Oz: The Great and Powerful Review Thread (Use Spoiler Tags!)

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by legendarymatt92

Hopefully it'll look more Raimi-esque than Disneyfied. At least the trailer looks decent.

If it's the one that starts out with B/W Kansas footage, that's not the one that looks decent--But haven't seen the new one up on YouTube yet, which's why I asked whether anyone had seen it hit theaters this month. (Or next.)

Regardless of what Disney does with this, I'm just saying that they'd be stupid to throw-away the talent involved - Raimi and Franco especially - to try and re-create a critical flop they had a couple of years ago. Audiences weren't happy, and they must have sensed that.

(Oh, please, lord, we don't ask much, but LET us someday live in a world where Disney finally dawns on the fact that we couldn't stand Alice...How long must we suffer? )

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Um, Alice made over a BILLION DOLLARS worldwide.

Exactly! That's the delusion we're trying to slap out of 'em! They tried to "fool" a billion dollars out of college kids with Geek-Week March, and ended up fooling themselves:
Tim Burton falls on his face in the mud twice this year alone, Disney can't resurrect the money they lost on Frankenweenie's entire year of uber-marketing, we're just about ready to throw bricks if Johnny Depp dares show his sad-clown face in an ambiguously-gay Tim movie again, and yet Disney STILL has their delusions stuck in 2010 mode, thinking that fangirls everywhere are swooning over the Mad Hatter.
(Yes, I'm still PO'ed about that "Mad T Party" at Disneyland replacing the Tron rave. )

This thing has had the shortest mass-craze shelf-life since Avatar--or Dark Knight Rises --and yet Disney's still shoveling money into "Maleficent" and painting the big red and white target where lightning is supposed to Strike Twice....And let's not even get into Lone Ranger right now.
As I put in the survey comments, I'll just keep my optimistic faith that Sam Raimi is not Tim Burton--oh boy, is he not --and that he'll end up directing a different movie no matter what Disney does to him.

[prozacnation1978]

Early 2013 top 5 film to see

[Sean B.]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

No one liked any of the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels (not really...they might think they do, but they really don't), yet Disney keeps cranking 'em out, because each one is another easy billion in the studio coffers.

Are you kidding ? I love the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They are my most favorite movies of all time! . They make tons of money because people keep on going to see them, because they like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and because they are all good movies. If no one liked them then they would not be making billions of dollars, when they are released to theaters .

[Chaotic]

[legendarymatt92]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

That's a great poster. Obviously Disney are trying to redefine the use of colour with this, like the original Oz defined how colour should be used. If the whole film looks like that, even if the story is crap, it'll be worth seeing.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Sean B.

Are you kidding ? I love the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They are my most favorite movies of all time! . They make tons of money because people keep on going to see them, because they like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and because they are all good movies. If no one liked them then they would not be making billions of dollars, when they are released to theaters .

Well, no one liked 3, and THAT made a billion dollars....in its opening weekend, before the reviews came out.
No one liked 4, and THAT made a billion dollars....in Asian and European countries, where they like big, visual, easy-to-understand picture-book special-effect movies that don't need a lot of English translation.

Used to be, we'd laugh off "It made a billion dollars...WORLDWIDE!" as the last sad stab of credibility for studio/fan self-delusion, but after Pirates 4 (and Alice), Disney now puts it in its press-statement as if that's the new ruler we're all measuring.
We're not immune either, as even some of us were falling victim to "Oh yeah, just wait and see how much John Carter makes overseas with better marketing, so there! "

[BladeRunner2007]

Great poster. Love it.

[The Mad Kiwi]

That's a gorgeous poster, and apparently it's only the first third of a long panorama. Disney really is following Alice's marketing to a T as that film also had a wide theatrical poster that was split in three. As soon as we get a high-res, textless version of the entire image, I'm saving that puppy. I'm really excited for the trailer premiering with Wreck-It Ralph this weekend.

[legendarymatt92]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Well, no one liked 3, and THAT made a billion dollars....in its opening weekend, before the reviews came out.
No one liked 4, and THAT made a billion dollars....in Asian and European countries, where they like big, visual, easy-to-understand picture-book special-effect movies that don't need a lot of English translation.

Used to be, we'd laugh off "It made a billion dollars...WORLDWIDE!" as the last sad stab of credibility for studio/fan self-delusion, but after Pirates 4 (and Alice), Disney now puts it in its press-statement as if that's the new ruler we're all measuring.
We're not immune either, as even some of us were falling victim to "Oh yeah, just wait and see how much John Carter makes overseas with better marketing, so there! "

But people DID like it - I, for one, thought that the third one was not too bad. It was overblown, pretentious and you could tell Verbinski had started to take himself too seriously, but it had the right level of humour and action to be a popcorn flick -- and, after all, isn't that exactly what PotC is?

And good for Disney -- I'm glad that they feel they can use numbers to advertise films. You see, if I don't like the look of a film, I just don't watch it. Disney can put whatever tripe they want out but if I don't like the look of it, I won't go near it. They can use whatever means to market the film they like; if it gets people through the door and into the film, good for them.

[mattymoron]

The third POTC movie is my favorite of the series and one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Delta09]

Originally Posted by Chaotic

Nice!

[bainbridge's_stache]

Second trailer

Oz the Great and Powerful - Official Trailer #2 (HD) - YouTube

HD version
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/d...atandpowerful/

[Elandyll]

Maybe it's just a very good trailer, but I'm becoming quite excited about this ...

[BladeRunner2007]

niiiiiiice

[legendarymatt92]

Looks superb

[Will21st]

Looks like a feast for eyes,and in 3D to boot!

[Jasonic]

Originally Posted by mattymoron

The third POTC movie is my favorite of the series and one of my favorite movies of all time.

Glad I'm not the only one.


Anyways, I think this movie looks very promising. I hope it turns out better than Alice In Wonderland.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Looking good to me!

[Monkey]

Looks very good. I wasn't optimistic after his doings with the Spiderman trilogy but this actually looks very good.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

I see the idiots on IMDB and youtube comment sections are hard at work hating. Going CGI this, CGI that. CGI doesn't make a good movie. Why couldn't they make it like they did the original?