Posted on 12/25/2009 9:18:43 PM PST by Silly
Following is my tongue-in-cheek review of "The Wizard of Oz" which I posted on Amazon in 2003. It's gone unnoticed until late this year. Customer comments follow.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
"Troublesome film marred by vague subject matter", by A Customer
This film is troublesome on too many counts to list here but I will try.
First, the story is implausible. Oz is not the sort of place children dream of, usually they dream of running or flying or getting lost. The "Oz" story was already a tired conventional hackneyed subject and should never have been filmed in the first place.
Also the color -- what is this fixation on color in that period? Tone things down, please.
The characters are argumentative and malicious, bogged down in their own fantasies and "needs". No child is going to relate to a woodsman, let alone a woodsman who has had limbs cut off one by one and replaced by tin. (By the way, I never once believed he was made of tin.)
When singing is employed in film, it should be in the background; the characters should not be lipsyncing to the music unless there is a radio playing in the background.
The concept of a "straw man" refers to a malignant red herring thrown into an argument to confuse the debate. Children are not going to pick up on this, and those that do are too intelligent to be watching movies like this.
The fixation with Judy Garland -- why? Plain, too fat, simpering and controversial. She had -- too put it mildly -- a bawdy life as a teenager, and was held high as a role model until the Troubles began. If children read her life's story, their blood would curdle. Who needs that?
When I see a movie, I do not expect technical perfection -- I can suspend a little disbelief and overlook wires from flying monkeys and such. Too much attention to this was given in building the sets and in the camera work. Money would have been much better spent on better actors. And what was with all those directors?! No wonder this movie looked like it was filmed by a committee.
Making fun of little people? I DON'T THINK SO!
I could go on and on.
5 of 103 people found this review helpful
I liked Tin Man...Did you see Sy Fy’s most recent adaptation, their update of the Alice in Wonderland story? I enjoyed it.
Despite all this, one fact remains incontrovertible: that Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have.
I haven’t see the Alice in Wonderland yet, I’ll keep an eye out for it.....but loved The Tin Man....Watching it when they ran all 3 back to back was better than watching the mini series as you had to wait for the next episode and I was always afraid I’d forget and miss it.....Much better than Judy Garlands.
Good song....
ping
The thread over at Amazon has taken a bizarre turn.
Not to mention that you can turn the sound off and synch it up with Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” LOL
Simply hilarious.
Oh, but not only that... there’s the rampant drug abuse in the poppy field, a young girl wandering in the forrest with strange single men, and a dog without a leash!!!!!
The horses that change color in Oz are obviously a comment on how multiculturalism is the norm in the animal kingdom.
Ditto! Thanks for the chuckle, no it was a guffaw.
You deviant freak, say what you will about Jesus, but leave the Wizard of Oz alone.
Remember this clown:
Jim Jeffords, RINO-Vermont...
He wrote some lameass book "My declaration of independence" back when he screwed over the party and shifted to "independent"
Anyway, an old freeper (normconquest?) posted this great "review", and it has been there since January of 2002:
An extremely useful collection of pages
"Double quilted for extra softness, it's gentle on my sensitive nether regions, yet strong enough to leave me feeling really clean.
LOL!
I Love IT!
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