Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title

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• thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still remember going to see the first LoTR film and right after it fades out, hearing a lady yell “you mean there’s another one?!”

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Judging by their wicked.com website, they’ve already shot a lot of scenes too.

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• UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you want to read the article, click here.

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, I didn’t realize it was paywalled. Will update.

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    • UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No worries.

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• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, this actually worked!

  Sorry if it seems like I haven’t posted in a while - there were some federation issues with lemmy.ml and lemm.ee, but if you can read this post, then it seems like it’s fixed now!

  In case this happens again, I’ve registered an account with lemm.ee so I can post here natively.

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• I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re going to wait until part 2 is available for streaming then watch both parts together.

  But still, they should have just made a 3 hour movie. Or build in an intermission like the staged show.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen the musical and that was less than 4 hours. But thanks for the heads up. I’ll probably wait until both are on streaming and then never watch them because it’s too much of a time commitment.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, to be fair, the beginnings of most movies with sequels don’t actually start by being titled, say “Back to the Future Part 1.”

  The Fellowship of the Ring, for example, wasn’t titled “Lord of the Rings 1: The Fellowship of the Ring” if it mentioned Lord of the Rings at all, it didn’t imply a number, it just stood on its own. People knew sequels were coming, they didn’t need numbers to know that.

  So to be fair to Wicked, naming it something like Wicked Part One is dumb anyway.

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