I've seen the musical twice. Will be interesting to see how good the film is

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Nov 19, 2024
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Wicked debuts to a 95% on RT after 63 initial critic reviews. This may be a box office monster.

TCuz Coastal Elite

1:19pm

You seem really into this show.

DirtyWater

1:20pm

Never seen the show, not into broadway. I am strangely into box office results, which is very weird.

TCuz

1:25pm

I've seen it. The show is great. I expect big things from the movie.

DirtyWater

1:26pm

There was a guest lecturer at BYU who had a job forecasting box office results

RockCoug

1:48pm

RE: Never seen the show, not into broadway. I am strangely into box office

RealSimsShadY

1:59pm

Saw the musical in London. Great story and music.

NYCougz

1:23pm

You will like the movie (see my brief review below)

Ol Big Bear

1:32pm

Sounds like it’s going to be popular.

Bandit

1:28pm

RE: Sounds like it’s going to be popular.

MarylandFan

1:29pm

I've seen the musical twice. Will be interesting to see how good the film is

hadmonster

1:29pm

I saw the musical in NYC. It sucks. I stand by my original review.

Superkid

1:29pm

It's cliche revisionism

Gustav

1:36pm

The book is terrible. My wife had it and I read like 50 pages of it.

BYUheaven

1:50pm

The book is horrible.

kalifi

2:04pm

The music is great. The play/plot itself is pretty meh. I saw it once and would

BYUheaven

1:49pm

I saw it in NYC this weekend. I thought it was pretty good.

Vincent's Picks

1:56pm

I saw it pre screened yesterday

Ol Big Bear

1:30pm

Any content warnings? Or basically the same as the musical?

justAnotherCoug

1:44pm

Magic, wizardry, witchiness, and people break out into song. Possibly using LSD.

byujacob

1:50pm

Same as musical, although the opening scene is a little more tasteful than the

Ol Big Bear

2:01pm

Thanks! That's what I wanted to know. The book involved... other things. 🙂

justAnotherCoug

2:19pm

I agree with your assessment of Ariana, but I did not like it at all.

reagan21

2:09pm

The interesting part to me is how many people have seen the musical. It premiered on Broadway

kimdaddy35

1:32pm

I've seen the musical (a large number) times and wanted to see the movie. We're

reagan21

2:17pm

My guess is most of the audience will have seen the stage show but this is

Socrates Johnson

2:44pm

I've seen dozens of musicals, including Wicked, and listened to the soundtrack

Chasicle

1:33pm

Its going to make theaters' year

Gustav

1:34pm

Gladiator II + Wicked + Moana 2 is a crazy two weeks

TCuz

1:38pm

Each of them targets a different audience

BigTex

1:44pm

Yes, the Mufasa crowd is that strange fringe group who love prequels to crappy CGI films that call themselves live

byujacob

1:52pm

I hated the "live action" Lion King. I'll only see Mufasa if people rave about

Ted Lasso

1:59pm

I've never watched it. I've seen bits of it at work, but never sat down to watch.

byujacob

2:06pm

"It's just a pair of shoes! Get over it!!"

Xenon

2:01pm

They've done a great job in the long-term marketing of this. They cast Ariana

Tricky

2:30pm

that Mika & Ariana song is over 12 yrs old. I don't think many current Ariana Grande fans know/remember it

byujag

2:35pm

That's hilarious. I hadn't realized that. I thought it was much more recent.

Tricky

2:39pm

1) you've never heard of Mika? 2) That song is like 12 years old...talk about

reagan21

2:36pm

That's REALLY playing the long game! Guess I had things a bit turned around 🙂

Tricky

2:40pm

Are we talking about Eric Mika?

kimdaddy35

2:42pm

you got it. If you or your wife had a blogspot blog in early 2000s there's a

reagan21

2:47pm

RE: you got it. If you or your wife had a blogspot blog in early 2000s there's a

kimdaddy35

2:56pm

reagan21

2:57pm

RE: 68

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