The highest-grossing musical-film adaptation of all time. 88% critical approval rating at RT.
I thought it was a surefire bomb, though? "Go woke go broke", eh?
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What is your question? Who are the people you think need to reconcile something? A film version of one of the most successful musicals of all time did decent box office numbers.
One might expect this film to top a billion at the box office, but $700 million is still a good haul. Is it because the film is pushing a woke agenda that it underperformed? Maybe. Or maybe that's just the state of theaters in 2024.
Mostly it seems you've constructed a straw man to berate.
Bullshit! If this movie bombed that would be posted all over this board. See go woke go broke! Now that it didn't not a damn word is said. Get the fuck out of here with your nonsense.
shareIt may "seem" that way to you if you haven't seen, or pretend not to have seen, the constant far-right attacks on this movie across social media.
And I'm not sure how it "underperformed", when its gross is sitting at $700 mil (almost five times its budget).
I'm on social media, specifically film-related social media, regularly, and have seen no attacks on Wicked from the far right, or anyone else. I'm not saying it isn't out there on the fringes somewhere. You can find just about anything if you look hard enough.
I feel like the studio left a lot of money on the table by sending Wicked to streaming after only 39 days in theaters. In the past they used to wait 90 days to do that, and lately even 60 days is considered a quick turnaround, so for a film that was doing the numbers Wicked was doing, it seemed like a mistake. The fact that it has still eked out another $50 million since it hit streaming platform reinforces this belief.
This is a "social media" site, moron. I see five far-right troll attacks on this title page!
shareThis is a pretty fringe site. In addition to those of us here to talk about films, the site attracts people like you who come to espouse fringe politics, and berate other users. Using this site as a bellweather for social media is going to offer flawed conclusions.
shareAre there any bigger post-IMDb sites than this one? I like moviechat just fine, but if I can get even more engagement elsewhere, that’d be appreciated.
shareThis site isn't very good in terms of fostering discussion between movie-lovers, but I don't know of anything better. It seems like at least half the discussions here, if not far more, are pointless back-and-forth political arguments from the same handful of users. What discussion of film that does take place tends to only be about very recent or very well-known films, and rarely is it more than "I loved it"or "I hated it" or "rank your favorites."
Twitter has a solid film community, but the nature of the site prevents much in the way of long-form discussion.
Reddit is the worst of them all.
If there is a site where people interact in a friendly manner and engage in intelligent discussion of film, I don't know about it. Maybe someone should create an invite-only Discord channel for a handful of film-lovers?
They don't reconcile. Like a conspiracy theorist they do one of two things. A they ignore it, heads hung low and just move onto the next target, or B they will change the definition so that this doesn't fit the narrative. In other words move the goal post. These incels I have nothing but contempt for. They are human garbage.
shareI don't care because I know there's only one Wizard of Oz.
shareFrank Baum has 170 writer credits! Let us know how book adaptations you find. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000875/
shareWho cares what the far right think about it? Or the left.
I miss the 90s when you could enjoy and discuss a film without turning it into a political football.
I haven’t seen any far-right boogeymen attack this movie.
I have seen normal people criticize the lead actress for overreacting to a fan-made poster, especially when the fan poster improved the movie’s version where she had dead eyes.