of Wicked, play or movie. If there's nothing that pulls the song out of me, I'm not going to like it. The few clips I've seen after googling "best songs" I also had the lyrics handy. I could predict the melody almost dead on and sing along without even having heard it. Troups like SNL actually make fun of this. It's not for me.


Let's check.

EDIT: No big hits but apparently get air play.
"Popular" that one grates on my ears and I would take anyone out of the will caught singing it.
"Defying Gravity" this sounded familiar, like I may have heard it. After listening to it, I'm not so sure. Melody predicatable. Words are great.
 
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eastisbest said:
The mark of a "good" musical I'd think is whether you enjoy it or not? Unless you have a definition you can lay out for us.

I don't think I'm too different from a lot, a good musical is one I like singing along with. I don't care to sing along with sing-song talking. I like actual songs. There's no challenging the popularity of Wicked, play or movie. If there's nothing that pulls the song out of me, I'm not going to like it. The few clips I've seen after googling "best songs" I also had the lyrics handy. I could predict the melody almost dead on and sing along without even having heard it. Troups like SNL actually make fun of this. It's not for me.

If you have to be "willing to bet" and you don't actually know, given you are a popular culture guy, I'd be willing to bet without googling it hasn't produced any "hits" beyind the whole album. Let's check.

EDIT: Not big hits but apparently get air play.
"Popular" that one grates on my ears and I would take anyone out of the will caught singing it.
"Defying Gravity" this sounded familiar, like I may have heard it. After listening to it, I'm not so sure. Melody predicatable. Words are great.
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I don’t have my own definition of a good musical, but I know it’s not defined by how often the songs play on the radio.

That’s not really how musicals work. The songs are built into the storyline. You can’t just pluck them out of the story and put them on the radio out of context without making a completely separate radio version of the song (which is not unheard of).


As for my “willing to bet” part, I don’t listen to the radio anymore, so I honestly wouldn’t know, nor does it matter in this conversation.
 
Wicked won the Golden Globe Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. This award is given to the year’s “most acclaimed, highest-earning and/or most viewed films that have garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence,” according to Dick Clark Productions, the Golden Globes organizer.

But it was shut out of the substantial awards.
 
My watch focus must have really narrowed. I knew even by name only a few of the movies/shows nominated.
The Brutalist: Not yet seen.
The Penguin: watched most of it.
True Detective: enjoyed it.
The Bear: enjoyed it but joining the chorus, "this is not a comedy."
 
It's... fine

The acting and singing are great. The visuals are overproduced and the lighting is downright horrible in some scenes. The best part of the movie is the final 20-30 minutes

I gave it a 3.5/5

Not sure how part 2 is going to do because both of the "big" songs from this musical are in part 1
 
tom 48 said:
Wicked won the Golden Globe Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. This award is given to the year’s “most acclaimed, highest-earning and/or most viewed films that have garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence,” according to Dick Clark Productions, the Golden Globes organizer.

But it was shut out of the substantial awards.
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It's this year's Barbie
 
BlueJayFan said:
It's... fine

The acting and singing are great. The visuals are overproduced and the lighting is downright horrible in some scenes. The best part of the movie is the final 20-30 minutes

I gave it a 3.5/5

Not sure how part 2 is going to do because both of the "big" songs from this musical are in part 1
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Ok..I guess i wasn't the only one who thought I should have brought glasses.
 
PantherProud said:
I don’t have my own definition of a good musical, but I know it’s not defined by how often the songs play on the radio.

That’s not really how musicals work. The songs are built into the storyline. You can’t just pluck them out of the story and put them on the radio out of context without making a completely separate radio version of the song (which is not unheard of).


As for my “willing to bet” part, I don’t listen to the radio anymore, so I honestly wouldn’t know, nor does it matter in this conversation.
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Speak of the devil, just got into the car and SiriusXM’s main station is playing a made for radio version of Defying Gravity.
 
Tesoro said:
Thoughts?

I thought it kinda sucked.
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