For those who think that they are writing material that no one will like, here's an original review segment from The New Republic's Otis Ferguson of a 1939 film.
"The story of course has some lovely and wild ideas—men of straw and tin, a cowardly lion, a wizard who isn't a very good wizard — but the picture doesn't know what to do with them, except to be painfully literal and elaborate about everything..."
Y'all know what the film is.
Now get back to work.
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Nice!
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Exactly.
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I have scene a TV Guide review for this.
“A young girl arrive immediately killing someone then teams with three strangers to kill again.”
Now that is my type of movie.
Thanks for the share @ Adrian. Too many artists pay too much attention to negative criticism, also the credentials of some film critics are questionable to say the least. Is there a university anywhere that gives a certificate of validity to say alumni who don’t like something can earn a critics wage? No. Wizard of Oz had many universal messages on a range of themes for audiences that looked behind the costumes. Eg The fork in the road (we all faced) and the most important message for me was that Dorothy could have gone home all along. So many of us embark on outside adventures when what we were looking for was inside us all along.
Fluffy bunnies and buttercups.
Yes, I'm wasting time....time I could spend watching onions on TV, daily Covid statistics or buncha wannabies over swarming social networks...
its not 1939 anymore. Not really relevant.
Ha! I love this... one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies!
A great example of the old technique of using a dream sequence to frame the story. Another great example is A Christmas Carol. Too bad that technique is out of favor with the critics.
Well, based on a series of best selling books, and this was a remake of a remake of a remake (I think that the first version was in 1912). So this is a terrible example for original screenplays.
One of the things that has been lost in time about the 1939 version is how political it was - characters from the books were recreated to represent political factions in the USA and commented on them (in song sometimes). I wonder if this review isn't actually about that aspect of this remake. It is in New Republic, afterall.