Good reply. I should have been clearer. We agree on the content in general, but for me I thought the film dragged. It’s not the length, but the pacing. It seemed like they felt the audience was too dumb to get it. I liked the first five minutes, but they dragged it out too long. The same thing happened where scene after scene should have been cut by 10-20% of total time. Given that shooting occurs at ten to one, IIRC, they must have had a lot of junk given how much was left in.
Thanks. That was what I thought you were referencing. And I do agree scenes could have been trimmed better. Still I would have liked to have seen a side story or something more revealing.
If you think about it, there was really nothing new developed here. We’ve seen Oz before. We know about the poppy fields. We have seen the Munchkins before. We knew there were two witches. And I should note here, the one witch was killed off before Dorothy’s house fell on her. Ouch!
What really new thing was shown here, other than the personal story of the Wizard? Were there new lands, new people, new... well much of anything?
There were a few bits and pieces of that, but not much.