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Film Critic Leonard Maltin on ‘The Wizard of Oz’s’ Lasting Impact: ‘You Have to Know When You’re Facing Utter Perfection’
Variety ^ | Jazz Tangcay

Posted on 08/20/2025 8:00:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Adder

As in the series finale of the last episode of “Newhart”. Best finale ever.


41 posted on 08/21/2025 4:35:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: nickcarraway

There is a huge difference between letting a child grow up and purposefully sending her into a storm she never needed to experience. Her safety and life was at risk at every turn.

Sending someone into danger like that isn’t parenting. It’s willful abuse. We aren’t speaking metaphorically about danger here. In Dorothy’s world it was real.

Do you think that was justified?


42 posted on 08/21/2025 4:46:53 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: SaveFerris

Forbidden planet was great. I love those old cheesy movies. People think I’m crazy, but I love watching The Blob.


43 posted on 08/21/2025 4:49:09 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: nickcarraway

THta was a poor attempt to link Wicked with the Wizard of Oz.


44 posted on 08/21/2025 5:06:33 AM PDT by caver ( )
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To: Adder

If you recall how the movie ended, she woke up and it turned out that she had dreamed the whole story. In the book, which I like better than the movie, her adventure was real.


45 posted on 08/21/2025 5:51:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: nickcarraway

I remember when RETURN TO OZ was released by the Disney company in 1985. Joel Siegel, film critic for Good Morning America actually had tears flowing down his cheeks as he cried on how they had ruined “the most beautiful movie ever made, THE WIZARD OF OZ!”


46 posted on 08/21/2025 7:48:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Wonder how he felt about “The Wiz”?


47 posted on 08/21/2025 7:49:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Preachin'
I think Glenda was terrible for making her take that dangerous journey instead of telling her about clicking her heels together after she got the shoes.

Blame Dorothy for that. It was a dream.

48 posted on 08/21/2025 7:52:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: nickcarraway

“Reimagined-” Does that mean rhat Dorothy is now a trans-girl? The Munchkins now are fairies? That work”reimagined” conjurs up all sorts of distasteful images.


49 posted on 08/21/2025 7:57:40 AM PDT by arthurus (| covfefe | -<|>-)
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To: Az Joe

The munchkins and Lollipop Guild represent, well, unions and their small minded members.


50 posted on 08/21/2025 7:58:34 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Adder
the whole adventure was merely a dream—how lame

"Invaders From Mars" did it better.

51 posted on 08/21/2025 8:00:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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People think I’m crazy, but I love watching The Blob.

They ought to remake The Blob and have J.B Pritzker play the lead.

52 posted on 08/21/2025 8:26:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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